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Messengers pass 2023 Cooperative Program budget increase
BIVO OF THE YEAR – Richie Hatcher (right), pastor of Palmer Church, Ripley, is recognized as the Mississippi Baptist Bivocational Pastor of the Year by John Pace, director of leadership at the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, during the fourth and final session of the 2022 Mississippi Baptist Convention Annual Meeting Oct. 26 at First Church, Jackson. Hatcher, a graduate of Baptist-affiliated Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, has been a history teacher at Ripley High School for 17 years. (Photo credit: William Perkins)

Messengers pass 2023 Cooperative Program budget increase

October 27, 2022

By William PerkinsEditor Messengers to the 186th Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Baptist Convention (MBC) on Oct. 26 approved without opposition a 2023 Cooperative Program…

Hurt, Hanberry to serve as MBC vice-presidents
KING HONORED — Keith Grubbs (left), pastor of Park Place Church, Pearl, and chairman of the Mississippi Baptist Education Commission, commends retired William Carey University President Tommy King (second from left) during the Oct. 25 afternoon session of the 2022 Mississippi Baptist Convention Annual Meeting at First Church, Jackson. King, who has been associated with the university for more than 50 years beginning with his days as a student on the Hattiesburg campus, was joined in the recognition by his wife Sandra (second from right) and Ben Burnett, who succeeded King as WCU president. King received a standing ovation from messengers. (Photo credit: William Perkins)

Hurt, Hanberry to serve as MBC vice-presidents

October 26, 2022