2007 Archives
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Texas Baptist museum to be remodeled
Posted: 9/07/07
This conceptual rendering illustrates a vision for the remodeled and expanded Texas Baptist Historical Museum. Texas Baptist museum to be remodeled
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
INDEPENDENCE—The Texas Baptist Historical Museum is set to be remodeled and expanded.
Designs are being drawn for a reworked museum that leaders hope will open in 2008 and include more exhibit space, a theatre and a patio area. Alan Lefever, director of the Texas Baptist Historical Collection, said the improvements are meant to help visitors quickly understand Texas Baptist history.
09/07/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Fidelity to God’s calling motivates musician
Posted: 9/07/07
Fidelity to God’s calling motivates musician
By George Henson
Staff Writer
CARROLLTON—Blake Bolerjack enjoys singing for congregations throughout Texas and Oklahoma. The concert and recording ministry he began two years ago is beginning to blossom—and he and his bride of less than two years, Jenna, are thrilled about that.
But the most invigorating thing is that they believe they are living and ministering squarely in the center of God’s will.
Blake and Jenna Bolerjack perform a Christian music concert at a North Texas church. (Photo by George Henson) 09/07/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Three-minute challenge exposes more than 4,600 bikers to gospel
Posted: 9/07/07
Rows and rows of motorcycles line the streets of Sturgis, S.D., during an annual motorcycle rally—an occasion Baptists used to share the gospel. Three-minute challenge exposes
more than 4,600 bikers to gospelBy George Henson
Staff Writer
STURGIS, S.D.—The field was black and blue, covered in leather and denim, but four men from Immanuel Baptist Church in Paris were among those who could tell that it was white and ready for harvest.
The event was the world’s largest motorcycle rally held each August in Sturgis, S.D. It has swelled to include a half-million people who crowd its streets—all in a town with a population of less than 7,000 people the other 51 weeks of the year.
09/07/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Campus minister shared story of Jesus, kept his own wartime story to himself
Posted: 9/06/07
Donnal Timmons seved as Baptist Student Union director at the Texas College of Arts and Industries—now Texas A&M University-Kingsville—from 1949 to 1961. Campus minister shared story of Jesus,
kept his own wartime story to himselfRetired Baptist Student Union Director Donnal Timmons described his experiences as a World War II prisoner of war in vivid detail to his family and a few close friends.
Sixty captive soldiers were crammed into a single boxcar after marching days without food. Using a Gideon Bible, Timmons shared the New Testament plan of salvation with another frightened GI. His attempt at personal evangelism was interrupted by bullets that pierced the railway car and splinters that flew everywhere when fighter planes strafed the train.
At a reunion in Irving, Donnal Timmons accepts a crystal 'praying hands' award from former students whose lives he touched during his service as a Baptist Student Union director. Timmons’ select audience was mesmerized by his stories. But former college students who knew Timmons five decades earlier as their spiritual mentor were surprised to learn about his wartime trauma, which they learned about only in the last few years.
He served as Baptist Student Union director at the Texas College of Arts and Industries—now Texas A&M University-Kingsville—from 1949 to 1961.
09/06/2007 - By John Rutledge
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James Kennedy, elder statesman of Religious Right, dead at 76
Posted: 9/06/07
James Kennedy, elder statesman
of Religious Right, dead at 76By Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (ABP)—Presbyterian minister James Kennedy died Sept. 5, little more than a week after he retired from the pulpit that helped him launch both evangelistic and political ministries.
Kennedy, who was 76, had served for nearly half a century as pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. But he was also one of the pioneers of television ministry, a seminary founder and the head of an activist empire devoted to what he believed was the restoration of the United States as a “Christian nation.”
James Kennedy 09/06/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Combined youth choirs ‘converge’ on San Marcos
Posted: 8/31/07
Youth choirs from Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, South Main Baptist Church in Pasadena, First Baptist Church in Abilene, Central Baptist Church in Marshall, First Baptist Church in Valley Mills and First Baptist Church in San Marcos gathered for Converge ’07. Combined youth choirs
‘converge’ on San MarcosBy George Henson
Staff Writer
SAN MARCOS—Youth choirs from six churches around Texas met in San Marcos to sound a note for unity.
Converge ’07 involved more than 150 teenagers from Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, South Main Baptist Church in Pasadena, First Baptist Church in Abilene, Central Baptist Church in Marshall, First Baptist Church in Valley Mills and the host church, First Baptist Church in San Marcos.
08/31/2007 - By John Rutledge
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EDITORIAL: We can bridge the chasm of race
Posted: 8/31/07
EDITORIAL:
We can bridge the chasm of raceEvery parent eventually encounters moments that send a clear signal: Your children are growing up in a world far removed from the little sphere of your childhood.
One of those transcendental times occurred when Lindsay and Molly, our daughters, were young—kindergarten- or early elementary-school age. Joanna and I sat in the school cafetorium as the principal read off the names of students who earned special recognition. I tried not to doze so I wouldn’t miss my own daughter’s name as she droned through the list of typical names of kids their age: Caitlin, Katy, Sara, Courtney, Dustin, Justin, Michael, Mohammad.
Mohammad? Now, there’s a name never mentioned when roll was called in the schoolrooms of my youth. Sure enough, a beautiful child with jet-black hair, olive skin and deep-brown eyes walked up to receive his certificate. He bore the look, and his parents spoke the soft accent, of a place far, far away.
That was the first of our family’s innumerable experiences with our public school systems’ amazing multi-culturalism. Through the years, our girls made friends with children whose families originated on six continents. They were called by a symphony of names, most of which I no longer can spell, that always sounded exotic and melodic, especially when pronounced by their parents.
08/31/2007 - By John Rutledge
