Resizing, positioning & applying a border to jpgs in templates

I want to create a template that contains text and an image for screen output. This template will be used to generate jpgs with a different single image in each but the text remains unchanged.
The idea is to produce a slide show where the background with text remains the same but the image changes with each new "slide". I need to do hundreds of these, so a quick, simple method is desirable.
Can someone advise me how to insert images so they are automatically centered and resized (minimally) within a bordered frame within the background template?
A sample of what I am trying to do is attached.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

I think you are employing the wrong methodology and are looking to work in the wrong program. If it really only needs to be text on an image, then saved to JPEG, this would be much more suitable to Photoshop. You'd create a simple action for it, then run it in batch. Of course AI also has actions and such, but in particular the sizing and centering will be awkward to express this way, as AI treats everything as objects and they may yield different placement in relation to the canvas. Photoshop on the otehr hand always resizes centered without complaining, so it would be that much easier...
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