Quilts for Moldova a labor of love for volunteers_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Quilts for Moldova a labor of love for volunteers

By Craig Bird

Baptist Child & Family Services

SAN ANTONIO–Fran Dunkum, Pam Keith and Lisa Weldon autograph each of the quilts they make for an Eastern European orphanage with a heart instead of their names.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

More young adults waiting longer to get married_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

More young adults waiting longer to get married

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

WASHINGTON (ABP)–New data from the U.S. Census Bureau confirms young adults are waiting longer to get married. The result may be healthier marriages, some researchers insist.

01/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Buckner, CBF Volunteers Celebrate With Orphans_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Buckner, CBF volunteers celebrate with orphans

By Scott Collins

Buckner News Service

NAIROBI, Kenya–Marlene Grant put her arms around Teresia Ngao and helped the little girl cut out figures of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus.

01/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Antiphony Conference challenges students with a call to ministry_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Antiphony Conference challenges
students with a call to ministry

By Carla Wynn

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — For five days, more than 250 college students wrestled with their response to God’s call to minister and the world’s cry for help during the inaugural Antiphony conference at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham, Ala.

01/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

CBF check will help start churches_11005

Posted: 1/07/05 CBF check will help start churches Phil Hester (right), director of church planting for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, presents a $60,000 to Abe Zabaneh, director of the Baptist…

01/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Ministry offers peace to people with HIVAIDS_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Ministry offers peace to people with HIV/AIDS

By Lisa Jones

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

NEW YORK (ABP)–“Peace be with you,” says Frank Tomaselli as he ends a conversation. But these words are more than a slogan to Tomaselli. They're a way of life.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Former seminary president Honeycutt dies at 78_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Former seminary president Honeycutt dies at 78

By Trennis Henderson

Kentucky Western Recorder

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP)–Roy Honeycutt, retired president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died Dec. 21, one day after suffering head injuries in a fall at his home in Louisville, Ky. He was 78.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Sullivan praised as denominational statesman_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Sullivan praised as denominational statesman

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–James Sullivan, Southern Baptist statesman and retired president of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, died Dec. 27 at a Nashville hospice following a brief illness. He was 94.

Sullivan served as president of the denominational publishing house from 1953 until his retirement in 1975.

He was widely known as an authority on Southern Baptist polity and had been actively involved in denominational service since his first pastorate in 1932.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Kenya shoe distribution marks last step for 2004 Shoes for Orphan Souls drive_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Kenya shoe distribution marks last step
for 2004 Shoes for Orphan Souls drive

By Scott Collins

Buckner News Service

NAIROBI, Kenya–Laughter, giggles and a lot of smiles filled the Baptist Children's Center of Nairobi as more than 70 orphan children received brand-new shoes and socks from Buckner Orphan Care International and a team of volunteers.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Arkansas ruling overturns ban on gay foster parents_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Arkansas ruling overturns ban on gay foster parents

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—A judge has overturned an Arkansas state policy banning the placement of foster children in any household with a gay adult, saying the state agency that created it had unconstitutionally overstepped its bounds.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Texas volunteers seek to rescue villagers from arsenic in water_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Texas volunteers seek to rescue villagers from arsenic in water

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

OJO CALIENTE, Mexico–In isolated villages of the Ojo Caliente region of Zacatecas, Mexico, children ride bicycles up and down small strips of concrete. Their friends spontaneously erupt in laughter during a soccer match on a small dirt field. Childhood here is continuous movement.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge

Campbell remembered as compassionate, visionary leader_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Campbell remembered as compassionate, visionary leader

DALLAS–R.C. Campbell, whose tenure as president of Buckner Baptist Benevolences spanned 31 years, died at his home Jan. 3 following a brief illness. He was 83.

Best known for leading Buckner through one of the greatest eras of growth in the agency's 126-year history, Campbell was elected as the fourth president of Buckner in 1963 at age 41. He retired in January 1994.

“Dr. Campbell's vision set the stage for Buckner to enter into the 21st Century prepared to minister to the challenges facing children and families,” said Ken Hall, who succeeded Campbell as Buckner's president. “His is a legacy of a builder whose tools were compassion, vision and courage.”

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge