Welcome to the 2009 Southern Baptist Convention meeting's annual "Instant News" blog. In its third year of existence, the Instant News blog delivers the news, live from the convention floor, within seconds of events taking place. If you want to know what is happening up-to-the-minute on the convention floor -- from the election of officers to the floor discussion of the Great Commission Resurgence statement -- this is the website to visit. Because this is a news blog, we will deliver only the facts, not opinions. And, because it's a blog, we will deliver the news in just a few sentences or paragraphs and leave the more lengthy, in-depth reporting to our sister webpage, BPNews.net. Please check back Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern when the live blogging by Michael Foust, a Baptist Press assistant editor, will begin. Read a schedule of activities at www.sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc09/program/