2006 Archives
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Glad Tidings…to all people
Posted: 12/01/06
Baptist missionary Shirley Smith (right) visits the family of a Futa Toro man in West Africa who has recently returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca, the center of Islamic life. (IMB photo) Glad tidings… to all people
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Luke’s Gospel account of Christ’s birth describes how angels announced to shepherds good tidings of great joy for all people. But 2,000 years later, more than one-fourth—perhaps many more—of the world’s people still haven’t heard the good news or seen evidence of it.
Estimates vary widely regarding the number of least-evangelized people and unreached people groups.
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12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Glad Tidings: What’s your mission?
Posted: 12/01/06
Glad Tidings:
What's your mission?More than 4,000 people traveled on a Buckner mission trip in 2006, helping to share the gospel and show love to hundreds of orphan children and broken families in the Rio Grande Valley, Seattle and seven countries around the world.
“Your faith gets stretched in a way that we don’t allow it to stretch when we’re at home,” said Longview Baptist Church member Charles Risinger, a three-time Buckner mission trip participant to Latvia. “You see how God makes things happen when you realize that it’s just not humanly possible for you to have done it yourself.”
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• Glad Tidings: BGCT offers multiple missions opportunities
Thousands of people find their calling in missions each year when they seek to comfort God’s children through Buckner mission trips.
For more information on upcoming missions opportunities with Buckner, contact the Buckner missions office at 1-877-7ORPHAN or email missions@buckner.org.
12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Glad Tidings: BGCT offers multiple missions opportunities
Posted: 12/01/06
Glad Tidings:
BGCT offers multiple missions opportunitiesBy Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS—As sparkling lights and Nativity scenes take center stage this season, a group of college students at First Baptist Church in Canyon hopes to bring light to nonbelievers a world away in Southeast Asia.
A youth musical mission team plans to travel to Japan where members will bear witness to their faith through caroling. Meanwhile, another group of college students will ring in the new year sharing the gospel in Russia.
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• Glad Tidings: What's your mission?
• Glad Tidings: BGCT offers multiple missions opportunities
12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Houston Baptist University inaugurates president
Posted: 12/01/06
Houston Baptist University inaugurates president
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
HOUSTON—Houston Baptist University installed Robert Sloan as the school’s third president Nov. 29, and the newly inaugurated president used the occasion to underscore his commitment to the integration of faith and learning—a recurring theme during his tenure as president of Baylor University.
Sloan told the diverse assembly—including the executive directors of the rival Baptist General Convention of Texas and Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, as well as representatives from about 100 universities—his last two or three years at Baylor had been “difficult and challenging.”
Houston Baptist University President Robert Sloan (center) receives the presidential medallion and words of congratulations from Jack Carlson (left), past chairman of the HBU board of trustees and interim president, and President Emeritus Doug Hodo. 12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Too many Christians fail to recognize opportunities
Posted: 12/01/06
Too many Christians fail
to recognize opportunitiesBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
BROWNWOOD—Christians miss divine appointments because too many churches fail to challenge members to recognize international contacts as missions opportunities, said Mary Carpenter, director of cross-cultural studies at Howard Payne University.
“Christians are traveling and doing business globally, but too often we, as churches, are not training them to think globally,” she said.
12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Stop inflammatory rhetoric about gays, theologian urges
Posted: 12/01/06
Stop inflammatory rhetoric
about gays, theologian urgesBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (ABP)—An evangelical theologian told her colleagues recently they must “cease and desist” publishing materials with “inflammatory language” about homosexuals.
Linda Belleville made the comments in an address to fellow members of the Evangelical Theological Society during the group’s annual conference in Washington.
12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Star Wars Force followers claim more Jedi than Jews in Great Britain
Posted: 12/01/06
Star Wars Force followers claim
more Jedi than Jews in Great BritainBy Al Webb
Religion News Service
LONDON (RNS)—A pair of London science fiction enthusiasts are petitioning the United Nations to formally recognize the Jedi Knights of Star Wars fame as a legitimate religion.
Umada and Yun-yun—known in real life as John Wilkinson and Charlotte Law—base their case on the results of Britain’s 2001 census in which some 395,000 followers of the Star Wars cult recorded their faith as “Jedi.”
12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Laredo church prays for release of kidnapped members
Posted: 12/01/06
Laredo church prays for
release of kidnapped membersBy George Henson
Staff Writer
LAREDO—At press time, members of United Baptist Church in Laredo continued to pray for the safe return of the congregation’s treasurer and his son, along with another man.
Librado Pina Jr., United’s treasurer and a Laredo businessman, was kidnapped along with his son, Librado Pina III, two hunters and a cook from a ranch owned by Pina in Mexico near the border. The ranch is leased for deer hunting.
12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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MySpace lets youth ministers peek into teenagers’ lives
Posted: 12/01/06
MySpace lets youth ministers
peek into teenagers’ livesBy Chansin Bird
Religion News Service
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (RNS)—Youth minister Lara Blackwood starts her day the same way most of the young people at her church do. She signs on at MySpace.com.
“Any time they post a new blog, I get a message in my e-mail and cell phone that such and such has posted a new blog,” said Blackwood, youth minister at First Christian Church of Fayetteville, Ark., and a regional youth minister for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
12/01/2006 - By John Rutledge
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