The Midwest Regional Meeting of the New Baptist Covenant will begin at noon on August 6, 2009, and conclude at 9:30 p.m. on August 7 at the new Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Messages will be given by Wade Burleson, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Enid, Oklahoma, and past president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma; Major Jemison, pastor of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, and past president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention; and Ellis Orozco, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, McAllen, Texas, who has served on the Administrative Committee and the Board of the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Testimonies will be given by Wilford Brown, former national coordinator for Intercultural Ministries for American Baptist Churches, and currently campus minister at Bacone College, Muskogee, Oklahoma; former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry; former Oklahoma Congressman J. C. Watts; and Sarah Stewart, a recent graduate of George W. Truett Theological Seminary, and now ministry resident at First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City.
Other participants include Tim Eaton, president of Hillsdale Freewill Baptist College; Javier Elizondo, executive vice president and provost of Baptist University of the Americas; and Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas, and past president of the Southern Baptists of Texas Pastor’s Conference.
Workshops and breakout sessions will focus on building bridges across cultures to better minister to the families of the imprisoned and the impoverished.
To make hotel reservations at the Embassy Suites Hotel for $99/day (+ tax), call 1-405-364-8040. To make reservations at the Guest Inn for $70/day (+ tax), call 1-405-360-1234. (To obtain these rates, mention that you are with the “New Baptist Covenant Convention.”)
For additional information, visit the New Baptist Covenant Midwest Region blog at http://www.newbaptistcovenant.blogspot.com.