I am going to be in Des Moines on Friday and Saturday for the the Baptist Convention of Iowa 2013 annual meeting. It doesn’t look like ours will be particularly eventful this year. Last year was an anomalous and tumultuous year for the BCI, but this year looks to be a return to the norm.
I will mention if anything significant happens here over the weekend, but the trip got me to thinking and wondering – what is happening in State Conventions? Are they trending up or down in attendance? Are there a lot of issues? Do some of the issues at the national level find their way down to the state level?
What happened at your state convention this year?
The Missouri Baptist Convention was great (Oct 28-30). A very upbeat meeting focused on promoting Partnership Missions, Moving the MBC towards a 50/50 Cooperative Program split and hearing great inspiring preaching/teaching from Dr. Robert Coleman.
I agree with Allen. The MO convention was great we had the great joy of hearing from Robert Coleman, Thomas Schriener, Bruce Ware, and DA Carson. A lot of unity among MO Baptists as well. We had over 1,000 in attendance
Our Iowa Convention went very well, I thought. Really enjoyed seeing and hearing from Micah Fries. Lots of changes in the works, but it looks like we’re headed in the right direction, thanks to the selfless service of men like Dave Miller 🙂
As interested as I am and have been in the SBC, I have never attended a state convention meeting. So I got no news. Sorry.
Our State Convention meeting starts a week from tomorrow, but I won’t be able to go this year. I’m sure it will be fairly well attended and the preaching will be great. There are no controversial items that I’m aware of on the agenda.