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| First Baptist Church Woodstock musicians perform during a Sunday
evening rally at the church. The event was attended by Georgia Baptists
before the Monday start of the 188th annual meeting. |
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J. Robert White, executive director of Georgia Baptist Convention, speaks during Sunday evening's rally.
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| Deaf interpretation is provided for every session of the GBC annual meeting. |
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Neal Reeves hands a Love Loud T-shirt to Jimmy Blanton, associational missionary of Columbus Baptist Association. Love Loud will send hundreds of people into the community Tuesday afternoon to minister to the community.
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| Johnny Hunt, SBC president and host pastor from First Church Woodstock, speaks during the pastor's conference Monday afternoon. |
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Jeff Laborg, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Warner Robins, delivers the missionary sermon Monday night.
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Georgia Baptist WMU president Mary Laughman speaks during the report of Woman's Missionary Union and Women's Enrichment Ministry report.
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The new officers for Georgia Baptist Ministers' Wives were elected Monday night. They are, from left, Frances Worthington, whose husband, Jay, is pastor of preschool and children at Noonday Baptist Church in Marietta; Paula Folsom, whose husband, Alan, is the specialist for GBC Discipleship Ministries; Amy Parker, whose husband, Brad, is pastor at Hunter Road Baptist Church, Cataula; and Michelle Sterling, whose husband, Mark, is pastor of Curtis Baptist Church in Augusta.
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| The display area provides information on the ministries of the Georgia Baptist Convention.
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Joe Graham gives instructions to the order of business committee shortly before the opening session of the annual meeting.
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RAs and Acteens serve as pages during the annual meeting. From left, Josiah Helms, Harp's Crossing Baptist Church, Wesley Oliver, Maynard Baptist Church, Jacob Pearson, Maynard Baptist Church,
Morgan Byne, Harp's Crossing Baptist Church, Kerstin Byne, Harp's Crossing Baptist Church, Kerith Helms, Harp's Crossing Baptist Church and Marianne Woodard, First Baptist Duluth.
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The opening session of the 188th annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention is held at First Baptist Church Woodstock chapel. At the beginning of the session, there were 790 registered messengers.
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| Past presidents of the Georgia Baptist Convention introduce themselves during the opening session.
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Outgoing GBC president Bucky Kennedy gives the president’s address.
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| Messengers respond to a call to prayer at the close of the Monday evening session.
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J. Robert White, executive director of GBC, signs an agreement for the five-year partnership between Georgia Baptists and St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia.
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| Eastman native Buck Burch, an IMB missionary in Russia, makes a plea to Georgia Baptists to pray for the work in Russia. Current proposed Russian legislation could require children to have written permission to enter a church. Burch led messengers to pray that the legislation would not pass.
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Beth Jackson, far right, who heads up the card ministry at FB Woodstock, explains the ministry to two Truett-McConnell College students. The students and other volunteers wrote cards of encouragement to prisoners, soldiers and overseas missionaries.
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| Brian Blackburn, manager of Georgia Baptist Conference Center at Norman Park, seasons hamburgers with Amy Cutchens, a volunteer from First Baptist Church, Sugar Hill.
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Volunteer hair stylist Amy Grenier from First Baptist Church Woodstock designs a new hairstyle for Heather Haines.
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| Jerry Adair, left, from County Line Baptist Church in Lithia Springs, and Gary Campbell from First Baptist Church Vidalia, put together a crib at Baby & More, a thrift store for mothers.
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Henrietta Nowill from Marshall Baptist Church Thomson, and Dawn Tolbert, vice president for public relations at Shorter College, fold, sort and tag clothing at Baby & More, a thrift store for mothers.
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| Connie Saltamacchio, administrative secretary for GBC missions volunteers tries to coax a smile from a young woman at a respite care facility.
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Matt Caporale, a student at Truett-McConnell College, reads a Curious George story to a woman at a respite care facility.
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