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• Approved the expansion of their insurance and financial services agency to market its services to other evangelical churches and ministries and a name change from the Annuity Board to GuideStone Financial Resources.
  
  
• Requested that New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary change its charter to make the Southern Baptist Convention its "sole member," a legal move that has been made by other Southern Baptist entities but which some New Orleans seminary officials thought could create greater legal risks for the denominational body.
  
  
• Honored the memory of four "martyred missionaries" who were killed in a March attack in Iraq.
  
  
• Marked the 25th anniversary of the start of conservative control of their seminaries and agencies.
  
  

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The web site of the Southern Baptist Convention has more information about the annual meeting.

Two Baptist news agencies, Baptist Press and Associated Baptist Press, frequently offer very different perspectives on the same events.

More coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention from our Church Life section includes:

Weblog: Southern Baptists No Longer In, Nor Of, World Alliance (June 23, 2004)

Vacation Bible School Wars | Critics say SBC curriculum about Asia is 'racially offensive.' (Feb. 27, 2004)

Baptists Face Serious Financial Shortfall | Giving decreases surprise observers. (Oct. 14, 2003)

Baptist Alliance Stung by SBC Cuts | Southern Baptist Convention trims funds to Baptist World Alliance. (May 02, 2003)

Option for Alienated Baptist Missionaries | Texans to form 'flexible' alternative to the Southern Baptist Convention's IMB. (Nov. 05, 2002)

To Sign or Not to Sign? | Some Southern Baptist missionaries balk at revised statement. (April 05, 2002)

Southern Baptists Boot Gay Protesters | Messengers at St. Louis convention pick Prestonwood's Jack Graham as new leader. (Jan. 13, 2002)

Weblog: Southern Baptist Convention Won't Accept Missionaries with Female Pastors (Sept. 18, 2002)

Weblog: Southern Baptist Leaders So Upset About TNIV That Denomination May Abandon NIV (Jan. 29, 2002)

SBC Agency May Revoke D.C. Funds | The District of Columbia Baptist Convention may lose $475,000 in annual support because of differences with the North American Mission Board. (Jan. 25, 2002)

Southern Baptist Leaders Lament Funding Cuts | Texas board's action to reduce funding called 'bad for common missions causes' (Oct. 2, 2000)

Do Good Fences Make Good Baptists? | The SBC's new Faith and Message brings needed clarity—but maybe at the cost of honest diversity. (Aug. 9, 2000)

Culture Clash | Asserting the Bible's authority, Southern Baptists say pastors must be male. (June 30, 2000)

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August 2004, Vol. 48, No. 8