JOY ON FOUR LEGS Pet ministry in Houston_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Nancy Malley and Niko, a poodle, greet Irene Tesch at the Regency Village Nursing Home in Webster, where pets are used as a therapeutic ministry.

JOY ON FOUR LEGS:
Pet ministry in Houston

By George Henson

Staff Writer

HOUSTON–Joy comes in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes with four legs.

12/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

Storylist_122203

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12/20/2003 - By John Rutledge

SBC ethicist joins criticism of ‘Rickshaw Rally_120803

Posted: 12/19/03

SBC ethicist joins criticism of 'Rickshaw Rally'

By Bob Allen

EthicsDaily.com

Churches in the Southern Baptist Convention should consider avoiding the Asian-themed “Rickshaw Rally” Vacation Bible School material produced this year by the SBC's publishing house, says a consultant for the SBC's moral concerns agency.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Akin nominated to succeed Patterson as Southeastern Seminary president_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Akin nominated to succeed Patterson
as Southeastern Seminary president

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (ABP)–Daniel Akin, academic dean at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., will be recommended as president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., next month.

A special meeting of Southeastern's trustees has been set for Jan. 15, when the recommendation will be presented, said Timothy Lewis, trustee chairman and chairman of the search committee. If elected, Akin will succeed Paige Patterson, who left to become president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. All three seminaries are owned by the Southern Baptist Convention.

“Dr. Akin is a man with great vision, keen insight and spiritual understanding,” Lewis said in a news release. “His enthusiasm is contagious and genuine. We do not feel any other man in Southern Baptist life could better follow Dr. Patterson than Dr. Daniel Akin.”

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Counselors urge frank talk on what is sex_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Counselors urge frank talk on what is sex

Editor's note: This story contains frank dialogue about sexual matters and may not be appropriate for all readers.

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

As teen abstinence message spreads, effectiveness lessens_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

As teen abstinence message spreads, effectiveness lessens

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

Signatures on many sexual abstinence commitment cards may not be worth the paper they are written on, according to a recent university study.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Six teens named to Texas Acteen Advisory Panel_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Baldridge	Busha	Chapman	Sicking	Stanfield	Taylor

Six teens named to Texas Acteen Advisory Panel

By Ken Camp

Texas Baptist Communications

Six 11th and 12th grade Baptist girls have been selected to serve on the Texas Acteens Advisory Panel for this year.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Around the State_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Young Han	Miwha Han	Helmer Jensen	Shannon Jensen	Mike Shattuck	Vicki Shattuck

Around the State

Appointments

Three Texas couples were among missionaries appointed by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention last month in Lexington, Ky.:

Young and Miwha Han will serve in the Caribbean Basin, where he will be a church starter. He is a former associate pastor of Korean First Church in Dallas.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Bittick marks 25 years with Denton Association_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Bittick marks 25 years with Denton Association

DENTON–In the modern mobile society, long-term employees are rare. Long-term volunteers may be rarer still, but Janie Bittick has served Denton Baptist Assocition as its associational clerk 25 years.

“I really love it,” she said. “Staying after it for 25 years, I've gotten to meet and know a lot of saints–a few sinners, but mostly saints–and they have inspired me greatly on my journey.”

The experience also has given her a bit of historical perspective, as far as the work of the association goes.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Baptist Briefs_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Baptist Briefs

Johnson leaving WMU. Trudy Johnson, national director of Christian Women's Job Corps through Woman's Missionary Union, has resigned to take a new position at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. Debra Berry, adult ministry consultant with WMU, will give interim leadership to the program while a new director is sought.

Southwestern awards degrees. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary awarded 274 degrees Dec. 12 in winter commencement ceremonies at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth.

Richardson church touches world with internship_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Richardson church touches world with internships

By Marv Knox

Editor

RICHARDSON–Someday, a parents' night out ministry in Texas may touch families in Britain. And a class for Spanish-speaking immigrants in Richardson may lead Pakistanis to Christ in Birmingham, England.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge

Canton children make a market for missions lesson_122203

Posted: 12/19/03

Canton children make a market for missions lesson

By Orville Scott

Texas Baptist Communications

CANTON–Fifth-grader Preston Hutcherson of First Baptist Church in Canton read about an idea for a prayerwalk in conjunction with the Lottie Moon Offering for international missions.

Members of the fourth-grade Sunday School class shown with teacher Jan Longenecker are Brittany Arnold, Caroline Giles, Kelsey Koym and Dylan Cleere.

12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge