MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP) – Tony Wolfe hopes the 100th anniversary of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program will remind members of the world’s largest protestant movement how interdependent they are. Wolfe is leading a celebration to mark the anniversary June 13.
“The event will be held exactly 100 years after and within a few hundred yards of the exact location as the presentation and adoption of the Cooperative Program by messengers to the 1925 convention,” Wolfe, South Carolina Baptist Convention executive director, told Baptist Press.
It was mid-afternoon May 13, 1925, when messengers adopted the Cooperative Program based on a recommendation from the SBC Committee on Future Program led by Louisiana pastor M.E. Dodd…