2006 Archives
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Cybercolumn by Jeanie Miley: The Tie that binds
Posted: 12/15/06
CYBER COLUMN:
The Tie that bindsBy Jeanie Miley
On the first Sunday of Advent, I sat in my regular place in the sanctuary of my church, looking around at all of the people who form my community of faith and anticipating the coming Christmas season with eagerness and joy. I know some of the people with whom I have gathered for worship really well, and they know me. Others are still strangers to me, even after all these years, and I often wonder if that is simply choice or if it is, somehow, a kind of failure.
Jeanie Miley I’ve served on various committees with many of these people, and we have met for prayer and projects, banquets and business meetings, fellowship dinners and the usual funerals, weddings and baby dedications that mark the passage of time and the meaning of community.
12/15/2006 - By John Rutledge
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AIDS summit challenges Baptists to ‘break the silence’
Posted: 7/07/06
David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, underscores the connection between poverty and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic during the "Breaking the Silence: Compassion for an HIV Positive World" summit, held in conjunction with the CBF general assembly in Atlanta. (Photo by Mark Sandlin) AIDS summit challenges
Baptists to ‘break the silence’By Carla Wynn
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
ATLANTA (ABP)—Baptists and other Christians responded slowly and poorly 25 years ago to the advent of AIDS, but God has been in the trenches from the start, said David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, a Christian advocacy group.
“God is in the midst of this,” Beckmann told more than 400 people gathered in Atlanta June 21-22 for an HIV/AIDS summit, dubbed “Breaking the Silence: Compassion for an HIV-Positive World.” The event was scheduled in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 12/01/06
Texas Tidbits
Academy receives donated computer system. San Marcos entrepreneur Pat Price donated a new computer system to San Marcos Baptist Academy recently. Price, an academy alumnus, serves on the school’s fund-raising council. The computer and 17-inch, flat-screen monitor will replace an older system and will be used primarily for video editing purposes.
BUA names search committee. Teo Cisneros, pastor of Templo Jerusalem in Victoria, will chair a presidential search committee for Baptist University of the Americas. BUA trustees named a search committee to nominate an interim president and initiate a nationwide search for a successor to Albert Reyes, who has been named president of Buckner Children & Family Service. Search committee members who will serve with Cisneros are Debbie Ferrier of San Antonio, Francis Barrera of Plainview, John Bobo of Hurst and Doug Diehl of San Antonio. The board also named a council of advisers that includes Baldemar Borrego, president of the Hispanic Baptist Convención; Frank Palos, interim director of Hispanic ministries with the Baptist General Convention of Texas; Robert Rodriguez, BGCT second vice president; Alcides Guajardo, immediate past-president of Convención; Robert Cepeda, chairman of the BGCT Executive Board’s missions, evangelism and ministries committee; Alfonso Flores of San Antonio; Keith Bruce, director of BGCT institutional ministries; Irma Alvarado, president of Hispanic Woman’s Missionary Union; Rudy Camacho, a former president of Convención; and Delia Vela, president of the Convención Minister’s Wives Conference.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Book cancellation shows Baylor troubles not over
Updated: 12/15/06
Book cancellation shows
Baylor troubles not overBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
WACO—Baylor University reversed plans to publish a book about its recent history—a work critics called a defense of the school’s previous administration and defenders called a valuable interpretive analysis of issues facing Christian higher education.
The announcement came one week after former Baylor President Herb Reynolds sent a sharply critical e-mail to the volume’s editors, but university officials insisted their concerns predated that decision by at least five months.
Schmeltekopf Hankins 12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Love given, received at Cornerstone outreach
Updated: 12/15/06
Love given, received at Cornerstone outreach
By Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS—The gift of love is lighting up the lives of two Carrollton volunteers, but their gift of time has blessed dozens of other people.
Deidra Stribling and Carl Wafer, who are engaged to be married, volunteer with community outreach programs at Cornerstone Baptist Church, an inner-city Dallas congregation—programs from which they benefited just one year ago.
Carl Wafer and Deidra Stribling met last Thanksgiving at a community outreach meal for needy people sponsored by Cornerstone Baptist Church in Dallas. This year the couple—who are engaged to be married and attending church regularly —worked as volunteers at the event. 12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Baylor prof says Schaeffer remained a fundamentalist
Updated: 12/15/06
Baylor prof says evangelical godfather
Schaefer returned to fundamentalismBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (ABP)—Many evangelical scholars agree Francis Schaeffer was the single greatest force that propelled evangelicals into political action—ultimately putting George W. Bush in the White House. But some question whether he rightly is described as a fundamentalist.
While some scholars think Schaeffer, the popular author and theologian who helped a generation of evangelicals move toward the public square, left fundamentalism behind during his lifetime, Baylor University professor Barry Hankins is reticent to concede that point.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Bone marrow donation provides the gift of life
Updated: 12/15/06
Bone marrow donor Jennifer Hammons teaches a class at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. (UMHB Photo) Bone marrow donation provides the gift of life
By Jennifer Sicking
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
BELTON—One person’s whim became another family’s answer to prayer when Jennifer Hammons gave a little of herself to an unknown girl an ocean away.
Hammons, a University of Mary Hardin-Baylor graduate and adjunct teacher, became a bone marrow donor.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Wreaths help single mothers turn their cottages into homes
Updated: 12/15/06
A Family Care resident shows off her wreath during the Texas Baptist Children's Home annual wreath party.. Wreaths help single mothers turn
their cottages into homesBy Miranda Bradley
Children at Heart Foundation
ROUND ROCK—For single mothers in Texas Baptist Children’s Home Family Care program, a Christmas wreath represents more than a seasonal decoration. It’s a vehicle to help them reclaim their identities.
For the past nine years, the Family Care program has provided an opportunity for single mothers to express their creativity. During its annual wreath-making party, the program provides dinner, childcare and a variety of bows, ornaments, trinkets and baubles to adorn each evergreen ornament.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
