Featured Call to Elect a Female SBC President Next Week

Lucy Peabody presiding over a meeting of Baptist fundamentalists in the North, way back in 1935!

Binghampton (N.Y.) Press, April 10, 1935

 

Several years ago when I asked:

Tom Butler replied:

And Tom himself was a Conservative Resurgence candidate for the Kentucky convention presidency some years back!

 

Florida Baptist Historical Society

"LOIS VIRGINIA REAVES PARKER
Lois Virginia Reaves Parker (July 16, 1913- ) was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended college at Blue Mountain, Baylor, and Mary
Hardin-Baylor. She married Henry Allen Parker on June 1, 1937. They had three children, Walter Allen, Margaret, and John David. Parker
is remembered as a wonderful wife and mother. She also has the distinction of being the only woman to serve as president of the Florida
Baptist Convention. In 1974 A. R. Fagan was elected president of the Convention. Fred H. Cooper was elected first vice-president, and
Virginia Parker was elected second vice-president. Fagan was pastor of First Baptist Church in Bradenton, Cooper was director of information
services at Stetson University, and Parker was a pastor s wife and housewife from Orlando. Fagan moved to Nashville and Cooper resigned.
That meant Parker presided at the 1974 Convention in Lakeland. She also delivered the President’s address, entitled, Fellowship of Florida
Baptists. She proved to be a most capable, kind, and humble president of the convention."