wfn.org | ABCUSA: Vasconcelos Named Next BWA Evangelism Director

["SCHRAMM, Richard" <Rich.Schramm@abc-usa.org>]

American Baptist News Service (Valley Forge, Pa. May 3, 2005)--Fausto
Aguiar de Vasconcelos, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, has been invited by the Baptist World Alliance to be
the new director of the Evangelism and Education and Study and Research
Divisions for the next five years (2005-2010).

He will succeed Tony Cupit of Australia, who retires in July.

The Rev. Dr. Denton Lotz, general secretary of the BWA, announced the
invitation to Vasconcelos, which is expected to meet the approval of the
BWA General Council when it gathers July 26 in Birmingham, England.  "I
am overjoyed and excited about having the first Latin American executive
to serve as part of the BWA team for 2005-2010," Lotz noted.

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