PHOENIX —
Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President
Bryant Wright has named the members of the Resolutions Committee who will serve
during the June 14-15 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix.
Allan Blume, pastor of Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Boone, was named to the
committee as well as: Paul Jimenez, committee chair and pastor of Taylors First
Baptist Church, S.C.; Linda Clark, member,
Graceland Baptist Church, New Albany, Ind.; Stephen Farish, senior pastor,
Crossroads Church, Grayslake, Ill.; Mark Howell, senior pastor, Houston
Northwest Church, Houston, Texas; Tim McCoy, senior pastor, Ingleside Baptist
Church, Macon, Ga.; Russell Moore, dean of the School of Theology and senior
vice president for academic administration at Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary and teaching pastor for Highview Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky.; Michael
Pigg, senior pastor, Philadelphia Baptist Church, Lithonia, Ga.; Jimmy
Scroggins, senior pastor, First Baptist
Church, West Palm Beach, Fla.; and Carol Yarber, member, First
Baptist Church, Malakoff, Texas.
Wright, pastor of the Atlanta-area Johnson
Ferry Baptist Church
in Marietta, appointed the
committee in keeping with the provision in SBC
Bylaw 20 that its members be named 75 days prior to the start of the annual
meeting.
The committee’s composition, according to Bylaw 20, must include at least two
members who served the previous year, with Jimenez and Moore meeting this
requirement. Bylaw 20 also stipulates that the committee include at least three
SBC Executive Committee members. This year
they are Blume, Howell and Yarber.
The procedure for submitting resolutions is as follows according to Bylaw 20:
- Proposed resolutions may be submitted as early as April 15 but no later than 15
days prior to the SBC annual meeting, giving
the Resolutions Committee a two-week period in which to consider submissions.
Resolutions may no longer be submitted during the annual meeting.
- Proposed resolutions must be accompanied by a letter from a church qualified to
send a messenger to the SBC annual meeting
certifying that the individual submitting the resolution is a member in good
standing.
- Proposed resolutions preferably should be submitted by e-mail or mailed to the
Resolutions Committee in care of the SBC
Executive Committee, 901 Commerce St., Nashville,
TN 37203.
The drafts must be typewritten, titled, dated and include complete contact
information for the person and his or her church.
- No person will be allowed to submit more than three resolutions per year.
- If a properly submitted resolution is not forwarded by the Resolutions
Committee to the SBC annual meeting, a
two-thirds vote of messengers would be required to bring the proposed
resolution to the convention floor.
(EDITOR’S NOTE — Compiled by Baptist Press staff. All resolutions adopted by
the SBC can be searched and read on the Web at
www.sbc.net/resolutions/AMResSearch.asp.)
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