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Baylor prof Beckwith becomes Catholic, resigns as head of evangelical society
Posted: 5/11/07
Baylor prof Beckwith becomes Catholic,
resigns as head of evangelical societyBy Greg Warner
Associated Baptist Press
WACO (ABP)—Evangelical philosopher Francis Beckwith has become a Roman Catholic and, as a result, has resigned as president—and as a member—of the Evangelical Theological Society.
Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies at Baylor University, said the decision he made to seek “full communion” with the Roman Catholic Church grew from his desire to find “historical and theological continuity” with the early Christian church.
Francis Beckwith 05/15/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptists minister to Cactus tornado victims
Updated: 5/11/07
Texas Baptists minister to Cactus tornado victims
By Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
DUMAS—Clutching his Bible to his chest, Saul Monreal lay on the floor of his trailer home as the April 21 tornado roared through Cactus. He prayed for his life.
Moving to Cactus a month ago for a job with a meat processing plant, Monreal had lived in his new trailer only a few days before the violent storm hit. He didn’t know many people in the community of 2,500 people.
Texas Baptists minister to disaster victims like Saul Monreal who was injured in the Cactus tornado. He lost his home in the storm. (Photos by Barbara Bedrick/BGCT) 05/11/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptists minister in Piedras Negras
Updated: 5/11/07
Texas Baptists minister in Piedras Negras
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico—Juan Molina can’t remember the last tornado that hit Eagle Pass or Piedras Negras, Mexico, prior to the one that swept through the area last month.
So, when it started to rain April 24, he thought it was another spring shower. Hours later, he was huddled with his pregnant wife and their 1-year-old daughter on the floor of their mobile home watching a tornado peel off the roof of their house.
BGCT Congregational Strategist Noe Trevino, who helped coordinate Texas Baptist disaster response in the area, delivers supplies. 05/11/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Tornado blessings astound Tulia couple as Baptists provide relief
Updated: 5/11/07
A bulldozer prepares to remove the heavily damaged Ellis family trailer home following a tornado that hit Tulia. (Photos by Barbara Bedrick/BGCT) Tornado blessings astound Tulia
couple as Baptists provide reliefBy Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
TULIA—As Nancy and Kerbow Ellis return to teach at their West Texas classrooms, they do so with a newfound understanding of how their faith overcomes all adversity.
Nancy and Kerbow Ellis insist they’ve been blessed in the aftermath of a tornado that destroyed their home. They are one of four Tulia families to receive BGCT disaster response assistance. The Tulia couple—both schoolteachers— lost their home to a tornado April 21, but they insist God has blessed them in allowing them to survive the storm and its wrath. They were in Amarillo at a concert instead of at home when the tornado hit.
05/11/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Federal panel decries Iraq’s religious-freedom record
Updated: 5/11/07
Federal panel decries Iraq’s
religious-freedom recordBy Robert Marus
ABP Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON (ABP)—For the first time since the United States overthrew Saddam Hussein four years ago, a non-partisan federal panel said May 2 that religious freedom in Iraq is gravely endangered.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, in its annual report to Congress and President Bush’s administration, said the conditions for religious freedom in Iraq are “alarming and deteriorating.”
05/11/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist nurse retraces steps of pioneer missionary in Nigeria
Updated: 5/11/07
The 300 residents of Mission of Mercy Orphanage in Otutulu, Nigeria, enjoy new toothbrushes that were just part of the extensive health evaluation and treatment they received from a CERI volunteer team that included nurse Kerrie Snow. (CERI photo by Kerrie Snow) Baptist nurse retraces steps of
pioneer missionary in NigeriaBy Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
OTUTULU, Nigeria—Squinting against the glare of the tropical sun and the dust hanging in the air, Kerrie Snow couldn’t help but imagine it was 125 years earlier. Instead of an Australian-born Baptist nurse from Houston, she was a “wee Scottish woman” known as “the White Ma of Africa.”
“Many years ago, I had the joy of being the missionary story lady for several years during Vacation Bible School,” she explained. “Two summers, I told about how Mary Slessor had to deal with some formidable Nigerian tribal leaders in the late 1880s. I never dreamed that someday I would find myself also going to meet an Eje—which means ‘aggressive and powerful like the hyena’—representing a faith he didn’t share.”
In a face-to-face encounter with a Nigerian tribal chief, Kerrie Snow was thrilled to explain to the Muslim how Christians were assisting the orphans in his area. (CERI Photo) 05/11/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Abstinence program draws support in Del Rio
Updated: 5/14/07
Strong gusty winds at Right Choices for Life's first Family Fun Day in Del Rio complicated but didn’t lower the fun level as these basketball players quickly learned. (Photos by Craig Bird/BCFS) Abstinence program draws support in Del Rio
By Melissa Gonzales
Baptist Child & Family Services
DEL RIO—In Del Rio, the Right Choices for Life program is redefining “everybody’s doing it”—turning peer pressure into positive influence.
More than 90 percent of the South Texas city’s eighth grade students—720 out of 795—signed up for Right Choices for Life, a Baptist Child & Family Services program geared toward helping teenagers abstain from premarital sex and illegal drugs.
05/11/2007 - By John Rutledge
