FOREIGN MISSION BD. v. WADE

Record Nos. 901690, 901729.

409 S.E.2d 144 (1991)

FOREIGN MISSION BOARD OF the SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION v. Jennifer WADE, et al. Jennifer WADE, et al. v. FOREIGN MISSION BOARD OF the SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 20, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis T. Booker, Richmond (Brian V. Otero, Hunton & Williams, on briefs), for Foreign Mission Bd.

John C. Lowe, Charlottesville (Gary L. Holmes, Charlottesville, Kenneth A. Norsworthy, Norsworthy and Whitaker, Anchorage, Alaska, on brief), for Wade, et al.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., and COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, WHITING, LACY and HASSELL, JJ.


LACY, Justice.

In 1976 Diana and George Thomas Wade, Jr. were appointed as career missionaries for the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (the Board). Mr. and Mrs. Wade went to Africa accompanied by their minor children, Renee, Jennifer, Tanya, and George, and performed missionary work for the Board at several different locations.

In 1982, while attending school in Johannesburg, South Africa, Renee Wade told Dr. Marion Jerome Fray, Jr...

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