2005 Archives
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Tsunami response demands quick start, long process_32105
Posted: 3/18/05
Volunteers start framing (left) on more permanent structures for tsunami refugees in Sri Lanka. The finished house (right) is ready for a family to move in. Tsunami response demands
quick start, long processBy Craig Bird & John Hall
Baptist Child & Family Services & Texas Baptist Communications
SRI LANKA (ABP)–Tsunami disaster relief is not a race between the tortoise and the hare. It's more like a relay effort by the two.
03/18/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits_32105
Posted: 3/18/05
Texas Tidbits
Baylor hires search consultant. Baylor University's board of regents has engaged Bill Funk, head of Korn/Ferry International's National Education Practice, to help find a successor to President Robert Sloan. Based in Dallas, Funk has conducted more than 250 university and college presidential and chancellor searches for institutions such as Vanderbilt, Syracuse, Miami, Tulane, Purdue, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Iowa and University of Texas at Austin.
Neaves scholarship fund established at DBU. The Neaves endowed scholarship fund has been established at Dallas Baptist University to provide scholarship assistance to deserving students. The fund was made possible by a gift from the Mary Emma Neaves estate. It honors Neaves, a longtime member of Park Cities Baptist Church and public school teacher, and her parents, Roy and Ethel Neaves.
Easter pageant set at UMHB. The 65th University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Easter pageant will be presented March 23 at 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The outdoor presentation of Christ's passion, resurrection and ascension will be held at the Luther Memorial arches on campus. The drama is produced, directed, costumed and performed by university students. More than 90 students, along with children from the area, will participate in the pageant.
03/18/2005 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Who would you follow except Jesus_32105
Posted: 3/18/05
TOGETHER:
Who would you follow except Jesus?Dallas Willard teaches philosophy at the University of Southern California. He is a gifted teacher who is deeply committed to Christ. At Epicenter, our Texas Baptist gathering for evangelism and the missional church, he said: “Sometimes students step alongside me as I walk across campus and ask, 'Is it true that you are a follower of Jesus?' I ask, 'Who else did you have in mind?'”
Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do you say I am?” Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). And they followed him. Who else could they go to? And as they followed Jesus, with many a detour, they became more and more shaped by God into the likeness of Christ.
Executive Director
BGCT Executive BoardI am deeply moved this Easter week as the Baptist General Convention of Texas has been recommended for full membership in the Baptist World Alliance. To be connected in Christ-centered fellowship with Baptists around the world is to join a global group of disciples who, with Peter, proclaim Jesus is the Christ and move forward to follow him. And together this Easter week, Christians around the world are thinking about what it means that Jesus died on the cross and was raised from the dead.
03/18/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Ugandans follow Texan’s steps in walk of faith_32105
Posted: 3/18/05
International Mission Board missionary John Witte walks from village to village to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ. Ugandan men walk with him along the path and discuss the Bible stories they learned in the villages. Witte walks around 72 kilometers a week. Witte contends that in this area of northern Uganda, walking models a way of evangelism the Dodoth people can carry out themselves. (Photos by Jon Jamar) Ugandans follow Texan's steps in walk of faith
By Sue Sprenkle
International Mission Board
KAABONG, Uganda–Looking up from his daily chores, a village elder saw a group of men in the distance picking their way across the dry, rocky terrain. The presence of a stranger among them attracted his attention, but he continued working.
03/18/2005 - By John Rutledge
