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An Oklahoman has accepted the top post at the Southern Baptist Convention s GuideStone Financial Resources.
The Rev. Hance Dilbeck will step down as executive director-treasurer of Oklahoma Baptists to become president-elect of GuideStone. Dilbeck was chosen for the post by a unanimous vote of the GuideStone Trustee Board on Thursday during a trustee meeting of the Nashville, Tennessee-based organization, according to a GuideStone news release.
Dilbeck will serve alongside O.S. Hawkins, GuideStone s current president and CEO during a transition period. Dilbeck will become the organization s president and CEO and Hawkins will be president emeritus in the first quarter of 2022.
Virtual mission trips build gospel connections continents apart
By
Scott Barkley
By:
Scott Barkley
February 16, 2021
Each summer, California Baptist University sends 30-35 teams and more than 300 students on missions throughout the world. The plans changed during 2020, of course, but still included sending the gospel. The time, platform and number of participants may have been different for the Southern Baptist-affiliated school, but the goal of sharing Christ remained the same.
CBU and others have discovered the advantage of virtual mission trips, a new way of taking the gospel to the nations. And while no one is advocating they replace the physical presence of ministry, their benefits are becoming more apparent.
By: Storme Jones
In late November, News 9 reported rural Oklahoma communities were being cut out of a UDSA food distribution program due to a lack of federal funding.
Since the story, USDA food distributor RK Group reversed course and sent an additional 1,500 boxes of fresh produce to be divided between eight rural communities.
“When you ran the story, we were very graciously called by pastor Derek Scobey the next evening,” Luther United Methodist Church Pastor Patricia Johnson said. “I started crying on the phone.”
Scobey is the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in northeast Oklahoma City, where food deliveries were continuing. He told Johnson they’d work together to push the USDA to continue deliveries to her rural communities.