Jameson recommended as N.C. editor
Norman Jameson, executive leader for public relations and resource development for the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, is the search committee’s choice to become editor of the Biblical Recorder, the North Carolina Baptist state newspaper. A graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University, he worked on the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph before being named feature editor of Baptist Press in 1977. After working as associate editor of the Oklahoma Baptist Messenger, Jameson went to North Carolina in 1987 as communications director for Baptist Children’s Homes of North Carolina, a position he held for 12 years. He later worked as a public relations and resource development consultant, with clients from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans. One of those clients was the North Carolina convention, which asked him to design and lead its public relations office. – BP
Disaster relief crews staying busy
The deadly tornado that leveled a small town in Kansas. The forest fires in Florida and Georgia. Serious flooding in New England and New Jersey. Weary Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers all over the United States have been working overtime. A month after an F-5 tornado killed 12 and obliterated tiny Greensburg, Kan., disaster relief workers remain on the scene, feeding uprooted townspeople and relief volunteers. About 95 percent of the rural town of 1,500 lost their homes, businesses and earthly possessions. In all, some 100 volunteers – feeding unit workers and chainsaw teams – have worked the area since the tornado hit. One team of volunteers is now preparing the way for a mobile chapel, a 35-by-80-foot double-wide trailer. The chapel – underwritten by a $65,000 grant from the North American Mission Board – will seat 100 people. Bob Mills, state director of missions for the Kansas-Nebraska Convention said, “One of the neat things that came from the presence of Southern Baptist disaster relief was the awareness that Greensburg needed its first-ever Southern Baptist church.” – BP