Marketing project benefits UMHB students, Central Texas churches

Posted: 6/29/07

Marketing project benefits UMHB
students, Central Texas churches

By George Henson

Staff Writer

BELTON—A semester-long partnership between marketing students at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and five churches in Williamson Baptist Association received a passing grade from all involved.

Clint Anderson, director of missions for the association, initially conceived the project. The first semester of the year, the students helped the association with market research, with an eye toward putting a marketing plan together for the association the second semester.

06/29/2007 - By John Rutledge

Kids Hope USA program starts at first Hispanic churches

Posted: 6/29/07

Kids Hope USA program
starts at first Hispanic churches

By Rebekah Hardage

Communications Intern

DALLAS—The high school dropout rate among Hispanics in Texas is almost 50 percent, but two North Texas churches are doing their part to change that statistic.

Through Buckner Children and Family Services’ Kids Hope USA program, Iglesia Bautista Getsemani in Fort Worth and Primera Iglesia Bautista in Arlington have committed to mentor children in elementary schools. They are the first Hispanic congregations to participate in the national initiative.

06/29/2007 - By John Rutledge

CYBER COLUMN by Jinny Henson: You are my prize

Posted: 6/29/07

CYBER COLUMN:
You are my prize

By Jinny Henson

I want to clear up something,

I think you have mis-heard

06/29/2007 - By John Rutledge

California Southern Baptists create competing state convention

Posted: 6/26/07

California Southern Baptists
create competing state convention

By Hannah Elliott & Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (ABP)—Southern Baptists in California have started a new alternative state convention that will compete with the 67-year-old California Southern Baptist Convention for denominational loyalty.

California is the fourth state to witness such a move, joining Texas, Missouri and Virginia. In those states, alternative Baptist conventions have resulted in competition with the established conventions for contributions and membership.

06/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

Baptist newspapers, ABP create new media venture

Posted: 6/28/07

Baptist newspapers, ABP
create new media venture

By Hannah Elliott

Associated Baptist Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP)—The Baptist Standard has joined with three other Baptist communication organizations to form a new media venture that will collaborate on expansive websites, print publications and other media options for Baptists.

The partnership, tentatively called NeoVox, currently includes Associated Baptist Press and the historic Baptist newspapers of three states—the Baptist Standard of Texas, the Religious Herald of Virginia, and Word & Way of Missouri.

06/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for July 8: Faith and hope when we don’t understand

Posted: 6/27/07

BaptistWay Bible Series for July 8

Faith and hope when we don’t understand

• Job 40:3-9; 42:1-12

Bible Studies for Life Series for July 8: Finding a place of service

Posted: 6/27/07

Bible Studies for Life Series for July 8

Finding a place of service

• Acts 6:1-7; 9:36-43; 11:29-30

Explore the Bible Series for July 8: Abundant life begins with commitment

Posted: 6/27/07

Explore the Bible Series for July 8

Abundant life begins with commitment

• Haggai 1:1-2:23

KidsHeart volunteers say God worked miracles with Kool-Aid and crafts

Posted: 6/27/07

KidsHeart volunteers say God worked
miracles with Kool-Aid and crafts

By Whitney Farr

Communications Intern

EL PASO—As Hubert Jones and his missions team entered the impoverished Sparks Colonia on the outskirts of El Paso, he questioned whether the church group could make an impact.

But as he mentally began to list all his inadequacies, a group of small children behind him started to sing, “My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there’s nothing my God cannot do.”

The kids in colonias near Fort Hancock were all smiles as they recieved their new shoes, donated by Buckner International's Shoes for Orphan Souls, and ate hotdogs with the volunteers.

06/27/2007 - By John Rutledge

Religion, social issues prominent in GOP debate

Posted: 6/26/07

Religion, social issues prominent in GOP debate

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—Evolution, abortion rights and other issues important to religious conservatives reared their heads once again in the third debate between Republican presidential candidates.

Following a question that made headlines at the first GOP debate a month earlier, one of the debate moderators asked specific candidates about their views on evolution. At the previous debate, three had raised their hands when asked if they did not believe in evolution.

06/25/2007 - By John Rutledge

Huckabee denounces influence of cash, evolution queries in GOP race

Posted: 6/26/07

Huckabee denounces influence
of cash, evolution queries in GOP race

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—If conservative Christian voters want to know why a Baptist preacher is being bested in the GOP primary polls by three candidates who have had rocky relationships with the Religious Right, they need to look at the bottom line, Mike Huckabee said.

“Pure and simple, it’s money,” the former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful said. “But the sad thing is that money is driving the media’s perception of it.”

06/25/2007 - By John Rutledge

Democratic hopefuls respond to queries on faith

Posted: 6/26/07

Democratic hopefuls respond to queries on faith

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)—On national television, John Edwards admitted that he sins every day, Barack Obama said there’s “a biblical injunction” to give prisoners the tools they need to rehabilitate themselves, and Hillary Clinton said the support of “prayer warriors” had helped her get through the most difficult times of her marriage and life.

It wasn’t a church service. It was a first-of-its-kind forum on faith, values and poverty for the top three contenders for the Democrats’ 2008 presidential nomination. It was also, some observers said, further evidence that the Democratic Party is trying to regain ground it has ceded to the Republicans among voters who are active Christians.

06/25/2007 - By John Rutledge