2005 Archives
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Super Summer impacts adult volunteers_71105
Posted: 7/08/05
At Super Summer sessions at East Texas Baptist University, students are grouped into small family units, and team leaders facilitate family group time. (Photos by Mike Midkiff/ETBU) Super Summer impacts adult volunteers
By Mike Midkiff
East Texas Baptist University
MARSHALL–For more than 30 years, Texas Baptist churches have sent their young people to weeklong Super Summer camps for leadership training and times of inspiration. But adult volunteers who give up vacation time to work in Super Summer insist they experience the same kind of spiritual renewal.
07/08/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Super Summer goes to Germany_71105
Posted: 7/08/05
TOP LEFT: Parents pray with a Texas Baptist teenager at Youth Evangelism Conference. She will travel to Germany this summer as part of a Super Summer student group who will learn how to plant churches in foreign lands. TOP RIGHT: Jeff Johnson and Band lead worship during the Youth Evangelism Conference in Dallas. The band is from 121 Community Church in Grapevine, a BGCT-affiliated congregation.
LEFT: Teenagers April Hibbs (left) and Autumn Hibbs worship during Youth Evangelism Conference. They are members of Shiner Baptist Church.
(Photos by Landon Foster, Rex Campbell and Ferrell Foster)Texas Super Summer goes to Germany
By Meghan Merchant
Communications Intern
DALLAS–Texas Super Summer–a leadership training experience for students–will expand its ministry overseas for the first time.
07/08/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Disaster relief ministry changes lives in Sri Lanka and Texas_71105
Posted: 7/08/05
Micah Hoke (left) of First Baptist Church in Midland and Tom Wilhite of Immanuel Baptist Church in Odessa work on a rooftop in Sri Lanka. Disaster relief ministry changes
lives in Sri Lanka and TexasBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka–Texas Baptist Men's disaster relief ministry in Sri Lanka not only is changing lives in South Asia; it's changing lives in Texas.
07/08/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Starting over in Sri Lanka_71105
Posted: 7/08/05
Jeanette Nichols (left) with the Texas Baptist Men staff visits a Sri Lankan family at a refugee camp. Troy Stevenson (right) of Immanuel Baptist Church in Odessa puts together the roof of what will be a Sri Lankan trade school. Texas Baptist Men has been involved since January in helping Sri Lankans recover from a tsunami. (Photos by John Hall) Starting over in Sri Lanka
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka–When the day starts winding down, action on a northern sandlot along the coast begins to heat up. Young men from around the neighborhood gather for a game of cricket nearly every evening. The teams always are the same, the competition fierce and the laughter loud.
07/08/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State_71105
Posted: 7/08/05
Five students were selected to receive the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation Scholarship in the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom at Howard Payne University. Chosen to receive the scholarship were (left to right) Chelsea Lowance of Harlingen, Andrea Dale of Abilene, Amy Hobbs of Weatherford, Amy Perkins of Santa Clara, Calif., and Charis House of San Antonio. The scholarship provides $9,000 a year for two years. Around the State
Author, speaker and minister Don Piper will sign copies of his book 90 Minutes in Heaven July 14 at 6 p.m. at the Sam's Club at 8282 Park Lane in Dallas. The book recounts Piper's experience after he died in a car accident. He was medically documented as dead for more than 90 minutes. He revived after a passing minister stopped and prayed for him as he lay lifeless in his car, covered with a tarp. The book chronicles the accident, his vision of heaven, his recovery from his injuries and how his life has changed since. Medal and scholarship recipients for Hardin-Simmons University's Holland School of Sciences and Mathematics have been announced. Earning medals by being the school's top graduate in their field of study were Elizabeth Baker, biology; David Nannemann, chemistry/physics; Larry Smedley, mathematics; and Heather Price, speech-language pathology. Scholarship winners in biology were Roy Lehman, Christine Roop, Meghan Rorick, Melissa Tadsen and Lauren Williams. Ryan Flan-igan recieved a scholarship for his work in chemistry/physics, while Amber Shelfer was rewarded for her work in environmental science. Mica Hen-son and Jessica Rieger earned mathematics scholarships. Meredith Morton and Cathy Stearns earned speech-language pathology awards. New Hope Church in Aubrey honored Magnolia Miller for her 52 consecutive years of service to the church as a preschool and children's Sunday school teacher. Pastor Elmer Cummings presented Miller a plaque acknowledging her contributions on behalf of the church. Howard Payne University's moot court team ended the school year with a strong showing at the Texas Undergraduate Moot Court Association competition. Year-end awards were recieved at the competition with Natalia Lopez and Emily Stull being ranked as the third place team in the state. Stull also placed as the fourth ranked oralist. At the year-end competition, the teams of Cassie Hoyer and Jeremy Masten as well as Lopez and Stull advanced to the quarterfinals. Stull also recieved a Top 10 Speaker's Award. Other team members were Chelsea Lowance and Andrea Montgomery. 07/08/2005 - By John Rutledge
Author, speaker and minister Don Piper will sign copies of his book 90 Minutes in Heaven July 14 at 6 p.m. at the Sam's Club at 8282 Park Lane in Dallas. The book recounts Piper's experience after he died in a car accident. He was medically documented as dead for more than 90 minutes. He revived after a passing minister stopped and prayed for him as he lay lifeless in his car, covered with a tarp. The book chronicles the accident, his vision of heaven, his recovery from his injuries and how his life has changed since. 
Medal and scholarship recipients for Hardin-Simmons University's Holland School of Sciences and Mathematics have been announced. Earning medals by being the school's top graduate in their field of study were Elizabeth Baker, biology; David Nannemann, chemistry/physics; Larry Smedley, mathematics; and Heather Price, speech-language pathology. Scholarship winners in biology were Roy Lehman, Christine Roop, Meghan Rorick, Melissa Tadsen and Lauren Williams. Ryan Flan-igan recieved a scholarship for his work in chemistry/physics, while Amber Shelfer was rewarded for her work in environmental science. Mica Hen-son and Jessica Rieger earned mathematics scholarships. Meredith Morton and Cathy Stearns earned speech-language pathology awards. 
