2006 Archives
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Providential connections speed church-planting in Mexico
Posted: 4/13/06
The Catholic Church in Candelaria, Mexico, has been without a priest since 1995 but this man faithfully sweeps the yard clean and keeps the inside in good repair. A Baptist Child & Family Services program has made initial contact with local leaders about beginning a Bible study, and later a church, in the small mountain village. (BCFS photos by Craig Bird) Providential connections speed church-planting in Mexico
By Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
DURANGO, Mexico—Rob and Gloria Rolison believe God always goes before them on church-planting mission trips among unreached Indian tribes in the Mexico mountains. But occasionally, he is really way ahead of them—sometimes by almost 40 years.
04/13/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State
Posted: 4/13/06
More than 450 people gathered to celebrate the opening of the Piper Children’s Center on the campus of the South Texas Children’s Home. The 15,000-square-foot complex houses a play therapy center, a sponsor center, a child play area, staff offices for childcare personnel, as well as, a new commissary, clothing center, and library and learning center. Around the State
• The College of Nursing at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor will conduct the spring community nursing symposium April 18 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The symposium is held each semester and is presented by the senior UMHB nursing students enrolled in the community health nursing course.
• Lake Lavon Baptist Encampment’s senior adult retreat will be held May 15-17. The camp theme will be “Fulfilling My Destiny.” Phil Briggs will the camp pastor, and Rosemary Hoover is the Bible teacher. For more information, call (972) 736-2273.
• The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor will hold its annual Senior Saints Summit May 15-19. The conference is for people 55 or older. Participants stay on campus for four days of singing, worship, fellowship and Bible study. Russell Dilday will be the preacher, Charlie Robinson the Bible teacher, Larry Putman the worship leader, Don Newberry the banquet entertainer and Dan Gibbs the banquet emcee. For more information, call (254) 295-4606.
First Church in Fresno recently held a note burning ceremony to commemorate the retirement of the church’s debt on 19 acres of land and its sanctuary. The church was started in 1997. Pictured are original members Dale Wellborn, John Borden, Carol Stoneham and Carol Borden. In the background is Interim Pastor Harold Sellers who helped start the church prior to his retirement as director of missions of Coastal Plains Area. 04/13/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs
Posted: 4/13/06
Baptist Briefs
Corts named college council president. Former Baptist college president Paul Corts has been named the fifth president of the 30-year-old Council for Christian Colleges and Universities—an association of more than 170 Christian institutions worldwide. He will assume the office in June. Corts has served as assistant attorney general for administration for the U.S. Department of Justice since 2002. Previously, he worked nearly 12 years as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Florida Baptist school. Before that, he was president of Wingate University in North Carolina and held administrative and teaching positions at Oklahoma Baptist University and Western Kentucky University. His brother, Tom, recently retired as president of Samford University, an Alabama Baptist school.
Ouachita names president. Rex Horne, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church of Little Rock, Ark., for 16 years, has been named president-elect of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark., effective May 1. Ouachita trustees unanimously elected Horne at a called meeting April 6. He was the unanimous choice of the 18-member presidential search committee. Horne served as a pastor in Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma before becoming pastor at Immanuel, where former President Bill Clinton was one of his church members. As the 15th president in Ouachita’s 120-year history, Horne follows Andy Westmoreland, who begins June 1 as president of Samford University of Birmingham, Ala. Horne completed his freshman year at Ouachita and completed his bachelor’s degree at Arkansas College—now Lyon College—in Batesville, Ark., where he served on staff at First Baptist Church of Batesville. He earned a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth and a doctor of ministry degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Horne and his wife, Becky, have four grown children.
Salvador headlines CBF summit on HIV/AIDS. Salvador—a popular Latino Christian music group originally from Austin—will perform a free concert at 8 p.m., June 21, in the Sidney Marcus Auditorium of the Georgia World Congress Center as a part of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s HIV/AIDS Summit, “Breaking the Silence: Compassion for an HIV Positive World.”
04/13/2006 - By John Rutledge
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