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BGCT employees notified about layoffs
Posted: 10/04/07
Update: BGCT eliminates 29 staff positions by end of October
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
DALLAS—Twenty-nine Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board employees—almost 10 percent of the workforce—received notice Oct. 1-2 that their positions are being eliminated effective Oct. 31.
Of the 29 affected employees, 12 are program staff and 17 are in support and clerical roles.
See Related Article:
• BGCT Executive Board OKs reduced budget, staff reduction10/05/2007 - By John Rutledge
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California church leaders question IRS investigation into war sermon
Posted: 10/05/07
California church leaders question
IRS investigation into war sermonBy Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
PASADENA, Calif. (ABP)—The Internal Revenue Service has informed a California church it will not be sanctioned for an anti-war sermon preached there in 2004, but church leaders are asking for an apology for an investigation they believe may have been politically motivated.
Edwin Bacon, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., informed parishioners of the IRS decision during worship services Sept. 23. The church had been under investigation for potential fines or revocation of its tax-exempt status since 2005.
10/05/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Maciel inaugurated as BUA president; pledges commitment to servant leadership
Posted: 10/05/07
President René Maciel smiles during the closing recessional of his presidential inauguration at Baptist University of the Américas. Maciel is followed by Board Chair Phyllis Nichols, and (left to right in next row) Hulitt Gloer, Paul Powell, Charles Wade, Nelda Taylor and Baldemar Borrego. (Photos courtesy of BUA) Maciel inaugurated as BUA president;
pledges commitment to servant leadership
By Marv Knox
Editor
SAN ANTONIO—Service and leadership will be the themes of René Maciel’s tenure as the seventh president of Baptist University of the Américas, he stressed at his inauguration Sept. 28.
“We want to train our students to be servant-leaders,” Maciel said at First Mexican Baptist Church in San Antonio. The university exists to inform and empower servant-leaders so they can meet “the vast human needs in the world around them,” he added.
René Maciel speaks following his inauguration as president Baptist University of the Américas in San Antonio 10/05/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Wayland students demonstrate degree of difference
Posted: 10/05/07
Josh Smith, a Wayland senior from Anchorage, Alaska, cleans trash in the Plainview Cemetery during Degree of Difference Day. (Photos courtesy of Wayland Baptist University) Wayland students
demonstrate degree of differenceBy Teresa Young
Wayland Baptist University
PLAINVIEW—Students and staff from Wayland Baptist University fanned out across Plainview to paint the town—literally—during Degree of Difference Day.
Volunteers worked at 21 sites to help local agencies and churches by offering free labor for the day.
10/05/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Expatriate Baptist minister runs for Kenyan Parliament
Posted: 10/05/07
Peter Kioko, secretary general of the Kenya African National Union, congratulates Solomon Kimuyu as he emerges from a meeting of the political party after receiving the group’s nomination to represent Machakos town constituency in the Kenyan Parliament. (Photos courtesy of Solomon Kimuyu) Expatriate Baptist minister
runs for Kenyan ParliamentBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
DALLAS—A Kenyan Baptist minister who has lived in Texas more than 25 years appears likely to be elected to Parliament in his homeland.
Solomon Kimuyu has been nominated by the Kenya African National Union to represent Machakos township, about 35 miles east of Nairobi, in Kenya’s Parliament and serve as leader of the Akamba tribe.
Solomon Kimuyu, a Baptist minister who attended Hardin-Simmons University and earned degrees from Howard Payne University and Dallas Baptist University, will run for a seat in Kenya’s Parliament as the candidate of the Kenya African National Union. 10/05/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Howard Payne students serve community—with right motive
Posted: 10/05/07
Howard Payne students (left to right) Skyler Maley, Angel Journey, Chelsea Murphee and Jennifer Brock help plant flowers at CARES nursing home. (Photos courtesy of Howard Payne University) Howard Payne students serve
community—with right motiveLike a “swarm” of bees, Howard Payne University students busied themselves on a recent Saturday by meeting needs in the Brownwood area.
Students Tamatha Faircloth (left) and Tabitha Davies help paint at the Good Samaritan in Brownwood. About 130 Howard Payne students participated in SWARM—Serving With a Right Motive—a campus service project launched in 1997 and coordinated by the HPU Student Activities Council. Students completed a variety of jobs including painting, cleaning and yard work at service sites including the Boys & Girls Club, Brownwood Nursing and Rehab, the Brownwood Fire Department, Care Nursing Center; Family Services Center; First Baptist Church of Brownwood, the Girl Scouts, Good Samaritan, the Humane Society, Keep Brownwood Beautiful, the Loaves and Fishes ministry, Milton Avenue Baptist Church, Pecan Valley American Red Cross and The ARK.
Howard Payne University students David Lara and Brittany Buchanan visit with residents of the Brownwood Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. 10/05/2007 - By John Rutledge
