2005 Archives
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Switchfoot’s success signals new trend in Christian music_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
Switchfoot Switchfoot's success signals new trend in Christian music
By Erin Curry
Baptist Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–The popularity of Christian rock groups such as Switchfoot, MercyMe and Casting Crowns has signaled a growing trend for the gospel music industry, which reported a sales total of 43.4 million units in 2004.
01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
Texas Tidbits
African-American Leadership Conference planned. The development of lay leaders in churches is the focus of an African-American Leadership Conference March 11-12 in Waco. George McCalep Jr., pastor of Greenforest Community Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga., will be the keynote speaker at the conference, sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Participants will spend most of the conference time in groups for 11 specific types of ministry–church administration for general church leadership; Christian education; Sunday school and small-group directors; and women, deacon, music, adult, youth, children, preschool and technology ministries. Cost is $45, which includes lunch. Registration is required, and the conference will be limited to 500 participants. For more information, contact Andre Punch in the BGCT Bible Study/Disciple-ship Center at (214) 828-5281 or andre.punch@bgct.org.
Four Texans named "Baptists of the Year." The Baptist Center for Ethics' website, ethicsdaily.com, named four Texans among its Baptists of the year for 2004–Charlie Johnson, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio, which is converting a 55,000-square-foot grocery store building into a smoke- and alcohol-free entertainment center for young people; Albert Reyes, president of the Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio and president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas; Suzii Paynter, public policy director of the BGCT's Christian Life Commission in Austin; and Mary Blye Howe, a member of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, honored for her writing on interfaith relations.
HBU names first female trustee chair. Diane Williams has been appointed chair of the Houston Baptist University board of trustees. Williams, a member of Second Baptist Church in Houston, is the first woman to hold the position. She is a 1993 HBU graduate and has served on the board seven years.
01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Broken lives touch hearts of relief team_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
Physician Andrew Bentley (left) from Breckenridge Village in Tyler–with the help of a volunteer with Texas Baptist Men–removes a stick imbedded in a Sri Lankan man's foot. (Photo by Richard Brake) Sri Lankan children–even in a Muslim camp–eagerly greeted the Texas team. Relief workers from Texas approach a man on a bicycle who was despondent after the loss of his family in the tsunami.Broken lives touch hearts of relief team
By Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
SAN ANTONIO–The physical devastation was staggering. Fishing boats hurled over a peninsula and across a quarter-mile-wide lagoon before being dumped on the mainland. Piles of rubble where houses and office buildings once stood. Water wells contaminated with saltwater. Coastline beaches vanished. Bridges shattered.
01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
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TBM volunteers offer relief in Sri Lanka_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
Bill Gresso (left) of Northlake Baptist Church in Garland and Dick Talley, logistics coordinator for Texas Baptist Men, test a well on the east coast of Sri Lanka near Batticoloa. (Photo by Rex Campbell) TBM volunteers offer relief in Sri Lanka
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
BATTICOLOA, Sri Lanka–God's Spirit is washing over areas of Sri Lanka that were worst hit by the tsunamis, revealing a changed topographical and spiritual terrain, a missionary in Sri Lanka ob-served.
01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Theologian offers key to understanding U2’s ‘Atomic Bomb’_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
Theologian offers key to understanding U2's 'Atomic Bomb'
By Steven Harmon
I recently did something many folks might not expect a minister and theologian to do. I drove to the nearest music store and bought the latest CD by the world's most popular rock group–U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb–on its release day.
In the early 1980s, I–along with many other Christian young people–started listening to the music of this up-and-coming band from Dublin, Ireland. We were attracted to the overtones of Christian spirituality and the prophetic passion for social justice around the world that pervaded their music.
Steven Harmon 01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
Relief workers from Texas approach a man on a bicycle who was despondent after the loss of his family in the tsunami.
