John Upton is President-elect
Ede (BWA) -- John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) in the United States, has been nominated to be president of the Baptist World Alliance.
The next Baptist World Congress, to be held in Hawaii in 2010, will vote on the General Council’s nomination. If elected, Upton will be president of the BWA from 2010-2015, succeeding David Coffey of Britain, who was elected during the Centennial Congress held in Birmingham, England, in 2005.
...Upton was elected executive director of the BGAV and the Virginia Baptist Mission Board in November 2001.
...The BGAV currently includes 42 district associations, 17 institutions and agencies, and 1,432 Baptist churches in Virginia. The BGAV, along with the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), were the first two state conventions within the United States to become BWA member bodies..
Editor's note: The BWA engages in an ongoing dialogue with the Vatican. The Baptist World Alliance is a member of the ecumenical World Council of Churches.
See also WCC & Rome Promote Week of Christian Unity.
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