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Posted: 8/8/03
Evening sports camps offered KidsHeart volunteers the opportunity to teach sports to local children, but the camps also provided the chance for the visitors to bond with children. (Scott Collins/Buckner Photo) 24 churches join in Progreso mission
By Scott Collins & Lance Wallace
Buckner Benevolences & Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
PROGRESO–Julian Vigil raised the hammer over his head, and with a violent swing, struck the ceiling of Jorge and Ramona Lopez's bedroom.
08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Posted: 8/8/03
Deja Richardson, a kindergarten student at J.L. Everhart Primary School in Longview, receives a free eye exam from a Heaton Eye Associate volunteer at the Back-To-School Carnival Aug. 3. At right: Nine-year-old Kabreuntray Jackson was one of three children in the Jackson family to receive school supplies from the School Supply Train. 
School Supply Train greeted eagerly in Longview
By Amy Seale
Buckner News Service
LONGVIEW–In the corner of a dimly lit hallway, separated from the crowd, two girls sat beneath the light of an open window. Before them, a colorfully illustrated book lay open, detailing the life of Christ and his gift of salvation. For one of the teens, it was the perfect opportunity to talk about Christ with her young friend–an opportunity that began with a truckload of school supplies and a gym full of backpacks.
08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge
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spann_81103
Posted: 8/8/03
Mitsura Watanabe, one of the first four music majors at the Brazilian seminary, is shown with Ed Spann 30 years ago and at the reunion. Memories Spann the ages
as professsor visits school he startedBy George Henson
Staff Writer
DALLAS–Ed Spann recently returned to the scene of the sublime as he traveled to São Paulo, Brazil to celebrate the anniversary of a school of sacred music he started 30 years ago.
08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Posted: 8/8/03
Texas children who premiered the musical “Sticky Notes and Bible Quotes” pose outside Holcomb Auditorium at Glorieta Conference Center. A NOTABLE PERFORMANCE:
Musical premieres at GlorietaBy Jenny Hartgraves
Texas Baptist Communictions
GLORIETA, N.M.–It started noisily, with 52 children marching down the aisle, carrying large pool noodles shaped like pencils and pens, sticking notes of Scripture on people in the crowd. It finished quietly, as children filed into the dark, while glowing lanterns lit a path toward a giant Bible at the center of the stage.
08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge
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tidbits_81103
Posted: 8/8/03
Texas Tidbits
Bullock leaves TBM. John Bullock has resigned as director of men's ministry with Texas Baptist Men, effective Sept. 30. He joined the Texas Baptist Men staff in 1995 as director of Royal Ambassadors and Challengers, the missions programs for boys and young men. After several years in that role, he assumed the responsibility for directing adult missions and men's ministry.
The 41-member youth choir of First Baptist Church in Salado traveled to Washington, D.C., and Gaithersburg, Md., this summer, conducting a Vacation Bible School, distributing water and gospel tracts on the National Mall and singing at the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the U.S. Capitol. HSU's Keeling wins coaching award. Hardin-Simmons University's head football coach, Jimmie Keeling, has received the Johnny Vaught Head Coach Award given by the All-American Football Foundation. Keeling joined former Texas A&M and Alabama head coach Gene Stallings and former Kansas State head coach James Dickey in receiving the award. Keeling, who will enter his 14th season at the helm of the Cowboys football program, has amassed a 109-34 record while at Hardin-Simmons. In that time he also has won eight conference titles. Five times he has been named the conference coach of the year, and twice he has been named the South Region Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association. Scholarship gains another Beckham name. The name of the late Agnes Beckham of Abilene, a former trustee and longtime financial supporter of Hardin-Simmons University, has been added to an existing scholarship established originally in the memory of a son, Caldwell Beckham, an Amarillo dentist who died in 1979. Mrs. Beckham died in 2002. Her name was added to the scholarship through a gift to HSU from her estate. Mrs. Beckham, widow of the late Lacy Hiram Beckham, a former president of the HSU Alumni Association who died in 1962, was a longtime friend and financial supporter of HSU. She was an HSU graduate and recipient of the Keeter Alumni Service Award. 08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge
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together_81103
Posted: 8/8/03
TOGETHER:
Pray & give to meet great needsEarlier this summer, Rosemary and I participated with Woman's Missionary Union of Texas in the 50th anniversary celebration of Texas Leadership Conference at Baylor University.
I was moved by worship experiences as we sang and prayed for our missionaries. WMU has kept alive in many of our churches the ability to pray with understanding and passion for individuals and families who make real sacrifices for the sake of the gospel of Christ.
CHARLES WADE
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
I was inspired by testimonies of missionaries and mission leaders in local churches who work with children and young people, giving them a heart for the world and presenting opportunities for mission service.
08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge
Adam Espurvoa to Iglesia Emanuel in Bastrop as pastor from Primera Iglesia in Elgin. 
