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Hal Bass
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ATLANTA – Hal Bass, a professor at Ouachita Baptist University, has been nominated for the position of moderator-elect for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The CBF Coordinating Council’s Nominating Committee offered Joanne Carr of Georgia for the position of recorder.
Bass, who currently serves as the Fellowship’s recorder, is a native of Corpus Christi, Texas. A graduate of Baylor University and Vanderbilt University, Bass works as a professor of political science and dean of the school of social sciences at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark. He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Arkadelphia and has served on both the CBF national and CBF of Arkansas Coordinating Councils.
"I am honored and humbled to be presented with this opportunity for service on CBF’s behalf," Bass said. "I look forward with enthusiasm to participating in this capacity for CBF as we support congregations and individuals seeking to embrace the world in Christ’s name through our missions and ministries."
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Joanne Carr
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Bass and Carr will be presented to the CBF General Assembly in June for election during its annual business session June 20. Nominations for moderator-elect can be made from the floor of the Assembly.
The moderator-elect’s chief responsibility is to preside over the Assembly and the Coordinating Council in absence of the moderator. The moderator-elect automatically succeeds the moderator at the conclusion of a one-year term without a vote by the Assembly. North Carolina pastor Jack Glasglow is the current moderator-elect. He will assume the office of moderator on June 20, at the conclusion of the General Assembly.
Carr retired as associate medical center director for the Augusta Veterans Administration Medical Center in 2005 and now serves as a consultant with Resource Services Incorporated, a Christian organization based in Dallas, Texas. A member of First Baptist Church of Augusta, Ga., Carr currently serves as a member of the CBF Coordinating Council.
Harriet Harral, the Fellowship’s current moderator, will assume the immediate past moderator position at the conclusion of this year’s Assembly. The chief duty of the immediate past moderator is to chair the Nominating Committee.
CBF is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice. The Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission.