Preparing for the New Baptist Covenant II

Oklahoma City Meeting of the New Baptist Covenant II

Nov. 17-19, 2011 St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oklahoma City will host the second ever gathering of the New Baptist Covenant. American Baptists, Cooperative Baptists, Free Will Baptists, Missionary Baptists, National Baptists, Progressive National Baptists, Southern Baptists and other Baptists from across the spectrum of ethnic backgrounds will be uniting for a special time of worship and work.

The Nov. 17-19 meeting will be part of the second gathering to celebrate the New Baptist Covenant movement which began with a historic meeting at Atlanta in 2008. That meeting brought 15,000 Baptists from 40 different Baptist denominations and groups together.

As many as 30,000 to 35,000 people are projected to participate in the New Baptist Covenant II meeting which will be coordinated from the anchor city of Atlanta and broadcast live to simultaneous worship services in regional meetings across the country. Former president and first lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and other prominent Baptists will speak live by satellite. Each regional meeting will feature “live and in person” their own slate of speakers, choirs, musicians, workshops, and breakouts.

The Oklahoma City meeting will feature the Ambassador Concert Choir on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 17. John Reed, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Oklahoma City and President of the National Baptist Convention of Oklahoma, will be the keynote speaker on the morning of Friday, Nov. 18. That afternoon St. John will offer screenings and panel discussions of the documentary films “Gospel Without Borders” about immigration and “Beneath the Skin” about racism. There will also be opportunities to hear sermons by Dr. Lee Cooper, Pastor of Prospect Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Dr. Tim Eaton, President of Hillsdale Freewill Baptist College, Rev. Todd Littleton, pastor Snow Hill Baptist Church in Tuttle, Dr. Wade Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church in Norman, and Dr. Charles Johnson, pastor of First Baptist Church of Desdemona, Texas. Other workshops include sessions about what is wrong with Oklahoma’s payday lending law and a Spanish language breakout on immigration law and procedure.

For additional information, visit our website: www.newbaptistcovenant.org