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Conventions - SBC, 1845-1999

1937 Mrs. Sing Gong And The Chinese Children She Had At The SBC Annual Meeting In New Orleans, Louisiana

1950 Part Of 1000 Voice African American Choir To Sing At Closing Session Of SBC Seen In Rehersal At Pilgrim Baptist Church George A Gullatt Director

1958 Porter Routh Presents An Award Of Appreciation To Frank Tripp Founder Of The Baptist Hundred Thousand Club

1959 C C Warren Talks To Mrs Brooks Hays And Jitsuo Morikawa Fraternal Messenger From The American Baptist Convention

1962 Exhibit Hall-Radio And Television Commission-Wiley Hance (Director Of Religious Programming For ABC) Discusses RTVC Programs With Paul Stevens

1962 US Navy Pilot Lieutenant Albert Grisham George C Cummins Director Of SBC Chaplains Commission And Brigadier General Robert P Taylor

1963 Exhibit Hall-Seminary Presidents O T Binkley SEBTS Syndor L Stealey SEBTS Harold K Graves Golden Gate Millard J Berquist MBTS And Robert Naylor SWBTS

1964 Baptist Jubilee Advance Opening Session Personalities Hon Harold Stassen Brooks Hays John G Diefenbaker And Theodore F Adams

1964 Paul M Stevens Brotherhood Commission Shows Robert Sarnoff Of New York A Model Of The Radio And Television Commission Building

1965 Church Musicians Officers James D Woodward D Neil Darnell Donald Winters V F Forderhase Dewey Kyle And Kenneth L Osbrink

1965 Home Mission Board Leaders Paul James New York Milton Leach Puerto Rico And Edmund Walker Hawaii Discuss Work In Their Areas With HMB Executive Secretary Arthur B Rutledge

1965 Messengers Pastor And Mrs Ted Dougherty Of Oakhurst Baptsit Church Atlanta Georgia Are Welcomed To The SBC Meeting By M B Carroll Pastor Of East Grand Baptist Church Dallas Texas

1965 R Alton Reed Annuity Board Honors Ruth Randall Retired Foreign Missionary Who At 80 Was The Oldest Woman Annuitant Present Looking On Is C H Riddle 91 Year Old Former Pastor

1965 Recording Convention Sermons In Sound Booth Located High Above Convention Floor At Municipal Auditorium Dallas Texas

1965 Religious Education Association Officers Lewis W Martin Howard B Foshee Henry E Love Joe Davis Heacock And Grace Knowlton

1965 Some Of The Messengers Who Attended The SBC Meeting In Memphis Tennessee In 1925 When The Cooperative Program Was Launched Gathered 40 Years Later At The Stewardship Commission Exhibit A

1965 Tellers Committee Stack Punch Cards To Be Fed Into Machine To Provide Rapid Information On All Votes Taken At SBC Meeting

1966 Baptist Flying Parsons Officers Elected Semore Klinghagen Cecil Etheridge Loyd Corder Bill Powell And Ray Conner

1966 Church Music Conference Officers Elected James D Woodward Robert Snead Dwayne Barrett And Kenneth Osbrink

1966 Exhibit Hall-Stewardship Commission Cartoonist Doug Dillard Left Autographs Individualized Cartoons Stressing Baptist Stewardship For SBC Messengers

1966 Pastor Charles Alexander Right Of First Baptist Church Washington Oklahoma Asks Jesse Fletcher Of The Foreign Mission Board Questions About Mission Service

1966 President Wayne Dehoneys Address During The Opening Session Of The SBC At Its Detroit Meeting Emphasized The World-wide Work Of The Denomination

1966 Presidents Of Seminary Alumni Groups James Riley SWBTS Henry Blackaby Golden Gate Charles Elder SBTS Tom Jackson SEBTS And B Gray Allison NOBTS

1966 Religious Education Officers Elected Joe Davis Heacock Alva G Parks John D Matthews R Fletcher Royal And Gracie Knowlton

1966 SBC Seminary Presidents Duke K McCall SBTS Harold K Graves Golden Gate Robert E Naylor SWBTS Millard J Berquist MBTS H Leo Eddleman NOBTS And Olin T Binkley SEBTS

1966 The Research And Statistics Department Of The SBC Sunday School Board Conducted A Poll Speak Out 66 At The SBC Meeting In Detroit Michigan

1967 Convention Special Music - Ouachita Singers (Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas)

1967 Missionary Physician Dr Franklin Fowler Foreign Mission Board Addresses The Medical Missions Breakfast

1968 Check Representing The Tithe From Air Force Personnel Is Presented To Porter Routh By George Cummins Of The Chaplains Commission Home Mission Board

1968 Choir At First Baptsit Church Shreveport Louisiana Sings During Southern Baptist Church Music Conference Held June 3-4 At South Main Baptist Church Houston Texas

1968 Handbell Choir River Oaks Baptist Church Houston Texas Holds Practice Session Prior To The Convention Session At Which It Performed

1968 Jim Jones Reporter For The Fort Worth Star Telegram Turns Out Copy For His Paper In The SBC Press Room During The Meeting Of The Convention

1968 L P McBain American Baptist Convention Joseph A Jackson National Baptist Convention And H Franklin Paschall Southern Baptist Convention

1968 Lee Porter Pastor Of FBC Bellaire Texas And Chairman Of The Local Arrangements Committee Welcomes Porter Routh Executive Committee To The Convention

1968 Opera Glasses Were Appropriate In The Huge Houston Auditorium Which Southern Baptists Filled At Nearly Every Session Of The SBC

1968 Outstanding Alumnus Of GGBTS Margaret Fairburn Shows A Medallion Presented To Her By The Vice President Of Liberia For Outstanding Servie GGBTS Official Stanton Nash Is At Right

1968 Southern Baptist Ministers Wives Officers Elected Mrs Andrew Hall Mrs John Traylor Mrs G Avery Lee And Mrs Landrum Leavell

1968 Speakers During The Home Mission Board Report To The SBC Meeting Lok-Tin Cheung WH Dedley And James Pleitz

1968 Tennessee Legislator And Surgeon Dr Dorothy Brown Of Nashville Tennessee Speaks To WMU Annual Meeting

1969 Baptist Students Concerned Press Conference Standing Is W C Fields Press Representative For The Convention

1969 Children Of Messengers Solve Puzzles While Their Parents Attend Sessions Of The Convention The SBC Child Care Center Was Located At First Baptist Church On St Charles Avenue

1969 Exhibit Hall-Radio And Television Commission Receives Best In Show Award As The Winning Exhibitor In The SBC Booth Competition

1969 Historical Commission Report Davis C Woolley Historical Commission Porter Routh Executive Committee And Quinn Pugh Portraying William B Johnson

1969 Hostesses For The WMU Convention Meeting At The Rivergate Exhibition Center Dress In Cajun Costumes

1969 Local Arrangements Committee Members Headed By J D Grey Welcome SBC President W A Criswell And His Wife Betty At The New Orleans Airport

1969 Manuel L Scott Calvary Baptist Church Los Angeles California Speaks To The Pastors Conference Meeting In Municipal Auditorium New Orleans

1969 Messenger To The SBC Meeting In New Orleans Voices His Opinion During The First Business Session

1969 New Contemporary Youth Musical Called Happening Now By Bob Oldenburg And Eddie Lunn Was Presented At The WMU Meeting In The Rivergate Convention Center

1969 Officers Of The Convention Standing W Fred Kendall Porter Routh And Clifton J Allen Seated Lee Porter W A Criswell And Owen Cooper

1969 Pastors Conference Dinner And Colloquy Was Held June 8 At The Royal Orleans Hotel The Colloquy Provided Dialoge Between Southern Baptist Pastors And Youth

1969 Pastors Conference Dinner And Colloquy-Kenneth Chaffin (Professor Of Evangelism At SBTS) Makes A Point In His Discussion With Tom Graves (Student At Vanderbilt University)

1969 SBC President W A Criswell Confers With Former Convention President Herschel Hobbs On Convention Matters

1969 SBC President W A Criswell Meets With Organizational Presidents Bob Burroughs Music Mrs R L Mathis WMU And Don Berry Pastors Conference

1969 SBC President W A Criswell Right Introduces Louisiana Governor John McKeithen Who Extended A Welcome To The Opening Session Of The SBC

1969 SBC President W A Criswell Stresses A Point To Diane Stepp Reporter For The Atlanta Consitution

1969 Thomas Kilgore Jr American Baptist Convention Brings Fraternal Greetings To The SBC Meeting In New Orleans

1971 A Crowd Of 3000 Attended The WMU Meeting At The Opera House Kiel Auditorium St. Louis Missouri Prior To The Opening Of The SBC Annual Meeting On June 1

1971 Carl Bates (President Of SBC) Presides At The Opening Session Of The SBC Held In St. Louis Missouri June 1-3

1971 Carl Bates (SBC President) And Mrs. Marcus Rohlfs (American Baptist Convention President) Hold Joint Press Conference

1971 Lynn May (Historical Commission) Presents Encyclopedia Of Southern Baptists To Carl Bates (SBC President)

1971 Messenger Walter Stockburger Speaks During The Opening Business Session Of The SBC Annual Meeting In St. Louis Missouri

1971 Mrs. R. L. Mathis Presides At The Opening Session Of The Womans Missionary Union Convention Held At The Kiel Opera House In St. Louis Missouri May 31 1971

1971 Pastors Conference Officers James L. Pleitz (Vice President) Landrum P. Leavell (President) And Charles A. Jolley (Secretary)

1971 SBC President Carl Bates (Left) Presents Hardie Harrell (Center) Plaque Of Appreciation To Southern Baptists For The Ministry Of Hospitals

1971 Southern Baptist Press Association Breakfast. Joe Odle (Editor Of Mississippi Baptist Record And President Of The Press Association) Presiding

1971 Southern Baptist Religious Education Association Officers Joe Burnett (President) William Young (Sec.-Treas.) Nita Steward (2nd VP) Tom Allerton (1st VP) And John Durst (President-Elect)

1971 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Alumni Luncheon-Ralph Edwards (Left, TV Personality) Pays Tribute To SBTS President Duke McCall On The Occassion Of McCall's 20th Anniversary

1971 WMU Leaders Mrs. R. L. Mathis (President) Mrs. Roy E. Snider (Recording Secretary) And Miss Alma Hunt (Executive Secretary)

1972 Convention Crowd Emerges-Messengers Exit Philadelphia's Civic Center After Opening Session Of SBC Annual Meeting

1972 Students Speak Up-College Students Urge Messengers To Increase Support Of Their Efforts To Reach Students For Christ

1973 Newly Elected Executive Committee Officers Porter Routh (Executive Secretary-Treasurer), Mrs. Ned King (Secretary), Stewart Sims (Chairman), and Charles Harvey (Vice-Chairman)

1974 Charles N. King (Second Vice President SBC, First African American Elected As An Officer Of The SBC)

1974 Charles Vanderslice (Right, Dallas Baptist Pastor) Admonishes His Brother, W. W. Vanderslice (Director Of The Dallas Convention Center)

1974 Conference Of Directors Of Missions Officers-Gene Strahan, Ray McClung, Laurence Childs, Richard Bryant, and Robert Helmich

1974 Debate on Women's Role - Cecil Sherman and Jessie Lee Sappington Debate Women's Roles as Clifton Brannon (Right) Presides

1974 Eugene Nida (Left, American Bible Society) Presents Wendell Belew (Home Mission Board) The 44 Millionth Copy Of Today's Version Of The Bible

1974 Gerald Ford Speaks On Positiveness At Breakfast Sponsored By Brotherhood Commission (Glendon McCullough, Right)

1974 Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, And Glendon McCullough At Breakfast Sponsored By Brotherhood Commission

1974 Jessie Lee Sappington (Baptist Pastor's Wife From Houston) Emerged As An Ardent Anti-Feminist Movement Leader In Two Different Business Sessions On Tuesday

1974 Newly Elected Church Music Conference Officers-Evelyn Phillips, Don Brown, A. Joseph King, And Sam Prestridge

1974 Noon Break-Messengers Mrs Don Tyson (Texas) And Mr And Mrs Clyde Plunk (Oklahoma) Rest In The Shade

1974 Pages-Charles Doggett (Pioneer Department, Royal Ambassadors, Brotherhood Commission) Inspects RA's Serving As Pages

1974 Past Living SBC Presidents- Paschall, Hays, Criswell, Hobbs, Grey, Lee, Pollard, Dehoney, Bates, Cooper, White

1974 Press Representative W. C. Fields Tastes Homemade Cookies For Convention Pressroom Personnel Provided By Acteens Of FBC Richardson, Texas

1974 WMU Personalities Honoring Alma Hunt (2nd From Left) In Her Final Annual Conference Were (From Left) Mrs. Lamar Jackdon, Irene Jordon, and Mary Essie Stevens

1975 Cooperative Program Birthday Observance-Fred Moseley, Baker James Cauthen, Christine Gregory, Porter Routh, A. R. Fagan

1975 Florida Governor Reuben Askew (Presbyterian Layman) Welcomed The Opening Night Of The Joint Pastor's Conference-WMU Meeting

1975 Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary Alumni Luncheon-Hazen Simpson, Harold Graves, and Murray Boyd

1975 Mrs. August Lovegren (Southern Baptist Missionary To Jordan) Teaches Children Of Messengers To The SBC Meeting About Missions During Mission Day Camp Sponsored By The Brotherhood Commission

1975 Newly Elected Church Music Conference Officers-Paul Bobbitt (President), James McKinney (President-Elect) and Vice Presidents Joseph King, Evelyn Phillips, and Sam Prestridge

1975 Newly Elected Executive Committee Officers-Charles Harvey (Chairman), Dennis Lyle (Secretary), Porter Routh (Executive Secretary-Treasurer), and William Smith III (Vice Chairman)

1975 Newly Elected Ministers' Wives Officers-Mrs. Walter Stockburger, Mrs. Leray Fowler, Mrs. Robert Franklin, Mrs. Maurice Clayton

1975 Newly Elected Pastor's Conference Officers-Andrew Hall (Secretary-Treasurer), Adrian Rogers (President), and Joe Crumpler (Vice President)

1975 Newly Elected SBC Officers-Jaroy Weber (President), Hunter Riggins (First Vice President), And James Monroe (Second Vice President)

1975 Newly Elected Southern Baptist Religious Education Officers-Bernie Spooner, Robert Feather, William Young, Neta Stewart, Ellis Bush, Ralph Atkinson

1975 Pastor's Conference-University Of Oklahoma Quarterback Steve Davis Gives His Christian Testimony

1975 Press Conference-Charles Colson Fields Questions Following His Talk To The SBC Pastor's Conference

1975 Royal Ambassador Keith Troutman Hands Brotherhood Commission's Cooperative Program 50th Anniversary Torch To Glendon McCullough (Brotherhood Commission) And Mike Speer (Stewardship Commission)

1975 Southern Baptist Associational Superintendents Of Missions New Officers-Richard Bryant (President), John N. Brown (President-Elect), Ray McClung (Secretary), and D. E. Strahan (Editor)

1975 Vonda Van Dyke (Former Miss America) Signs Copies Of Her New Book Following Her Christian Testimony Before The SBC

1976 Annie Mizell (Deacon From Washington, North Carolina) Registers As A Messenger For SBC Annual Meeting

1976 Ladies' Handbags And Other Items Carried By SBC Messengers Were Inspected By Secret Service Agents Prior To President Ford's Appearance

1976 Martin Bradley (Secretary Of Research Services Department, Baptist Sunday School Board) Works At The Ballot Sorting Machine

1976 Pastors Conference Officers Mike Todd (Treasurer), Jerry Vines (President), And Bailey Smith (Vice President)

1976 Quinn Pugh (Maryland) Presents A Dramatic Monologue Portrayal Of Isaac Backus (Early Baptist Champion Of Religious Liberty) During The SBC Historical Commission's Presentation

1976 Replica Of The Liberty Bell Rings Outside The Norfolk Scope Convention Center During The SBC Meeting

1976 US President Gerald Ford And SBC President Jaroy Weber Listen To Freedom '76 (Texas Singing Group)

1977 Southern Baptist Missionaries Mr. and Mrs. Brown Teach Children About Home Missions During Missions Day Camp Sponsored By Brotherhood Commission For Children Of Parents Attending SBC Meeting

1978 Human Rights Activists March Outside the Georgia World Congress Center as Anita Bryant Speaks to Pastors Conference

1980 Pastors Conference Newly Elected Officers Kenneth Fields (Secretary-Treasurer), Stan Coffey (Vice President), and Jim Henry (President)

1980 Religious Education Officers Elected Marvin Myers, Charles Polston, Neta Stewart, Roger Skelton, And Charles Gwaltney

1985 Pastors Conference Newly Elected Officers Dwight Reighard (Secretary-Treasurer), Morris Chapman (President), And Ned Mathews (Vice President)

1986 Pastors Conference Newly Elected Officers Thomas Hinson (Vice President), Nelson Price (President), and Richard Blair (Secretary-Treasurer)

1989 Pastors Conference Outgoing President Ralph Smith (Center) Presents Newly Elected Officers Robert Holmes (Secretary-Treasurer), Ron Hart (Vice President), And Tom Elliff (President)

1993 R Albert Mohler Jr With His Wife Mary Is Welcomed As The President-Elect Of SBTS At The Southern Seminary Alumni Luncheon In Houston Texas At The SBC Annual Meeting