2006 Archives
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DOWN HOME: A tornado, rain and a prairie set on fire
Posted: 3/17/06
DOWN HOME:
A tornado, rain and a prairie set on fireThe radio announcer mispronounced Darrouzett (dare-uh-ZET), but he got all the others right—Booker, Follett, Lipscomb and Higgins.
And before he finished the list, I knew why he was reciting the names of every village in Lipscomb County: Grassfires.
Sure enough, local officials were thinking about evacuating the entire northeast corner of the Texas Panhandle. An incendiary mix of undiminished drought, unrelenting wind and unending prairie engulfed the county. And the flames threatened everything.
Most of his listeners never knew the announcer botched the pronunciation of Darrouzett. “Lipscomb County, where’s that?” they might have mused. Much closer to Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas than to Dallas.
03/16/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Cultural changes call for fresh expressions
Posted: 3/17/06
Cultural changes call for fresh expressions
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
DALLAS—Cultural changes require God’s people to be open to fresh expressions of the gospel, Baptist World Alliance President David Coffey told a Texas Baptist conference.
“When there is a change in culture, that constitutes a fresh calling from the missionary God,” Coffey said at Epicenter, an event sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Baptist World Alliance President David Coffey 03/16/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Chat rooms provide open window into students’ world
Posted: 3/17/06
Chat rooms provide open
window into students’ worldBy Greg Garrison
Religion News Service
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS)—The three college students accused of setting fire to nine Alabama churches left a computer chat room trail that was a window into their personalities.
03/16/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Graham preaches ‘last evangelistic sermon’ in New Orleans
Posted: 3/17/06
Graham preaches ‘last
evangelistic sermon’ in New OrleansBy Bruce Nolan
Religion News Service
NEW ORLEANS (ABP)—Billy Graham seems to have closed out his 60-year career as the country’s most famous evangelist after calling thousands to Christian faith in wounded New Orleans with the acknowledgment, “This is probably the last evangelistic sermon I’ll ever preach.”
Frail and tentative, the 87-year-old Graham shuffled behind a walker toward the pulpit set at one end of the New Orleans Arena as a crowd his organization estimated at 16,300 stood in a sustained roar of applause March 12.
Evangelist Billy Graham preaches to a crowd at the New Orleans Arena during the “Celebration of Hope” hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse March 12. (Photo by Jennifer Zdon/The Times-Picayune in New Orleans/RNS) 03/16/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 3/17/06
Texas Tidbits
CLC director search committee named. Jim Nelson, vice chairman of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board and member of Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin, has been named chairman of the search committee appointed to seek a new director for the BGCT Christian Life Commission. Other search committee members are Ken Hugghins, chairman of the CLC and pastor of Elkins Lake Baptist Church in Huntsville; George Mason, pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas; Michael Bell, BGCT president and pastor of Greater St. Stephen First Baptist Church in Fort Worth; Patsy Ayres, member of First Baptist Church in Austin and former member of the CLC; Janie Sellers, member of First Baptist Church in Abilene and a member of the CLC; and Ellis Orozco, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in McAllen and a former member of the CLC. Suzii Paynter, the CLC’s director of citizenship and public policy, is interim director. She assumed leadership of the commission weeks after the death of Phil Strickland, longtime CLC director.
Brumley returns to Mercer from Baylor. Larry Brumley has resigned as interim vice president for marketing and communications at Baylor University, effective May 31, to join the administration at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. Mercer President-elect Bill Underwood—Baylor’s former interim president—made Brumley his first administrative appointment, naming him to the position of senior vice president and chief of staff, effective June 1. Before joining the Baylor administration in May 1997 as associate vice president for communications, Brumley served six years as associate vice president for university relations at Mercer. A 1982 Baylor graduate, Brumley earned a master’s degree in mass communication from the University of Oklahoma. He and his wife, Emily, are the parents of two daughters: Laura, a Baylor freshman, and Amy, a high school sophomore. They are members of First Baptist Church in Waco.
Piper gifts fund BUA student village. Baptist University of the Americas received a $1 million gift and $2.5 million interest-free loan from the Christ Is Our Salvation Foundation established by the Paul and Katy Piper family. Groundbreak-ing on Piper Village, an apartment-styled student housing community, is slated for late spring this year, with completion of its first phase planned for the fall 2007 semester. Upon completion, Piper Village will provide two- and three-bedroom apartments and support facilities to accommodate up to 48 families and 64 single students. The five apartment buildings will be the first phase of development on a new 75-acre campus located across the interstate from the current campus on San Antonio’s south side. The Piper gift will be paired with funds from a $3 million matching gift fund launched last year by philanthropists John and Eula Mae Baugh of Houston.
DBU business college accreditation reaffirmed. Dallas Baptist University’s College of Business was awarded reaffirmation of accreditation by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. DBU will receive a certificate of accreditation during the association’s annual conference in Chicago this summer. Accredita-tion certifies that the teaching and learning processes within the university meet rigorous educational standards established by the association.
03/16/2006 - By John Rutledge
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