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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 10/26/07
Texas Tidbits
Search committee interviews candidates. The committee searching for the next Baptist General Convention of Texas executive director is in the process of interviewing candidates. The committee plans to meet with about 10 candidates, and several interviews have been completed, said Chairman Ken Hugghins. The committee has determined it will fulfill its appointed task of putting forth an executive director nomination and will not suggest the BGCT Executive Board seek an intentional interim executive director, he said. BGCT Executive Director Charles Wade has announced he will retire at the end of January.
BGCT budget workshop planned. David Nabors, chief financial officer and treasurer of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, will lead a workshop about the proposed 2008 budget at 10 a.m., Oct. 29, during the BGCT annual meeting in Amarillo. The workshop is titled “How are We Doing More Together Through the Cooperative Program?” Nabors will talk about the ministries supported through the BGCT Cooperative Program and answer questions regarding the proposed budget. The workshop will be in Room 110 of the Amarillo Civic Center.
10/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Details about the ’08 budget process
Posted: 10/26/07
TOGETHER:
Details about the ’08 budget processBaptists love to do our Lord’s work. Generally, we would much rather focus on that work than on the detailed finances that lie behind the work of missions, evangelism and ministry.
This year, in Texas Baptist life, the reality of our financial situation has seized our attention. As messengers prepare to consider the proposed 2008 budget, it is good to share some details about this process.
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The past few years, we have had to deal with basically a flat rate of growth in Cooperative Program giving. In 2000-01, we lost about $5 million in CP giving as more than 400 churches pulled away from the BGCT. That stabilized in 2002, and CP giving began to grow slightly over the next years.
As we have restructured our staff, there has been a time of transition in which we have moved people to new assignments, emphasized getting our staff into the field and closer to the churches and their concerns, and committed ourselves to be servants of the local churches.
10/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Where your treasure is…
Posted: 10/26/07
Where your treasure is…
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Advocates of Christian education and human care institutions insist their ministries represent the best example of what Texas Baptists can accomplish when they work together. But they fear what budget decisions over the last decade mean for the future of cooperative giving.
Changes in accounting make direct comparisons somewhat difficult. Some institutions and ministries—such as Baptist University of the Americas and chaplaincy—have moved from one funding category to another in recent years.
• See chart of CP funding of education institutions below 10/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Students explore world of opportunities during Mary Hardin-Baylor missions week
Posted: 10/26/07
Students explore world of opportunities
during Mary Hardin-Baylor missions weekBy Carol Woodward
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
BELTON—Students who wanted to know how God could use an accountant or an athlete on the mission field found answers to their questions during Mission Emphasis Week at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Oct. 22-26.
Lori Brown, who serves with Sports Plus in Kenya, told students she asked the same questions when she was in college. She wanted to be involved in missions, but she wondered how or where God could use her.
UMHB student Amanda Foss listens as Twyla Bell describes how children in Tanzania make their own soccer balls out of pieces of material and twine. (Photo/Carol Woodward/UMHB) 10/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Yale panelists ask: ‘Is there a theological foundation for political engagement?’
Posted: 10/26/07
Yale panelists ask: ‘Is there a theological
foundation for political engagement?’By Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (ABP)—Theologians, lawyers, pastors and ethicists shared their views on the theological foundations of political engagement during a recent exchange at Yale Divinity School.
The daylong event, called “Voices & Votes II: Shaping a New Moral Agenda,” was co-sponsored by Sojourners, Christianity Today and The Christian Century.
Greg Boyd 10/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Cybercolumn by Berry D. Simpson: All my strength
Posted: 10/26/07
CYBER COLUMN:
All my strengthBy Berry Simpson
Since last spring, I’ve been walking every day for an hour, instead of running, hoping to let my left knee heal a bit more. My goal was to keep walking until I got my weight down to 190 pounds, and then start running again as a new, lighter, more nimble Berry. Through the hot summer months, I put in lots of miles walking in the neighborhoods around Cowden Park.
I did drop about 10 pounds during the summer, putting me consistently in the “1’s” instead of the “2’s,” so that was good. But my knee felt the same all summer long: it never got better, and it never got worse.
Berry D. Simpson During a Labor Day backpacking trip into the Guadalupes, I was confronted with the flaw in my plan. Walking had kept my legs strong, and lifting weights kept my upper body strong enough to carry a 68-pound pack up to Pine Top, but walking didn’t do anything for my lungs. On the hike up to Pine Top, I had to stop too often to catch my breath. I was surprised how short-winded I’d become.
So why was I walking so much was the question I couldn’t’ answer. My knee felt the same, and I was losing fitness.
10/26/2007 - By John Rutledge
