2007 Archives
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KidsHeart provides a new home for the Requenas
Posted: 8/10/07
Men from First, College Station, swarmed the Requena's 600 square-foot home in Lasara. The team of seven was working to repair years of neglect in the elderly couple's home in just a few days. (Photos by Russ Dilday/Buckner) KidsHeart provides a new home for the Requenas
By Jenny Pope
Buckner International
LASARA—The first thing a visitor notices on the Requena home is the stench. It’s a mix between mildew, sewage and old age. Children walk in and out, watching television on the couch in the dark living room. Fleas and gnats swarm.
Victor Requena Jr. stands in the front yard among three stray dogs and surveys the team of seven men swarming his parent’s home in the Lasara colonia. Two are hammering nails on the roof, two are cutting wood, two more are ripping out plumbing and one lone man carries supplies.
Victor Requena Jr. surveys the work crew at his parents' home in Lasara. 08/10/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist World Aid issues appeal for South Asia
Posted: 8/10/07
Baptist World Aid issues
appeal for South AsiaWASHINGTON, D.C.—With up to 20 million people affected by the floods in South Asia, Baptist World Aid, the relief and development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, issued an appeal for funds to provide help.
Floods have devastated parts of Nepal, India and Bangladesh. BWAid sent initial grants of $5,000 each to the Bengal Baptist Union and the Bengal Orissa Bihar Baptist Churches Association in India.
The annual monsoon often brings flooding to these countries, but this year’s rainfall has been well in excess of normal. Some experts comment that the flooding could be far worse than the record-breaking floods of 1988 and 1998.
“It is the poor who suffer so much in these situations,” BWAid Director Paul Montacute said. “The poor live on low lying ground or on land that is easily swept away as waters descend from the mountains.”
08/10/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Young women challenged to live the ‘amazing life’ on mission with God
Posted: 8/03/07
Participants at Blume—formerly known as the National Acteens Convention— sing praises to God. Young women challenged to live
the ‘amazing life’ on mission with GodBy Julie Walters
Woman’s Missionary Union
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—More than 3,000 teenaged and collegiate young women were challenged to live “the amazing life” during Blume, a missions event sponsored by national Woman’s Missionary Union.
Texas had the largest representation of any state at the event—formerly known as the National Acteens Convention—with 349 participants.
National Acteens Panelists—including Tiffany Clark of First Baptist Church in Humble (2nd from left) share their personal prayer and challenge with Blume participants during the opening session of the missions meeting. Other panelists pictured are (left to right) Juliana Robbins of Calvary Baptist Church in Waynesboro, Tenn.; Brittany Burdine of University Hills Baptist Church, Charlotte, N.C.; and Tara Hammett of First Baptist Church, Minden, La. 08/03/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Store offers help for needy and youth ministry
Posted: 8/03/07
Sherri Manning (left), manager of the Agape Thrift Store in Evant, visits with volunteer Carolyn Huncke. Store offers help for needy and youth ministry
By Whitney Farr
Communications Intern
EVANT—Coffee addicts might not mind paying $4 for a frappe, but Agape Thrift Store in Evant sold a brand new espresso machine for a mere three bucks.
Coffee drinkers may not be the only ones paying too much. Every item in Agape is sold for $1, unless otherwise marked.
08/03/2007 - By John Rutledge
