2005 Archives
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Baylor nursing students share gift of life in Uganda_51605
Posted: 5/13/05
Children wait for their check-up at the children's home in Rakai. (Photos courtesy of Baylor University) Baylor nursing students share gift of life in Uganda
By Judy Long
Baylor University
KIWOKO, Uganda–Liz Chang offered a priceless gift while serving at a Uganda hospital as a missions volunteer.
05/13/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State_51605
Posted: 5/13/05
First Church in Frisco has broken ground on a 34,000-square-foot multipurpose worship center and children's education facility. Senior Pastor Chuck Martin presided over the event with special guests Mayor Mike Simpson, former Mayor Bob Warren, City Manager George Purefoy and other city officials. Martin is pictured along with the expansion team and other church leaders. The addition more than doubles the facilities for the church, which has 1,100 members and dates to 1902. Around the State
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Conservatory of Music is taking enrollment for three Kindermusik Camps. The three camps will take place the week of June 20-24. “Creatures in the Ocean” is for ages 18 months to 3 years old. Students and parents will be introduced to waterfront friends such as the seagull, crab, dolphin, octopus and whale. They will sing to Calypso music and make music with shakers. The class meets from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. each day, with the caregiver staying the entire time. Cost is $85. “Confetti Days” is for children ages 3 to 5 and costs $115. It will meet from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Music will be woven throughout with movement, art, language, drama, play and storytelling. Children ages 5 to 7 are offered “Around the World,” a camp meeting from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Children will take an imaginary trip to countries around the world. Cost is $140. Call the conservatory office at (254) 295-4868 for more information. Greg Solomon, Christy Stanlake and Phil Wilson have been selected as Outstanding Young Alumni at Hardin-Simmons University. Solomon, a 1983 HSU graduate, is president and CEO of the Burleson Area Chamber of Commerce. Stanlake, a 1994 graduate, is a member of the faculty at the United States Naval Academy, teaching a range of theater and English courses. Wilson, a 1990 graduate, is Gov. Rick Perry's deputy chief of staff. Nathan Reyna has joined the Howard Payne University biology faculty as an assistant professor. 05/13/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews_51605
Posted: 5/13/05
Book reviews
Hurt: Inside the World of Today's Teenagers by Chap Clark (Baker Academic)
Prominent researchers have turned their attention to adolescent behavior in recent years. Cold, hard statistical numbers can tell us much about the teenage population's behavior, but they usually do not tell us why youth act the way they do and why they think what they think.
Fuller Theological Seminary professor Chap Clark has done parents and those who work with teenagers a great service by going beyond the numbers to look at the current youth culture and reveal what adolescents actually are saying and feeling about their own behavior.
05/13/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs_51605
Posted: 5/13/05
Baptist Briefs
Denominational Servants Network meeting slated. The African-American Southern Baptist Denominational Servants Network will hold its annual meeting at 1:30 p.m. June 19, at Berean Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn., prior to the June 21-22 SBC annual meeting. The third volume of The Journal of African American Southern Baptist History is due for release at the meeting. Roy Cotton, regional consultant for the Baptist General Convention of Texas' Church Multiplication Center, and Sid Smith, director of the Florida Baptist Convention's African-American division and executive director of the network, co-chair the history project. In addition to remarks by Rosevelt Morris, network president and director of the South Carolina Baptist Convention's office of prayer and spiritual awakening, the network's program will include addresses by Smith, Cotton and Andre Punch, church growth and black church consultant in the BGCT Bible Study/Discipleship Center.
Korean fellowship plans SBC meeting. The Council of Korean Southern Baptist Churches in America will hold its 14th annual meeting June 20-22 in Nashville, Tenn., in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention. The opening dinner will be held at the Holiday Inn Express Downtown at 5 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday, a preaching conference with six guest speakers–including Inhwa Park, pastor of First Korean Baptist Church in Dallas–will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the SBC Building at 901 Commerce St. The council's business meeting, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the SBC Building, will include the election of officers, discussion of bylaw amendments and strategies for global outreach, departmental reports and award presentations.
Ministers' wives set 50th annual meeting. Southern Baptist ministers' wives will celebrate their 50th annual gathering June 21 in Nashville, Tenn. Kay Warren, whose husband, Rick, is founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., will speak about being a purpose-driven woman during the luncheon in the Nashville Renaissance Hotel at 11:45 a.m. Advance tickets, at $10 each, may be ordered by sending a check payable to the SBC Ministers' Wives Conference and a self-addressed stamped envelope to Immanuel Baptist Church, 1415 South Topeka, Wichita, Kan. 67211, or call (800) 254-2022 or order online at www.lifeway.com. Tickets purchased at the annual meeting will be $12 each.
05/13/2005 - By John Rutledge
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For 10 years, Agape Meal shows love to homeless people_51605
Posted: 5/13/05
For 10 years, Agape Meal
shows love to homeless peopleBy George Henson
Staff Writer
FORT WORTH–More than 300 people gathered at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the church's Agape Meal. Many of the guests could not have received an invitation in the mail because they have no address.
05/13/2005 - By John Rutledge
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2nd Opinion: Grads represent leadership potential_51605
Posted: 5/13/05
Grads represent leadership potential
By Albert Reyes
In just a few weeks, thousands of our youth will participate in high school and university commencement exercises all over Texas. In fact, Baptist University of the Americas will graduate 76 students, our highest number in our 58-year history. Commencement exercises also are being held at San Marcos Baptist Academy, Baylor University, Dallas Baptist University, East Texas Baptist University, Howard Payne University, Hardin-Simmons University, Houston Baptist University, Wayland Baptist University and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. These new graduates represent leadership potential for our families, our congregations and for our communities across Texas.
Texas Baptists share in the blessing of commencement exercises through their participation in the Texas Cooperative Program that invests into the lives of our students. Through the Cooperative Program, we impact more students together than we could alone. We thank the Lord for the lives of each graduate and his or her family. To some degree, our future is in their hands.
05/13/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Day of prayer participants assemble to ‘get God’s attention_51605
Posted: 5/13/05
About 100 people gathered for a rally on the National Day of Prayer on the steps of the state capiol in Austin. Day of Prayer participants
assemble to 'get God's attention'By Marv Knox
Editor
AUSTIN–Standing on the steps of the state capitol, Baptists called down God's blessings on Texas May 5.
05/13/2005 - By John Rutledge
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EDITORIAL: Friendship provides key to connecting_51605
Posted: 5/13/05
EDITORIAL:
Friendship provides key to connectingTwo years into our marriage, Joanna and I moved 400 miles and set up housekeeping in a community entirely new to us. Since we had been “raised right” by faithful Baptist parents, we immediately started searching for a church home. The first Sunday, we visited the church that met closest to our duplex. Now that was an unusual experience. The worship reflected a different strain of our Baptist heritage, and it all seemed unfamiliar and awkward. So, we kept looking. We visited two or three other churches, each with worship and Sunday school much more familiar to our Texas tastes. But the young couples in the first church befriended us. They embraced us in their circle of fellowship. Soon, we decided that adapting to a different worship style was a small price to pay for being part of such a warm and loving congregation. We joined that church, and it blessed our family–not only Jo and me, but later our daughters–beyond our wildest imagination.
While that church may have been unique, our experience wasn't. A new Gallup Organization poll commissioned by Group Publishing documents the close connection between human friendships, spiritual maturity and deep satisfaction with church.
“Church members who have a best friend at church are 21 percent more likely to report attending church at least once a week and 26 percent more likely to report having a strong, more active faith in God,” explains Michael Lindsay, a sociology research affiliate at Princeton University and analyst of the survey, which is recorded in a new book, Friendship: Creating a Culture of Connectivity in Your Church.
05/13/2005 - By John Rutledge
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Conservatory of Music is taking enrollment for three Kindermusik Camps. The three camps will take place the week of June 20-24. “Creatures in the Ocean” is for ages 18 months to 3 years old. Students and parents will be introduced to waterfront friends such as the seagull, crab, dolphin, octopus and whale. They will sing to Calypso music and make music with shakers. The class meets from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. each day, with the caregiver staying the entire time. Cost is $85. “Confetti Days” is for children ages 3 to 5 and costs $115. It will meet from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Music will be woven throughout with movement, art, language, drama, play and storytelling. Children ages 5 to 7 are offered “Around the World,” a camp meeting from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Children will take an imaginary trip to countries around the world. Cost is $140. Call the conservatory office at (254) 295-4868 for more information. 
Greg Solomon, Christy Stanlake and Phil Wilson have been selected as Outstanding Young Alumni at Hardin-Simmons University. Solomon, a 1983 HSU graduate, is president and CEO of the Burleson Area Chamber of Commerce. Stanlake, a 1994 graduate, is a member of the faculty at the United States Naval Academy, teaching a range of theater and English courses. Wilson, a 1990 graduate, is Gov. Rick Perry's deputy chief of staff. 
