These are days of change generally in our denomination. At the Biennial Meeting in June at
BethelUniversity in
Minnesota, it was announced that the Baptist General Conference will be called Converge Worldwide. It will move ministry offices to
Orlando,
Florida, within the next couple of years (though financial and communications operations will remain in the
Chicago area).
“Do
they still need help in
Biloxi,
Mississippi? After all, Hurricane
Katrina was three years ago.” The horrible irony of these words echoed in my
mind as I arrived at the Gulfport/Biloxi airport for the third time in the past
year. “If they could only see this place,” were the first words that sprang
into my brain.
