LAHFMBC

President's News Flash

Convention Members & Friends

I want to take this time to say thank you to all of our Convention Leaders and Workers who have given leadership for a very successful board meeting. Rev. Pernell Trent and the St. Paul Baptist Church, of Jennings, LA., were outstanding host for our meeting and we say thanks again for inviting us and extending such great hospitality. Thanks goes out to my Vice-Presidents, General Secretary, Cabinet officers, Director Garner, Dean Guillory and all of those who participated in planning and implementing and extraordinary meeting.

Our speakers were outstanding. Dr. Frank Davis's Bible Lessons were informative and challenging, our three Congress instructors Rev. Melvin Rushing, Dr. J. D. Dupree and Sis. Bernadine Gibson did an exceptional job in teaching our pastors, men and women. Mr. Bill Cheeks from Atlanta, GA, provided some of the best information both in writing and in his oral presentation that many have ever heard about credit, car loans and general financial literacy for our children. Rev. Maurice White challenged us on "Racism & the Church's Response and Dr. Atwood Luther was on target with his lecture on "Immigrations and the Church's Response." Our evening preachers, Rev Chauncey Hardy and Dr. Willie Maynard stirred our hearts with the word of God. The Vacation Bible School Workshop was off the chain!!!

We were able to finalize our offerings and from our State Convention sending $100,000 for Haiti Relief to our National Baptist Foreign Mission Board to respond to the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Convention has given me the green light to move forward in establishing the " Faith Video On Demand Louisiana Home & Foreign Missions Web-Network". This will thrust our Convention into a new era of service to our Congregations and the world at large. We had the opportunity this board meeting for the first time to web cast our sessions around the world. We received positive messages from around the country commenting on our sessions. This new Web-Network will allow many of our churches to begin web casting their services as well as position the Convention to launch in the very near future "WEBINARS", whereby we can broadcast training session from one place and have them viewed at locations around the state. You may go to our web site now and click on the Live Broadcast button and view scenes from our Mid-Winter Board meeting.

Well we focus our attention now on our annual session in Alexandria, LA., to be hosted by the Rev. Solomon Shorter and the Truevine Missionary Baptist church. Please monitor our web site www.lahfmbc.org for details about the hotels etc., for our annual session in July. REMEMBER OUR DATES FOR THIS YEAR'S ANNUAL SESSION ARE DIFFERENT, JULY 18-23, 2010.

I will announce in a few weeks the location of our 2010 October Continued Session Board meeting. Vice-President Rev. Mallary Callahan was to host this meeting but has agreed at my request for us to change this meeting and go into the North Louisiana area with this meeting. We plan to begin expanding back into the North Louisiana area where our Convention had some very strong roots and former State Presidents in the past.