Baptists from diverse backgrounds issue ‘Memphis Declaration’
REVISED: Lead paragraph changed and signers added May 4, 2006. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--Expressing displeasure over what they call a “narrowing of cooperation through exclusionary theological and political agendas” in the Southern Baptist Convention, a group of Southern Baptist conservatives issued a document May 3 announcing their desire to seek renewal in the convention, their churches and their personal lives through repentance.
Declaration issued by 31 Baptists from diverse backgrounds
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP)--Expressing displeasure over what they call a “narrowing of cooperation through exclusionary theological and political agendas” in the Southern Baptist Convention, a group of Southern Baptist conservatives issued a document May 3 calling on the convention to repent of such behavior.
Sale of 1,000 acres is latest turn in Mo. court battle
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--National City Bank has sold nearly 1,000 acres of Windermere Baptist Conference Center to a new company with ties to former Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director Jim Hill, his brother Jerry Hill and Springfield businessman Bill Jester, according to public records and a Windermere press release dated March 8.
Temporary order halts sale of Mo. entity’s acreage
| MBC Executive Director, David Clippard |
Cole County Circuit Court Judge Tom Brown said he wanted to preserve the “status quo” by the temporary restraining order against any further sales or mortgages involving Windermere property while convention attorneys investigate the documents found on the public record. Brown’s order also prohibited any bond sales by Windermere. The judge expressed surprise that Windermere’s board of directors had taken such actions while their authority is in dispute in his court.
Mo. convention’s effort to regain entities moves forward
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| Logging & litigation A logger does a final check on a load of timber being hauled from the Windermere Baptist Conference Center in central Missouri. The 1,300-acre facility on the Lake of the Ozarks is in court over its trustees’ breakaway from the Missouri Baptist Convention without convention approval. Photo by Don Hinkle |
The ruling by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Tom Brown came after more than three years of legal wrangling by the entities’ lawyers over who has the right to take legal action in behalf of the Missouri convention.
Windermere selling real estate; Mo. convention seeks injunction
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--In November, the chairman of Windermere Baptist Conference Center denied that any of its real estate was being sold. Now he has admitted that some of its real estate is for sale to private developers to build houses, condos and retirement units at the troubled facility along the shores of the Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri.
Mo. case against breakaway entities to be consolidated in original court
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--Cole County Circuit Judge Richard Callahan has decided that the Missouri Baptist Convention legal action against five breakaway entities should proceed where it started, in the court of a fellow Cole County circuit judge, Thomas Brown III.
Mo. Baptist Convention wins at state supreme court
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--The Missouri Supreme Court Sept. 22 handed the Missouri Baptist Convention its third straight victory in its three-year legal battle with five renegade agencies. The Supreme Court refused to hear the agencies’ appeal of the decision of the Missouri Court of Appeals, which was also in favor of the convention.
Case against breakaway entities aired before Mo. court panel
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Three judges of the Missouri Court of Appeals questioned three attorneys for just 35 minutes on April 20 about the 33-month-old dispute between the Missouri Baptist Convention and five breakaway entities where trustees amended their charters without convention approval, allowing them to become self-perpetuating and take control of more than $240 million in assets.
Judge allows discovery to proceed in Mo. entities case
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP)--A Missouri circuit judge April 5 directed that limited discovery could proceed in one of the two cases brought by the Missouri Baptist Convention against five breakaway MBC entities, while the initial case is pending in the Missouri Court of Appeals.
