Elected • Matthew Harrison, as president of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. He previously headed the church's World Relief and Human Care division.
Died • Robert Bratcher, controversial Southern Baptist translator of the Good News Bible, on July 11 in North Carolina. He was 90.
Died • Doug Oldham, award-winning gospel singer and former praise leader at Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church, on July 21 in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 79.
Elected • Richard J. Mouw, as president of the Association of Theological Schools. Mouw is currently president of Fuller Theological Seminary.
Died • Robert Byrd, D-West Virginia, longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate, on June 28 in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was 92.
Elected • Ted Wilson, as president of the 16.3 million-member Seventh-Day Adventist Church. He was previously the church's general vice president.
Elected • Jerry Pillay, as first president of the newly-formed World Communion of Reformed Churches. He was previously general secretary of the Uniting Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa.
Appointed • David Evans, as global executive officer of Food for the Hungry. He previously directed the ministry's Washington, D.C., office.
Died • William J. Wiseman, pastor emeritus of Tulsa's First Presbyterian Church and influential member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, on July 13 in Tulsa. He was 91.
Elected • Sam Chaise, as the first non-Anglo general secretary of Canadian Baptist Ministries. He was previously director of the William Carey Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Died • Walter Hawkins, pastor and Grammy Award-winning gospel singer-songwriter, of pancreatic cancer at his home in Ripon, California. He was 61.
Appointed • Rob Brynjolfson, as head of the World Evangelical Alliance's Leadership Institute. He was formerly the institute's academic dean.
Died • George Webber, well-known activist minister and former president of the New York Theological Seminary, at his home in Maplewood, Virginia. He was 90.
Retiring • Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, as head of the Reformed Church in America, at the next General Synod in 2011.
Each had unique translation philosophies, diction preferences, and intended audiences in mind, frameworks that informed how they approached their all-consuming work.
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Each had unique translation philosophies, diction preferences, and intended audiences in mind, frameworks that informed how they approached their all-consuming work.简体中文繁體中文
