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Press Release
The
Executive Committee
of the
Southern Baptist Convention
SBC
President
Bobby Welch
Statement
on the resignation of
NAMB President
Robert (Bob)
Reccord
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dr. Reccord’s resignation signals the next great step and
stage for the relatively new NAMB. As NAMB’s first president,
Dr. Reccord assumed a Herculean task in the launch of that new
and expanded entity. One reflection of his innovative and creative
guidance led to the coordination of the state conventions’ disaster
relief ministries. That resulted in an unprecedented and nationally
recognized help to our world and nation as well as the pastors
and people of the Southern Baptist Convention. Such leadership
also explored and test a number of contemporary opportunities
for reaching out to the lost world with the Gospel.
The trustees of NAMB and their chairman, pastor Barry Holcomb,
have done and are doing an extraordinary job responding in a
very timely and trustworthy manner to the challenges pressed
upon them in the recent months. All of the ministries, personnel,
trustees and the search committee deserve our prayers and very
best support.
I and my wife will make our Annie Armstrong Offering this year
the biggest and best ever. I personally am urging all Southern
Baptists and their churches to now demonstrate their best support
ever for NAMB’s missionaries and ministries! That can best
be done by our gifts to not only Annie Armstrong but, of course,
the Cooperative Program as well.
NAMB’s future is critical to world change for the cause
of Christ and lost souls. The SBC has never needed NAMB to do
its best like now. NAMB now demands seasoned, experienced, trusted,
focused leadership like never before to double its primary focus
upon evangelism and new church starts.
The Southern Baptist Convention is America’s largest
evangelical denomination of churches with more than 16.2
million members in over 43,500 churches nationwide. The Executive
Committee is the administrative entity responsible
for facilitating the ongoing work of the Convention between
annual meetings with offices in Nashville, Tennessee.
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contact Roger S. "Sing" Oldham, Vice President for Convention Relations
at (615) 782-8610,
or by e-mail at soldham@sbc.net.
Visit our Web site at www.sbc.net.
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