by Tom Strode & Yvette Rattray
Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (BP)–Former Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page is both concerned and encouraged as he begins service on a new panel that will advise President Barack Obama on faith-based and community issues.
Page, who completed two years as SBC president in 2008, is one of 25 people who will be serving on the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The council members will serve one-year terms. The advisers were named Feb. 5 as part of the restructured and newly named White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships under President Obama.
While acknowledging there are “very few conservatives on the council,” Page told Baptist Press he hopes the viewpoints held by him and others in that category will gain a hearing.
“I did and do have concerns,” said Page, pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C. “I do ask Baptists to pray for me as I try to bring to the table what I believe is a conservative, biblical viewpoint.” Click here to read this entire article.
