2004 Archives
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Short-term missions the ‘in thing’ for Christian students_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
Texas medical students hold hands with Hondurans to pray during a short-term mission trip to Honduras. Short-term missions the
'in thing' for Christian studentsBy Amanda Mantone
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)–Steve Holt spent his first semester away from home doing typical college freshman things–making friends, going to class, working out. He had new streets to learn and lessons to study, just like his peers.
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Grocery executive, Laity Lodge president named Newport award recipient_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
Grocery executive, Laity Lodge
president named Newport award recipientHoward E. Butt Jr. of San Antonio was named the inaugural recipient of the John Newport Foundation National Leadership Award.
Butt is best known as vice chairman of H.E.B. grocery stores and president of H.E. Butt Foundation, a private organization that funds Christian camps through its lodges in the Texas Hill Country.
He is president of the Laity Lodge Foundation and Laity Renewal Foundation.
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Creeds should clarify Christian living, not build barriers, speakers stress_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
Creeds should clarify Christian
living, not build barriers, speakers stressBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
ARLINGTON–Creeds have a clarifying role in Christian life, but they build barriers between believers when used incorrectly, Baptist leaders told a national leadership conference.
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Hardin-Simmons students, faculty work in Piedras Negras children’s home_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
Patients leaving the clinic where the Hardin-Simmons University physical therapy ministry team served. Hardin-Simmons students, faculty
work in Piedras Negras children's homeSeveral Hardin-Simmons University physical therapy students and four faculty members traveled to the recently flooded area of Piedras Negras, Mexico to minister to people there.
They worked in Casa Bethesda, a home for indigent and abandoned children, many of whom have been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, autism or Down's syndrome. They also worked the Clinica Bethesda, a medical facility.
Marsha Rutland, instructor of physical therapy at Hardin-Simmons University, and students Alex Griffin and Kathy Tilson work with children at the Clinica Bethesda in Piedras Negras, Mexico. Physical therapy faculty who attended were Dennis O'Connell, Janelle O'Connell and Marsha Rutland. Teresia Taylor, a Spanish professor, went with the group to help with translation.
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Family wants ministry to disabled children started in Romania_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
Becky Oprean reads her favorite scripture, Psalms 139, before giving her testimony at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Bucharest, Romania, in 1999. Her mother, Lidia Oprean, holds her Bible for her. Family wants ministry to disabled children started in Romania
By Craig Bird
Special to the Baptist Standard
The verbal and visual messages resonate in any setting–a smiling, wheelchair-bound teenager confidently quoting Psalm 139: “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Dallas church plans to rise from ashes and rebuild ministry_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
A fire in 2002 left the east Dallas landmark Ross Avenue Baptist Church building a burned-out shell of its former glory. The church will demolish the old building and rebuild on the site. Dallas church plans to rise from ashes and rebuild ministry
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS–Ross Avenue Baptist Church's building stands a shell of its former glory. Its walls are propped up with large beams. A stained-glass dome that once called a community to Christ is now but a memory.
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Kevin Boyd to Longbranch Church in Midlothian as minister to students. 
