TBC Newsletter, January/February 2001 - $25,000 Gift Honors Ken Chafin

In December, Robert and Anne Fowler, of Houston, gave Texas Baptists Committed a $25,000 donation in honor of former South Main Baptist Church pastor, Kenneth Chafin and his wife, Barbara. The gift comes from the Robert K. and Anne H. Fowler Baptist Causes Fund administrated by the Texas Baptist Foundation. The Fowlers are members of South Main Baptist Church, Houston. We are pleased we got to share this news with Dr. Chafin prior to his death on January 3, 2001.

The gift is to be used by Texas Baptists Committed "in its worthy mission of encouraging, aiding and promoting TBC-like organizations, as well as moderate churches and individual Baptists, in states other than Texas." Specifically Mr. and Mrs. Fowler want a portion of the gift to be used to "promote the growing relationship between moderate Texas Baptists and their counterparts in the state of Georgia."

Mr. and Mrs. Fowler were reluctant to have their gift publicized but agreed to do so in hopes that the knowledge of their gift might encourage others to make similar gifts.

We are very grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Fowler for this generous and most needed donation. We are especially pleased to receive a gift honoring a Baptist "legend" like Ken Chafin, who set an example of integrity and courage for us all to follow. We will miss him deeply.