Texas Baptist universities preparing 3,000 students for ministry

Posted: 8/25/05

Texas Baptist universities
preparing 3,000 students for ministry

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

More than 3,000 undergraduate students are preparing for ministry on Baptist General Convention of Texas-affiliated universities.

08/25/2005 - By John Rutledge

North Carolina convention, retirement home ‘adjusting’ relationship

Posted: 8/25/05

North Carolina convention,
retirement home 'adjusting' relationship

By Tony Cartledge

North Carolina Biblical Recorder

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (ABP)—Directors of the North Carolina Baptist Retirement Home are seeking to “adjust certain aspects of their relationship” with the North Carolina Baptist State Convention “while reaffirming other traditional ties.”

08/25/2005 - By John Rutledge

Children want justice for mother’s 1964 murder by racists

Posted: 8/24/05

Children want justice for
mother's 1964 murder by racists

By Analiz Gonzalez

Associated Baptist Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP)—Many Southerners remember 1964 as a year of havoc—the year racial tension escalated to a peak. Protests for equality were met with vandalism and even murder.

08/24/2005 - By John Rutledge

Survey finds teens’ pro-marriage attitudes paired with tolerance

Posted: 8/24/05

Survey finds teens' pro-marriage
attitudes paired with tolerance

By David Winfrey

Kentucky Western Recorder

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (ABP)—High-school seniors might be developing more pro-marriage attitudes for themselves, but they increasingly are more accepting of non-marriage arrangements for others, a recent report revealed.

08/24/2005 - By John Rutledge

Slovenian camp leads students through ‘vertical ministry’

Posted: 8/24/05

Slovenian camp leads students
through 'vertical ministry'

By David Coffield

Hardin-Simmons University

When Curt Howell learned a high-adventure youth camp near Bovec, Slovenia, needed climbing facilitators, he immediately mobilized his rock-climbing and backpacking ministry, Crux, and volunteered to help.

08/24/2005 - By John Rutledge

New WMU president has heart for ‘MKs’

Posted: 8/24/05

New WMU president has heart for 'MKs'

By Charlie Warren

Arkansas Baptist News

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (ABP)—The newly elected president of the Woman’s Missionary Union knows how hard it can be to grow up as the child of missionaries. She did so herself.

08/24/2005 - By John Rutledge

Committee drafts proposal on North Carolina churches funding CBF

Posted: 8/24/05

Committee drafts proposal on
North Carolina churches funding CBF

By Tony Cartledge

North Carolina Biblical Recorder

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (ABP)—The North Carolina Baptist State Convention board of directors’ executive committee narrowly approved a budget proposal that retains direct funding for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, but it could limit representation from churches that choose to give all or the majority of their national missions offering through the moderate group.

08/24/2005 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for Sept. 4: In the midst of change, God is there

Posted: 8/23/05

BaptistWay Bible Series for Sept. 4

In the midst of change, God is there

• Joshua 1

By Ronnie Prevost

08/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

Family Bible Series for Sept. 4: Purpose stems from a right relationship with God

Posted: 8/23/05

Family Bible Series for Sept. 4

Purpose stems from a right relationship with God

• Ecclesiastes 1:13-2:22

By Donald Raney

08/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

Explore the BIble Series for Sept. 4: What do you think about the gospel?

Posted: 8/23/05

Explore the Bible Series for Sept. 4

What do you think about the gospel?

• Romans 1:1-17

By Trey Turner

08/23/2005 - By John Rutledge

DBU, Buckner share love with orphans

Posted: 8/19/05

DBU, Buckner share love with orphans

By Hailey Erickson

Dallas Baptist University

A group of Dallas Baptist Uni-versity students and staff recently shared the love of Christ in orphanages in Guatemala.

08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge

European Baptists unlikely to join network

Posted: 8/19/05

European Baptists unlikely to join network

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP)–Baptist leaders in Europe predict the Southern Baptist Convention will have a hard time drawing Baptists from the continent into a new international network that, some say, will compete with the Baptist World Alliance.

08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge