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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
FOR
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
JUNE 6, 1991
EVENTS:
Tour of Child Development Center
Staff Photo
Address Southern Baptist Convention
DRESS:
Men
- Business Suit
Women
- Day Dress
CONTACTS:
Office of Presidential Advance
Jay Parmer
- 202/456-7565
Trip Coordinator
Patricia L. Conrad
- 202/456-7565
Atlanta, GA Signal
- 202/395-1532
- 404/659-0223
ADVANCE:
Lyn Kennelly
- LEAD
Bobby Carr
- PRESS
Steve Jones
- USSS
Sean Byrne
- MIL. AIDE
Gordon Koch
- WHCA
WEATHER:
Sunny/Mid 80's
SCHEDULE OF THE PRESIDENT
TO
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
JUNE 6, 1991
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
7:40 am
Vans depart West Basement en
route Andrews Air Force Base.
8:00 am
Guests and Staff with own
transportation should arrive
Distinguished Visitor's Lounge,
Andrews Air Force Base for
check-in.
8:25 am
Guests and Staff manifested on
Marine One should proceed to
South Lawn at this time.
8:30 am
THE PRESIDENT boards Marine One and departs White
House en route Andrews Air Force Base.
MARINE ONE MANIFEST:
THE PRESIDENT
Gov. Sununu
R. Gates
M. Fitzwater
C. Powers
B. Farish
Doctor
Mil. Aide
2 USSS
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
8:40 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Andrews Air Force Base and
proceeds to board Air Force One.
8:50 am
THE PRESIDENT departs Andrews Air Force Base en
(E.D.T.)
route Dobbins Air Force Base, Atlanta, Georgia.
(Flying Time:
1 Hour 30 Minutes)
(Time Change:
No)
(Interchange:
No)
(Food Service: Breakfast)
10:20 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Dobbins Air Force Base,
(E.D.T.)
Atlanta, Georgia and proceeds to Motorcade.
Met by:
Colonel William F. Haber
94th Combat Support Group Commander
The Honorable R.T. "Tom" Phillips (R)
State Senator and Minority Leader,
Georgia Senate
The Honorable Hugh Ragan (R)
Georgia Senate
Mr. Alec Poitevint
Chairman, Georgia Republican Party
Mrs. Carolyn Meadows
National Committeewoman
Mr. T. Jack Barnette
Chairman, American European Corp.
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Ms. Kathie Miller
Chairwoman, Georgia Federation of Republican
Women
Mr. Fred Cooper
Chairman, Georgia Bush-Quayle '88
Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Parkman (Doris)
Crew Member, Finback Submarine - WWII
Point of Light Greeters:
Mr. Reginald Lewis
Urban Volunteer, The Glencastle Project and
21st "Daily Point of Light"
Mr. John Abercrombie
Executive Director, The Glencastle Project and
21st "Daily Point of Light"
Ms. Barbara Carson
Volunteer, Athens Tutorial Program and 172nd
"Daily Point of Light"
Ms. Yolanda Clark
Volunteer, Athens Tutorial Program and 172nd
"Daily Point of Light"
Mr. Wardell Jones
Training Consultant, Wings of Hope and 284th
"Daily Point of Light"
Mr. Garrison Davis
Volunteer and Composer, Wings of Hope and 284th
"Daily Point of Light"
Mr. Johnny "Tom" Clack
Chairman, Georgia Veterans Leadership Program
and 463rd "Daily Point of Light"
Mr. Ron Miller
Director, Georgia Veterans Leadership Program
and 463rd "Daily Point of Light"
Mr. Gary Jackson
Founder, Pinch Hitter Project and 335th "Daily
Point of Light"
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Mr. Jack Wexler
Pinch Hitter, Pinch Hitter Project and 335th
"Daily Point of Light"
10:25 am
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs Dobbins
Air Force Base en route Central Presbyterian
Church.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Lead
L. Kennelly
Spare
B. Farish
Doctor
LIMO
THE PRESIDENT
Follow up
Control
Gov. Sununu
R. Gates
Mil. Aide
Support
M. Fitzwater
M. Lukens
Official Photographer
Medic
WHCA
Staff I
D. Demarest
E. Holiday
E. Rogers
Guest I
P. Coverdell
T. Scully
Camera I
B. Montgomery
Camera II
Wire Minivan I
Wire Minivan II
Page Four
Staff Van
All Remaining Staff
Press Minivan I
J. Herrick
Press Minivan II
Press Minivan III
(Drive Time: 25 Minutes)
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
Upon arrival at Central Presbyterian
Church, Guests and Staff will be escorted
to Staff Viewing Area or Staff Hold.
Please board Motorcade no later than
11:10 pm for transport to Georgia World
Congress Center.
10:50 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Central Presbyterian Church
and proceeds to Child Development Center.
Met by:
Pastor Ted Wardlow
Central Presbyterian Church
Ms. Deborah Walker Little
Director, Child Development Center
EVENT:
TOUR OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
EXPANDED POOL
10:51 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Child Development Center
and, accompanied by Ms. Walker Little, begins
participation in Tour.
NOTE:
THE PRESIDENT will be fitted with a
lavaliere microphone.
Page Five
11:10 am
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Tour
and proceeds to Holding Room.
11:11 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Holding Room and holds
briefly.
NOTE:
The lavaliere microphone will be removed
at this time.
11:13 am
THE PRESIDENT departs Holding Room and proceeds to
Motorcade.
11:15 am
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs Central
Presbyterian Church en route Georgia World
Congress Center.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Same as on Arrival.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
Upon arrival at Georgia World Congress
Center, Guests and Staff will be escorted
to Staff Viewing Area.
Please board Motorcade no later than
12:10 pm for transport to Dobbins Air
Force Base.
11:20 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Georgia World Congress
Center and proceeds to Staff Photo Area.
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EVENT
STAFF PHOTO
CLOSED PRESS
11:25 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Staff Photo Area and begins
participation in Staff Photo.
Met by:
Mr. Daniel A. Graveline, Jr.
Executive Director, Georgia World Congress Center
Dr. Morris H. Chapman
President, Southern Baptist Convention
Dr. Harold C. Bennett
Executive President, Southern Baptist Convention
11:35 am
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Staff
Photo and, accompanied by Dr. Chapman and
Dr. Bennett, departs Staff Photo Area and
proceeds to Holding Room.
11:36 am
THE PRESIDENT arrives Holding Room and holds
briefly.
11:38 am
THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by Dr. Chapman and
Dr. Bennett, departs Holding Room and proceeds to
Off-Stage Announcement Area.
11:39 am
THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by Dr. Chapman and Dr.
Bennett, arrives Off-Stage Announcement Area
and holds briefly.
EVENT
ADDRESS SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
OPEN PRESS
RUFFLES AND FLOURISHES
Page Seven
OFF-STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
HAIL TO THE CHIEF
REMARKS
TELEPROMPTER
GIFT PRESENTATION
11:40 am
THE PRESIDENT, accompanied by Dr. Chapman and Dr.
Bennett, is announced onto Stage and proceeds to
Seat.
11:42 am Dr. Bennett introduces Dr. Chapman.
11:45 am Dr. Chapman gives Welcoming Remarks.
11:48 am
THE PRESIDENT is introduced for Remarks by Dr.
Chapman.
11:50 am
THE PRESIDENT Remarks.
12:05 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes Remarks, remains
standing at Podium and begins participation in
Gift Presentation.
NOTE: Dr. Chapman will present THE PRESIDENT
with two Bibles.
12:07 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Gift
Presentation and returns to Seat.
12:08 pm Dr. Chapman gives Closing Remarks.
12:12 pm Mr. Ron Phillips, Pastor, Central
Baptist Church, Hixson, Tennessee,
delivers Benediction.
Page Eight
12:15 pm
THE PRESIDENT concludes participation in Southern
Baptist Convention, departs Stage and proceeds to
Holding Room.
12:16 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Holding Room and holds
briefly.
12:18 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Holding Room and proceeds to
Motorcade.
12:20 pm
THE PRESIDENT boards Motorcade and departs Georgia
World Congress Center en route Dobbins Air Force
Base.
MOTORCADE ASSIGNMENTS:
Same as on Arrival except:
Guest I
delete P. Coverdell
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
12:40 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Dobbins Air Force Base and
proceeds to board Air Force One.
12:45 pm
THE PRESIDENT departs Atlanta, Georgia en route
Andrews Air Force Base.
(Flying Time:
1 Hour 25 Minutes)
(Time Change:
No)
(Interchange:
No)
(Food Service:
Lunch)
2:10 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives Andrews Air Force Base and
proceeds to Marine One.
Page Nine
2:20 pm
THE PRESIDENT boards Marine One and departs
Andrews Air Force Base en route White House.
MARINE ONE MANIFEST:
Same as on Arrival.
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
2:30 pm
THE PRESIDENT arrives White House.
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804-978-3888
615-371-1956
pincepal denies clase order
Brentwood TN
Monette devid disruption
Monette + friend read Bible or playground
3 others join them. Doe parent object.
Principal tells monetta tabley cannot
meet at all.
Principal denies this in deposition
attorney tries to get school to apologize
+ let her study bible
They accuse Monetle of discripting
classes.
Monette denies this.
fuit filed.
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ABC NEWS
SHOW: WORLD NEWS SATURDAY
APRIL 13, 1991
LENGTH: 3453 words
BODY:
ANNOUNCER: From ABC News, World News Saturday. Here's Carole Simpson.
CAROLE SIMPSON: Good evening. After more than a week of enduring wretched
conditions on the Turkish-Iraqi border, small signs of hope today for the
hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees desperately trying to get out of Iraq.
More supplies have made their way to the camps and for a change it didn't rain.
ABC's Sheila MacVicar is on the Turkish-Iraqi border.
SHEILA MACVICAR: Things were a little better in the Iraqi refugees' camp near
Cukurca today. Small improvement that demonstrates more help is on its way. A
French aid agency set up a clinic in a tent. The first priority: treating
dozens of sick children. A water pipe was brought in to bring desperately
needed fresh water from the mountains to the camp. Even two pay phones appeared
on the mountaintop. Most importantly there was no rain. People who have been
cold and wet for days could finally get warm, but the camp is still disorganized
and chaotic.
MAN: They can't control us, in this shape no one can control us.
SHEILA MACVICAR: There was no system for distributing food, people simply hijack
supplies. Even the food from American and British airdrops ends up in the hands
of the fittest. After yesterday's accident where eight people were killed in
the camp by parachuted food supplies, today's drops were well down in the next
valley. It's a mad scramble, thousands of people running for what in the end is
always too little food. Those that are fast enough are 50 happy to have food
they don't care what it is.
MAN: Coffee, tea, milk, anything.
SHEILA MACVICAR: American officials say US planes made 31 food drops today, more
are planned for tomorrow. Relief agency workers say it's an inefficient way to
deliver food, but other help may still be days away. Sheila MacVicar, ABC News,
on the Turkish-Iraqi border.
CAROLE SIMPSON: Refugees in southern Iraq faced a new reality today as a
division of 17,000 US troops completed its withdrawal. UN peacekeeping forces
are coming in as replacements, but will they be able to care for the refugees?
ABC's Al Dale is in Kuwait.
AL DALE: The man who will lead the United Nations force here, came to Kuwait
City today to lay the groundwork for replacing US troops on the border with
Iraq. Major General Gunther Greindl of Austria made it clear that the UN force
will act only as observers of the cease-fire agreement, not as protectors of
refugees.
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MAJOR GENERAL GUNTHER GREINDL: Our responsibility is clearly spelled out in the
resolution of the Security Council and there is nothing in that we have any
responsibility for the refugees.
AL DALE: Thousands of refugees live in sprawling camps on both sides of the
Iraq-Kuwait border. Most are Iraqis from rebellious areas fleeing Saddam
Hussein's army and they feel safe as long as American troops are in charge. But
they have little faith in the much smaller UN force, only 1,400 strong; some not
armed at all, most armed only with pistols for self-protection.
MAJOR GENERAL GUNTHER GREINDL: The plan clearly states that we are not to take
any physical action.
AL DALE: As the turnover to the UN nears, rumors of Iraqi government spies
infiltrating the camps keep the refugees in turmoil.
MAN: Some of Saddam Hussein's secret police come here and want to make collect
some information.
AL DALE: American troops continued to pack up today preparing for the official
turnover in a week to ten days. There is no doubt in the minds of thousands of
refugees here that their lives will be in danger the moment the last American
soldier says good-bye. Al Dale, ABC News, Kuwait.
CAROLE SIMPSON: President Bush seems anxious for American soldiers to say
good-bye. In a speech to the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in
Alabama, Mr. Bush said he wants US troops out of Iraq as soon as possible. At
the same time he warned Saddam Hussein not to interfere with international
efforts to help Kurdish refugees. ABC's Steve Shepard traveled with the
President today.
STEVE SHEPARD: It was the first time a commander in chief has addressed students
at the Air Force's Air University and the President got a hero's welcome. The
students heard Mr. Bush launch a verbal assault against Saddam Hussein.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Saddam's continued savagery has placed his regime outside the
international order.
STEVE SHEPARD: The President added that as long as Saddam rules, Iraq has no
future.
PRESIDENT BUSH: With Saddam in power Iraq will remain a pariah nation, its
people denied moral context with most of the outside world.
STEVE SHEPARD: If that sounded close to again calling for Iraqis to overthrow
their ruler, Mr. Bush said emphatically that the US would not take part in any
such effort; that America's role in the Gulf will be restricted to emergency
refugee relief.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I do not want one single soldier or airman shoved into a civil
war in Iraq that's been going on for ages and I'm not going to have that.
STEVE SHEPARD: The President spent the rest of Saturday afternoon at a bass
fishing contest at a nearby private lake. The President will return to
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Washington early this evening. There he'll continue to work on a strategy both
to relieve Kurdish suffering and keep US troops coming home. Steve Shepard, ABC
News, with the President, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
CAROLE SIMPSON: Kuwait's Oil Minister believes the strategy being used to put
out the oil fires isn't working so today he announced plans to hire companies
from around the world to try and put out the fires within seven months. ABC's
Jerry King is in Kuwait City.
JERRY KING: In two years 41 billion dollars worth of Kuwaiti oil will have gone
up in smoke. That's how long the experts say it will take to extinguish all
these fires. Not good enough, said Kuwait's Oil Minister today. The problem he
says was that the number of fires was just too much for the four teams of
experts to handle.
DR. RASHID AL-AMIRI: They have never faced a crisis of this magnitude. So they
are experts at putting three fires, four fires at one time, but there are no
experts in putting 500 fires or dealing with them with a crisis of this
magnitude.
JERRY KING: Al-Amiri said the answer is more fire fighters using new but
unspecified techniques. He hopes that will cut both the time and the losses by
more than two-thirds. The minister was asked what he thought the reaction would
be among the fire fighters working in the oil fields. It may not be a pleasant
surprise, he said, but maybe it will make them work faster. Predictably the
fire fighters were both angered and amused. The problem they said is definitely
not manpower.
MAN: If they come over then they won't have any equipment either. You can't do
it without equipment, you have to have some tools to work with. And if you
don't have them I don't give a damn if you got 900 experts, you can't do
anything.
JERRY KING: Most experts claim the problem is Kuwaiti bureaucracy. The new fire
fighting plan: one informed source suggested the minister was merely attempting
to silence his critics and to keep his own job. Jerry King, ABC News, Kuwait.
CAROLE SIMPSON: Just off the Italian Riviera a huge explosion aboard a burning
oil tanker held up efforts to stop a massive oil spill today. The tanker,
carrying 41 million gallons of Iranian crude, first exploded two days ago. It
is threatening the Mediterranean with what could be its worst oil spill ever. In
a moment, the savings and loan scandal continues to plague Neil Bush. We'll
also look at how a battle over the Bible has moved from the playground to the
courts. And later in this broadcast, the sandhill crane: looking to man for
survival.
[Commercial break]
CAROLE SIMPSON: More apparent trouble for President Bush's son Neil. Published
reports today say that federal regulators in Denver plan to impose sanctions
against Neil Bush for conflicts of interest while he was a director of the
failed Silverado Savings and Loan. The sanctions could penalize Bush with a
cease and desist order, limiting his actions if he were to get involved with
other financial institutions. A lawyer for the President's son said until his
client receives official word he'll have no comment. At the center of a legal
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battle in Norman, Oklahoma is an 11 year old girl with a penchant for preaching.
Although public schools don't allow formal religious instruction, the question
is: Is it okay for a student to teach salvation on her own time, but on the
school's playground? Walter Rodgers is in Oklahoma.
WALTER RODGERS: On this public school playground in Oklahoma, freedom of
religion has had a sharp collision with the right to be left alone. Eleven year
old Monette Rethford takes her Bible to school, organizes religious discussion
groups, prays during recess. Some parents complained and the principal ordered
Monette to stop.
LYNNE MILLER / PRINCIPAL LAKEVIEW SCHOOL: There was a great deal of talk about
the end of the world coming, the fact that we were in the war and that this was
Armageddon and if they were not saved that they would go to hell.
WALTER RODGERS: Classes were allegedly disrupted and schoolmates intimidated
when Monette passed notes admonishing children they were not good Christians.
The girl's parents deny she was disruptive. Her father does say he encourages
his daughter's missionary work at school.
STANLEY RETHFORD: It's our life-style, that's what we live. We don't, it's not
just something you go to church on Sunday, it's every day of the week, it's
every moment, every hour.
WALTER RODGERS: Monette's lawyer scoffed at charges of intimidation.
LARRY CRAIN: Well, I can't believe that fifth grade students who see a wide
range of things in our today's society and culture from Nightmare on Elm Street
to anything else would be frightened by a little fifth grade girl sharing her
religious faith.
WALTER RODGERS: But parents insist Monette told their children:
DEBBIE BASKEYFIELD: They were followers of Satan, they were full of the devil
WOMAN: My child has nightmares that their gym has turned into a church.
WALTER RODGERS: This case has had an unsettling effect in Oklahoma's Bible Belt.
On one side Evangelical Christians believe they are obligated to publicly bear
witness to scripture, but school officials argue separation of church and state
is vital to protect children. A federal court ruling in this case could come
any day now. Walter Rodgers, ABC News, Norman, Oklahoma.
CAROLE SIMPSON: In a moment, a Soviet family's challenge to make a new life in
Israel one year later.
[Commercial break]
CAROLE SIMPSON: In South Africa, a defiant Nelson Mandela today warned that his
African National Congress will not budge from its demand that by May ninth the
government prove it's trying to end the black on black violence that is killing
more than a 1,000 people every year. Mandela said if ANC demands are not met
power sharing talks with the government will be abandoned. In Barcelona, Spain
the International Olympic Committee says if South Africa gets rid of its
apartheid laws by June, its athletes will be allowed to participate in next
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What One War Took, Another Returns
Kurdish Refugee Reunited With Family After 16 Years
6-10-91
Gulf War refugees, surviving freezing rain,
By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
food shortages and disease. Along the way,
Washington Post Staff Writer
she said, a 5-year-old cousin died in her arms.
A Kurdish family separated for 16 years by
President Bush cited the teenager's odys-
political strife and war in Iraq was reunited
sey to the United States in a speech Thurs-
last week when 18-year-old Gelawish Dosky
day and later met with the Dosky family at
made her way from a sprawling refugee camp
the White House, where he twice kissed Ge-
near the Turkish border to her new home in
lawish Dosky on the cheek, her parents said.
Alexandria.
"It is amazing," said her mother, Safiya
"We cried, everybody was crying," Dosky
Dosky, 38. "I am the lucky one. Sometimes
said of the reunion with her father, Mikail
when I look I wonder if this is a dream
I
Dosky, at a mountainside camp in northern
just keep looking at her."
Iraq.
Gelawish Dosky was separated from her
"It is very good," she added, speaking
family in 1975, during the Kurdish rebellion
through an interpreter. "Now I have a mother
against Iraq. Her father, a guerrilla leader at
and father, brothers and sisters."
the time, said he was forced to flee to Iran
BY CAROL GUZY-THE WASHINGTON POST
In recent weeks, Dosky had slogged up
because he feared for his life.
After a 16-year separation, Mikail and Safiya Dosky can hug their daughter Gelawish, center.
mountains with thousands of other Persian
See FAMILY, D5, Col. 3
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U.S. Soldier's Call Opens Door
To Kurdish Family's Reunion
FAMILY, From D1
she said of the prospect of leaving.
"When I heard this thing happened,
In retaliation, he said, Iraqi áu-
I started to cry. I thought, 'I will
thorities detained his 2-year-old
never see my family again.'
daughter, a newborn son and his
A turning point came in late
wife, soon releasing everyone but
April, when Dosky, by then in
the girl.
northern Iraq with other refugees,
After settling in a Kurdish ref-
slipped a piece of paper with the
ugee camp in Iran, the family re-
names of her parents and their tele-
ceived word that Gelawish Dosky
phone number to a U.S. helicopter
had been released to Mikail Dosky's
pilot. The pilot telephoned the fam-
parents, but that she could not
ily and spoke to Safiya Dosky.
leave Iraq unless he returned.
"I said, 'Please don't tell me any-
In 1977, the Doskys immigrated
thing happened to her," she re-
to the United States and moved to
called. "I was screaming and crying.
Northern Virginia with the sponsor-
He said, 'Listen to me, she is fine.'
ship of a family that worships at
The next day at First Baptist,
First Baptist Church in Alexandria.
where Mikail Dosky works as a cus-
Once in this country, the Dosky
todian supervisor, Wolf told his con-
family tried in vain to win their
gregation about the pilot's tele-
daughter's freedom, writing to
phone call. Soon he was approached
their legislators and filing papers
by several people who wanted to
help. The Doskys cannot recall the
with the federal Immigration and
name of the pilot, one of dozens of
Naturalization Service.
foreigners their daughter ap-
"It was dead end after dead end,"
proached to make contact with
said the Rev. Jay Wolf, pastor of
them.
First Baptist. :
One man, an airline executive,
The Doskye were able to stay in
said he would arrange flights for the
intermittent contact with their
girl. Another man, who works for
daughter by telephone, and believed
the Defense Intelligence Agency,
several times over the years that a
offered to arrange papers admitting
reunion was imminent. Last Au-
her to the United States, Wolf said,
gust, thinking they were days away
About 10 days later, Mikail
from getting her out, they directed
Dosky flew to Turkey, made his
her to go to the U.S. Embassy in
way to northern Iraq and found his
Baghdad.
daughter, who had heard from rel-
Iraq invaded Kuwait the next
atives that he might be coming.
day, dashing Dosky's hopes for a
"Almost half the camp, they
speedy exit to the United States.
watched," she said. "Everybody was
"I was so happy, I was SO close,"
there waiting for him."
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(Lange/Simon)
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER, ATLANTA
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1991
11:45 A.M.
[[ Acknowledgements ]]
The last time I attended a Southern Baptist Convention was
in 1982. Too long ago. But never so long that I'd lose touch
with the rock-solid values of this community -- the qualities
that make it uniquely American. Strong but compassionate, proud
but not boastful, decent and giving -- bearing an enduring belief
in freedom, and an abiding faith in the power of prayer.
Everywhere you turn, it seems, American values are ascendant
around the world. Look to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union:
Places of worship long subdued and silent, forced underground by
the iron fist of the state -- now reclaimed by the people,
joyfully emerging to proclaim their faith anew.
In Africa, in Asia, in Latin America -- your ministries
flourish and spread the word of God around the world.
And even in the heat of the Persian Gulf, nearly 200
Southern Baptist chaplains reported well over 1,000 conversions
among the servicemen and women of Operation Desert Storm -- with
poncho-lined holes in the sand serving as makeshift baptistries.
Southern Baptists have been doing quiet but crucial work --
engaging in countless acts of kindness and compassion, spreading
the word of God and the undeniable value of religious freedom.
2
You've held to faith where others have lost it -- gained in
numbers where others haven't -- made a difference where others
couldn't. You prove that faith is a flower that can bloom
anywhere -- that no matter how hard the journey, no matter how
high or humble the surroundings, God's love provides.
During the Gulf crisis, Barbara and I found guidance and
comfort in prayer -- and throughout the struggle, your prayers
sustained us. So I want to thank you all -- and ask that you
keep us in your prayers.
You know, for too long, too many have worried that we
Americans have lost our way. That the two fundamental pillars
supporting this society -- our families, and our faith -- have
been undermined. Damaged beyond repair.
But in a real sense, America is the one place forever being
rediscovered -- renewed in faith, and reborn in freedom.
Some now sense a return to the roots -- an end to the 60's
self-centeredness, the 70's cynicism, the 80's apathy and
"thirtysomething" self-absorption. After decades of departure,
they say, we're rediscovering the core values -- our fundamental
goodness and decency, our deliverance from apathy.
Some may call this merely another trend in the cross-
current of American life -- but you know better. You know that
we are, as we have always been, a deeply religious culture.
Devoted to family and community. Drawing strength from our faith
in God. Not loudly, but in quiet ways and small acts of
kindness.
3
So while the cynics may sense some kind of "religious
resurgence" over the last two or three years, they've always been
a lagging indicator of American life. Most of us have never had
to get our faith in God back, because we never lost it.
In a recent survey, 40 percent of Americans named "faith in
God" as the most important part of their lives. Only two percent
said "a job that pays well" was most important.
Far from being motivated only by greed and ambition,
Americans' broad river of faith runs quietly -- but deep rivers
always do. We would never claim to have a special place in God's
soul -- but we are better as a people because He has a hallowed
place in ours.
The founding fathers thought long and carefully about the
role of religion and government in our society. It's no accident
that among all of the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment
-- freedoms of speech, of the press, of assembly, of petition --
the first was freedom of religion. That's why the story of a
little girl named Monette Rethford, out in Norman, Oklahoma, is
getting national attention.
A fifth-grader in a public elementary school, Monette liked
to read her bible under a shade tree during recess. No teachers
involved, no disruption of school activities -- just Monette and
a handful of friends who joined her, voluntarily, to share their
faith and discuss how it touched their daily lives.
Yet school officials told Monette her prayer group was
illegal on school property -- an "unlawful assembly. " They
4
forgot that the First Amendment was written to protect people
against religious intrusions by the state -- not to protect the
state from voluntary religious activity by the people.
My friends, the day a child's quiet prayer group during
recess becomes an "unlawful assembly," law in America ceases to
make sense. In that spirit, today I again call on Congress:
Pass a Constitutional Amendment restoring voluntary prayer to our
nation's schools. 11 Let's put people first -- and allow them
the freedom to follow their faith. 11
Putting people first also means making sure government
allows people to make their own decisions -- and that means
giving parents and families the power to choose the kind of child
care they want for their kids. 11
It means giving all parents -- rich and poor, in every
community, of every kind -- the power to choose the kind of
school their children attend. Every family should have the power
of an alternative -- and through our efforts for choice in
schools, we want to put power in parent's hands -- because we
trust them to make the right decisions for their kids.
And something more: we believe that kids should be safe to
walk the streets -- any streets -- free from the fear of crime
and the despair of drugs.
That's why, on March 6, I challenged the Congress to pass a
tough Crime Bill in 100 days -- to keep our streets safe. Yet
among all the items Congress put on their agenda for last month,
crime didn't even make the list.
5
If God created the world in six days, surely the United
States Congress can pass a crime bill in a hundred days.
Whatever we've learned over the last few decades, it's clear
that America is a nation that no longer lacks a moral vocabulary.
Ideals like decency and virtue are no longer subject to scorn.
And while every President learns the limits to the power of
the "bully pulpit" -- the power of your pulpits to pursuade, to
guide, to lead, is as limitless as God's love.
So I'd ask that you hold fast to the Southern Baptist ideal
of "a free church in a free state" -- to protect all of America's
faiths, in freedom. In all we do, let us ask first -- are we
supporting that most essential unit of American life, the family?
In child care, in education, in crime legislation -- are we doing
all we can to preserve the twin pillars of faith and family?
Only then does government by the people serve the people.
While the world's challenges seem to change shape almost
daily, our fundamental values remain constant. Our principles
endure.
We are, as ever, "one nation under God." No nation better
reconciles diversity of faith with unity of purpose. Of all the
sources of this nation's strength -- our love of family, our
commitment to freedom -- none is more enduring or inspiring than
our faith in God.
Let me close with a story about family, about faith, and
about freedom. It's the story of a Kurdish family -- Mikail
and Sophia Dosky -- who escaped from Iraq over a decade ago.
6
During their perilous journey across the Turkish border, they
became separated from their 3-year-old daughter Gelawish. Mikail
and Sophia made it out of Iraq, but their daughter did not.
After settling in America, Mikail kept trying to get his
daughter out of Iraq, even traveling there himself, but to no
avail. Just a few weeks ago, Mikail and Sophia got a phone call
from an American helicopter pilot in Turkey. The pilot had been
flying supplies to Kurdish refugees when he got a note from
Gelawish -- now 16 years old -- asking him to call her parents in
America. Seizing this opportunity, Mikail asked his friends at
the First Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia to help him get
to Turkey and bring his daughter back. After thousands of miles,
thousands of days, and thousands of dollars, Mikail and Gelawish
will soon be back in America -- where years of sorrow will be
wiped away with tears of joy.
What a testament to the power of faith, love, and hope --
all of which God provides in abundance.
In war and in peace, faith provides our solace and our
strength, our shield and our shelter. God's light leads us
forward -- bringing strength in challenge, grace in adversity,
solace in hardship, humility in achievement.
So today and always, let us pray for God's continued
guidance: that His grace will sustain us -- as it has throughout
our lives -- in the challenges ahead.
Thank you all for your leadership, your love, and your
prayers.
# # #
2924 king Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22302
April 25, 1492
Dear Mr. President:
The first Place I visited in America
was the white House just two day Saften
Seeing My family for the first time in
Sixteen years. I always remember how you
were smiling as you came to Me frome the
helicopten. It was like I had Met you
before. I was wishing that I could thank
you for what you had Jone for the Kundish
People and for My family, but than I could
not speak English. I remember thinking
When I learned to speak and write English,
the first letter I write would be to you.
Since I saw you in June 1491, I have
been attending Northern virginia community
Callege each day, studying English.
I am also taking an Adult Education
typing C lass atnight. Bn sunday Mornings
I help with the children at First Baptist
Church, Next door to My house.
I have lost friends and family in My
other country, Iraq, but have come. here to
America and Made new friends and a real
family.
I would like tabe to an American citizen
because all My family are citizens, but
I have to wait five years.
I would like to Continue My education
in college but I do not know what my
,Major will be or what I want to c/o.
Thank you for inviting us to see you
and for talking about 45 in your Speech
to the Southern Baptist Convention
in Atlanta.
I hope you receive My letter.
I would like to hear from you.
Respectfully yours,
Gelawish Dosky
(Lange/Simon)
May 31, 1991
10:40 A.M.
[BAPTIST.DOC]
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
GEORGIA WORLD CONGRESS CENTER, ATLANTA
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1991
11:45 A.M.
[[ Acknowledgements
]]
The last time I attended a Southern Baptist Convention was
in 1982. Too long ago. But never so long that I'd lose touch
with the rock-solid values of this community -- the qualities
that make it uniquely American. Strong but compassionate, proud
but not boastful, decent and giving -- bearing an enduring belief
in freedom, and an abiding faith in the power of prayer to guide
our lives.
Everywhere you turn, it seems, American values are ascendant
around the world. Look to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union:
Places of worship long subdued and silent, forced underground by
the iron fist of the state -- now reclaimed by the people,
joyfully emerging to proclaim their faith anew.
In Africa, in Asia, in Latin America -- your ministries
flourish and spread the word of God around the world.
And even in the heat of the Persian Gulf, nearly 200
Southern Baptist chaplains reported well over 1,000 conversions
among the servicemen and women of Operation Desert Storm -- with
poncho-lined holes in the sand serving as makeshift baptistries.
Southern Baptists have been doing quiet but crucial work --
engaging in countless acts of kindness and compassion, spreading
2
the word of God and the undeniable value of religious freedom
everywhere.
You've held to faith where many have lost it -- gained in
numbers where others haven't -- made a difference where others
couldn't. You prove that faith is a flower that can bloom
anywhere -- that no matter how hard the journey, no matter how
high or humble the surroundings, God's love provides.
During the Gulf crisis, Barbara and I found guidance and
comfort in prayer -- and throughout the struggle, your prayers
sustained us. [[ So I want to thank you for those prayers --
and offer another, if you'll join me: God bring to this land,
especially to all who have suffered the loss of a loved one, the
strength of Your infinite wisdom. Grant that those distant lands
still torn by struggle and its aftermath will be re-born in
peace. Give them the strength and comfort of Your love. We do
what we must, to contain aggression -- but only with Your
guidance can we bring peace to the world. Help us to draw
strength from scripture. Let this be a healing time. Amen. ]]
For too long, too many have worried that we've lost our way.
That the two fundamental pillars supporting this society -- our
families, and our faith -- have been undermined. Damaged beyond
repair.
But in a real sense, America is the one place forever being
rediscovered -- renewed in faith, and reborn in freedom.
Some now sense a return to the roots -- an end to the 60's
self-centeredness, the 70's cynicism, the 80's apathy and
3
"thirtysomething" self-absorption. After decades of departure,
they say, we're rediscovering the core values -- our fundamental
goodness and decency, our deliverance from apathy.
The experts may think this is merely another trend in the
cross-current of American life -- but you know better. You know
that we are, as we have always been, a deeply religious culture.
Devoted to family and community. Drawing strength from our faith
in God. Not loudly or proudly, but in quiet ways and small acts
of kindness.
So while the cynics may sense some kind of "religious
resurgence" over the last two or three years, they've always been
a lagging indicator of American life. Most of us have never had
to get our faith in God back, because we never lost it.
In a recent survey, 40 percent of Americans named "faith in
God" as the most important part of their lives. Only two percent
said "a job that pays well" was most important.
Far from being motivated only by greed and ambition,
Americans' broad river of faith runs quietly -- but deep rivers
always do. We would never claim to have a special place in God's
soul -- but we are better as a people because He has a hallowed
place in ours.
The founding fathers thought long and carefully about the
role of religion and government in our society. It's no accident
that among all of the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment
-- freedoms of speech, of the press, of assembly, of petition --
the first was freedom of religion. That's why the story of a
4
little girl named Monette Rethford, out in Norman, Oklahoma, is
getting national attention.
A fifth-grader in a public elementary school, Monette liked
to read her bible under a shade tree during recess. No teachers
involved, no disruption of school activities -- just Monette and
a handful of friends who joined her, voluntarily, to share their
faith and discuss how it touched their daily lives.
Yet school officials told Monette her prayer group was
illegal on school property -- an "unlawful assembly." They
forgot that the First Amendment was written to protect people
against religious intrusions by the state -- not to protect the
state from voluntary religious activity by the people.
My friends, the day a child's quiet prayer group during
recess becomes an "unlawful assembly," law in America ceases to
make sense. In that spirit, today I again call on Congress:
Pass a Constitutional Amendment restoring voluntary prayer to our
nation's schools. 11 Let's put people first -- and allow them
the freedom to follow their faith. 11
Putting people first means making sure government allows
people to make their own decisions -- like giving parents and
families the power to choose the kind of child care they want for
their kids.
It means giving all parents -- rich and poor, in every
community, of every kind -- the power to choose the kind of
school their children attend. Every family should have the power
of an alternative -- and through our efforts for choice in
5
schools, we want to put power in parent's hands -- because we
trust them to make the right decisions for their kids.
And something more: we believe that kids should be safe to
walk the streets -- any streets -- free from the fear of crime
and the despair of drugs.
That's why, on March 6, I challenged the Congress to pass a
tough Crime Bill in 100 days -- to keep our streets safe. Yet
among all the items Congress put on their agenda for last month,
crime didn't even make the list.
If God created the world and all therein in six days, surely
the United States Congress can pass a crime bill in a hundred
days. 11
Whatever we've learned over the last few decades, it's clear
that America is a nation that no longer lacks a moral vocabulary.
Ideals like decency and virtue are no longer subject to scorn.
And while every President learns the limits to the power of
the "bully pulpit" -- the power of your pulpits to pursuade, to
guide, to lead, is as limitless as God's love.
So I'd ask that you hold fast to the Southern Baptist ideal
of "a free church in a free state" -- to protect all of America's
faiths, in freedom. In all we do, let us ask first -- are we
supporting that most essential unit of American life, the family?
In child care, in education, in crime legislation -- are we doing
all we can to preserve the twin pillars of faith and family?
Only then does government by the people serve the people.
6
While the world's challenges seem to change shape almost
daily, our fundamental values remain constant. Our principles
endure.
We are, as ever, "one nation under God." No nation better
reconciles diversity of faith with unity of purpose. Of all the
sources of this nation's strength -- our love of family, our
commitment to freedom -- none is more enduring or inspiring than
our faith in God.
In war and in peace, faith provides our solace and our
strength, our shield and our shelter. God's light leads us
forward -- bringing strength in challenge, grace in adversity,
solace in hardship, humility in achievement.
So today and always, let us pray for God's continued
guidance: that His grace will sustain us -- as it has throughout
our lives -- in the challenges ahead.
Thank you all for your leadership, your love, and your
prayers.
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Leader of the Band
When Tillie Burgin picks up the baton, First Baptist,
Arlington, Texas, responds with orchestrated effort and action.
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Leader of the Band
Fifty to 60 people come daily to the Mission
Arlington office seeking food, clothing,
transportation or money for rent and utilities.
t's Saturday morning and 4-
ployed parents looking for jobs.
I
year-old Lisa Head is dressed in
Fifty to 60 people come daily to
her best. She's going to see Miss
the Mission Arlington office seeking
Tillie. Tillie Burgin stops re-
food, clothing, transportation or
turning phone calls, stops giving
money for rent and utilities.
directions to volunteers, stops finding
The same morning Lisa comes to
furniture for a formerly homeless
quote Bible verses, John comes seek-
man. She folds her slender frame in
ing help. Burgin remembers John. He
half to listen to Lisa recite a notebook
was drunk and homeless when they
full of Bible verses.
met. He has since found a job and an
As with every other person who
apartment. Today he needs furniture.
comes into the mission center of First
At the Mission Arlington ware-
Baptist Church of Arlington, Texas,
house, John selects a sofa and love
Burgin goes out of her way to make
seat, mattress and box springs, bed
sure Lisa knows she is important, that
frame and chair. Burgin will later give
she is loved.
his name and address to Dwight
Born a block from the center-
Williams who leads a Bible study near
called Mission Arlington-Burgin
the apartment complex where John
now conducts a fine-tuned orchestra
has moved.
of volunteers playing to an audience
Needs presented to Mission
of physically and spiritually hungry
Arlington are the same as requests
Texans.
made to any church with a food
This orchestra has concert halls
pantry or clothes closet. First Baptist
throughout Arlington, a city of
had a clothes closet for years. "But we
261,000 sandwiched between Dallas
always wondered, are we really meet-
and Fort Worth. It performs weekly
ing needs or are we being conned?"
in 100-plus apartment complexes,
says Pastor Charles Wade.
mobile home parks, retirement cen-
The church began a concentrated
ters, a shelter for abused women and
local mission effort four years ago
the city jail- There are also nightly
when Burgin, who with husband,
recitals at Alcoholics Anonymous
Bob, was a missionary in Korea for 10
groups, weekly meetings of Narcotics
years, became the church's minister of
Anonymous, a medical clinic where
missions.
doctors and nurses work lunch hours,
One of Burgin's first steps was to
and a child care center for unem-
visit every person seeking assistance.
Though the ministry has mush-
roomed, she or a Mission Arlington
volunteer follows that practice. Such
Burgin goes out of her way to
visits bridge the gap between people
make sure everyone-whether
who have things and people who
adult or child-knows they
have problems.
are important and loved.
If the prospects live in an apart-
Confinued
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In personal visits, LEFT, Burgin assesses needs. Mission Arlington min-
istries, ABOVE, include everything from a food pantry to free medical care.
ment complex where Mission
More important, meeting in peo-
Arlington has a Bible study, they are
ple's homes makes their dwelling
invited to attend. If they live in a
place a sanctuary. "When the divine
community without a Bible study,
breaks into the mundane, it's always a
they are approached about starting
kind of incarnation," says Wade.
one in their home.
Mission Arlington's first apart-
The result is more than 100 Bible
ment complex Bible study was in
studies with a weekly attendance of
Virginia Maanani's apartment. She
1,400-400 shy of First Baprist's aver-
and two teenage daughters had
age Sunday School attendance.
moved from New York to escape an
Wade says taking Bible studies to
abusive husband. Though she was a
apartment complexes is like bus min-
Christian, Maanani had given up on
istry without the bus. "We couldn't
God.
reach 3,200 people if all of them had
"When Tillie came to my apart-
to come to the church house," he
ment," she says, "I was afraid to let
says.
Continued
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pelp
With help from Mission
The gospel is
Arlington, Maanani got back on her
shared as freely as
feer-financially and spiritually. She
and her daughters have moved to a
candy. "If we don't
duplex, but Maanani remains part of
reach the children,
the apartment complex ministry. She
now leads two Bible studies.
there's another lost
last summer. Frustrations come from
"This is not just a mission field,"
having to stop for routine things-
generation."
she says- "It becomes your life."
like eating or filling the car with gas.
If Maanani learned to make min-
At 54, Burgin says she gers energy
her in- I thought she was a bill collec-
istry her life, she learned it from
to dip into the bottomless well of hu-
tor or someone coming to evict me."
Burgin. For Burgin, the alam rings at
man need from sceing God's hand ac
But Burgin came back later that
4:15 every morning, seven days a
work.
day with four bags of groceries. She
week. She gets up that early to spend
"You can't be at it seven days a
returned the next with 2 check for
time in prayer and personal Bible
week, 24 hours a day and still have
the rent. "And she paid my electric
study before arriving at the office by
joy if it's not from the Lord. He's just
bill," says Maanani. "She would just
six.
given me two engines I guess."
pop in sometimes to say she cared
Burgin seldom takes a day off,
That's two engines and a host
about us."
though she recalls a four-day vacation
of help.
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forgive
plewho ARE truly
SINS
It takes more than 200 people to
other hand, flock to the couple as
Some children in Mission Arlington
lead the community Bible studies.
they generously distribute laughter
preschool classes at the O.K. Motel
And Burgin estimates 90 percent of
and compassion laced with bubble
apartment complex have been
the people who attend First Baptist
gum and Tootsie Rolls.
abused. Others are so deprived
are involved in some aspect of
Most of the children live in homes
they don't know what crayons are.
Mission Arlington.
without fathers. They vie for
Earl Glasgow finds his niche with
Glasgow's attention and clamor for
children in the spartment complex
his hugs, as if being near him is more
where he and his wife, Martha, lead a
valuable than all the candy in his
Sunday morning Bible study.
pockers.
As many as 57 people have at-
The gospel is shared as freely as
tended. but there are rarely more
the candy- "If we don't reach them,
than 10 adults. Children, on the
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"Bible study leaders
have to be developed
to take care of their
residents. I tell them,
LDREN
If your residents
call me, you're not
doing your job.''
there's another lost generation,"
Glasgow says.
In addition to Bible study, the
Glasgows hold a "fun day" every
Wednesday afternoon to play with
the children and help with home-
work. And each Saturday they visit
adults, trying to knock on every door
in the 254-unit complex every three
weeks.
The Glasgow's commitment is ex-
actly what Burgin tries to instill in all
her volunteers.
"They have to be developed to
take care of their residents," she says.
"I tell Bible study leaders, 'If your resi-
dents call me, you're not doing your
job."
ater Saturday morning,
L
Burgin goes by Keningston
Motor Lodge where lawyer
John Dowdy has been lead-
ing a Bible study.
At the manager's office, Burgin
writes a check for room rent for
Sunday's Bible study. She tells them
Mission Arlington not only wants to
help residents; it wants to help man-
agers do their job.
The pair knocks on dilapidated
doors that barely fit their frames.
When people answer, Burgin is de-
lighted to see them. She touches all
Continued
Mission Arlington volunteers
hold 100 Bible studies
involving 1,400 people across
the city-nearly matching
attendance at the church.
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Like a parent watching her child in a play, Burgin delights over seven
baptized in a mobile home park swimming pool.
the children and inquires about the
adults. Dowdy invites them to Bible
study.
On such visits, Burgin helps vol-
unteers determine how much food to
give when a family is hungry or how
much rent to pay; in rare instances,
OTHER and
she says it is best not to help.
I 4 p.m. Sunday, Bible
A
study leaders meet for
worship and to encour-
age each other. Burgin
stands at the back.
Like a parent watching her child in a
play, she delights over the report of
seven baptized in a mobile home park
swimming pool, mouns the death of
a 3-year-old in Maanani's Bible study,
laughs when a leader says: "Five peo-
ple in my group made professions of
faith. Now what do I do?"
Gnawing at any sense of accom-
plishment is the thought of how
much more needs to be done. With
3,000 apartment complexes in
Arlingron, 100 Bible studies is not
enough. Mission Arlington has a
waiting list of 14 apartment com-
plexes where Bible studies could be-
gin if volunteer leaders were
available.
Burgin might lead all 14 if there
were eight days in a week, 34 hours in
a day. But as the conductor, she must
stick with her task of finding instru-
mentalists for the orchestra.
M/USA
The day shelter for the homeless
was once a crack house. When
cleaned up, it took two dumpsters
to haul away the trash. Now, it
is filled with hope for tomorrow.
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SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
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June 4-6, 1991
Georgia World Congress Center,
Atlanta, GA
Bible Dictionary
Theme: "Jesus There's Power in HIS Name"
Scripture: "Thou shalt call his name Jesus: for
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he shall save his people from their sins"
(Matthew 1:21)
Tuesday Morning, June 4
8:15 Music for Inspiration - First Baptist Church
BIBLAN
Choir, Wichita Falls, TX, John Mark Benson,
minister of music
8:30 Call to Order
Congregational Singing - Jack Price, con-
vention music director, Garland, TX; Billy
Jack Green, associate, Marietta, GA
8:35 Prayer - Ray Fowler, pastor, Bel-Air Bap-
THEOU EXHAUSTIVEIPTURAL
tist Church, Augusta, GA
PRONOU
8:40 Registration Report and Constitution of
Convention - Lee Porter, registration sec-
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retary, projects consultant, Sunday School
youth-adult department, Sunday School
BUICINALTEN
Board, Nashville, TN
8:45 Committee on Order of Business (First Re-
port) - Danny E. Watters, chairman, pas-
tor, Beulah Baptist Church, Douglasville, GA
8:50 Welcome - James N. Griffith, executive di-
rector, Georgia Baptist Convention, Atlanta,
GA
8:55 Response - Vander Warner Jr., pastor,
Introductory price $22.88
Grove Avenue Baptist Church, Richmond,
VA
Over $7.00 off the list price
9:00 Announcement of Committee on Commit-
tees, Credentials, Resolutions, and Tellers
Available soon at your local
9:05 Radio and Television Commission Report -
Jack B. Johnson, president, Fort Worth, TX
Baptist Book Store.
9:15 Home Mission Board Report - Larry L.
Your Satisfaction Is Guaranteed
Lewis, president, Atlanta, GA
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9:25 Executive Committee Report (Part I) -
NOTES
Harold C. Bennett, president and treasurer,
Nashville, TN
10:25 American Bible Society Report - Fred A.
Allen, church relations director, New York,
NY
10:35 Introduction of Business and Resolutions
11:05 Annuity Board Report - Paul W. Powell,
president, Dallas, TX
11:15 Congregational Singing - Billy Jack Green;
First Baptist Church Choir, Wichita Falls, TX
11:20 Music - Chris Chapman, college minister,
Prestonwood Baptist Church, Dallas, TX
11:25 President's Address - Morris H. Chapman,
pastor, First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, TX
12:00 Benediction - Bernie Moraga, pastor,
Camino Real Baptist Mission, Rockwall, TX
Tuesday Afternoon, June 4
1:00 Music for Inspiration - Metropolitan Baptist
Church, Houston, TX, Dick Hill, minister of
music; Babbie Mason, concert artist, Mari-
etta, GA; TRUTH, Mobile, AL, Roger Bre-
land, director; Trent Sizemore, minister of
music, San Jacinto Baptist Church, Amar-
illo, TX
2:00 Congregational Singing - Dick Thomas-
sian, minister of music, Whitesburg Baptist
Church, Huntsville, AL
2:05 Prayer - Claude Thomas, pastor, Council
Road Baptist Church, Bethany, OK
2:10 Messenger Information Survey - Martin B.
Bradley, director, corporate planning and re-
search department, Sunday School Board,
Nashville, TN
2:20 Business
Committee on Order of Business (Sec-
ond Report) - Danny E. Watters
Introduction of Business and Resolutions
2:30 Election of Officers (First)
2:45 Executive Committee Report (Part 2) -
Harold C. Bennett
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3:30 Congregational Singing - Dick Thomas-
sian; Metropolitan Baptist Church Choir,
NOTES
Houston, TX, Dick Hill
3:35 Committee on Nominations Report -
James W. Richards Jr., Southminster Bap-
tist Church, Baton Rouge, LA
3:50 Christian Life Commission Report - Richard
D. Land, executive director, Nashville, TN
4:00 Congregational Singing - Dick Thomassian
4:05 Business
Committee on Order of Business (Third
Report) - Danny E. Watters
Committee on Committees Report
Introduction of Business and Resolutions
Miscellaneous Business
4:45 Election of Officers (Second)
5:00 Benediction - Chester H. Holmes Jr., pas-
tor, Hampton Heights Baptist Church, Green-
ville, SC
Tuesday Evening, June 4
6:30 Music for Inspiration - First Baptist Church,
Jonesboro, GA, Irvin Pearre, minister of
music; and Shades Mountain Baptist
Church, Birmingham, AL, Aubrey Edwards,
minister of music
7:00 Congregational Singing - Bob Reeder,
minister of music, First Baptist Church, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL
7:05 Prayer - John H. Traylor Jr., pastor, First
Baptist Church, Monroe, LA
7:10 Election of Officers (Third)
7:20 Baptist World Alliance Report - Denton Lotz,
general secretary-treasurer, McLean, VA
7:30 Congregational Singing - Bob Reeder;
combined choirs
7:35 Bold Mission Thrust Report - Harold C.
Bennett
7:45 Brotherhood Commission Report - James
H. Smith, president, Memphis, TN
7:55 Stewardship Commission Report - A. R.
Fagan, president, Nashville, TN
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8:05 Woman's Missionary Union Report - Del-
NOTES
lanna W. O'Brien, executive director, Birm-
ingham, AL
8:15 Congregational Singing - Bob Reeder;
Sonny Stroud, minister of music, and Dana
Stroud, Calvary Baptist Temple, Savannah,
GA
8:20 Foreign Mission Board Report - R. Keith
Parks, president, Richmond, VA
9:15 Benediction - Michael S. Hamlet, pastor,
First Baptist Church, North Spartanburg, SC
Wednesday Morning, June 5
8:15 Music for Inspiration - Festival choirs/ or-
chestra with soloist John Montgomery, min-
ister of music, Second Baptist Church,
Springfield, MO; Colonial Heights, Jackson,
MS, Larry Kulche, minister of music; Cal-
vary Baptist Church, Wilmington, NC, C. L.
King, minister of music; Indian Springs Bap-
tist Church, Kingsport, TN, Michael Morgan,
minister of music; Lakeside Baptist Church,
Birmingham, AL, Mabry Holt, minister of
music; Central Baptist Church, Hixson, TN,
Don McCary, minister of music; Northside
Baptist Church, Anderson, SC, Phil Size-
more, minister of music; Abilene Baptist
Church, Martinez, GA, Terry Williams, min-
ister of music; AIDA Orchestra, John Gage,
director, Atlanta, GA; Camp Kirkland, Jack-
sonville, FL, conductor/arranger
8:50 Congregational Singing - Joe Estes, minis-
ter of music, New Hope Baptist Church,
Fayetteville, GA
8:55 Prayer - Ron Hardin, layman, First Baptist
Church, Wichita Falls, TX
9:00 Election of Officers (Fourth)
9:10 Education Commission Report - Arthur L.
Walker, executive director, Nashville, TN
9:20 New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
Report - Landrum P. Leavell II, president,
New Orleans, LA
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9:30 Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
A resolution must be presented to a person at
Report - Milton Ferguson, president,
the resolutions desk near the platform. (A resolution is
Kansas City, MO
not proposed by a messenger at a hall microphone.)
9:40 Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary
Members of the Resolutions Committee and a
Report - William O. Crews, president, Mill
parliamentarian will be at the desk from 9:10 a.m.
Valley, CA
until 5:00 p.m. Tuesday to receive proposed reso-
9:50 Commission on American Baptist Seminary
lutions and to counsel with messengers concerning
Report - Arthur L. Walker, secretary-trea-
proposed resolutions.
surer, Nashville, TN
Resolutions must be presented no later than
9:55 Congregational Singing - Joe Estes; festi-
5:00 p.m. Tuesday.
val choirs with soloist Archie K. Jackson,
A resolution should be typewritten, if practica-
minister of music, Hillcrest Baptist Church,
ble, titled and dated, with the name and address of
Jacksonville, FL
the messenger offering the resolution. It is also
10:00 Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
helpful to include the name of the hotel where the
Report - Russell H. Dilday, president, Fort
messenger can be reached in Atlanta.
Worth, TX
10:10 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Re-
COMMITTEE ON ORDER
port - Roy L. Honeycutt, president, Louis-
OF BUSINESS
ville, KY
SBC President: Morris H. Chapman, pastor, First
10:20 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, TX
Report - Lewis A. Drummond, president,
Wake Forest, NC
Term Expiring 1991
10:30 Presentation of Past Presidents
Chris C. Tecmire, pastor, Ridgecrest Baptist
Church, Blanchard, OK
10:40 Public Affairs Committee Report - Albert
Lee Smith, chairman, First Baptist Church,
Ray Turner, farmer, Bedford, VA
Birmingham, AL
Term Expiring 1992
10:50 Congregational Singing - Joe Estes
Joe Aulds, evangelist, Ruston, LA
10:55 Election of Officers (Fifth)
Danny E. Watters, chairman, pastor, Beulah
11:00 Business
Baptist Church, Douglasville, GA
Committee on Order of Business (Fourth
Term Expiring 1993
Report) - Danny E. Watters
Ronald K. Edwards, attorney, Greer, SC
Committee on Resolutions (First Report)
O. S. Hawkins, pastor, First Baptist Church, Ft.
Miscellaneous Business
Lauderdale, FL 33301
11:55 Music - Don McMinn, minister of music,
and Mary McMinn, First Southern Baptist
CONVENTION MUSICIANS
Church, Del City, OK
Jack Price, music director, musician, Garland, TX
12:00 Convention Sermon - Tom D. Elliff, pastor,
Billy Jack Green, music associate, minister of
First Southern Baptist Church, Del City, OK
music, Eastside Baptist Church, Marietta, GA
12:30 Benediction - Anthony Jordan, pastor,
Northwest Baptist Church, Oklahoma City,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
OK
The Rodgers Organ installation and setup courtesy
of Tyson Piano & Organ, Dallas, TX
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11:45 The Honorable George Herbert Walker
NO WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION
Bush, President of the United States
12:15 Benediction - Ron Phillips, pastor, Central
Wednesday Evening, June 5
Baptist Church, Hixson, TN
6:00 Music for Inspiration - PATRIOTIC FESTI-
TO MAKE A MOTION
VAL CHOIR - Calvary Baptist Temple, Sa-
A motion calls for specific action by the South-
vannah, GA, Sonny Stroud, minister of
ern Baptist Convention or some entity of the
music; Roswell Street Baptist Church, Mari-
Southern Baptist Convention. A motion normally
etta, GA, Roger Christian, minister of music;
begins with "I move that
First Baptist Church, Snellville, GA, Rick
1. Write the motion legibly. (If the motion is spon-
Forbus, minister of music; New Hope Bap-
taneous and you don't have time to write it be-
tist Church, Fayetteville, GA, Joe Estes,
fore presenting it to the Convention, write the
minister of music; Denny Dawson, minister
motion before leaving the microphone area.)
of music, First Baptist Church, Franklin, TN,
2. Go to a hall microphone at a time when busi-
conductor. SOLOIST - Terry Franklin,
ness is being considered.
artist, Nashville, TN; NARRATOR - Keith
3. Notify the microphone monitor of your desire to
McBroom, minister of music, First Baptist
make a motion.
Church, Ellenwood, GA; Dorman Huggins,
4. When recognized by the presiding officer, state
minister of music, First Baptist Church,
your name, the name and location of your
Redan, GA; Ragan Vandegriff III, minister
church, and read your motion.
of music, First Baptist Church, Orlando, FL
5. Before leaving the microphone, give the written
6:30 Congregational Singing - Ragan Vande-
copy of your motion to the Page at the micro-
griff III
phone. A Page will take the copy of your motion
6:35 Prayer - Ron Hanie, pastor, White Oak
to the platform so the motion can be entered
Hills Baptist Church, Stone Mountain, GA
into the record by the recording secretary.
6:40 Business
6. The Committee on Order of Business will an-
Committee on Order of Business (Fifth
nounce a time for the Convention to consider
Report) - Danny E. Watters
the motion or recommend its referral to some
Election of Convention Sermon Preacher
Convention entity.
and Alternate, and Music Director,
7. Motions will be printed in the SBC Bulletin.
1992
Denominational Calendar Committee
TO PROPOSE A RESOLUTION
Report - Newman N. Antonson,
A resolution has traditionally been defined as an
pastor, Tyler Road Southern Baptist
expression of opinion as compared to a motion
Church, Wichita, KS
which calls for action. The following guidelines are
Introduction of Local Arrangements
offered for persons desiring to submit a resolution
Committee
to the Convention:
6:45 Presentation of Newly Elected SBC Officers
Only registered messengers may submit a
6:50 CALL TO PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL
resolution.
AWAKENING IN AMERICA - Introduction
A resolution cannot be submitted until the
- Jim Henry, pastor, First Baptist Church,
Convention has officially been constituted on Tues-
Orlando, FL
day morning.
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CALL TO A FRESH ENCOUNTER WITH
GOD - Morris H. Chapman, Scripture
Thursday Morning, June 6
reading - Philippians 2:5-11;
8:15 Music for Inspiration - Combined choirs/
Message - Charles F. Stanley, pastor, First
orchestra - Germantown Baptist Church,
Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA;
Germantown, TN, Jim Watson, minister of
Music - First Baptist Church, Orlando, FL;
music; Eastside Baptist Church, Marietta,
Presentation of Banners and Crowns
GA, Billy Jack Green
8:50 Congregational Singing - Roger Christian
CALL TO CONFESSION AND HUMILITY
8:55 Prayer - Wayne McCraw, pastor, Old For-
- Philippians 2:5-7 - Henry T. Blackaby,
est Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA
director, prayer and spiritual awakening,
9:00 Introduction of Fraternal Representatives
Home Mission Board, Atlanta, GA; Roy J.
9:05 Southern Baptist Foundation Report - Hol-
Fish, professor of evangelism, Southwest-
lis E. Johnson III, president, Nashville, TN
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort
9:15 Report on Southern Baptist Convention
Worth, TX; Avery Willis, manager, leader-
Canada Planning Group - Larry L. Lewis
ship development section, discipleship train-
9:25 Denominational Press Report - Herbert V.
ing department, Sunday School Board,
Hollinger, vice-president for Baptist Press,
Nashville, TN; Special music - Ron
SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, TN
Owens, associate to director, prayer and
9:35 Historical Commission Report - Lynn E.
spiritual awakening, Home Mission Board,
May Jr., executive director, Nashville, TN
and Pat Owens, Atlanta, GA; Life Action
9:45 Congregational Singing - Roger Christian;
Singers, Buchanan, MI; Babbie Mason
combined choirs
CALL TO THE CROSS AND SACRIFICE -
9:50 Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs
Philippians 2:8-9 - David Ring, evangelist,
Report - James M. Dunn, executive direc-
Orlando, FL; Daniel J. Yeary, pastor, Univer-
tor, Washington, DC
sity Baptist Church, Coral Gables, FL; Spe-
10:00 Baptist Sunday School Board Report -
cial Music - Life Action Singers
Lloyd Elder, president, Nashville, TN
CALL TO CELEBRATION - Philippians
10:20 Congregational Singing - Roger Christian;
combined choirs
2:9-11 - Mike Huckabee, pastor, Beech
10:25 Business
Street First Baptist Church, Texarkana, AR;
Congregational Song of Praise - Ron
Committee on Resolutions (Final Report)
Owens
Miscellaneous Business (Final)
10:45 Recognition of Outgoing Officers - Harold
CALL TO RENEW OUR COVENANT WITH
C. Bennett
GOD - Philippians 2:12-16 - Minette W.
10:50 Radio and Television Commission "Baptist
Drumwright, director, International Prayer
Hour" 50th Anniversary - Jack B. Johnson,
Strategy, Foreign Mission Board, Richmond,
president, Fort Worth, TX; Joel Gregory,
VA; Jim Henry; Morris H. Chapman; Larry L.
pastor, First Baptist Church, Dallas, TX; First
Lewis; Congregational Singing - "All Hail
Baptist Church, North Spartanburg, SC,
the Power"
choir and orchestra, Johnny Harlow, director
9:30 Benediction
11:20 Patriotic Celebration - Combined choirs
and congregation
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