2006 Archives
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Baptist Briefs
Posted: 1/06/06
Baptist Briefs
Adams unanimous choice for Illinois Baptist directorship. Illinois native and Southern Baptist missions leader Nate Adams was a search committee's unanimous choice to become the Illinois Baptist State Association's next executive director. The committee will present Adams to the Illinois Baptist executive board at a special called meeting this month. Adams has served the past eight years as vice president of mission mobilization for the North American Mission Board. Prior to joining the mission board, Adams served as corporate vice president of publishing for Christianity Today in Carol Stream, Ill. He has been a bivocational church planter and youth minister in Illinois and interim pastor in Georgia. He has an undergraduate degree in communication from Judson College in Elgin, Ill., and a master's degree in management and human resources from National-Louis University in Evanston. Adams and his wife, Beth, have three sons, Caleb, 17; Noah, 15; and Ethan, 12.
Baptist Health Foundation awards scholarships. Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio and the former Baptist Health Services Foundation awarded 338 scholarships in 2005 to students at the BHS School of Health Professions. The scholarships totaling $378,744 benefited students enrolled in the school's nursing and allied health educational programs. They were financed through the foundation's unrestricted funds and various donor-restricted funds.
Cooperative Program giving down in 2005. Contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program totaled $45.4 million in 2005, down 1.8 percent from 2004 receipts, the SBC Executive Committee reported. The total is 95.7 percent of the 2005 budget. Designated gifts in 2005–including disaster relief gifts in the wake of the Gulf Coast hurricanes–totaled close to $10.6 million, up 2 percent over 2004.
01/08/2006 - By John Rutledge
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‘Acts of God’ considered top national/global story
Posted: 1/06/06
TOP TEN: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita–and Baptist response to the disasters– comprised the Baptist Standard's top nation/global story in 2005. 'Acts of God' considered
top national/global storyBy Marv Knox
Editor
A couple of “acts of God” trumped all other events to claim the Baptist Standard's No. 1 national/international Baptist story of 2005.
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Church shows love to teenaged parents at Care Fair
Posted: 1/06/06
Young mothers and mothers-to-be learn CPR at a Care Fair sponsored by First Baptist Church in Farmers Branch. Church shows love to
teenaged parents at Care FairBy George Henson
Staff Writer
FARMERS BRANCH–More than 50 teenaged unwed mothers and mothers-to-be gathered at First Baptist Church in Farmers Branch for an aptly named Care Fair.
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Mexican families enjoy new homes, thanks to Baptist efforts
Posted: 1/06/06
Texas Baptist River Ministry Director Dexton Shores (left) presents the key to a new home to a Mexican family victimized by Hurricane Emily, while Associate Director Loren Fast gives them a Bible. Mexican families enjoy new
homes, thanks to Baptist effortsBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
LA CAPILLA, Mexico–Baptist General Convention of Texas River Ministry leaders presented 11 families with keys to new homes that can help them begin their lives again after Hurricane Emily.
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State
Posted: 1/06/06
First Church in Orange elected to help the helpers by presenting a check to the Texas Baptist Men's Top of Texas Disaster Unit. The check was to be used toward purchase of a tilt skillet that would increase the food-serving capacity of the TBM feeding unit from 20,000 meals per day to 30,000 meals per day. First Baptist Treasurer Don Mohon and Deacon Chairman Don Ball presented the check to Tim Willis of the Top of Texas team. While serving in Orange, the TBM crew served more than 240,000 free meals to people whose lives were turned upside down by Hurricane Rita. While the TBM volunteers of business owners, farmers, secretaries and retirees come from all over West Texas, the feeding unit is based at First Church in Plains, a community of about 1,200 people. Around the State
Baylor Health Care System's pastoral care department and the Baptist General Convention of Texas' office of chaplaincy relations will begin a 14-week course titled “Hands On Ministry” Feb. 2. The course, taught by professional chaplains, is aimed at providing lay people with an opportunity for increasing the knowledge, skills and ability needed to provide effective, compassionate care to others. Classes will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each Thursday, with the exception of Maundy Thursday, through May 11. The training fee is $25. For more information, contact Bob Duncan at (214) 820-4893 or Reba Gram at (888) 311-3900. 
The third annual singles conference of San Jacinto Baptist Association will be held Feb. 25 from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Northside Church in Baytown. Don Piper, author of 90 Minutes in Heaven, will be the keynote speaker. Singles of all ages are welcome. The $25 cost includes an autographed book and lunch. For more information, call (281) 422-3604 or go to www.sjbaptist.org. Baylor University has named two faculty members as master teachers. Honored with the designation were Thomas Hanks Jr., professor of English, and Gerald Powell, the Abner V. McCall Professor of Evidence at Baylor Law School. Hanks began teaching at Baylor in 1976 and is a noted expert in medieval English literature. Powell has taught in the Baylor law school since 1986. 01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews
Posted: 1/06/06
Book Reviews
Evaluating the Church Growth Movement: Five Views by Gary L. McIntosh, general editor (Zondervan)
Evaluating the Church Growth Movement provides an opportunity to understand a variety of North American church-growth views. Five scholars express their perspectives as well as critique each other's writings. They delve into church growth, sharing their own historical understandings and interpretations.
Gary McIntosh, the general editor writes:
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
