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{{Infobox person
|name= William Winfred Moore<br>
(Figure in the Southern Baptist Convention in 1980s)
| birth_date=February 15, 1920
| birth_place=Milan, Gibson County<br>
[[Tennessee]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=May 8, 2015 (aged 95)
| death_place=[[Amarillo]], [[Texas]]
| spouse=Elizabeth Campbell Moore (married 1941-2012, her death)<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Anne M. Preston<br>
Fred Moore<br>
Maria M. Patterson<br>
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Lambuth College<br>
Union University<br>
George Peabody College
}}
'''William Winfred Moore''', known as '''W. Winfred Moore''' (February 15, 1920 – May 8, 2015), a former pastor of the First [[Baptist]] Church of [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]], served as the president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and was a prominent figure in the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], based in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], during the second half of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|title=Former First Baptist pastor Dr. Winfred Moore shaped city, congregation|url=http://amarillo.com/news/latest-news/2015-05-08/former-first-baptist-pastor-shaped-city-congregation|publisher=''Amarillo Globe-News''|date=May 8, 2015|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref>
==Family and education==
Moore was born to W. E. Moore and the former Sadie Hammonds (1900-1997) of Milan in Gibson County in western [[Tennessee]]. Moore's five sisters included Mary Evelyn Eddings (deceased), June Moore, Wanda Cooper, Betty Gass, and Phyllis Riley, the latter of [[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/potter/obits/1997/27oct97.txt|title=Sadie Hammonds Moore|publisher=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=April 14, 2010}}</ref>
Moore was educated at Lambuth College and Union University, both in Jackson in western Tennessee. He then enrolled at George Peabody College in the capital city of Nashville. He holds an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Wayland Baptist University in Plainview in Hale County, north of [[Lubbock]], Texas, and an honorary doctor of laws from [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]].<ref name=agn/>
Moore and his wife, the former Elizabeth Campbell (1921-2012), married in Calvert City, [[Kentucky]]. She was the daughter of a pastor. The Moores had three children: Anne Preston of Amarillo, Fred Moore of [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], and Maria Patterson of Lewisville, Texas.<ref name=agn/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102822893/elizabeth-moore|title=Elizabeth Campbell Moore obituary|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=November 17, 2019}}</ref>
After service at FBC in Amarillo from 1959 to 1989, Moore became the W. Winfred and Elizabeth Moore Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Ministry Effectiveness at Baylor University. During his time in Waco, he was also the interim pastor of churches in Waco, Lampassas, Sugar Land, [[Austin]], and [[San Antonio]].<ref name=agn>{{cite web|url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/051900/his_moorew.html|author=Don Munsch|title=W. Winfred Moore|date=May 19, 2000|publisher=''Amarillo Globe-News''|accessdate=April 14, 2010}}</ref>
==Baptist affairs==
From 1984 to 1986, Moore was elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, one of the more moderate of the state conventions, He was also the first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1985 to 1986. In 1985, Moore, as the moderate candidate, lost the SBC presidential contest in a challenge to the fundamental-conservative incumbent, [[Charles Stanley]], pastor of the First Baptist Church of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]]. Moore received 19,795 votes (44.7 percent) to Stanley's 24,453 (55.3 percent). SBC presidents normally served only two consecutive one-year terms.<ref name=sbc>{{cite web|url=http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/6188,12-May-1986.PDF|author=Dan Martin|title=Moore Is Willing To Be Nominated|date=May 12, 1986|publisher=media.shbla.org|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref>
In 1986, Moore told his Amarillo congregation that he would allow his name to be placed again in nomination for the SBC presidency to succeed Stanley. Moore indicated that he had long "been deeply disturbed about the direction of our convention. At the present we are headed in the direction of making doctrinal agreement a prerequisite for cooperative missions and evangelism. Our Cooperative Program (unified method of support) was established [in 1926] because Baptists were confident that it is the most effective way to reach the world for Christ. History consistently has shown the basic rightness of that decision. . . . We have agreed and do agree on the authority of the Bible, but we have not and will not completely agree on the interpretation of the Bible. What we did back in 1926 . . . was to trust each other and to agree on the priority and wisdom of cooperative missions and [[evangelism]]."<ref name=sbc/>
Moore, however, despite the extensive Baylor University network that campaigned on his behalf, was defeated again in 1986, losing to [[Adrian Rogers]], then the pastor of the large Bellevue Baptist Church in [[Memphis]], Tennessee, and the choice of the fundamental-conservative wing. SBC conservatives, who maintained their majority in denominational leadership after 1979, considered Moore a [[liberal]] in [[theology]] though he preferred the term "moderate-conservative."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2ZBc_RxyAUC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=Winfred+Moore+and+Charles+Stanley&source=bl&ots=dmP-YwxgGG&sig=nW1dl__1yJEXVG-jB05FdNyBj6U&hl=en&ei=4i7HS5D-No329QSrqZ2eCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Winfred%20Moore%20and%20Charles%20Stanley&f=false|author=Joyce Rogers and Paige Patterson|title=Love Worth Finding: The Life of Adrian Rogers and His Philosophy of Preaching|publisher=[[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]: Broadman and Holman, 2005|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref>
While in Amarillo, Moore was also for four years the chairman of the Baylor board of trustees.<ref name=agn/>
Prior to coming to Amarillo, Moore served in churches in Borger in Hutchinson County, Texas, Tupelo, [[Mississippi]], and [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]]. He formerly served on the boards of the Southern Baptist Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, Wayland Baptist University, and Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.<ref name=agn/>
==Civic service and honors==
''The Amarillo Globe-News'' named Moore "Man of the Year" in 1977 and 1989. His involvement in civic causes encompasses [[United Way]], Rotary International, and the High Plains Baptist Hospital in Amarillo. He headed a board that raised $6 million to build the hospital. He also worked to raise funds for the Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center and the Amarillo Ronald McDonald House.<ref name=agn/>
In 1990, he joined the Baylor faculty. In 1993, the W. Winfred and Elizabeth Moore Visiting Professorship in Ministry Guidance was established in honor of the Moores. In 1997, he was named director of the Center for Ministry Effectiveness, a program jointly sponsored by Baylor and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.<ref name=agn/>
In 2000, he was named by the ''Amarillo Globe-News'' among the one hundred "History Makers of the High Plains" of the 20th century. Other receiving the same accolade were former state Representative [[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]], of Canadian, Texas, former state Senators Grady Hazlewood, Max Sherman, and [[Teel Bivins]], and former Amarillo [[Mayor]] and Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson.
In 2004, he received the "Baptist Elder Statesman" Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baptiststandard.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=2027|title=
Moore honored with Texas Baptist Elder Statesman Award_61404, June 11, 2004|publisher=''Texas Baptist Standard''|accessdate=April 14, 2010}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, W. Winfred}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Tennessee]]
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:Clergy]]
|name= William Winfred Moore<br>
(Figure in the Southern Baptist Convention in 1980s)
| birth_date=February 15, 1920
| birth_place=Milan, Gibson County<br>
[[Tennessee]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=May 8, 2015 (aged 95)
| death_place=[[Amarillo]], [[Texas]]
| spouse=Elizabeth Campbell Moore (married 1941-2012, her death)<br>
'''Children''':<br>
Anne M. Preston<br>
Fred Moore<br>
Maria M. Patterson<br>
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Lambuth College<br>
Union University<br>
George Peabody College
}}
'''William Winfred Moore''', known as '''W. Winfred Moore''' (February 15, 1920 – May 8, 2015), a former pastor of the First [[Baptist]] Church of [[Amarillo]], [[Texas]], served as the president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and was a prominent figure in the [[Southern Baptist Convention]], based in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], during the second half of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|title=Former First Baptist pastor Dr. Winfred Moore shaped city, congregation|url=http://amarillo.com/news/latest-news/2015-05-08/former-first-baptist-pastor-shaped-city-congregation|publisher=''Amarillo Globe-News''|date=May 8, 2015|accessdate=August 27, 2015}}</ref>
==Family and education==
Moore was born to W. E. Moore and the former Sadie Hammonds (1900-1997) of Milan in Gibson County in western [[Tennessee]]. Moore's five sisters included Mary Evelyn Eddings (deceased), June Moore, Wanda Cooper, Betty Gass, and Phyllis Riley, the latter of [[Louisville]], [[Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/potter/obits/1997/27oct97.txt|title=Sadie Hammonds Moore|publisher=files.usgwarchives.net|accessdate=April 14, 2010}}</ref>
Moore was educated at Lambuth College and Union University, both in Jackson in western Tennessee. He then enrolled at George Peabody College in the capital city of Nashville. He holds an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Wayland Baptist University in Plainview in Hale County, north of [[Lubbock]], Texas, and an honorary doctor of laws from [[Baylor University]] in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]].<ref name=agn/>
Moore and his wife, the former Elizabeth Campbell (1921-2012), married in Calvert City, [[Kentucky]]. She was the daughter of a pastor. The Moores had three children: Anne Preston of Amarillo, Fred Moore of [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], and Maria Patterson of Lewisville, Texas.<ref name=agn/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102822893/elizabeth-moore|title=Elizabeth Campbell Moore obituary|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=November 17, 2019}}</ref>
After service at FBC in Amarillo from 1959 to 1989, Moore became the W. Winfred and Elizabeth Moore Visiting Distinguished Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Ministry Effectiveness at Baylor University. During his time in Waco, he was also the interim pastor of churches in Waco, Lampassas, Sugar Land, [[Austin]], and [[San Antonio]].<ref name=agn>{{cite web|url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/051900/his_moorew.html|author=Don Munsch|title=W. Winfred Moore|date=May 19, 2000|publisher=''Amarillo Globe-News''|accessdate=April 14, 2010}}</ref>
==Baptist affairs==
From 1984 to 1986, Moore was elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, one of the more moderate of the state conventions, He was also the first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1985 to 1986. In 1985, Moore, as the moderate candidate, lost the SBC presidential contest in a challenge to the fundamental-conservative incumbent, [[Charles Stanley]], pastor of the First Baptist Church of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]]. Moore received 19,795 votes (44.7 percent) to Stanley's 24,453 (55.3 percent). SBC presidents normally served only two consecutive one-year terms.<ref name=sbc>{{cite web|url=http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/6188,12-May-1986.PDF|author=Dan Martin|title=Moore Is Willing To Be Nominated|date=May 12, 1986|publisher=media.shbla.org|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref>
In 1986, Moore told his Amarillo congregation that he would allow his name to be placed again in nomination for the SBC presidency to succeed Stanley. Moore indicated that he had long "been deeply disturbed about the direction of our convention. At the present we are headed in the direction of making doctrinal agreement a prerequisite for cooperative missions and evangelism. Our Cooperative Program (unified method of support) was established [in 1926] because Baptists were confident that it is the most effective way to reach the world for Christ. History consistently has shown the basic rightness of that decision. . . . We have agreed and do agree on the authority of the Bible, but we have not and will not completely agree on the interpretation of the Bible. What we did back in 1926 . . . was to trust each other and to agree on the priority and wisdom of cooperative missions and [[evangelism]]."<ref name=sbc/>
Moore, however, despite the extensive Baylor University network that campaigned on his behalf, was defeated again in 1986, losing to [[Adrian Rogers]], then the pastor of the large Bellevue Baptist Church in [[Memphis]], Tennessee, and the choice of the fundamental-conservative wing. SBC conservatives, who maintained their majority in denominational leadership after 1979, considered Moore a [[liberal]] in [[theology]] though he preferred the term "moderate-conservative."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2ZBc_RxyAUC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&dq=Winfred+Moore+and+Charles+Stanley&source=bl&ots=dmP-YwxgGG&sig=nW1dl__1yJEXVG-jB05FdNyBj6U&hl=en&ei=4i7HS5D-No329QSrqZ2eCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Winfred%20Moore%20and%20Charles%20Stanley&f=false|author=Joyce Rogers and Paige Patterson|title=Love Worth Finding: The Life of Adrian Rogers and His Philosophy of Preaching|publisher=[[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]: Broadman and Holman, 2005|accessdate=April 15, 2010}}</ref>
While in Amarillo, Moore was also for four years the chairman of the Baylor board of trustees.<ref name=agn/>
Prior to coming to Amarillo, Moore served in churches in Borger in Hutchinson County, Texas, Tupelo, [[Mississippi]], and [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]]. He formerly served on the boards of the Southern Baptist Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, Wayland Baptist University, and Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.<ref name=agn/>
==Civic service and honors==
''The Amarillo Globe-News'' named Moore "Man of the Year" in 1977 and 1989. His involvement in civic causes encompasses [[United Way]], Rotary International, and the High Plains Baptist Hospital in Amarillo. He headed a board that raised $6 million to build the hospital. He also worked to raise funds for the Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center and the Amarillo Ronald McDonald House.<ref name=agn/>
In 1990, he joined the Baylor faculty. In 1993, the W. Winfred and Elizabeth Moore Visiting Professorship in Ministry Guidance was established in honor of the Moores. In 1997, he was named director of the Center for Ministry Effectiveness, a program jointly sponsored by Baylor and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.<ref name=agn/>
In 2000, he was named by the ''Amarillo Globe-News'' among the one hundred "History Makers of the High Plains" of the 20th century. Other receiving the same accolade were former state Representative [[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]], of Canadian, Texas, former state Senators Grady Hazlewood, Max Sherman, and [[Teel Bivins]], and former Amarillo [[Mayor]] and Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson.
In 2004, he received the "Baptist Elder Statesman" Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baptiststandard.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=2027|title=
Moore honored with Texas Baptist Elder Statesman Award_61404, June 11, 2004|publisher=''Texas Baptist Standard''|accessdate=April 14, 2010}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, W. Winfred}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Tennessee]]
[[Category:Mississippi]]
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
[[Category:Clergy]]