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Currence to be renominated as SBC registration secretary

By Staff ALEXANDRIA, La. (LBM) -- Associate Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of the Louisiana Baptist Convention Dale Lingenfelter announced today that he plans to nominate Don Currence for the office of Southern Baptist Conventionregistration secretary. “It is an honor and a joy to nominate my friend Don Currence for registration secretary during the 2024 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis,” said Lingenfelter, an SBC registration volunteer for the past 23 consecutive years. “I have witnessed firsthand Don’s servant heart and leadership for many years. He truly has a passion for this work,” heexplained. “He humbly carries out his assigned duties with the highest standard of integrity while seeking to make the registration process as painless and efficient as possible. Southern Baptists should take confidence knowing someone of Don’s character is overseeing our registration and teller’s work.” If elected, Currence will begin his sixth term as registration secretary. Before being elected to this role, he had assisted longtime Registration Secretary Jim Wells for 12 years. Currence is the administrative pastor with First Baptist Church, Ozark, Missouri, having served the congregation for 30 years. In 2023 he … [Read more...]

Change allows SBC messengers to submit resolutions earlier

By Baptist Message staff INDIANAPOLIS (LBM) – Messengers to the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting now will have the opportunity to submit resolutions 14 days earlier than in previous years under a change approved during last year’s SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Resolutions can be submitted between April 1 and May 22. Additionally, the resolutions committee will meet in late May and release their initial report no later than 10 days before the start of the first session. Previously, resolutions could be submitted as early as April 15 and as late as 15 days before the start of the annual meeting. The committee then met a few days before the annual meeting to go over submitted resolutions. In “The Road to Indy” video released on March 26, SBC Committee on Resolutions Chair Kristen Ferguson outlined the changes. Ferguson, associate dean of educational effectiveness and director of online education at Gateway Seminary, said the change will allow messengers more time to consider each resolution. “This year, we still do have two-and-a-half days of in-person work time,” she said. “But then we have almost a week afterwards to publish the preliminary report. So the thing that I think that does is we get … [Read more...]