Week of May 15, 2006
‘Crossover Triad’ to kick off SBC annual meeting
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Greensboro, Winston-Salem and
High Point, N.C., will be blanketed by Southern Baptist volunteers
Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11, when “Crossover Triad 2006” comes to
the area the weekend before the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual
meeting in Greensboro (June 13-14).
Thousands of volunteers representing hundreds of SBC
churches will cover the three-city area, taking the Gospel outside
church walls and into the streets. The campaign is jointly sponsored by
the North American Mission Board, the Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina and the Southern Baptist churches of the Piedmont, Pilot
Mountain and Central Triad Associations.
Crossover is a comprehensive campaign to reach a
significant segment of that unchurched population. Crossover events
will include witnessing by college students on area campuses; sports
clinics designed to teach basketball, baseball and football skills;
block parties with food and games, hosted by participating churches;
and door-to-door witnessing.
For additional information about Crossover Triad
2006 or to register as a volunteer, visit www.crossovertriad.org.
Chapman named M.E. Dodd Award recipient
JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) – Morris H. Chapman, president
of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, has been
selected by Union University’s trustees to receive this year’s M.E.
Dodd Award, the university’s highest denominational service award.
The award is named for a Union alumnus who served as
president of the SBC and who was the father of today’s Cooperative
Program.
Chapman has been president of the Executive
Committee since 1992. He was president of the Southern Baptist
Convention from 1990-92 and of the SBC Pastors’ Conference in 1986.
He was pastor of First Baptist Church in Wichita
Falls, Texas, for 13 years. During that time the church’s Cooperative
Program gifts and baptisms were in the top 1 percent in the Southern
Baptist Convention.
Last year’s Dodd Award recipient was Adrian Rogers,
former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in suburban Memphis, Tenn.,
who died later in the year.