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Posted: 10/19/07
Dallas Baptist University professor of missions Bob Garrett led a prayer for safety, wisdom and stamina for Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Neville Callam during his visit to Dallas Baptist University as Dallas-area Baptist leaders gathered in prayer around him. Callam visited the campus as part of a multi-city tour he is undertaking to meet various BWA supporters in the United States. Callam addressed students during a chapel service and attended a luncheon in his honor. Around the State
• East Texas Baptist University will hold homecoming activities Oct. 24-28. The theme for this year will be “Fiesta de la Familia—Celebrating the Family.” There will be a number of special events including Saturday’s homecoming parade at 10:30 a.m. and the 1 p.m. kickoff of the football game versus Mississippi College. For more information, call (903) 923-2041.
• A children’s gala will be held Oct. 27 from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Cameron County Fairgrounds in San Benito to benefit Valley children through a pediatric emergency department at Valley Baptist Medical Center-Harlingen and the renovation of the pediatric unit at Valley Baptist in Brownsville. The family event will include a mini-rodeo, pony rides, petting zoo, a mechanical bull, music by the Texas Drifters, a dinner, live auction and a raffle. For tickets or more information, call (956) 389-1614.
Counting the Texas World Hunger Offering for Adamsville Church in Lampasas are Janice Hartley, left, and Treasurer Wanda Lang. The congregation collected $1,157 in plastic rice bowls, surpassing the $800 goal set by the church’s Women on Mission group. The amount was the most ever collected by the church for the hunger offering. Glynn Tyson is pastor. • Howard Payne University will induct three alumni into its sports hall of fame during homecoming activities Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. They include L.J. Clayton, a football player who went on to play in the Canadian Football League; David Gilger, who played both offense and defense for the 1956-60 football teams; and Dale Fisher, who played on the 1957-61 football teams.
• B.H. Carroll Theological Institute will hold its fall colloquy Nov. 26-27 at First Church in Arlington. Richard Swinburne will be the guest lecturer with “Is There a God?” as his theme. For registration costs and other information, call (817) 274-4284.
Anniversaries
10/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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BGCT annual meeting slated to feature Rick Warren, historic presidential election
Posted: 10/19/07
BGCT annual meeting slated to feature Rick Warren, historic presidential election
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
The Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting will feature Pastor Rick Warren and a historic presidential election as messengers elect either the first female BGCT president or the first second-generation BGCT president.
The meeting, themed “Together We Can Do More— Missions,” will be held Oct. 29-30 at the Amarillo Civic Center.
10/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs
Posted: 10/19/07
Baptist Briefs
Baptist Joint Committee looks for new property. Directors of the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty voted recently to engage a real-estate agent to identify property for the agency to purchase and renovate. The planned Center for Religious Liberty will provide offices, research space for visiting scholars, meeting space for legislative coalition partners and a training center. For decades, the Baptist Joint Committee has used a rented office suite on Capitol Hill in the Veterans of Foreign Wars building. Rent for the space has comprised more than 10 percent of the group’s annual budget in recent years.
Missouri Baptists join BJC. Directors of the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty voted to accept the Baptist General Convention of Missouri as a member organization. The statewide body—formed in 2001 as an alternative to the fundamentalist-controlled Missouri Baptist Convention—joins 14 other national and regional Baptist groups that support the BJC, including the Baptist General Convention of Texas. BJC directors also approved a $1.2 million budget for 2008, a slight increase over the 2007 budget of $1.15 million.
10/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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CBF council OKs UN anti-poverty goals, hears of year-end budget shortfall
Posted: 10/19/07
CBF council OKs UN anti-poverty goals,
hears of year-end budget shortfallBy Greg Warner
Associated Baptist Press
DECATUR, Ga. (ABP)—The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s governing board, at its mid-October meeting, endorsed the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, joining many governmental and religious bodies in the global fight against extreme poverty, hunger and disease.
Jack Glosgow, moderator-elect of the Fellowship and a pastor from Zebulon, N.C., said CBF will “demonstrate tremendous responsiveness” to the decision by its annual general assembly last June to pursue the UN goals.”
10/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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2nd Opinion: Prioritize equipping & edifying
Posted: 10/19/07
2nd Opinion:
Prioritize equipping & edifyingBy Woody Hambrick
The ‘‘Great Deception’’ within the church is the prevailing belief that evangelism itself is the answer to the unchurched state of our nation and the cure for the anti-Christian social agenda. Christians have institutionally neglected equipping and edifying the saints.
This is not to say no churches value discipleship. But you cannot deny our primary initiatives center on evangelism. We have mission boards that are well worth funding, but what about a discipleship board? We have some very well-prepared discipleship tools—but no real discipleship initiatives. Christians have focused the lion’s share of our energies, time and finances on the wrong impetus—outreach. Not that outreach is wrong in itself, but it should not be our first priority.
Most churches need to refocus on inreach rather than outreach. Yes, I am painting with a broad brush. But I am looking honestly at a nation that is no longer “one nation under God.” America is one nation under “self.” This change in emphasis from biblical values to moral relativism has been made possible by the failure of the local church. We must admit we collectively have failed as a church at the local level. This has not been a failure to evangelize. We often hear of salvations in large numbers. It is a failure to develop pure faith through equipping and edifying the saints.
10/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Struggling Corpus Christi church finds new lease on life, new purpose
Posted: 10/19/07
Families fellowship at the hot dog supper at Windsor Park Baptist Church's Vacation Bible School. Struggling Corpus Christi church
finds new lease on life, new purposeBy George Henson
Staff Writer
CORPUS CHRISTI—Even though at one time the church appeared so dead that it needed to post a “not for sale” sign, the faith of a core group has made a resurgence at Windsor Park Baptist Church possible.
Windsor Park was struggling when Pastor Grover Pinson and his wife, Jana, arrived last year. Only about 20 names remained on the membership rolls, and attendance averaged about a dozen. Even so, Pinson was excited about being the church’s pastor.
Pastor Grover Pinson holds a fish cookie at Vacation Bible School at Windsor Park Baptist Church, Corpus Christi. 10/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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DBU team hits home run with Guatemalan children
Posted: 10/19/07
DBU Head Baseball Coach Dan Heefner said the trip to Guate-mala was a highlight not only for his players, but also for himself. (Photos/Chris Hendricks/DBU) DBU team hits home run
with Guatemalan childrenBy George Henson
Staff Writer
DALLAS—The Dallas Baptist University baseball team and 40 other students recently returned from a four-day mission trip to Guatemala, and the picture etched in most of their minds is a child with a beaming smile.
The two groups embarked on several mission opportunities around Guatemala City, including visiting several orphanages, conducting baseball clinics for Guatemala’s Little League teams, and wrapping up each day with a game versus the Guatemalan national team as part of the university’s missions partnership with Buckner International.
Clay Kelly offers encouragement to a Guatemalan boy during a base-running drill. 10/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
