2005 Archives
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Book Reviews
Posted: 9/02/05
Book Reviews
Gospel Tracks Through Texas by Wilma Rugh Taylor (Texas A&M University Press)
What did U. S. Christians learn about reaching people from the Russian Orthodox Church? The author says the use of converted railroad passenger cars to “chapel cars” in the 1880s on the Trans-Caspian railroad to reach the peoples of Eastern Siberia was the forerunner of 13 such rolling churches used in the western part of this country between 1891 and 1940.
In Gospel Tracks Through Texas, Taylor describes in intricate detail the mission work of chapel car Good Will between 1895 and 1903 to reach lost souls, to minister to believers, and to aid or establish churches in railroad towns and cities.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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EDITORIAL: As hearts break, aid Katrina’s victims
Posted: 9/02/05
EDITORIAL:
As hearts break, aid Katrina's victimsWhich image tormented you the most in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Brothers in Gulfport, walking through sticks that once framed their apartment. An old woman in a boat, evacuating her home. An elderly person sitting on a cot in the Superdome with a gaping hole in the roof behind her. People crouched on their rooftops, shingled islands in a muddy sea. Or floodwaters engulfing huge swatches of New Orleans, where life will not be “easy” for a long, long time.
I'm still haunted by the news clip of a distraught man describing the last time he saw his wife. Their home split between them. He tried in vain to pull her to safety, until she told him she was slipping away and he needed to take care of their children. The story overwhelmed both the widowed father and the reporter who interviewed him. By the time the clip was over, they both were weeping, along with millions of us whose hearts broke with his.
If Katrina didn't break your heart, don't worry about suffering cardiac arrest. You don't have a heart in your chest. But for all of us who love New Orleans and its Creole charms, who have been mesmerized by the Gulf Coast's pristine beaches, who have even the remotest ability to empathize with suffering, Kristina is a tragedy of epic, heart-rending proportions.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texans help tent church needing permanent facility
Posted: 9/02/05
Guellele Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, meets under a tent. Texans help tent church
needing permanent facilityBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
In 1984, hungry Ethiopians gathered beneath a large tent to get some much-needed food. More than 20 years later, hundreds of people regularly find their spiritual needs met under the same canvas roof.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Hunger farm aims to raise consciousness
Posted: 9/02/05
For close to 30 years, the World Hunger Relief farm has operated as a learning laboratory for people of all ages. Hunger farm aims to raise consciousness
By George Henson
Staff Writer
ELM MOTT–A 42-acre farm seven miles north of Waco seeks to combat hunger around the world–not so much by raising crops as by raising consciousness.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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A baseball mascot’s faith–straight from the horse’s mouth
Posted: 9/02/05
Jim Tennison poses at Ameriquest Field with promotional giveaways depicting Rangers Captain and Dinger the Dinosaur-both of whom he has portrayed. (Photo by Ken Camp) A baseball mascot's faith–
straight from the horse's mouthBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
ARLINGTON–Jim Tennison can offer only a nonverbal Christian witness when he's in uniform at his workplace, but it's not due to timidity. It's because horses don't talk.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Ministry seeks to rescue potential victims of sex trafficking
Posted: 9/02/05
Summer camps run by Texas Baptist volunteers are the highlights of the year for many Moldovan orphans like these girls. (Photos by Marla Rushing) Ministry seeks to rescue
potential victims of sex traffickingBy Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
CHISINAU, Moldova–Homeless teenaged girls vulnerable to victimization by the international sex slave trade are the focus of a new ministry of Children's Emergency Relief International.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Nation Building one life at a time
Posted: 9/02/05
Nation Building one life at a time
By Jenny Pope
Buckner Benevolences
About 108 million orphans live in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, and the number grows exponentially each year due to the international AIDS epidemic, global aid experts insist.
Buckner Orphan Care International responds to basic human needs with Christian compassion such as providing food, diapers and medical care for Guatemalan (left) and Russian orphans. (Photos by Scott Collins & Misty Keasler) 09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
