2007 Archives
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Teens look to parents, clergy for guidance on sex
Updated: 3/30/07
Teens look to parents,
clergy for guidance on sexBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ABP)—More than three quarters of teens think religious leaders should do more to help prevent teen pregnancy. And that’s even more than the 64 percent of adults who think the same.
But while 76 percent of teens think religious leaders should do more to educate them about the risks of teenage sex, teens consistently say parents most influence their decisions about sex, according to an independent study commissioned by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
“One of the primary findings here is really good news for parents—that they are more influential on the topic than they thought they were." 03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Author wrote a book he can no longer read
Updated 3/30/07
Author wrote a book he can no longer read
By George Henson
Staff Writer
DALLAS—Dallas Baptist University professor David Naugle’s thoughts and views are being read and discussed by students in a language he can neither read nor understand.
Naugle’s book, Worldview: The History of a Concept, has been translated and published by Peking University Press for student use in China.
David Naugle, a philosophy professor at Dallas Baptist University and member of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, wrote a book that has been translated and published by Peking University for student use in China. (DBU photo by Tim Gingrich) 03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State
Posted: 3/30/07
Around the State
• The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor will perform its 68th annual Easter pageant at 12:30 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. April 4. All performances will be outdoors in front of the Luther Memorial arches on Vann Circle Drive. The free student production draws 5,000 people each year.
• Baylor University will hold a symposium on congregational renewal May 11. The topic for the 9 a.m. session will be “Assessing the Current State of Religion in America,” and the 10:45 a.m. session will investigate three versions of congregational renewal—small church, multi-ethnic church and downtown/suburban church. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided free of charge. To register or for more information, call (254) 710-4677.
Anniversaries
• Bill Wright, 15th, as pastor of First Church in Plains, March 25.
• J.D. Templeton, fifth, as pastor of First Church in Cotton Center, March 31.
Baylor University presented the 2007 Baylor University Founders Medallion to Ralph Storm of Corpus Christi and, posthumously, to his wife, Jean, during the university’s annual Founders Day. The Founders Medal is reserved for men and women whose service and contributions have been unusually significant to the life and future of the university. He has been a Baylor trustee and regent 27 years, is a lifetime member of the Baylor Alumni Association and Founders Association, and a member of the Medallion Fellowship, Heart of the Order, Old Main Society, Heritage Club, Development Council, Baylor Bear Foundation, Friends of Truett Seminary and the Endowed Scholarship Society. He was named a distinguished alumnus in 1978 and was awarded the Herbert H. Reynolds Award for meritorious service to students in 1985. He also has been greatly involved in the ministries of First Church in Corpus Christi, as was his wife prior to her death in 2003. 03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baylor fraternity brothers serve God in the Ozarks
Posted: 3/30/07
On a spring break mission trip, 65 members of Baylor University fraternity Kappa Omega Tau enjoyed the serenity of the Arkansas Ozarks while rebuilding a stairway to an outdoor chapel. Baylor fraternity brothers
serve God in the OzarksBy Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
WACO—Armed with pick axes, drills, shovels, chainsaws, rakes and a mission-minded attitude, 65 Baylor University fraternity brothers traveled to Ponca Bible Camp in the Ozark Mountains over spring break to renovate the encampment.
Members of Kappa Omega Tau, a Baylor service-oriented fraternity, spent three days climbing 20-foot ladders up hills, restoring cabins, building retaining walls, burning leaves and improving the Christian camp. Mission Trip Chair Alex LaRue helped plan the spring break effort.
Students Minister at Spring Break
• Beach Reach volunteers immersed in missions service
• Baylor fraternity brothers serve God in the Ozarks
• DBU students build homes in South Carolina & South Dakota
• HBU students take local & global missions plunge
• ETBU nursing students put training into practice in Mexico
• Students find missions calling through BSM
• More than a day at the beach
03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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TAKING THE PLUNGE: Beach Reach volunteers immersed in missions service
Posted: 3/30/07
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor junior Erica Valenta, sophomore Ashlie Hudgins, freshman Courtni Habel and senior Aleigha Perez walk the beach after watching a baptism service. (UMHB Photo by Rachael Heffer) TAKING THE PLUNGE:
Beach Reach volunteers
immersed in missions serviceBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND—Rock music blared as thousands of college students gathered on the beach. The crowd cheered participants in a tug-of-war contest. Alcohol flowed as freely as the ocean rolling onto the sand.
A new Christian rejoices after she is baptized. Reza Zadeh of Fort Collins, Colo., baptized people in the Gulf of Mexico as part of Beach Reach, an outreach to Spring Breakers at South Padre Island. Beach Reach is largely a Texas Baptist effort, but volunteers come to serve from around the nation. (Photos by John Hall) In the midst of it all, a young man who came looking to party found Christ, thanks in part to a Texas Baptist college student. They prayed together, wept and embraced each other in celebration of newfound faith.
03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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BGCT fills four strategist positions
Posted: 3/30/07
BGCT fills four strategist positions
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS—The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board staff has filled four positions in its congregational strategists team, including the leaders of the congregational strategists and church starters.
Paul Atkinson, who was serving as interim team lead of the church starters, has been named leader of the church starting team. Tim Randolph, who has served as a congregational strategist in the Temple area, has been named leader of the congregational strategists. Randolph will continue serving as a congregational strategist as well.
03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews
Posted: 3/30/07
Book Reviews
10 Things Every Minister Needs to Know by Ronnie Floyd (New Leaf Press)
Ronnie Floyd states there is nothing like it in the entire world. He is speaking of serving in vocational ministry. In this small, but very readable, book, Floyd recounts the life lessons he has learned in more than 30 years as a pastor.
He asserts the book is for ministers of all ages and in all seasons of life. Yet he is convinced these 10 lessons transcend vocational ministry and touch other worlds as well—life, business and influence.
I would recommend the book highly to any believer, not just ministers. Floyd gives practical advice to all believers in all walks of life. He discusses the importance of being over doing. He also discusses the importance of family-building rather than ministry-building, faith, relationships, decision-making and maintaining a proper balance in life. He concludes with wisdom on how to believe God for your future.
What are you reading that other Texas Baptists would find helpful? Send suggestions and reviews to books@baptiststandard.com. 03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs
Posted: 3/30/07
Baptist Briefs
Southwestern Seminary hires fundraiser. Robert Hawley of Prosper, former regional capital resource manager for LifeWay Christian Resources, has joined the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary staff as associate vice president for institutional advancement. Hawley began his fund-raising career as a pastor in California when he raised support for missions endeavors. He also has been vice president of sales training and operations for a communications company in Dallas, vice president of Stephen’s Children Foundation, chief administrator of the Christian Motorcyclists Association and president of Open Doors Ministry USA. Hawley holds a bachelor of arts degree from Mercer University in Macon, Ga., and a master of divinity degree from Talbot Theological Seminary in La Mirada, Calif.
Billy Graham’s grandson injured in Iraq. Capt. Edward Graham, Billy Graham’s grandson and evangelist Franklin Graham’s youngest son, sustained shrapnel wounds to his arms, legs and back in Iraq. Graham, a 27-year-old Army Ranger and West Point graduate, did not suffer life-threatening injuries and was recovering at an undisclosed hospital, according to news reports. He is one of four children of Franklin Graham and one of 19 grandchildren of evangelist Billy Graham.
03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Cartoon
Posted: 3/30/07
“I felt sorry for myself as a pastor without a youth pastor until I met a pastor without any youths to pastor.” 03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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2nd Opinion: Program changes Texas, life by life
Posted: 3/30/07
2nd Opinion:
Program changes Texas, life by lifeI have just returned from the first presentation service for Truett Theological Seminary’s Certificate Ministry Program on the seminary campus in Waco.
Ten students—men and women, black, white, Hispanics and people from all walks of life—were involved. One of our graduates is a police officer. Another one taught school for 30 years. All gave testimony of the wonderful benefits of this two-year home-study program. One week is spent in class on the Truett campus studying preaching. The other work is done at their own pace at their own home.
Carol Raulston of Whitney was the first person to complete the course. She is a mother of five children who paid for the course through a weekly deduction from her checking account. She ministers to women in crisis.
Tom Echols is a 60-year-old truck driver and bivocational pastor of Eagle’s Wing Baptist Church in Crowley. With tears in his eyes, he said: “This is the first time I’ve ever walked across the stage for anything. I quit school 40-plus years ago to go in the Army, so I never graduated from high school. Only eternity will tell how much this certificate ministry is going to do.” Tom was unable to pay for the course. He received a scholarship from Truett and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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DBU students build homes in South Carolina & South Dakota
Posted: 3/30/07
DBU students Adrienne Anderson (left) and Kayla Jones (right) install the plywood decking for the roof of the Habitat House in Sumter, S.C. (Photo by Gilda Alvarenga) DBU students build homes
in South Carolina & South DakotaBy Blake Killingsworth
Dallas Baptist University
DALLAS—Forty Dallas Baptist University students loaded into six vans before daylight on a recent Saturday to participate in the school’s annual Habitat for Humanity spring break mission trip.
One 21-member building crew headed east to Sumter, S.C., where the DBU team partnered for five days with students from the University of Wisconsin-Stout to work on a home for a young family with two children.
Students Minister at Spring Break
• Beach Reach volunteers immersed in missions service
• Baylor fraternity brothers serve God in the Ozarks
• DBU students build homes in South Carolina & South Dakota
• HBU students take local & global missions plunge
• ETBU nursing students put training into practice in Mexico
• Students find missions calling through BSM
• More than a day at the beach
03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Too many trips to the wedding altar may trip up presidential contenders
Posted: 3/30/07
Too many trips to the wedding altar
may trip up presidential contenders
By Adelle Banks
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)—When Southern Baptist public policy spokesman Richard Land sizes up the Republican presidential pack and factors in whether a candidate has been divorced, he thinks of marriage mathematics, not just morals.
“The progression from two to three … wives is not an arithmetic progression for evangelicals; it’s exponential,” said Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. “Three is at least one too many.”
03/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
