2006 Archives
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TBM volunteer bricklayers help build church in Ethiopia
Posted: 5/26/06
Texas Baptist Men bricklayers build a wall of an Ethiopian Baptist church. The team worked with a Texas Baptist couple serving as volunteer missionaries. TBM volunteer bricklayers
help build church in EthiopiaBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—Texas Baptists joined hands across the world to help construct a church building for Ethiopian Christians.
05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Foster parents heard God’s call to service on the radio
Posted: 5/26/06
The Bamfords volunteered as foster parents, impressed by the STARRY program's emphasis on restoration and healing to the children and their caregivers. Foster parents heard God’s
call to service on the radioBy Miranda Bradley
Children at Heart Ministries
AUSTIN—When Rabecca and Scott Bamford decided they wanted to make an impact on young lives by becoming foster parents, they believe God used a radio commercial to lead them to just the right place.
05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum
Posted: 5/26/06
Texas Baptist Forum
Margins of society
The author of the “Faith & immigration” letter (May 15) misunderstands the theology of Jesus. The people Jesus most identified with were those who lived on the margins of society. The lepers, prostitutes, sinners, tax collectors, poor and women were all people who lived at these margins. In fact, many of these people were those who broke Roman and Jewish laws and traditions. They were the outcasts, the untouchables and the illegals.
• Jump to online-only letters below Letters are welcomed. Send them to marvknox@baptiststandard.com; 250 words maximum. 
“Occasional drop-bys and clunky dropping of biblical references aren’t going to do the trick. These voters weren’t born again yesterday.”Ruth Marcus
Columnist, explaining why Democratic efforts to court evangelical voters may not work (washingtonpost.com)“If we would have followed that principle, the very men who turned this denomination back to biblical inerrancy would not have been qualified to have served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention or … in any leadership position whatsoever at all.”
Ronnie Floyd
Southern Baptist Convention presidential nominee, regarding a blue-ribbon SBC committee’s recommendation that elected convention officers be chosen from churches that give at least 10 percent of undesignated offerings through the Cooperative Program (BP)“By all means, let us argue. But let us remember we are not enemies. … I have not always heeded this injunction myself, and I regret it very much.”
John McCain
Arizona senator, at Liberty University, patching up his relationship with university Chancellor Jerry Falwell, whom he labeled among “agents of intolerance” during the 2000 presidential campaign (The Washington Times/RNS)The keepers of the margins were the Pharisees and the Saducees. These were the ones who made the rules and kept the rules in relation to the marginalized. They were so concerned with these laws and rules that they lost touch with the importance of relationships.
05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Retirement community residents find love in golden years
Posted: 5/26/06
Jim and Ruby Finney walk hand-in-hand into their sunset years together after finding each other at Calder Woods, a Buckner Benevolences retirement community in Beaumont. Retirement community
residents find love in golden years
By Jenny Pope
Buckner Baptist Benevolences
BEAUMONT—Jim Finney and his new bride, Ruby, are like any other newlywed couple—they take long walks holding hands, watch sunsets from their favorite park bench and go on frequent dates to the theater and local restaurants.
05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
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LOVE AND MARRIAGE: Long-married couples share the secret of success
Posted: 5/26/06
Long-married couples share the secret of success
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
HOUSTON—It not only takes a village to raise a child; it also takes a village to make marriage successful, some long-married Baptist couples agreed.
Bill and Ruth Osborne are among 139 couples Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston recently recognized as having been married 50 years or longer. (Photos by Ken Camp) 05/26/2006 - By John Rutledge
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