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Special teachers minister to special friends at West Texas church
Updated: 7/20/07
Benny Thompson (center), along with his wife, Martha, leads a Sunday school class for the mentally challenged at Corinth Baptist Church near Cisco. Special teachers minister to special
friends at West Texas churchBy George Henson
Staff Writer
CISCO—Corinth Baptist Church sits almost exactly halfway between Cisco and Eastland on an unpaved road. While it’s quite a way from any town, distance has not stopped the church from reaching arms of love to developmentally challenged adults throughout the region.
Martha Thompson and her husband, Benny, had taught a class of young couples for several years before they started a special friends class for developmentally challenged people five years ago.
07/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Jamaican pastor elected BWA general secretary in historic vote
Updated: 7/20/07
Jamaican pastor elected BWA
general secretary in historic voteBy Trennis Henderson
Kentucky Western Recorder
ACCRA, Ghana (ABP)—Neville Callam, a Jamaican pastor, theologian and author, was unanimously elected July 6 as the first non-white general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. He is also the 102-year-old alliance’s first leader not from the United States or Europe.
Callam, senior pastor of two congregations in Jamaica, is a former BWA vice president and former president of the Jamaica Baptist Union. Active in BWA for more than 20 years, he currently serves on its implementation task force, which restructures the organization’s work for the future.
New Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Neville Callam speaks at the BWA’s service of memory and reconciliation at Ghana’s Cape Coast Slave Castle. 07/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Floods pour in; Baptist love pours out
Updated: 7/20/07
Floods pour in; Baptist love pours out
By Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
WICHITA FALLS—As Texas Baptist Men volunteers cut out soaked sheetrock and carried out a ruined piano, organ and other debris from inside Primera Iglesia Bautista, members continued to worship—at a nearby funeral home.
The temporary church sanctuary has not stopped God from saving lives. Pastor Simon Flores believes holding worship services at the funeral home actually led two mothers to Christ.
First Baptist Church of Eastland member Carol Brittain holds two of the precious memories she saved from recent floods. Water rose 10 feet in her home, but Texas Baptist Men volunteers and the BGCT Disaster Response Team have moved quickly to help. 07/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Football trip focuses more on winning souls than on winning games
Posted: 7/12/07
Howard Payne University’s football team meets with a team from Finland during a trip to Scandinavia. Football trip focuses more on
winning souls than on winning gamesBy Abram Choate
Howard Payne University
BROWNWOOD—Howard Payne University’s football team scored big on a recent 10-day trip to Sweden and Finland, but the victories that meant the most didn’t happen on the gridiron.
The Howard Payne Yellow Jackets defeated the Swedish team, Tyresö Royal Crowns, 41-7, and the Finland Junior National Team, 68-0. But what mattered more to the Howard Payne athletes was having opportunities to share their lives and their Christian testimonies with European football players and fans.
Joey Renner carries the ball during one HPU's games in Scandinavia. 07/13/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Late-in-life parents count their blessings, beginning with their son
Posted: 7/12/07
Late-in-life parents count their
blessings, beginning with their sonBy Rebekah Hardage
Communications Intern
GARLAND—Greg and Lisa Ammons couldn’t believe it. After being told 18 years earlier that they were infertile, they learned they finally were going to have a baby.
The couple grew up in Boswell, Okla., and the childhood sweethearts married in 1985. Ammons, now pastor of First Baptist Church in Garland, was in seminary at that time, and it seemed like a good idea to wait before expanding their family.
Greg and Lisa Ammons with son Camden. 07/13/2007 - By John Rutledge
