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Doc Brown's Advanced A Level Chemistry Revision Notes Theoretical–Physical Advanced Level Chemistry – Equilibria – Chemical Equilibrium Revision Notes PART 5.4
5.4 Definition of a weak acid, examples, pH, Ka & pKa weak acid calculations What is a weak acid? How do we write equilibrium expressions to show the acid dissociation–ionisation of a weak acids? What is a weak acid's pKa? How do we calculate the pH of a solution of a weak acid? How do we calculate the Ka of a weak acid?
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5.4 Definition, examples and pH, Ka and pKa calculations of weak acids First some mathematical reminders (i) pH = –log10 [H+(aq)], (ii) [H+(aq)] = 10–pH, (iii) pKa = –log10 (Ka ), (iv) Ka = 10–pKa [H+(aq)] = hydrogen ion concentration mol dm–3 and Ka = acid dissociation constant mol dm–3 5.4.1 Definition and examples of WEAK ACIDS Weak acids are only partially ionised in water. In principle the equilibrium reaction is: HA (aq) + H2 O(l)
H3 O+(aq) + A – (aq)
H+(aq) + A – (aq)
or more simply: HA (aq)
The low % of ionisation gives a less acidic solution of higher pH than for strong acids, but still pH < 7. 5.4.2a Examples include organic carboxylic acids like ethanoic acid which are just a few % ionized. The 'formal' equilibrium equation for the reaction is H3 O+(aq) + CH3 COO– (aq)
CH3 COOH(aq) + H2 O(l)
H+(aq) + CH3 COO– (aq)
or more simply for calculations: CH3 COOH(aq)
Ethanoic acid is the B–L acid and the ethanoate ion its conjugate base. In general, a weak acid has a strong conjugate base. Water is the base and the hydrogen/oxonium ion is its conjugate acid. Since the water concentration is essentially constant, the equilibrium expression for a monobasic acid is written as: [H+(aq)] [A – (aq)] [H+(aq)] [CH3 COO– (aq)]
Ka = –––––––––––– = ––––––––––––––––––––– [HA (aq)] [CH3 COOH(aq)]
Ka is called the acid ionisation or dissociation constant with units of mol dm–3 . Note: Since water is the solvent, [H2 O(l)], it is effectively constant and omitted from Ka expressions. Ethanoic acid pK a = 4.76, K a = 1.74 x 10–5 mol dm–3 and is only about 2% ionised. 5.4.2b The equilibrium can also be expressed as the acid–base reaction of the conjugate base with water (below) but the above expression is invariably used in problem solving. e.g. for ethanoic acid: CH3 COO– (aq) + H2 O(l)
Kb =
CH3 COOH(aq) + OH– (aq)
[CH3 COOH(aq)] [OH– (aq)] –––––––––––––––––––––––– [CH3 COO– (aq)]
Note that: Ka–acid x Kb–conj. base = Kw and pKa + pKb = pKw, check it out for yourself. 5.4.2c Ionic acid–base equilibrium can be more complicated in the case of dibasic/diprotic acids. Two equilibria are involved in the ionisation/dissociation processes
, ethanedioic acid, more simply shown as HOOC–COOH. H+(aq) + HOOC–COO– (aq)
Ka1 = [H+(aq)] [HOOC–COO– (aq)]/[HOOC–COOH(aq)] mol dm–3 HOOC–COO– (aq)
H+(aq) – OOC–COO– (aq)
Ka2 = [H+(aq)] [– OOC–COO– (aq)]/[HOOC–COO– (aq)] mol dm–3 and Ka1 > Ka2 , showing, not surprisingly, the 1st proton is released more readily than the 2nd. K a1 = 5.89 x 10–2 mol dm–3 (pK a1 = 1.23), and K a2 = 5.24 x 10–5 mol dm–3 (pK a2 = 4.28) 5.4.2d There are many examples of inorganic weak acids e.g. (a) Hydrofluoric acid, HF: pK a = 3.25, K a = 5.6 x 10–4 mol dm–3 H3 O+(aq) + F– (aq)
HF(aq) + H2 O(l)
The strong hydrogen–fluorine bond and the intermolecular HF–H 2 O hydrogen bonding are mainly responsible for the lack of dissociation into ions in dilute solution. HF (562), HCl (431), HBr (366) and HI (299) have progressively weaker bonds as the halogen atom gets bigger and the bond length increases, so bar HF, they are all very strong acids and virtually completely ionised and don't hydrogen bond with water. (endothermic bond enthalpies in kJ mol–1) (b) Hydrocyanic acid, HCN: pK a = 9.31, K a = 4.9 x 10–10 mol dm–3 Hydrocyanic acid is a very weak acid and the equilibrium is way over on the left–hand side. H3 O+(aq) + CN – (aq)
HCN (aq) + H2 O(l)
The strong hydrogen–carbon bond is mainly responsible for the lack of ionisation. (c) Phosphoric(V) acid, H3 PO4 , is a tribasic acid, it is sometimes described as a strong acid, but on the basis of the pka1 value, it isn't really. The ionisation of phosphoric(V) acid is quite complicated because three acid–base equilibria are involved. (a1) H3 PO4(aq)
H+(aq) + H2 PO4 – (aq) (Ka1 = 7.9 x 10–3 mol dm–3 , pK a1 = 2.1)
(a2) H2 PO4 – (aq)
H+(aq) + HPO4 2– (aq) (Ka2 = 6.2 x 10–8 mol dm–3 , pK a2 = 7.2)
(a3) HPO4 2– (aq)
H+(aq) + PO4 3– (aq) (Ka3 = 4.4 x 10–13 mol dm–3 , pK a3 = 12.4)
The subsequent ions H 2 PO 4 – and HPO 4 2– are, not surprisingly, increasingly weaker acids, but stronger and stronger conjugate bases, so the equilibrium is increasingly biased to the left–hand side.. (d) Hexa–aqua complex ions can donate protons to water e.g. [M(H2 O)6 ]2+(aq) + H2 O(l)
[M(H2 O)5 (OH)]+(aq) + H3 O+(aq)
where M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mg etc. give very weak acid solutions with pH's just less than 7. or [M(H2 O)6 ]3+(aq) + H2 O(l)
[M(H2 O)5 (OH)]2+(aq) + H3 O+(aq)
e.g. when M = Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Al etc. give very weak acids solutions of pH's in the 3–5 region, but generally stronger than for M2+ because of the greater polarising power of the more highly charged central cation. The proton donation process can continue until the hydroxide precipitate forms, and then can re–dissolve to form hydroxo–complexes (see Hydrated salts, acidity of hexa–aqua ions in transition metals section) 5.4.2e Carbon dioxide is a weakly acidic gas. It dissolves in water to give 'carbonic acid' (fizzy 'carbonated water'!). Unpolluted rainwater has a pH of about 5.5 when in equilibrium with the 0.03–0.04% of CO 2 in air. The carbon dioxide may exist as (a) dissolved CO2 or (b) 'carbonic acid', which complicates matters a bit, but either should get you the marks in the exam! So the possible equilibria are: (a) CO2(g)
CO2(aq) and (b) CO2(g) + H2 O(l)
H2 CO3(aq),
prior to acid ionisation/dissociation. HCO3 – (aq) + H3 O+(aq)
(c) CO2(aq) + 2H2 O(l)
or (d) H2 CO3(aq) + H2 O(l)
HCO3 – (aq) + H3 O+(aq)
and more simply: (c) CO2(aq) + H2 O(l)
HCO3 – (aq) + H+(aq)
HCO3 – (aq) + H+(aq)
or (d) H2 CO3(aq)
so the 1st ionization gives the hydrogencarbonate ion and hydrogen ion. (a) pKa1(CO2(aq)) = 6.4 (very weak acid) Ka1(CO2(aq)) = [HCO 3 – (aq)] [H +(aq)] / [CO 2(aq)] = 4.0 x 10–7 mol dm–3 (b) pKa1(H2CO3) = 3.7 (weak acid) Ka1(H2CO3) = [HCO 3 – (aq)] [H +(aq)] / [H 2 CO 3(aq)] = 2.0 x 10–4 mol dm–3 HCO3 – (aq) + H2 O(l)
CO3 2– (aq) + H3 O+(aq)
more simply: HCO3 – (aq)
CO3 2– (aq) + H+(aq)
The 2nd ionization gives the carbonate ion and hydrogen ion. pka2 = pKa(HCO3–) = 10.3 (extremely weak acid) Ka2 = [CO3 2– (aq)] [H+(aq)] / [HCO3 – (aq)] = 5.0 x 10–11 mol dm–3 5.4.3 Comparison of weak and strong acids in terms of equimolar aqueous solutions. Due to the difference in the concentration of H + ions produced. e.g. say for the sake of argument, 0.1–1.0 molar solutions of hydrochloric acid (100% ionised) and ethanoic acid (approx. 2% ionised). This means the hydrochloric acid is effectively about 50x more acidic than the ethanoic acid and results in the following sorts of observations: 5.4.3a pH of solution and Ka /pKa For equimolar solutions the pH of HCl(aq) is much lower than for CH 3 COOH (aq) (about pH 0.0–1.0 and 2.5–3.0 respectively, and remember 1 pH unit change represents a 10x [H +] ion change in concentration. The acid dissociation/ionisation constant show very different numerical value ranges. The Ka for strong acids is large, typically >102 to 1010 mol dm–3 and a negative pKa , typically –2 to –10. The Ka for weak acids is small, typically 10–2 to 10–10 mol dm–3 and a positive pKa, typically 2 to 10. 5.4.3b Chemical reactivity e.g. metal + acid ==> salt + hydrogen: Magnesium rapidly dissolves in hydrochloric acid whereas it fizzes somewhat feebly in aqueous ethanoic acid. 5.4.3c Electrical conductivity The electrical conductivity of hydrochloric acid is much higher in ethanoic acid because there are far more ions to carry the current. The greater electrical resistance of ethanoic acid can be readily demonstrated with a simple electrolysis experiment by observing the much higher rate of hydrogen gas evolution at the negative cathode electrode of the hydrochloric acid when applying the same voltage (p.d.) across the two electrodes (e.g. carbon or platinum). 5.4.3d Differences in enthalpy of neutralisation ΔHneutralisation Their widely differing values and simplified explanations. The ΔHneut for a strong acid and strong base (SA+SB) it is usually about –57.1 to –57.3 kJ mol–1 , because they are fully ionised to give the H + and OH – ions respectively, so the ΔH value essentially corresponds to the ΔH for the reaction ... H+(aq) + OH– (aq) ==> H2 O(l) (ΔH = –57.1 kJ mol–1 ) e.g. for the SA/SB pairs: HCl/NaOH, HCl/KOH, HNO 3 /NaOH, HNO 3 /0.5Ba(OH)2 , The ΔHneut for a strong acid–weak base (SA+WB) OR a weak acid–strong base neutralisation is less exothermic than the SA+SB above, and in some cases considerable less! e.g. reacting pair and (ΔH), SA/WB: HCl/NH 3 (–52.2) Since NH 3 is only about 2% ionised, the energy change is 98% due to ... NH3(aq) + H+(aq)
NH4 +(aq), which isn't quite as exothermic as H + + OH – .
and the neutralisation cannot be completed because of behaviour of the ammonium ion in acting as a conjugate acid, i.e. the reverse reaction. WA/SB: CH 3 COOH/NaOH (–55.2), HCN/KOH (–11.7) Since CH 3 COOH is only about 2% ionised, the energy change is 98% due to ... CH3 COOH(aq) + OH– (aq)
CH3 COO– (aq) + H2 O(l),
which isn't quite as exothermic as H + + OH – and incomplete due to the conjugate base behaviour of the ethanoate ion. In the 2nd pair, HCN has a strong C–H bond that must be broken, this requires considerable energy and so the ΔH for the main reaction below is considerably less exothermic and incomplete because of the strong conjugate base behaviour of the cyanide ion i.e. the reverse reaction predominates. HCN (aq) + OH– (aq)
CN – (aq) + H2 O(l)
The ΔHneut for a weak acid and weak base (WA+WB) neutralisation the ΔH values are even less exothermic. WA/WB: CH 3 COOH/NH 3 (–50.2), HCN/NH 3 (–5.4) In these cases the concentrations of H+ or OH– are both very low. CH3 COOH(aq) + NH3(aq)
CH3 COO– (aq) + NH4 +(aq)
but with ethanoic acid and ammonia the neutralisation is nearly completed is if the two 'weaknesses' cancel each other out, but for CN – (aq) + NH4 +(aq)
HCN (aq) + NH3(aq)
the hydrogen cyanide is so stable that very little neutralisation can take place. The cyanide ion is a very strong conjugate base and the ammonium ion is a moderately strong conjugate acid, so the reverse reaction predominates resulting in the smallest ΔH value. Basically, the weaker and weaker the acid or base, the less and less the neutralisation goes to completion, hence the reaction becomes less and less exothermic. For a further discussion on enthalpy values see Thermochemistry Notes. 5.4.4: In principle the full equilibrium expression for any weak acid HA is
Kc =
[H3 O+(aq)] [A – (aq)] ––––––––––––––––– [HA (aq)] [H2 O(l)]
but since the water concentration is nearly constant, and using the simplified H + symbol, the general equilibrium expression used to solve simple weak acid ionization/dissociation problems is:
Ka =
[H+(aq)] [A – (aq)] ––––––––––––––– [HA (aq)]
ka is called the acid dissociation/ionisation constant with units of mol dm–3 . It is sometimes quoted as a pK a value, pKa = –log(Ka /mol dm–3 ), so Ka = 10–pKa . The bigger Ka or the smaller pKa value, the stronger the acid. 5.4.5: Weak acid calculations – calculating the pH of a weak acid Calculation example 5.4.5a The acid dissociation constant, K a, for ethanoic acid is 1.74 x 10–5 mol dm–3 . Calculate the hydrogen ion concentration and the pH of a 0.25 mol dm–3 of this acid. (A = CH 3 COO)
Ka =
[H+(aq)] [A – (aq)] –––––––––––––– [HA (aq)]
Assuming: 1. no other common ion sources present, 2. [H+(aq)] = [A – (aq)], since they are formed in pairs AND the concentration of H + from the self–ionisation of water will be < 10–7 mol dm–3 (see above), 3. and [HA (aq)]init. = [HA (aq)]equilib., since only a few % of HA is ionised–dissociated, this is reasonable for simple calculations. therefore substituting and rearranging gives: [H +(aq)]2 K a = –––––––– = 1.74 x 10–5 = [H +(aq)]2 /0.25 [HA (aq)] [H+(aq)] = √(1.74 x 10–5 x 0.25) = 2.09 x 10–3 mol dm–3 pH = –log(2.09 x 10–3 ) = 2.68 Note: pOH = pK w – pH = 14 – 2.68 = 11.32 Calculation example 5.4.5b A pH meter was calibrated with a buffer solution. If a 0.10 molar solution of a weak acid gave a pH of 4.2, calculate the hydrogen ion concentration and the value of the acid dissociation constant K a and pK a. [H+(aq)] = 10–pH = 10–4.2 = 6.31 x 10–5 mol dm–3 using the ideas explored in example 2.1 above, Ka = [H +(aq)]2 / [HA (aq)] = (6.31 x 10–5 )2 / 0.10 = 3.98 x 10–8 mol dm–3 pKa = –log(3.98 x 10–8 ) = 7.4 See also a calculation involving sulfuric acid –
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ST. LOUIS (BP) -- Tennessee pastor Steve Gaines was elected by acclamation as Southern Baptist Convention president after fellow candidate J.D. Greear withdrew his candidacy June 15 in a display of unity.
Greear's withdrawal followed a runoff vote that didn't produce a majority winner on Tuesday (June 14). His decision avoided a second runoff and left Gaines elected by acclamation as president of the SBC during the annual meeting in St. Louis.
Greear told the convention he prayed the night before and believed "we need to leave St. Louis united." He made the motion for Gaines to be elected by acclamation.
Gaines said he, too, had decided internally Tuesday night to withdraw but agreed to serve as president after a conversation with Greear. "There's no way God is not doing something in all of this."
"I just wanted Jesus to be lifted high" and the convention to be united, Gaines said.
Gaines, Greear and New Orleans pastor David Crosby originally were nominated for convention president.
In the first ballot cast by 5,784 messengers, Crosby received 583 votes or 10.08 percent; Gaines received 2,551 votes, or 44.1 percent of the votes; and Greear received 2,601 votes, or 44.97 percent. None of the candidates received 50 percent or more of the votes, forcing a runoff.
Then in the runoff ballot, with 7,230 messengers registered, 4,824 ballots were cast. Gaines received 2,410 votes or 49.96 percent while Greear received 2,306 votes or 47.80 percent. However, 108 votes were considered illegal because the wrong ballot was used or an indistinguishable mark was made.
Roberts Rules of Order require that the 108 illegal votes be counted to determine a majority. To be declared a winner, Gaines or Greear needed to win 50 percent plus 1 of ballots cast, or 2,413 or more votes.
Had the second runoff election taken place, it would have been the first time in SBC history that a second ballot for the same two candidates in the presidential election would have been necessary, said chief parliamentarian Barry McCarty.
The new SBC president succeeds Ronnie Floyd, pastor of Cross Church in Northwest Ark.
During the 11 years Gaines has pastored Memphis-area Bellevue, the congregation has averaged 481 baptisms per year, according to the SBC's Annual Church Profile database. Previously, he pastored churches in Alabama, Tennessee and Texas.
Bellevue voted to give $1 million during its 2016-17 church year through the Cooperative Program, Southern Baptists' unified channel for funding state- and SBC-level missions and ministries. That will total approximately 4.6 percent of undesignated receipts, the church told Baptist Press.
Gaines was nominated by former SBC President Johnny Hunt, who emphasized the church's baptismal record. "During the past 11 years, Gaines has led Bellevue Church to baptize thousands of new converts, Hunt emphasized. "It is in light of our overwhelming need to get back to evangelism, personal soul-winning in our SBC," that he nominated Gaines to lead the denomination, he said.
"For such a time as this, when baptisms are at a 15-year low, we need Steve to lead us in a great soul-winning resurgence," Hunt said. "It's time to make soul-winning a major priority."
Among his denominational service, Gaines has been a member of the Committee on Nominations, a trustee of LifeWay Christian Resources, a member of the committee that proposed a revision of the Baptist Faith and Message in 2000, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, and president of the SBC Pastors' Conference, Hunt noted.
Calling Gaines "a great prayer warrior," Hunt said, "He is one that knows the only hope for our nation, and for this denomination, is a great movement of God. He has a real passion for stewardship -- his church giving $1 million this year to the Cooperative Program."
In winning the election, Gaines is the fourth president from Bellevue Baptist Church, following Southern Baptist legends R.G. Lee, Ramsey Pollard and Adrian Rogers.
Greear, 43, was nominated by Jimmy Scroggins, pastor of First Baptist Church in West Palm Beach, as a younger alternative to the two other candidates, saying his election would signal the next generation of leaders they "have a place at the SBC table."
"Some people feel like the days are dim for the future of our convention -- baptisms are down, missionaries are coming home and churches are closing," Scroggins said. "We have to get younger and more diverse. J.D. Greear has a church full of diversity and ethnicity."
"J.D. is the right man and this is the right time for the baton to be passed from one generation of SBC leadership to another," Scroggins said. "His election will send a signal to an entire generation of Southern Baptists that their time has come. He would bring together churches of all sizes and people of all ethnicities and encourage thousands of pastors in their 20s, 30s and 40s that they can and should and must get involved."
Former SBC President Fred Luter nominated fellow Louisiana pastor Crosby, saying, "I have known David Crosby for the past 20 years. He has had the reputation of a man of high morals and high values. He leads not only by his preaching and teaching, but also by his lifestyle. He is a man of character, compassion and of concern."
During his 20 years at First Baptist Church of New Orleans, the church has given between 7 and 15 percent of its undesignated receipts through the Cooperative Program, even as the church worked to rebuild and relocate in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
"I have seen up close and personal for 20 years how God has used David in the city of New Orleans," Luter said, "and I believe God will use him in the save way in our beloved convention."
Elected as first vice president was Doug Munton, pastor of First Baptist Church in O'Fallon, Ill., who ran opposed; and as second vice president, Malachi O'Brien, pastor of The Church at Pleasant Ridge in Harrisonville, Mo., who was one of three nominated for the post and won in a runoff.
John L. Yeats, executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention since 2011, was reelected to a 20th term as recording secretary, nominated by Jason Duesing, provost and professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological: while Jim Wells, a church consultant and retired Missouri Baptist Convention staff member was reelected to a 15th term as registration secretary, nominated by Missouri pastor Eddie Bumpers.
The Committee on Order of Business recommended Roger Spradlin, pastor of Valley Baptist Church in Bakersfield, Cal., as the 2017 convention preacher; Vance Pitman, pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas as the alternate; and Mark Blair, Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova., Tenn., as music director. All three were elected.
The 2017 SBC will be held June 13-14 in Phoenix, Az.
Radical obedience Williams' call in NAAF address
by Diana Chandler
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ST LOUIS (BP) -- Radical obedience, inexplicable unity and Scriptural correctness were the clarion calls in K. Marshall Williams' final presidential address to the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention preceding the SBC annual meeting in St. Louis.
Williams, pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, employed the rhythmic and exhortative preaching style traditionally heard in African American pulpits across the country when he called preachers to be prophets of God instead of "pimps and puppets."
"Beloved, the manifestation of sin is running rampant. From satanic terroristic acts, to the propagation through the pipeline from school to prison -- where one out of every three black men in America are tied to the criminal justice system -- systemic racism to a culture of immorality," Williams preached, "it's time for every blood-bought, born-again believer that has been birthed into the body of Christ to stand up and be an ocular demonstration and a pictorial illustration of salt and light, pushing back the darkness in this sin-sick secular society."
Many were on their feet as he preached during NAAF's annual banquet June 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the America's Center. His message, "I got a Word from the Lord," was taken from Ephesians 4:11-13, and augmented with Matthew 6:24, Matthew 24:12, 2 Peter 3:16, Acts 20:28 and other Scripture.
He called on pastors to preach the Word of God in season and out of season, realizing that God has "a special stick" to punish preachers who refuse to proclaim His Scripture, referencing 1 Corinthians 9:16 and Jeremiah 3:21.
"Prophets are those who forth tell. In other words we ought to be proclaiming, not with a Holy hush. Am I right about it? You've got to sound the trumpet," he said, urging pastors to keep the Word pure. "You're just a waiter, a glorified waiter. Just take it to the table, serve it and don't mess it up.
"We preach to provoke change of behavior," he said. "because biblical information without practical application leads to spiritual constipation."
The church has strayed from its first love who is Jesus, he said, and lacks prophetic utterance.
"Not only is there a lack of moral courage and convictional kindness not only in the public square," Williams said, referencing the words of Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore, "but it's in the pulpit."
He urged preachers to speak the truth with love.
"You ought to speak and don't offend," Williams said, "and listen and don't defend. You see, beloved, when your political ideologies overrule your bibliology, your soteriology, your hamartiology, your Christology, your ecclesiology, your eschatology, it snatches your prophetic voice right out of your mouth. That's why this nation is filled with pimps and puppets."
He called leaders to achieve inexplicable unity through prayer, practicing unconditional love and radical obedience, and not looking to political leaders for spiritual revival.
Wells retires as executive director
NAAF honored Elgia "Jay" Wells upon his retirement as the group's executive director, a post he had held three years.
Dennis Mitchell, senior pastor of Greenforest Community Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga., was elected to the post. Mitchell has more than 20 years of church and denominational leadership experience, having served as Christian education director of Singing Hills Baptist Church in Dallas, Sunday School growth consultant with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and pastor of the Central Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.
Reading Luke 22:24-27, NAAF treasurer Frank Williams recognized Wells as a successful servant of God.
"Success is accomplished in that which God has purposed for you to do," Frank Williams said, "and greatness is the eventual achievement of a life lived successfully in service to others. This man who we honor tonight has worked tirelessly to ensure a better future for churches, leaders and pastors of color within the context of the Southern Baptist Convention."
He called Wells a faithful pioneer and a trustworthy and humble leader who has served in denominational life with excellence. Wells retired in 2012 as LifeWay Christian Resources' director of black church relations, and is pastor emeritus of Simeon Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn.
New officers elected
NAAF officers elected for two-year terms are president Byron Day, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Laurel, Md.; vice president Marshall Ausberry, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Fairfax Station, Va.; secretary Bucas Sterling III, pastor of Kettering Baptist Church in Upper Marlboro, Md.; parliamentarian Erik Cummings, pastor of New Light Baptist Church in Miami.
Elected as returning officers are treasurer Frank Williams, pastor of Wake-Eden Community Baptist Church and Bronx Baptist Church in the Bronx, N.Y.; historian Robert Wilson, pastor of Light of the World Baptist Church in Atlanta; eastern regional director Brian King Sr., pastor of Ezekiel Baptist Church in Philadelphia; central regional director Jeffery Friend, pastor of Suburban Baptist Church in New Orleans; mountain regional director Garland Moore, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Milan, N.M., and western regional director A.B. Vines, pastor of New Seasons Baptist Church in Spring Valley, Calif.
Annual worship service
During the annual NAAF worship service June 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Beth-El Baptist Church in Spanish Lake, Mo., Ausberry used Revelation 2:8-11 to paint the picture of a successful church that was suffering, exhorting pastors to endure circumstances for the Lord's glory.
The church at Smyrna referenced in Revelation 2 was materially poor, a result of being persecuted for their faith, but was "rich in faith and trust in God," Ausberry said.
"Be faithful to the Lord," Ausberry urged the nearly 150 gathered at the service, "no matter what life brings."
Preceding the sermon, Mitchell described NAAF as a group of nearly 4,000 African American pastors who lead congregations varying in size, worship styles and strengths.
"We need each other to be able to fulfill God's purposes for placing us in the Southern Baptist Convention," Mitchell said. "All of us [together] are better than any of us [individually]."
Emmett Baker Jr. was host pastor and also delivered the devotional address at the June 13 NAAF business meeting.
Evangelism 'groundswell' urged by Frank Page
by Art Toalston
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ST. LOUIS (BP) -- Southern Baptists need "a long-term vision of Great Commission Advance."
Frank S. Page, president of the SBC Executive Committee, addressing messengers to the convention's annual meeting, cited Southern Baptists' decline in baptisms and in missionary numbers in calling for "a groundswell of intentionality like never before to see God's Great Commission accomplished."
"It is time to review our ministry assignments. It is time to see if there is any way we can lead our churches" toward heightened resolve in "the work God called them to do," said Page, whose vision for Great Commission Advance has called churches to elevate their missions involvement through the Cooperative Program.
In a "1% CP Challenge," Page has urged churches to increase their CP gifts by 1 budget percentage point each year for Cooperative Program missions and ministries in their states and throughout North America and the world. To date, the 1% CP Challenge has yielded new stability in CP support.
Page cited Billy Graham's comments 50 years ago as prophetic, when the famed evangelist declared at the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin:
"[The church] has an energetic passion for unity, but it has all but forgotten our Lord's commission to evangelize. The next 25 years will be the most decisive years since our Lord walked the roads of Galilee. Our world is on fire, and man without God cannot control the flame. The demons of hell have been let loose. The fires of passion, greed, hate and lust are sweeping the world. We live in ... danger, fear and death. We sense that something is about to happen. We know that things cannot go on as they are."
Page then asked, "If Billy Graham said that 50 years ago, what do you think he would say if he were speaking to us today?"
Evangelism is becoming an abandoned word in the church, Page said in his address on the opening day of the June 14-15 SBC annual meeting in St. Louis.
"Despite the fact that our baptisms have reached an abysmal statistical point, we continue to lessen our emphasis and discussion about evangelism."
Page noted: "We cannot disciple those who we have failed to win to Christ.... [W]e fail to see how intricately connected discipleship is with evangelism."
The slippage of evangelism, Page said, may stem from a number of factors, such as "easy believism" that fails to yield a "corresponding transformation of lifestyle." Some churches, meanwhile, may tilt toward social ministry that lacks an evangelistic heart and thus fails to fulfill the Great Commission.
Some people might see doctrine as the issue, Page said in an apparent reference to Calvinist and non-Calvinist streams within the SBC. But, Page, who does not embrace the Calvinist view, often called the "doctrines of grace," noted: "I will tell you people on my side of the fence are lessening in their evangelistic fervor as well as those on the other side of the soteriological fence.
"I believe all of us have backed away and believed society's lie that people will not listen to us anymore."
Page said "perhaps the greatest" cause of evangelistic de-emphasis is "a type of assumed universalism which is at work among us."
"Not only do we have people who are theologically weak and believe that somehow God in His mercy might save everyone, we even believe that if we don't [share the Gospel] somebody else will get the job done," Page said.
"We have many people believing that as long as one is a part of a church, that's all you need to do," he said. "We even now have people believing that if you're helping plant a church, that makes it automatically evangelistic."
All the while, decline, malaise and lostness continue to mount, Page said.
"We have fewer members of our cooperating churches than any time since 1992. We can no longer even boast, inaccurately, that we have over 16 million. Now we only claim 15.3.
"Our baptisms are at the lowest numbers since before 1948."
LifeWay Research, Page said, has found that 70 percent of church attendees from the millennial generation give up on church by the age of 23, with many never returning.
"Horribly, we have fewer missionaries on the field than any time since 1993.
"According to our International Mission Board, the number of unreached, unengaged people groups currently numbers over 3,000."
Page noted: "The bottom line of it all is this: The lack of a transformed people has led to a lack of genuine evangelism. People don't share because they have not been transformed from within.... [W]hen you are truly discipled and growing in the Lord, you want to tell people about Christ."
Southern Baptists must band together in evangelism, discipleship and missions, Page said in a video that concluded his message.
"We can do more together than alone. This is the basic Baptist principle by which we have lived, by which we have grown and by which we are working together, making disciples of all nations, that is, the Great Commission.
"It has been the single mission of the Southern Baptist Convention for more than 170 years ... We are many faces, many accents, many languages, but we're all reading from the same Word, working for the same goal -- to share the Gospel with every person on the planet."
'We need You, Lord': Baptists plead for national revival
by Staff
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ST. LOUIS (BP) -- At times they raised their hands. At times they gathered together in groups of two to three. And at times thousands of messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention knelt at their chairs on Tuesday night (June 14) as they pleaded with God to bring national revival and spiritual awakening to America.
In one of his final acts as SBC president, Ronnie Floyd led the convention in an evening of prayer during its annual meeting in St. Louis.
"From this moment on, it will not be about personalities on the stage. It will be about Jesus, all the way," said Floyd, who has focused much of his two-year presidency on urging Southern Baptists to pray for spiritual awakening. "We're about to give Him praise. And from this moment on, I'm going to ask you to give Him your all. What if this were your last night on this earth? Wouldn't you want to give it all to Jesus and be ready?"
Floyd noted that Southern Baptists had thousands at First Baptist Church of Orlando who were, at that time, praying desperately for their city.
"Orlando is a lot more desperate tonight than they were before this tragedy," Floyd said. "But why should it take a tragedy to make us desperate for God?"
Praying for spiritual leaders
Matt Chandler, pastor of The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, talked about the need for pastors to so deeply love Jesus that they have the spiritual depth to lead their wives to be "well-watered vines."
Chandler read from Psalms 27 and 63 to show the way men of the Bible talked about God "in a way rare in modern times.... I don't hear that a lot in our day. I've found there is a lack of spiritual lustfulness in the hearts of many ministers. Where is the guy who just has to be with the Lord? And finds his fuel in the Lord? ... What we learn in the Bible is that people flourished under Jesus-pursuing, God-loving, Word of God-proclaiming spiritual leadership."
Johnny Hunt, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., encouraged the gathering toward lifting up spiritual leaders. Quoting Psalm 27:8, "Lord, I will seek Your face." Hunt said that spiritual leadership requires three things: humility, a teachable spirit and gratefulness to God. He encouraged others to pray daily that they would exhibit these three characteristics as they lead others in their spiritual walk.
Praying for revived churches
John Avant, pastor of First Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., shared about the revival that broke out in his church in Brownwood, Texas, in 1995, and encouraged pastors to trust that God can bring revival to their churches as well.
"Who's crying out for Him to do it again? We're in a desperate stage and our strategies and our meetings and our denominations are not going to save us," Avant said. "Who's going to cry out for revival in our day?"
Bill Elliff, senior teaching pastor of The Summit Church in North Little Rock, Ark., led participants to literally cry out, asking God to revive their churches and the churches in their communities.
Appealing to God as a "covenant-keeping God," Elliff prayed, "As we look around the convention, we see that the bride is weak, Lord. Your bride is filled with sin... We ask that You come and cleanse Your bride.
"We need You, Lord, and only You and the revival You bring."
Praying for racial reconciliation
Following a short message from Jerry Young, president of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc., Southern Baptists gathered in groups to ask God to break down various racial barriers.
K. Marshall Williams, who leads Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, "prayed down" the stronghold of racism in the church.
"We magnify Your holy name.... We confess our sin," he prayed. "We pray You would by the power of Your Holy Spirit manifest fruits of repentance in our lives.... All of us were created after Your likeness. Oh God, we are but dust, and we live in a day where when one piece of dust thinks it is better than another piece of dust. We ask that You bring your children together.... We call down the satanic, systemic stronghold of racism."
R. Marshall Blalock, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Charleston, S.C., prayed for racial unity in churches.
"I confess that it took nine people being killed in my city [at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church] to make me desperate," he prayed, tearfully asking God to "break our hearts," "open our minds" and "open our eyes" to racism.
"Call our hearts to repentance," he prayed. "May our hearts be drawn toward racial unity with Christ as the center."
Praying for racial unity in the communities and cities of America, A.B. Vines, senior pastor of New Seasons Church in Spring Valley, Calif., prayed against the sin of racism in the spirit of David facing Goliath.
"We won't wear someone else's armor. We will use what we have. And what we have is love ... hope ... compassion ... and understanding," he prayed. "What we have, God, is a made-up mind.... We must run up to this giant and say, 'You, too must come down!'"
Felix Cabrera, lead pastor of Iglesia Bautista Central in Oklahoma City, prayed in Spanish for racial unity in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Paul Kim prayed for the churches in America to come alive. He prayed first in Korean and then in English. Kim is the Asian American consultant for convention advancement with the SBC Executive Committee.
"Help us to be united in Jesus Christ," Kim prayed. "Help us to obey the Great Commission with one heart and one mind through the Word of God by the power of [the] Holy Spirit."
Praying for nationwide and global awakening
Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma prayed for awakening in America. Citing Nehemiah 1, he noted how Nehemiah, upon hearing about the destruction of Jerusalem, sat down and wept. He confessed his nation's sins. He reminded God of His promises.
As a result, "they fixed in two months what had been destroyed for 140 years," Lankford said. "For 140 years, they lived in a broken-down city until they awakened and said, 'No more!'"
Nehemiah came among the Israelites and prayed and worked, prompting Langford to suggest, "Maybe that is the model: pray and work."
Listing several areas of great need, Lankford, a former youth pastor and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate, reminded attendees of the need for churches to engage in America.
He urged, "Maybe it's time that we say our trust is not in the government and what it's going to do but in the church and what God is going to do."
The evening was capped off by a call for a nationwide and global awakening by Greg Laurie, senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif. "We need to get our eyes on the Lord again," Laurie said. "We need to stop fighting with each other as believers and pull together for the sake of the Gospel. Our enemies are not the people in this room. Our enemies are the world, the flesh, and the devil."
His call for increased evangelism was punctuated by calling pastors and churches to refocus their efforts on reaching the lost in America. "I am all for churches doing good works, but the good news is only good if it gets there on time. We have an urgency like never before," Laurie said. "America needs a fourth great awakening. Let that revival start with us, not because it is what we do as a job, but because it is a passion."
At the end of the service, Floyd encouraged every Southern Baptist church to dedicate at least 11 minutes -- but preferably the entire service -- to pray for America on Sunday, Sept. 11, the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. He asked that churches pray for the upcoming election and ask God to bring revival to the country.
Gateway name approved; WMU's Wanda Lee honored
by Erin Roach & Art Toalston
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ST. LOUIS (BP) -- Two significant changes in Southern Baptist life were key elements of the Executive Committee report to 7,200-plus messengers at the SBC annual meeting in St. Louis:
-- final approval of the new name -- Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention -- for the former Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, which is relocating its main campus to Southern California from the San Francisco Bay Area.
-- appreciation to Wanda Lee, who has announced retirement plans after 16-plus years as WMU's executive director -- years marked by record missions offering and ministry expansion by the SBC auxiliary.
Messengers approved Executive Committee recommendations of four future host cities for the annual meeting: Nashville, 2021; Anaheim, Calif., 2022; Charlotte, N.C., 2023; and Indianapolis, 2024.
Also approved: a 2016-17 Cooperative Program Allocation Budget of $189 million, up from $186.5 million in the current Oct. 1-Sept. 30 fiscal year.
The CP budget maintains current allocations of 50.41 percent of receipts to the International Mission Board and 22.79 percent to the North American Mission Board, for a total of 73.20 percent for mission ministries nationally and internationally.
The convention's six seminaries will receive 22.16 percent. The seminary enrollment formula for funding will be: Golden Gate Seminary, 2.15 percent; Midwestern Seminary, 2.65 percent; New Orleans Seminary, 3.82 percent; Southeastern Seminary, 4.17 percent; Southern Seminary, 5.06 percent; Southwestern Seminary, 4.07 percent; and .24 percent to the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, a ministry overseen by the seminary presidents. (Cumulative numbers may not match the sum of individual seminary percentages due to rounding.)
The budget proposal maintains a 1.65 percent allocation to the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, while the SBC Operating Budget, the only CP-funded facilitating ministry, encompassing the SBC annual meeting costs and the work of the Executive Committee, will receive 2.99 percent of the budget.
Gateway Seminary
SBC President Ronnie Floyd congratulated the convention's West Coast-based seminary after the SBC approval of its new name, marking the move of its main campus to Southern California.
Messengers first voted on the Gateway Seminary name in 2015 and finalized their approval this year, a two-year process required by SBC bylaws. The seminary had been located in the Bay Area since its founding in 1944.
"We are delighted the convention has affirmed our new name," Jeff Iorg, president of Gateway Seminary, said after the vote. "We will preserve the best of our heritage as Golden Gate Seminary as we build a new identity as Gateway Seminary."
The seminary closed its main campus in Mill Valley, Calif, on June 3 to prepare for its 400-mile move south to Ontario, Calif. The seminary began its relocation after the 2014 sale of its main campus and the subsequent purchase of new sites in Ontario and, for the Bay Area, in Fremont. The seminary also operates campuses in Denver, Phoenix and the Pacific Northwest.
Gateway Seminary's official opening in Ontario will be July 5, with dedication events for the new campus Oct. 5-8.
Wanda Lee appreciation
Wanda Lee "has served faithfully our Lord and our convention," EC President Frank S. Page said in presenting Lee a framed certificate of appreciation for her 16-plus years of WMU leadership.
"During Wanda's tenure, over $3 billion has been given to missions while she was at the helm of WMU," Page told messengers, with more than $2 billion raised for international missions and nearly $1 billion for North American missions through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, respectively, in conjunction with the SBC's two mission boards, state conventions and local churches.
Those totals, the resolution of appreciation noted, constitute "more than one-half of the total amount raised through these two offerings since they began being reported in 1888 and 1907 respectively."
The resolution also noted that Lee led WMU in:
-- Organizing 80 short-term mission trips encompassing more than 750 volunteers in underserved countries and in major cities around the world.
-- Expanding hands-on missions ministries such as the Baptist Nursing Fellowship, WorldCrafts, Christian Women's Jobs Corps and Project Help.
-- Expanding WMU's New Hope Publishers, with more than 100 new titles in the last four years and being named Publisher of the Year in the Golden Scroll Book Awards in 2015 and 2009.
Lee announced in January her retirement will take effect after her successor is named.
Collegiate ministry
Messengers watched a Cooperative Program promotional video highlighting the Baptist Collegiate Ministry at Francis Marion University in South Carolina, where Kendal Danford serves as BCM director.
"Our campus is about 50/50 when it comes to racial diversity, but our numbers and our ministry didn't reflect that," Danford said in the video. "We began to pray and ask God how we could reach all of the students on our campus. God began to open doors for us to reach African American young men."
One of those young men, Rashad, said he grew up in church but didn't meet Christ until he got to the BCM at Francis Marion.
"I always felt like there was this emptiness that I was dealing with inside of me. I came to BCM and got saved and plugged into core groups, and ever since then God has opened up so many doors for me," Rashad said, adding, "God belongs on my campus."
Mark Whitt, a national collegiate ministry leader with LifeWay Christian Resources, told messengers that Southern Baptists have some type of collegiate ministry on more than 800 campuses in the United States, aiming to reach 22 million college students.
Advisory councils
The Bivocational Small Church Advisory Council presented its written report to Page.
"You'll notice that only five are present," Page said of the council's members, "and the reason is because most of our bivocational pastors are out doing a secular job, and very few can come to our convention. We hope and pray that they will hear how much we appreciate them."
The report is "a compilation of several years' work, of recommendations, how to deepen the involvement of our bivocational and smaller membership churches in our convention," Page said.
"By the way, of our 46,498 Southern Baptist churches, over 30,000 are in this category of either smaller membership -- probably 35,000 -- or bivocational," Page said. "They are our true heroes. They are getting the work done, and we praise God for them."
Page also received a written report from the Multi-Ethnic Advisory Council.
"I thank God for these wonderful, wonderful brothers who have helped present an entire system of recommendations for us to look at over the next years to help us and all of our entities implement a deepening involvement of each of these ethnic groups in our convention and ministry work," Page said. "... We praise God for all of our multi-ethnic brothers and sisters."
Theological education in Germany
Heinrich Derksen, president of Bibelseminar Bonn in Germany, told messengers it was 10 years ago that he spoke for the first time at the Southern Baptist Convention.
"Since then our relationship has grown and has become very meaningful and special to me and our movement in Germany," Derksen said. "... In the past 25 years we have planted about 700 churches, and we are one of the largest and fastest-growing conservative movements in Germany today."
Page has traveled to Germany for several years to encourage Baptists there, including a recent trip where more than 1,200 German pastors attended a preaching conference. "Seventy-five percent were under age 30. God is doing a work in Europe," Page said.
Gaines recounts presidential decision
by Erin Roach
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ST. LOUIS (BP) -- Steve Gaines, elected president by acclamation at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, recounted in a press conference afterward how God led the candidates to that "special moment" of unity.
After a runoff didn't produce a majority winner between Gaines, pastor of the Memphis-area Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn., and J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Greear withdrew his name and urged messengers to vote for Gaines.
The display of unity began the night before the vote when the two men talked.
"He and I both were sensing the Holy Spirit moving in the same direction, and we had a good time talking last night," Gaines told reporters. "We talked to the Lord, and we talked about the situation, and I really feel like what just happened was really a blessing from God, and I pray God would use it to help us go forward and tell people about Jesus Christ."
As president, Gaines hopes to emphasize spiritual awakening, soul-winning and stewardship, among other issues.
"We need to be more intentional and proactive about sharing Christ with people," Gaines said, adding that good stewardship would enable Southern Baptists to send missionaries back to the field rather than bringing more home.
During his private talk with Greear, the Scripture passage that came to his mind, Gaines said, was Psalm 133: How good and how pleasant it is to dwell together in unity. The psalmist gives a couple of examples: the oil coming down Aaron's beard and the dew from Mount Hermon.
Gaines explained that water flowing down from Mount Hermon watered all of Israel. "What it's saying is this: The anointing of God brings unity. It starts at the top and it flows down," he said.
"I think what you just saw is when the leaders are unified in the Lord Jesus Christ, it brings unity to the body. That's what we need in our churches. That's what we preach all the time at Bellevue," Gaines said. "We don't have to unify everybody. If we can just unify the leaders, that will definitely flow down just like the anointing oil, just like the dew from Hermon. We see it in our church, and I believe we're going to see it in the Southern Baptist Convention."
Gaines and Greear both had the same impulse from the Holy Spirit the night before the vote, Gaines said.
"It's supernatural that the Spirit of God lives within us. Jesus said, 'My sheep hear my voice.' Anything you hear from the Lord is going to be in keeping with Scripture, but God was prompting both me and J.D. to be willing to pull out at the same time.
"And at the same time He was prompting the president of the Southern Baptist Convention to pray for that," Gaines said. "That's not coincidental. That is the sovereign God ordaining something. So I believe with all my heart it was a special moment when both J.D. and I realized God said the same thing to both of us."
Recounting the conversation, Gaines said, "I looked at him and said, 'You can have it.' He said, 'No, I want you to have it.' It was more like that. I said, 'Let's just don't vote on it because if we have another vote it's going to be another tie.' It couldn't have gone better. He was just very gracious. He's the J.D. I know him to be."
Gaines said Greear has preached in his church, and he doesn't invite people to preach in his church if he doesn't believe they really love the Lord.
"I know J.D. does. He hears from God, and I believe it was exactly what should be done," Gaines said. "I just appreciate it so much, and I think he appreciated the whole conversation, me willing to do the same thing."
When the messengers stood to vote in unison, Gaines said it was a moment when he felt unworthy.
"I think about that guy, I think it's in Luke 17 where he says, 'We're unworthy servants. We've done only that which we ought to have done.' I don't even know if I've done everything I ought to have done," Gaines said.
"Last night when I was really surrendering to the Lord, I kept praying the prayer of Mary when the angel of the Lord came to her and she said, 'Behold, the bondservant of the Lord. Be it done to me according to Thy Word.'
"That's where I was. I was totally surrendered. I'm not trying to sound spiritual. I'm just telling you that's where I was," Gaines said.
Regarding the notion that Greear had vast support from younger Southern Baptists and Gaines was the candidate for the older crowd, Gaines said he believes the convention needs all ages.
"People under 40 need the people over 40 for some wisdom -- not that the younger people don't have any wisdom, but some things you learn the older you get, hopefully," Gaines said. "Then, the people that are over 40 need the fire and the energy and the new ideas of younger people. It's not a competition. We need each other."
Gaines has attended SBC annual meetings since he was a Ph.D. student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His first meeting was in Dallas in 1985 when more than 45,000 messengers were registered. W.A. Criswell, Herschel Hobbs and Adrian Rogers were his heroes.
"We revered those guys. I'm not saying worshiped them. I'm saying we respected them in a good way, and the good thing about it is they respected us when we were young," Gaines said. "I think that's what we have to have."
Gaines said he would rather hear his 33-year-old son preach than most anyone he knows "because he's so fresh. He's in the Word. He's got great ideas. I love to hear him preach."
What Southern Baptists saw in this year's presidential election, Gaines said, is that "if the devil was trying to divide us, he failed and failed miserably."
"The Lord Jesus Christ gave us unity today in a great way."
10 of 22 motions referred to SBC entities
by Meredith Flynn
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ST. LOUIS (BP) -- Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention proposed 22 motions, the most since 2010. Ten motions were referred to convention entities for further study and for a report at the 2017 SBC meeting in Phoenix.
The Committee on Order of Business automatically referred three motions to SBC entities and/or the Executive Committee:
-- A motion by Lonnie Wilkey of Tulip Grove Baptist Church, Old Hickory, Tenn., to ask trustees of all SBC entities to consider examining their media policies, and if they do not have clearly defined guidelines, to consider establishing a policy that trustee and committee meetings be open to the public. The motion was referred to the Executive Committee and all SBC entities.
-- A motion by Victoria Gurgone of Peace Church, Wilson, N.C., for the Executive Committee to consider adding a "veteran" and/or "active duty" option on the online registration form, as well as adding "veteran" and/or "active duty" to SBC name badges. The motion was referred to the Executive Committee.
-- A motion by Graham Weaver of Lenexa Baptist Church, Lenexa, Kan., to encourage SBC presidents past and present through LifeWay Christian Resources to write their memoirs. The motion was referred to LifeWay Christian Resources.
Messengers approved the referral of six motions to the Executive Committee:
-- A motion by Steve Bailey of Calvary Baptist Church, Osceola, Ark., for the SBC amend its bylaws to require all nomination speeches for officers of the SBC to include the percentage of Cooperative Program gifts given by the nominee's church. The motion was referred to the Executive Committee.
-- A motion by Richard Spring of First Baptist Church, Hesperia, Calif., to amend the SBC constitution to add the affirmation, approval or endorsement of racial discrimination as a criteria by which churches would be deemed to be not in cooperation with the convention.
-- A motion by Andy Perryman of First Baptist Church, Washington, Ga., to amend the SBC constitution to make intentional cooperation with a state convention and a local association criteria by which a church is deemed to be in friendly cooperation with the SBC.
-- A motion by Steve Taylor of Northeast Park Baptist Church, Evansville, Ind., for the Executive Committee to study the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 article on faith, "as the definition of faith given is lacking the idea of belief, but describes faith as 'a personal commitment of the entire personality.'"
-- A motion by Ed Stetzer of Grace Church, Gallatin, Tenn., for the Executive Committee to study the possibility of the SBC affiliating with the National Association of Evangelicals and to report its findings at the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention in Phoenix.
-- A motion by Doug Hibbard of East End Baptist Church, East End, Ark., for the Executive Committee to consider amending the SBC bylaws to require all amendments to the report of the Committee on Nominations within 45 days of the annual meeting be published no later than seven days before the annual meeting.
Messengers approved the referral of one motion to the Committee on Order of Business:
-- A motion by John Boquist of Cardinal Baptist Church, Ruther Glen, Va., that the Committee on Order of Business, when planning the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention, be advised to allot more than one hour and 14 minutes for the reports and presentations of the North American and International Mission Boards.
Twelve motions were ruled not in order by the Committee on Order of Business because they sought to direct, rather than request, the work of SBC entities:
-- A motion by Benjamin Hedrick of Immanuel Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky., for LifeWay Christian Resources to consider developing and deploying material to help churches respond missionally to refugees.
-- A motion by David Roberts of Sunrise Baptist Church, Midland, Mich., for the North American Mission Board, International Mission Board and LifeWay Christian Resources to study the possibility of working together or separately to fund campus ministries and/or campus ministers, particularly in areas underserved by Southern Baptists.
-- A motion by Benjamin Hedrick of Immanuel Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky., for Southern Baptist seminaries to consider and investigate programs, courses and other methods to equip students for mercy ministry and evangelistic outreach to refugees.
-- A motion by Steve Wolverton of Canton Baptist Church, Baltimore, for the Executive Committee and North American Mission Board trustees to call for an independent outside review of NAMB's actions toward state conventions, in particular, the Mid-Atlantic Baptist Network.
One motion was ruled out of order because it was presented in the form of a resolution:
-- A motion by Richard Sandberg of First Baptist Church, Springfield, La., for the Southern Baptist Convention to reaffirm Article 12 of the Baptist Faith and Message, "asserting our belief in and unwavering support for the inalienable right of religious freedom for all."
Seven motions were ruled out of order because they proposed that the convention exercise authority beyond that of the SBC or messengers:
-- A motion by Joel Breidenbaugh of First Baptist Church Sweetwater, Longwood, Fla., for the Southern Baptist Convention to combine the work of the International and North American Mission Boards to one global mission board, with North America as one region of the world.
-- A motion by John Wofford of Armorel Baptist Church, Armorel, Ark., that all Southern Baptist officials or officers who support the rights of Muslims to build mosques in the U.S. be immediately removed from their position within the SBC.
-- A motion by Jerry Moss of South County Baptist Church, St. Louis, that the Southern Baptist Convention withdraw its friend of the court brief in the case of the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge vs. Township of Bernard, New Jersey. (Committee on Order of Business chairman Andrew Hebert clarified during the business session Wednesday morning that the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission filed the brief in question.)
—- A motion by Gus Rocha of Bartlett Baptist Church, Bartlett, Tenn., that a committee be appointed to pray and fast for truth and godliness to be preached and modeled by our leaders, and to study how truth and godly living are taught through Southern Baptist curriculum provided by LifeWay Christian Resources.
-- A motion by Gus Rocha of Bartlett Baptist Church, Bartlett, Tenn., that a committee be appointed to study the effectiveness of the North American Mission Board's Send Relief and other partnerships of SBC entities and government or secular agencies.
-- A motion by Paul Fries of Blue River Valley Church, Muscoda, Wis., for the Executive Committee to amend the SBC bylaws to grant representation to areas not currently represented on the Executive Committee, Committee on Committees, and Committee on Nominations.
-- A motion by Michael Elsey of Ontwa Baptist Church, Edwardsburg, Mich., for the Executive Committee to appoint a study group to consider giving existing camps and conference centers affiliated with Baptist state conventions a one-time payout from Cooperative Program funds for the purpose of establishing endowments or developing physical properties.
SBC resolutions address culture, ministry concerns
by Tom Strode
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ST. LOUIS (BP) -- Messengers to the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention, in addition to repudiating the display of the Confederate battle flag, approved 11 other resolutions on a variety of culture and ministry concerns.
Messengers voted on the proposals over both days of the annual meeting, adopting resolutions that expressed compassion for those devastated by the Orlando mass shooting, urged consistent evangelism of unbelievers and encouraged care for refugees. They also passed measures that included calling for the federal government not to discriminate against people who support only the biblical, traditional view of marriage and opposing an effort to require women to register for the military draft.
For Stephen Rummage, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, the call for Southern Baptists to evangelize was central to the 10-member panel's deliberations in presenting the 12 measures to the messengers.
The resolution on evangelism "might just seem like a standard resolution for an evangelical body such as Southern Baptists to pass," Rummage said at a news conference Wednesday morning (June 15), "but really that is at the heart of everything that we talked about, including what we had to say about the Confederate flag. Everything that we do should have as its end and as its goal reaching people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
Echoing a comment made in support of the measure on the Confederate flag, Rummage said resolutions "build bridges and they tear down walls, but we've got to cross those bridges with the Gospel and take Jesus to people because that's what it's all about and that's the only hope for our world, for our nation and indeed for Southern Baptists."
Rummage, senior pastor of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Fla., and SBC ethics leader Russell Moore both thought it helpful that messengers strengthened the original Confederate flag resolution proposed by the committee.
The committee-presented resolution called for Christians who display the Confederate flag "to consider prayerfully whether to limit, or even more so, discontinue its display" because of the "undeniably painful impact of the flag's symbolism on others." Acting on an amendment offered by former SBC President James Merritt, messengers overwhelmingly approved language that urged "brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of solidarity of the whole body of Christ, including our African American brothers and sisters."
The committee crafted the resolution with tempered language "to achieve as broad a consensus as possible," Rummage told reporters. When the committee saw the messengers desired to make an even stronger statement, "I think the whole committee was very thankful to be able to vote 'yes' to the amendment," he said. "I was elated to see us make the type of statement that we did."
Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told reporters, "I think it lends to an even stronger witness that the process happened the way that it did."
Those outside the denomination saw "a Southern Baptist Convention that came in and affirmed its Resolutions Committee [and] said, 'Thank you for bringing this resolution of unity to us, and we want to make sure that we're as clear as we can be about standing in solidarity with one another,'" Moore said.
In addition to the Confederate flag measure, the other 11 resolutions:
-- affirmed Southern Baptists' commitment to biblical sexuality and urged the protection of religious free exercise. Kelvin Cochran, who was fired as Atlanta's fire chief after writing in a book that homosexual behavior is immoral, presented the resolution to the convention as a member of the committee.
-- called for prayer for and pledged support to those affected by the June 12 killings in Orlando.
-- encouraged faithful proclamation of the Gospel by churches and intentional evangelism by individual Southern Baptists locally, nationally and globally.
-- declared "unrelenting opposition" to efforts by military leaders and the Obama administration "to increase the likelihood that women will be placed in harm's way" along with voicing support for service members and their families.
-- called on the government to enact strict security in screening refugees and for Southern Baptists to compassionately minister to and share the Gospel with them.
-- urged participation in voting and prayer for God to provide "spiritual, moral, ethical, and cultural renewal."
-- encouraged churches to consider increasing ministries to Alzheimer's and dementia patients and their family caregivers.
-- called for pastors to support freedom of the press and journalists to practice that freedom responsibly.
-- affirmed "In God We Trust" as the national motto and encouraged its public display.
-- supported Israel's right to exist as a free state and encouraged renewed prayer for peace in and salvation of Israel.
-- expressed gratitude to God as well as Southern Baptists in the St. Louis area and all others who helped with this year's meeting.
The convention passed the first seven resolutions during the Tuesday afternoon session (June 14) but was unable to vote on the remainder because time for their consideration expired. Messengers approved the final five resolutions as a package Wednesday morning.
In addition to the amendment on the Confederate flag, three amendments were offered by messengers that the Resolutions Committee welcomed as friendly ones.
The committee chose not to act on resolutions submitted regarding gambling, a million more baptisms by 2034, sexual predatory behavior among Southern Baptists, forced termination of pastors, character development of boys and churches not being political lobbyists.
Jason Duesing, provost and associate professor of historical theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo., and a member of Antioch Bible Baptist Church in Gladstone, Mo., served as vice chairman of the committee. The other committee members, in alphabetical order, were: Cochran, chief strategic officer, Elizabeth Baptist Church, Atlanta; Linda Cooper, member, Forest Park Baptist Church in Bowling Green, Ky., and national president of Woman's Missionary Union; Mark Harris, senior pastor, First Baptist Church, Charlotte, N.C., and former candidate for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives; Brad Jurkovich, senior pastor, First Baptist Church, Bossier City, La.; Shannon Royce, member, Columbia Baptist Church, Falls Church, Va., and chief of staff/chief operating officer of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.; Rolland Slade, senior pastor, Meridian Southern Baptist Church, El Cajon, Calif.; Jim Smith, member, Ninth and O Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky., and vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters in Washington, D.C.; and Mat Staver, member, First Baptist Church, Orlando, Fla., and founder/chairman of Liberty Counsel, with offices in Florida, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
'Horrified & heartbroken,' Orlando mourns
by Diana Chandler
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) -- Pain pulsing through Orlando this week touches many more than the families of the 49 murdered and the 53 wounded by a single gunman's terrorism on the Lord's Day at a gay nightclub; it touches the entire community, pastors holding prayer services told Baptist Press.
Prayer services continue today (June 15) at 6:30 p.m. at Delaney Baptist Church two blocks from the crime scene, and at 7:30 p.m. at The Church of the Cross, both Southern Baptist congregations.
"They're locals. They're people that we shop with at Walmart, people that we see at McDonald's or Chick-Fil-a, people we run into at the gas station that we won't be seeing anymore," a representative of Delaney Street Baptist Church told Baptist Press.
The 49 murdered included 42 males and seven females ranging in age from 18 to 50, according to a list posted at CNN.com. They were killed around 2 a.m. June 12 when Omar Mateen, a father and security guard who professed allegiance to ISIS Islamic terrorists, walked into the Pulse gay nightclub and began firing an AR-15 assault rifle. Police killed Mateen three hours later as he held about 30 hostages inside the club.
"Our Delaney Street Baptist Church family is horrified and heartbroken over the tragic murder of so many precious lives right here in our own neighborhood this past weekend. We mourn with the families who have lost loved ones," reads a statement on the website of the church, the pastorate of Troy Peeples. "The Bible teaches us to weep with those who are weeping.... We are also praying for the recovery of those who are being treated right now in the hospital."
Names, ages and photos of each of those killed will be placed near the church's altar, a church representative said, allowing individual prayers for families of each of the victims. Chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team, in town after the June 12 tragedy, will offer mourners specific ways to help the suffering.
At The Church at the Cross, a 6:30 p.m. worship service in the sanctuary will precede a prayer gathering under the cross on the church grounds, pastor Clayton Cloer told BP.
"We have a large cross on our campus and so we'll meet outside at the foot of the cross for this time, which is customary for us," Cloer said. "It will give our people an opportunity to express their grief corporately, and their brokenness, and then also to cry out to God for comfort, healing in our city, to ask Him to use this horrible week in the life of our city to draw people to Himself."
Cloer noted two additional tragedies in Orlando -- a 2-year-old toddler killed by an alligator in a lagoon near Walt Disney World, and the June 10 shooting death of singer Christina Grimmie, who gained popularity after finishing third on The Voice television reality show.
"For those of us that live and serve in this city, our whole church has been impacted by each one of these, because many people in our church have friends, relatives, who were involved in all three of these things," said Cloer, although none of the dead or injured were members of the church. "Plus, your entire community of law enforcement and medical professionals have just been greatly affected, so it's affected all of us, there's no question."
Thousands attended a June 14 community-wide prayer vigil, the largest to date, at First Baptist Church of Orlando. One of the church's members was injured in the attack and a companion of the member was killed, First Baptist Orlando pastor David Uth told BP.
Southern Baptists have responded with compassion and prayer, including targeted prayer during the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting June 14-15 in St. Louis.
K. Marshall Williams, immediate past president of the National African American Fellowship of the SBC, is among those who expressed compassion.
"I weep, mourn and pray today for the families of the victims murdered and those injured in the senseless satanic act of terrorism in Orlando," he told BP hours after the tragedy. "I pray that the Lord and His church would wrap our arms around and comfort the entire Orlando community as they mourn the loss of their beloved loved ones!"
Among the Orlando victims, the youngest was 18-year-old Akyra Murray, a 2016 Philadelphia high school graduate who was visiting her brother, CNN reported. Among the oldest victims was 49-year-old Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, a mother of 11 who had twice survived cancer and had gone dancing at the Pulse with her gay son, CNN said. The son survived.
Mateen was an American born citizen of Afghani parents. Twice married, he frequented the Pulse, according to news reports.
Crossover St. Louis sees increase in faith decisions
by Joe Conway
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
ST. LOUIS (BP) -- Southern Baptist volunteers took advantage of the preparations made in advance of Crossover St. Louis and saw those efforts result in 556 St. Louis residents placing their faith in Christ for salvation. As the host city for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, the St. Louis Baptist Association and executive director Jim Breeden helped create environments where people were receptive to Gospel conversations.
The number of salvation decisions during Crossover Saturday (June 11) marks an increase for the first time in three years. That is a trend organizers hope to see continue in Phoenix, host for the SBC annual meeting in 2017.
The registered number of Crossover St. Louis volunteers was 3,984. Those volunteers participated in 8,379 gospel conversations where an invitation for a decision was extended. Crossover events were sponsored by more than 85 host churches and events.
North American Mission Board executive director of evangelism Joel Southerland serves as coordinator for the mission board's Crossover responsibilities. Southerland said he was humbled by the experience of seeing so many volunteers engaged in Gospel conversations.
"Crossover St. Louis was fantastic," Southerland said. "It brought churches together and many did an evangelistic event for the first time. We had more decisions in this Crossover than in the past three years -- over 200 more than last year. It's a testament to the hard work of the churches and pastors."
Southerland has already been in planning sessions for Crossover Phoenix. He expects another successful experience for volunteers and the Southern Baptist family in Phoenix. In addition to the traditional Crossover outreach activities, Harvest America will bring a new dynamic to Crossover Phoenix with the element of a city-wide crusade.
"Next year Crossover Phoenix with Harvest will be historic," Southerland said. "We have the opportunity to make a major impact for Christ in a major city. Working together we could see more than 5,000 come to faith in Christ with many more from the simulcasts going on around the nation and world. It will be something Southern Baptists will be talking about for a long time to come. Every pastor should put June 10, 2017, on his calendar and make plans to be there."
By any measure -- city population, metro area or regional influence --Phoenix is a major North American city. One reason Phoenix is the sixth largest city in the United States is that it has become the go-to destination for retirees and high-tech entrepreneurs.
Harvest America is assisting churches with evangelistic events and will partner with Crossover Phoenix with an opportunity to capture the momentum from Crossover in a single, culminating crusade. It will enhance the traditional Crossover element with a focused, concluding activity. Stay up to date and find out how to volunteer at www.namb.net/crossover.
FATHER'S DAY: Pray for them, play with them
by Robert Jackson
Date: June 15, 2016 - Wednesday
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (BP) -- When I was growing up in our small South Carolina town of Manning, my dad would come home many afternoons after work and throw the football or baseball with me in the backyard. To me, he was Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw and I was his favorite receiver, running intricate patterns across the backyard for what seemed like hours.
When I played JV football, my dad followed our team to Kingstree one Thursday afternoon. It was pouring. It rained so hard we couldn't see the sidelines from the middle of the field at times. No one stood in the stands for either side -- except my dad, dressed in his Vietnam-issue raincoat and air commando hat and holding an umbrella. I never knew he was there until one of the cheerleaders told me later that when they yelled, "All for the Manning Monarchs stand up and holler!" my dad stood up in the deluge and hollered. No one else was present to holler.
Despite his busy family medicine practice, my dad was faithful to follow his three sons and a daughter to all of their school and church events.
When I went to college, I would pack my things every Sunday afternoon, preparing for the drive back to Clemson. My dad would slip into my bedroom while I was packing, sit on the bed, hold my hand and pray for me. He would ask for God's blessing and protection on his boy while traveling and away at college. He would ask God to deliver me from temptation and show me His path for my life. Then slipped back out.
A few years later, in September 1978, I was leaving town for my second year of medical school. My dad was driving into our neighborhood as I was leaving. He flagged me down, pulled his car over and ran across the road. He kneeled down in the road, reached his hand through the window and held my hand -- and he prayed for me. Then he jumped up and ran to his car, and he was gone.
That's the last time I ever saw my dad. The next day, he was killed in an airplane accident flying his own airplane to Houston, Texas, for a medical meeting. He crashed in a swamp during a thunderstorm in Louisiana. It was five terrible days before his plane was found.
Every one of us dads will leave a legacy for his children. Even the little things we do will be remembered. Little things will be magnified to greatness in the eyes of our children. The things we say and do as dads will be told over and over to our children and grandchildren, whether we like it or not.
My memories of my dad are precious, deep and rich: quail hunting, Clemson football games, faithfully attending church, laughing around the dinner table, and catching ball in the backyard. My brothers and I still mimic our dad saying, "Boys, I don't know what I am going to do with you."
Dads, what will your legacy be? How will your children remember you? What will they say about you to their children? If you pray for them in the morning and play with them in the afternoon, they will remember you well.


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Everton manager David Moyes has granted England striker Wayne Rooney a week's holiday to recharge his batteries as the Blues ended a nine-match winless run with a 2-0 victory over Aston Villa.
Rooney, 18, will get away to the sun because Everton now have a fortnight without a game.
Moyes has also decided to send Thomas Gravesen and Tobias Linderoth away for a break too in a bid to have all three refreshed for the Barclaycard Premiership run-in and the Euro 2004 finals.
Moyes said: "I am letting all three of the lads who could be going to Portugal to have a week off. These players have so many matches these days and this is a chance to recharge their batteries before the end-of-season run-in.
"It will also help them with Portugal in mind. As a club we want our players to be properly prepared for the European finals as well as being on song for the final games of the season."
The result gave Everton a welcome relief after nine games without a win, even though a nervy Rooney picked up another booking in the first half as his frustrations threatened to boil over.
"We have not been getting the points our performances have deserved," added Moyes.
"We were all anxious out there, Wayne was no different, but he is still learning.
"We had been giving the ball away too much, our passes were going astray. I think everyone was happy to get into the dressing room at half-time so we could start to put things right."
Aston Villa boss David O'Leary admitted his UEFA Cup-chasers lacked the "hunger and desire" of Everton.
Villa, on the back of a five-game unbeaten run, had high ideals of a Champions League place, but any more performances like this and they can forget such dreams.
O'Leary said: "I did not think we played at all well after the first 20 minutes.
"And in the second half we lacked the desire and hunger of Everton.
"What we have learned in the last few months is that everybody has to give everything in all departments. In this game we let ourselves down.
"We cannot have lots of players who are not up to the mark all at once, we cannot afford to carry people.
"We are not the sort of side who can just turn up and strut around, we are not good enough for that.
"We must have hunger and spirit because we are nowhere near being the finished article."


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Video Stream of Jochen Werne's keynote at the launch ceremony of the Vietnam Germany Innovation Network (VGI Network).
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Video Stream of Jochen Werne's keynote at the launch ceremony of the Vietnam Germany Innovation Network (VGI Network).
Experience more about the VGI Network at https://www.facebook.com/VGInetwork2019/
Great discussions on the suspicious nature of society with data experts at the BankenForen Conference IT- & Cybersecurity in the financial industry
Details HERE
Inspiring discussions with Michael Kaiser, Head of Department for Financial Institutions at the Office for Data Protection of the German State of Hesse & Ralf Heim, Co-Founder of Fincite.
Finance Journalist at Handelsblatt Katharina Schneider greatly moderated the panel: "Chances & Risks of #Technology – Can data protection and artificial intelligence be reconciled?"
Details HERE
It's a great pleasure seeing GOST's Documentation Officer Stefano Malvestio in an in-depth Interview with Italian TV-station Asterisco about Navigator's Heritage Challenge and its effects produced in the creation of International Understanding and the creation of awareness for the UN Global Goals.
The Lord Warden Cup is a 200nm Offshore Sailing Challenge from Dover to Portsmouth and back, with the goal to install a stable international relations between sailors and people.
The Cup is conjointly organised by the Global Offshore Sailing Team (GOST) and the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club Dover (RCPYC)
The Cup has been inspired by the current Lord Warden, Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Boyce, who has been for the Cup's initiators a role model for a creator of international relations.
The 1st Lord Warden Offshore Cup will take place between Thursday October 10, 2019 and Sunday, October 13, 2019.
This Cup is awarded to the Winners of the Offshore Sailing Challenge
This prize is awarded to the person, group, association or team who contributed most to the goal of creating international understanding within this years' Lord Warden Cup
by Katharina Schneider – Handelsblatt, 21 August 2019 –
"It has been inspiring discussing with Katharina Schneider about AI and the future of the financial sector and being quoted in her article among other experts as Prof. Andreas Dengel (DFKI), Dirk Elsner (DZ Bank) and Nils Beier (Accenture) . Read the original article here"Jochen Werne
Frankfurt The interplay between artificial intelligence and the financial sector in Great Britain will soon be very vivid: from 2021, the portrait of Alan Turing will adorn the new 50 pound notes. The scientist is known for his early research on computer technology. (translated with DeepL.com)
Read the original article here
It has been pleasure being guest author for the DIGIPRAKTIKER, Finanz Colloquium Heidelberg.
Author: Jochen Werne, Director Business Development, Product Management, Treasury and Payment Services at Bankhaus August Lenz & Co. AG
I. Introduction
The only constant in history was, is and remains change. Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in 1450 was a milestone on the timeline of human development. Today we still take note of this invention, which was considered an innovation at that time, but we have long lived surrounded by smartphones and cloud applications, in which we can store the most private information and retrieve it from anywhere in the world. Today's change is being driven by a veritable digital revolution.
Digital change already has fundamental consequences for individuals and their lifestyles, but it is developing its full potential when it comes to interacting with our social environment. In times of smart robotics and maturing systems in relation to artificial intelligence, the question arises again and again what role humans play on the stage of these technologies. Is he …
25. JULY 2019 BY JULIANE WAACK – KEYNOTE BY Jochen Werne
For the opening keynote of our ec4u virtual conference Digital Thoughts on May 23rd, Jochen Werne, Director Marketing & Authorised Officer at Bankhaus August Lenz, talked about opening up to the digital transformation. It turns out, what we associate with technology and what it actually offers are often two completely different things.
"Companies and people need to participate actively in the transformation. We need to move. It's impossible to be a passive participant in the transformation."J. Werne
It has been a great pleasure being invited as studio guest to the BR-Abendschau and to speak with Christoph Deumling about the Navigators Heritage Challenge (www.NavigatorsHeritage.com), the Global Offshore Sailing Teams impact on international understanding and the creation of international awareness for the UN Global Goals and environmental issues
It has been a great pleasure giving an interview to Bernhard Bomke, about the development of the Robo-Advisor market in Germany, Innovation, Banking and the impact of Artificial Intelligence.