Former President Jimmy Cater set the tone for the historic gathering of some 10,000 Baptists at the New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta, Georgia. He said on Friday night that the occasion should be one endowed with "the spirit of idealism, cheer and celebration by the greatest diversity of Baptists we have ever seen."
It is terrific to walk the corridors of the Georgia World Convention Center and rub shoulders with Baptists from all over the United States, Canada and several other countries from across the world.
One ofthe highlights for me on the second day was the prophetic voice of Marian Wright Edleman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund. In her sermon on "The Bible Speaks about the Poor," she said that "adults are what's wrong with our children." She described the gathering as a call for "a new movement to serve our children." She challenged the church to be the "locomotive and not the cabose in speaking up for our children."
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