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East Texas volunteer warms hearts—and heads—of Moldovan orphans
Posted: 8/13/07
East Texas volunteer warms hearts
—and heads—of Moldovan orphansBy Whitney Farr
Communications Intern
TYLER—Beth Rowley has knit 100 wool stocking caps. Only 2,900 left to go.
Mrs. Rowley isn’t shooting for the Guinness Book of World Records, but she is working overtime to make 3,000 wool hats for orphaned children in Moldova before the next snowfall.
Beth Rowley of Tyler is using her knitting machine to make thousands of caps for orphans in Moldova. 08/13/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Academy’s centennial focuses on future
Posted: 8/10/07
Academy's centennial focuses on future
By George Henson
Staff Writer
SAN MARCOS—San Marcos Academy is celebrating its centennial this year with a glance at the past but with the future firmly in sight.
The centennial celebration theme is 100 Years of Light, Academy President Victor Schmidt noted.
San Marcos Academy President Victor Schmidt stands beside the future site of an alumni plaza on the San Marcos campus. (Photo by George Henson) 08/10/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Northeast Texas churches provide medical missions in Guatemala
Posted: 8/10/07
Northeast Texas churches provide
medical missions in GuatemalaBy Rebekah Hardage
Communications Intern
MOUNT PLEASANT—A team of volunteer missionaries from First Baptist Church in Mount Pleasant and First Baptist Church in Texarkana traveled to Guatemala this summer to offer general medical assistance, perform surgeries and share the gospel.
Gerald Stagg, a pediatrician in Mount Pleasant, and his family went on a similar trip last year with the Texarkana church.
Gerald Stagg, a pediatrician from Mount Pleasant, helped care for many adults during a volunteer medical mission to Guatemala. 08/10/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Cowboy church moves from horse trough to lake for baptism
Posted: 8/10/07
Pastor Gary Morgan from the Cowboy Church of Ellis County baptizes a new convert. In the background are some of the several hundred people from the church who came to the baptismal service at Lake Waxahachie. (Photo by Toby Druin) Cowboy church moves from
horse trough to lake for baptismBy Toby Druin
Editor Emeritus
WAXAHACHIE—The Cowboy Church of Ellis County baptized 64 new converts at Lake Waxahachie July 29.
Pastor Gary Morgan performed the baptisms, assisted by several lay pastors and elders from the church.
08/10/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Summit at DBU offers help for children’s ministers
Posted: 8/10/07
Tommy Sanders, director of the master’s-level program in childhood ministry at Dallas Baptist University, leads a conference during the recent Childhood Ministry Summit at DBU. (Photo by Whitney Farr) Summit at DBU offers help
for children’s ministersBy Whitney Farr
Communications Intern
DALLAS—It’s what all Baptist churches should have—potluck dinners, ice cream socials, Sunday school parties…and Bar Mitzvahs?
Veteran children’s minister Tommy Sanders, now director of the graduate program in childhood ministry at Dallas Baptist University, believes Baptist Bar Mitzvahs are just what pre-teens need to help provide special attention during the transition from adolescence to young-adulthood.
08/10/2007 - By John Rutledge
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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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