2004 Archives
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Latin American students serve in India_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
Juan Acuña (left), a student at Baptist University of the Americas, participates in a Christian worship service among the Banjara Gypsies of India. Latin American students serve in India
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
SAN ANTONIO–Two Baptist University of the Americas students–one from Mexico, the other from Nicaragua–spent the fall semester working with Banjara Gypsies in India.
12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
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‘As India goes, so goes the Great Commission’_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
As many as 30 million pilgrims flooded the Hindu holy city of Ujjain to seek spiritual cleansing in the sacred Shipra River. India alone is home to 14 "super-mega" people groups with more than 10 million members each who are currently "unengaged" by a church-planting movement strategy. (Matt Jones Photo) 'As India goes, so goes the Great Commission'
By Erich Bridges
International Mission Board
MUMBAI, India (BP)–What country is home to thousands of millionaires and nine of the world's richest billionaires, makes more movies than Hollywood, boasts the world's largest democracy and is home to 24 million Christians, including 19 million evangelicals?
12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Veteran missionary called to bring healing in Christ’s name_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
Veteran missionary called to bring healing in Christ's name
BANGALORE, India (BP)–Ask people around Bangalore, India, what a Christian looks like, and many would describe Rebekah Naylor, the Southern Baptist missionary surgeon who has labored at Bangalore Baptist Hospital the past 30 years.
Some Indians have seen Naylor–who currently is clinical assistant professor and surgeon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas– as a cool, precise, professional medical doctor who has performed countless surgeries and other medical procedures.
She has saved lives, delivered babies and relieved suffering for thousands of people over her years in India.
Rebekah Naylor, who has served at the Bangalore Baptist Hospital more than 30 years, has come to be accepted as an honorary “auntie” to hundreds and hundreds of Indian young people and children. 12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM
For whom the bell tolls
Target's decision to place "no solicitation" restrictions on the Salvation Army lacks any legal or Christian justification. If nothing else, we who have discretionary funds need gentle reminders of our affluent good fortune during this abrasive period.
That Target prohibits a modest, peaceable effort to help the needy is morally inexcusable.
E-mail the editor at marvknox@baptiststandard.com Since 1891, Salvation Army bell-ringers have sought funds. Standing on wet or icy pavement is no ego-inflating exercise. Rather, it is a humble reminder for us about the many unfortunates among us–our mentally and/or physically ill, addicted, veterans (one-third of our homeless are former military personnel), our inadequately educated, disabled, downsized, abandoned, our too elderly or too youthful.
12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Christmas Bible School teaches true meaning of the season_122004
Posted: 12/17/04
Children listen intently to lessons during a one-day Christmas Bible School at Faith Baptist Church in Princeton. Christmas Bible School teaches
true meaning of the seasonBy George Henson
Staff Writer
PRINCETON–No star above a stable guided them, but the story of the Christ-child still drew people to worship as a North Texas church reminded area families about the true meaning of Christmas.
12/17/2004 - By John Rutledge
Jeff Bankhead to Central Church in Italy as pastor. 
