2006 Archives
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Volunteers at HPU Impact Weekend help rebuild fire-damaged homes
Posted: 9/08/06
Kyle Kinser, a senior at Howard Payne University, measures before hanging drywall in a recently built home in Cross Plains. Volunteers at HPU Impact Weekend
help rebuild fire-damaged homesNinety-five Howard Payne University students spent a recent Saturday in Cross Plains, where they helped homes that had been damaged by wildfires.
The fires torched 7,600 acres across Central Texas on Dec. 27, 2005.
The student volunteers were participating in Impact weekend, through the Baptist Student Ministries at Howard Payne, working in conjunction with the city of Cross Plains and First Baptist Church of Cross Plains.
The group worked on five different homes throughout the day, doing various projects including painting, hanging drywall, clearing land and digging for a foundation.
Bethany Elmore, a freshman at HPU, paints the trim on a home in Cross Plains that was damaged by the wildfires that hit in December 2005. Josh Rhodes, a transfer student at HPU, helps with the dry walling in a home that was recently built in Cross Plains. 09/08/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Skiles confronted world needs on NYC internship
Posted: 9/08/06
Stephanie Skiles, a sophomore science major at Wayland Baptist University, pauses with the Manhattan skyline at her back. Skiles worked at the New York Divinity School, located in Manhattan’s Times Squares, during the summer. Skiles confronted world needs on NYC internship
By Teresa Young
Wayland Baptist University
Many summer missions volunteers return home eager to tell other people what they learned to do. For Stephanie Skiles, her summer taught her all the things not to do in New York.
“People kept laughing at me because I was always getting stopped by the police,” Skiles said with a chuckle.
09/08/2006 - By John Rutledge
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‘Auntie Joy’ humbled by summer in Malawi
Posted: 9/08/06
Joy Miller pals around in a pickup bed with children at the Rafiki Village in Mzuzu, Malawi, during a school lesson on ground transportation. 'Auntie Joy' humbled by summer in Malawi
By Teresa Young
Wayland Baptist University
PLAINVIEW—Joy Miller has spent the last few years at Wayland Baptist University taking classes and getting involved in experiences that will prepare her for her future career ministering to young girls.
So it came as some surprise to her that a summer missions endeavor on the other side of the world served not so much as a practice session but as additional training.
09/08/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Jalissa King traded basketball for shopping on Asia missions tour
Posted: 9/08/06
Jalissa King, summer missionary to East Asia, pauses during a trip to the local zoo, with her friends, Anna (left), Ivy and Evans, fellow students at the university. Jalissa King traded basketball
for shopping on Asia missions tourBy Teresa Young
Wayland Baptist University
PLAINVIEW – Here’s the assignment: Travel halfway around the world, attend classes at a university in another country and make friends with the nationals. It may sound like just a vacation, but the trip was much more detailed for the students involved.
The assignment belonged to Jalissa King, a Wayland Baptist University senior from Portales, N.M., for the past summer, her second summer missions adventure to Asia.
09/08/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Student’s technology skills helped support missions, humanitarian groups
Posted: 9/08/06
Surrounded by his six-screen computer setup, Wayland senior Jerod Clopton does research for a missionary during his summer missions experience at Greater Good Global Support Services outside Meridian, Texas. Student's technology skills helped
support missions, humanitarian groupsBy Teresa Young
Wayland Baptist University
PLAINVIEW—The phrase “summer missions” typically conjures images of students sharing the gospel in foreign countries or doing manual labor in inner-city areas, with evangelism the prevalent concern. Jerod Clopton knows first-hand, though, that missions takes on very different shapes and each experience has the power to change lives.
Clopton, a senior math major at Wayland Baptist University and a native of O’Donnell, spent his summer on a farm near Meridian, working for an agency called Greater Good Global Support Services, or G3S2, as an agent of Go Now Missions, an arm of the Baptist General Convention of Texas collegiate ministries.
09/08/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Stem-cell advance raises hope, ethical questions
Posted: 9/06/06
Stem-cell advance raises hope, ethical questions
By Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
WORCESTER, Mass. (ABP)—New scientific research may defuse the culture war over embryonic stem-cell research, but it also may raise new ethical questions.
In a study publicized on the website of the journal Nature, members of a team of scientists headed by Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., reported they had successfully grown stem-cell colonies that were extracted from human embryos without destroying the embryos in the process.
09/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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FDA approval of new contraceptive stirs reaction
Posted: 9/06/06
FDA approval of new contraceptive stirs reaction
By Robert Marus
ABP Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON (ABP)—After a three-year-long debate, the federal Food and Drug Administration has approved wider distribution of a “morning-after” contraceptive, angering some religious conservatives and anti-abortion groups.
FDA officials recently announced they had approved non-prescription sales of “Plan B,” a drug designed to prevent ovulation and fertilization of a woman’s egg. The decision, however, only allows women 18 years of age or older to have over-the-counter access to the drug.
09/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Displaced New Orleans resident finds home at Gracewood
Posted: 9/01/06
Displaced New Orleans
resident finds home at GracewoodBy Miranda Bradley
Children at Heart Ministries
HOUSTON—Rochelle Wright lost everything to Hurricane Katrina—everything except what matters most to her.
“There was a time when I thought I was going to die,” she said, thinking back to events that changed her life. “I’ve tried to block out a lot of what happened.”
Rochelle and Rayven Wright walked 10 miles in waist-deep water to escape Katrina. Now they live at Gracewood, a Children At Heart Ministry, their "first real home" since the storm destroyed theirs. 09/05/2006 - By John Rutledge
