Lebanese Baptist schools sheltering refugees wonder about academic year

Posted: 8/11/06

Lebanese Baptist schools sheltering
refugees wonder about academic year

By Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

BEIRUT (ABP)—As international negotiations to end the war in Lebanon proceeded slowly, Lebanese Baptist leaders questioned whether two Baptist schools—now housing hundreds of refugees displaced by the conflict—will be able to begin the academic year on time.

Meanwhile, Baptists around the world continue to solicit prayers seeking an end to the conflict and aid for relief and rebuilding work in the ransacked nation.

08/11/2006 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by Brett Younger: God and science

Posted: 8/11/06

CYBER COLUMN:
God and science

By Brett Younger

When I was in the eleventh grade, I was in A.W. Dolan’s chemistry class. He had been a research chemist, but at the age of 60, he decided to spend the rest of his working days with teenagers. He knew a lot about chemistry, but not a lot about 16-year-olds. He was easily flustered and wasn’t always fair. For instance, he kept count of how many test tubes we broke and at the end of the year he presented us with bills. I’m not complaining for myself. Mine was not the largest. I finished second. My parents, who weren’t always fair either, insisted I pay the bill myself even though it was clearly an educational expense.

In Ohio, you were supposed to take chemistry in the tenth grade, but I had transferred from Mississippi, where science was not our strong suit—football was our strong suit—so I was a little behind. My lab partner was Randy Zur, because we were in alphabetical order. The alphabet also dictated that Zurbo and I were in the far corner of the lab and were always the last to receive whatever chemicals we were experimenting with.

08/11/2006 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for August 20: Salvation results in good works

Posted: 8/10/06

BaptistWay Bible Series for August 20

Salvation results in good works

• Titus 3:1-9

By Joseph Matos

08/10/2006 - By John Rutledge

Family Bible Series for August 20: Make a difference in the world

Posted: 8/10/06

Family Bible Series for August 20

Make a difference in the world

• 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1; 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Matthew 5:13-16

By Greg Ammons

08/10/2006 - By John Rutledge

Explore the Bible Series for August 20: Old age has its own rhythms

Posted: 8/10/06

Explore the Bible Series for August 20

Old age has its own rhythms

• Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:14

By James Adair

Baptist University of the Americas, San Antonio

After an examination of life from a variety of perspectives and inquiries into such issues as the possibility of knowing God’s will, the proper approach to life and the value of character, the book of Ecclesiastes ends with a poem on youth and old age (11:7-12:8), followed by an epilogue (12:9-14).

08/10/2006 - By John Rutledge

Congreso de la Frontera brings families together_51903

Posted: 5/19/03

Congreso de la Frontera

brings families together

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico–More than 400 pastors, their spouses and children from both sides of the Texas-Mexico border reconnected and strengthened their families at Congreso de la Frontera in late April.

08/08/2006 - By John Rutledge

Arizona foundation executive convicted

Posted: 8/04/06

Arizona foundation executive convicted

By Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

PHOENIX (ABP)—In what has been described as the largest case of fraud targeting a religious group, the former top executive and legal counsel for the Baptist Foundation of Arizona were convicted on multiple fraud-related counts.

A Maricopa County, Ariz., Superior Court jury convicted former foundation President William Crotts and Thomas Grabinski, the group’s former top lawyer, each on three counts of defrauding investors and one count of knowingly operating an illegal operation. They will be sentenced in September.

08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge

Church’s foster care focus enriches Chester family

Posted: 8/04/06

Church’s foster care focus enriches Chester family

By George Henson

Staff Writer

LEWISVILLE—It may be unusual for a church to focus its ministry on foster care, but 12-year-old Cheyanne certainly is glad one North Texas church has done just that.

Orchard Road Baptist Church in Lewisville has made foster care the cornerstone of its ministry, and Cheyanne is the first child taken in by a family there. And soon, when she calls Terry and Stephanie Chester “Mom” and “Dad,” it will be official. Permanent adoption papers are making their way through the system.

08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge

Mission East Dallas: A gift of healing

Posted: 8/04/06

Mission East Dallas: A gift of healing

By Angela Best

Communications Intern

DALLAS—Francisco suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes, but he has no insurance to help cover costs of treatment and medication.

Even so, he is on his third visit to the Mission East Dallas medical clinic, where he receives both treatment and medication at no cost. “I was looking for somebody to help me

08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge

Mission Lubbock worker seeks to transform lives

Posted: 8/04/06

Mission Lubbock worker
seeks to transform lives

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

LUBBOCK—An abandoned church sanctuary may seem like an odd place for people to try on shoes, select clothing and pick out kitchenware. But Judy Cooper sees it as a vast improvement over where the ministry to Lubbock’s low-income multi-housing residents started.

Cooper heads Mission Lubbock—a multi-housing ministry she launched in April 2005, patterned after the successful Mission Arlington model. She runs the ministry from the facility Carlisle Baptist Church occupied until last fall, when the struggling congregation closed its doors and gave its property to the association.

08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge

Forney volunteers successfully evacuated from Lebanon

Posted: 8/04/06

Forney volunteers successfully
evacuated from Lebanon

By Angela Best

Communications Intern

FORNEY—A volunteer missions team from First Baptist Church in Forney that had to be evacuated from Lebanon testified they found God’s peace in the midst of chaos and confusion.

“God can bring peace when it feels like there is no reality of that,” said team member Amy Byrd.

08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge

Sloan recommended as Houston Baptist University president

Posted: 8/04/06

Sloan recommended as
Houston Baptist University president

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

HOUSTON—Robert Sloan, chancellor and controversial former president of Baylor University, appears poised to assume the presidency of Houston Baptist University.

The HBU presidential search committee recommended Sloan at a special called meeting of the university’ board of trustees Aug. 1, and the board will reconvene Aug. 8 to vote on the recommendation.

08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge