2006 Archives
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Around the State
Posted: 5/26/06
Mayor Ed Smith of Marshall and Miss East Texas Baptist University, Neely Floyd, are introduced to President Fang Jianzhuang of Guangdong Teachers College of Foreign Language and Arts in Guangzhou, China, by ETBU President Bob Riley. The two schools cooperatively signed a joint transfer agreement that details courses the Chinese students can transfer to ETBU, since the Chineses school is not a degree granting instution. The schools have exchanged faculty and staff since 1991. Around the State
• A one-week program at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor will afford children ages 10-16 the opportunity to learn basic Chinese conversational phrases and the Chinese writing system. The program will be held June 5-9 from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Cost is $40. For more information, call (254) 295-4556.
• The Center for Cultural and Language Studies at Baptist University of the Americas will hold its annual summer cultural immersion experience June 7-14 at the San Antonio campus and culminate with a weekend practicum in Piedras Negras, Mexico. The experience begins with classroom instruction on both the beginner and intermediate levels. Conversation experience is provided through interaction with international students at the university. Field trips around San Antonio develop knowledge and appreciation of the Hispanic culture, while interaction with a local church immerses participants in the worship and fellowship practices of the Hispanic culture. The program culminates with a weekend of living among members of a church in Piedras Negras. Cost is $400 for the week, exclusive of housing. Members of Baptist General Convention of Texas churches receive a $50 scholarship through the Mary Hill Davis Offering. For more information, call (210) 924-4338, ext. 202.
• The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Conservatory of Music is taking enrollment for four Kindermusik camps to be held June 26-30. The age-group breakdowns are newborn through 18 months, 18 months through 3 years old, 4- and 5-year-olds, and 6- and 7-year-olds. Some classes require an adult caregiver attend the class with the child. Prices range from $85 to $140 and include materials. Register in the conservatory office, Room 208 in Presser Hall, by June 2.
Students from Hardin-Simmons University joined with their counterparts from Abilene Christian University in an effort to call attention to the plight of thousands of Ugandan children kidnapped each year and forced into the rebel army. The students packed up blankets, sleeping bags and backpacks and walked to the parking lot of First Church in Abilene for the “Global Night Commute.” High school and college students around the country participated in local events. About 400 people participated in Abilene. 05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs
Posted: 5/26/06
Baptist Briefs
Calvinist and evangelist square off in 1st VP race. A neo-Calvinist apparently will face off with an evangelist for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention this summer. Mark Dever, pastor of Washington’s Capitol Hill Baptist Church and a popular leader among SBC Calvinists, acknowledged he would allow himself to be nominated for the post. Keith Fordham, an evangelist from Fayetteville, Ga., will be nominated for the slot by Bill Britt, president of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists. Fordham is the immediate past president of the conference.
Louisiana pastor to be SBC 2nd VP nominee. Jay Adkins, pastor of First Baptist Church in Westwego, La., will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention by Joed Rice, pastor of Central Baptist Church in Ashland, Ky. Adkins, 33, expects to graduate from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a master of divinity degree this month. Earlier, Kentucky pastor Bill Dodson announced he would nominate Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., and Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, said he would nominate J.D. Greear, pastor of the Summit Church in Durham, N.C., for the second vice president’s post.
05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Cartoon
Posted: 5/26/06
“We’d be good together. We share core values.”
05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
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TBM volunteers rebuild homes in Cross Plains
Posted: 5/26/06
Texas Baptist Men volunteers rebuild a Cross Plains home destroyed by a wildfire in January. TBM volunteers rebuild homes in Cross Plains
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
CROSS PLAINS—Texas Baptist Men Retiree Builders helped two families in West Texas rebuild their lives by rebuilding their homes.
05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
