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International Baptist Leader Speaks in Raleigh

February 24, 2012 by Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Neville Callam is the General Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. (For you non-Baptists out there, the BWA is the international collaboration of most of the world’s Baptist conventions and union. Also for you non-Baptists, “General Secretary” is about as close to “Bishop” as we Baptists are generally willing to go.) He is a native of Jamaica, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, and for many years a member of the Faith and Order Commission at the World Council of Churches. Read his column on religious liberty here or more of his bio here.

I met Neville when he was the keynote speaker at the dinner this past summer at which I received the American Baptist Churches’ Mowbray Award for ecumenism. He delivered what was probably the most powerful message about Christian unity that I’ve heard from a Baptist.

I tell you that to invite you to hear Neville Callam here in Raleigh on March 23-24. He will be here for the General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of NC, preaching on Friday evening and leading a workshop and delivering a communion meditation on Saturday morning. Theme for the meeting is one of the Christian unity’s bedrock passages of scripture: Jesus’ prayer “that they all might be one” (John 17:21).

More information is available here. The General Assembly is open to all, and it is free other than meal costs, which are optional. I’ll hope to see some of you there. And if you are there during the day on Friday, come by the Exhibit Hall, where the NC Council of Churches will be greeting folks.

–George Reed, Executive Director

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Christian Unity

About Aleta Payne, Former Deputy Executive Director

Aleta Payne first joined the Council staff in the spring of 2001 as the Communications Associate. She continues to oversee that work along with development, represents the Council in several partnership efforts, and serves in other administrative roles, as well. Aleta is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in government and foreign affairs and spent much of her early career as a journalist. She has three young adult sons who continue to come home to Cary for dinner, or at least groceries, and two young adult terrier-mix dogs who keep the nest from feeling too empty.

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