The National Laymen began the 2013 year at the Mid-Winter Board meeting in Nashville, TN. The highlight always is the Special Projects fundraising effort where state laymen presidents seek to see who can donate the most for National Laymen ministries. <![if !vml]>
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This year the top three finishers were:
1st - Kansas
2nd - Alabama
3rd - Mississippi General
Clifford Jones (r) is the Kansas State laymen president receiving the first place plaque from president Harold Simmons.
2013 was Jones' second year of serving as state laymen president. Harold Simmons is a former Kansas State laymen president who is presenting the plaque to him.
Also there were many highlights for the week of January 21 - 24th at the Millennium Maxwell Hotel where the laymen sessions were being held.
As has been during Simmons' administration, those registering in the Discipleship Ministry received a portfolio, directory and calendar.
The Mid-Winter Board session set the tone for the 2013 year for the laymen.
At the Mid-Winter Board session in January, Grant Lewis of Kansas City, MO was appointed to the National Junior Laymen team. He had done a great job serving as the junior laymen counselor at his home church Progressive Baptist where the Rev. William Snorgrass is the pastor.
Lewis also is serving as the New Era District Senior Laymen's junior laymen director and serves in the district's Parent-Body youth program. The Laymen News had featured Lewis and the work he has done with the district junior laymen under the banner of Transformers.
At Progressive, Lewis has the boys serving during the worship service each fourth Sunday. They usher, give five minute talks, assist in the devotion and serve where needed.
The Progressive junior laymen are involved and participate on all levels of the work, district, state, regional and nationally. Lewis began serving at the June session in St. Louis.
In February Vice President Richard Showers, Sr. who leads the Missions Ministry became very ill and was hospitalized for three weeks. He returned home in early March and made this statement, "I'm making my way back this way".
In March, Charlie Richmond, Jr. of Whitehouse, Texas was appointed by President Harold Simmons to lead the Foreign Mission Ministry of our National Baptist Laymen's Movement. He began serving as a liaison to the National Foreign Mission Board.
Richmond serves as laymen president of the Original East Texas Baptist Association in Tyler, Texas. He also serves as Vice President-At-Large of the Texas Educational Baptist State Convention's Laymen's Movement where Melvin Snoddy is the president. Richmond also was added to the National Adopt-A-School Ministry team under the leadership of Charles Ewing.
On Thursday, February 28, 2013 the New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church of Marietta, Georgia entered into a partnership arrangement with Tapp Middle School for an Adopt-A-School Ministry.
This became another school added to the National Laymen Adopt-A-School Ministry led by Charles Ewing of Memphis, TN.
Tapp Middle School is located approximately two miles from the New Friendship Church where Ernest and Joice Tinsley are members. Both Ernest and Joice are active members of the National Baptist Laymen's Movement. Ernest is an Asst. Vice President of the Education Ministry and chairman of the State Presidents Advisory Council and Joice is one of the faculty members of the Education Ministry.
This effort is being spearheaded by the New Friendship Lighthouse Men's Ministry and was initiated through Deacon Clinton Parker of the church. New Friendship was already supporting Tapp in other ways.
On March 14th, David Bozeman of Shiloh, Illinois suffered a stroke that would limit his ability to serve as Follow-up Chairman of the Evangelism Ministry and as president of the Baptist General State Convention of Illinois laymen.
Bozeman would gain enough strength to attend the June National Congress session held in neighboring St. Louis, MO.
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