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CHICAGO (RNS)—Most physicians say religion and spirituality have a significant impact on health, according to a new study, while just 6 percent of doctors believe religion or spirituality changed “hard” medical outcomes.

The survey, part of a University of Chicago study published by the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed more than half (54 percent) of doctors said “God or another supernatural being” can intervene in a patient’s health.

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

Families urgently needed to adopt Russian orphans

Posted: 4/27/07


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Families urgently needed
to adopt Russian orphans

By Analiz González

Buckner International

ALLAS—Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services urgently needs to find families for Russian orphans who soon will age out of orphanage care.

Once the children turn 16, they can’t be adopted internationally. In essence, that means they won’t get adopted at all, said Debbie Wynne, director of Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services.

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For more information on adopting children internationally through Buckner, contact Phil Brinkmeyer or Irina Shytova at (214) 381-1552 or call toll-free(866) 236-7823

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptists offer relief to victims of widespread storms

Posted: 4/27/07

Texas Baptist Men responded to help victims of storms that struck across the state in April.

Texas Baptists offer relief to
victims of widespread storms

By Barbara Bedrick

Texas Baptist Communications

From suburban Fort Worth to the Panhandle plains to the Rio Grande, Texas Baptists provided disaster relief after a series of violent storms swept through the state.

High winds, heavy rain and a tornado killed two people and damaged more than 150 homes in Tarrant County April 13, and another storm system followed a similar path 11 days later. Haltom City, just north of Fort Worth, experienced some of the worst damage from the first wave of storms.

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

Texas Tidbits

Posted: 4/27/07

Texas Tidbits

Scholarships endowed at Wayland. Three families recently endowed scholarships at Wayland Baptist University. The McDougal Scholarship honors Delbert and Carolyn McDougal of Lubbock. He served more than 10 years on the Wayland board of trustees, including service as chairman and vice chairman of the board and chairman of the property management committee. The Norman and Louise Wright Scholarship, established by their children, honors longtime members of First Baptist Church in Plainview. He served on Wayland’s board of trustees. The Bill and Nell Hardage Scholarship was begun with gifts provided by the Hardages and completed with memorial gifts made at the time of his death one year ago. He was associated with Wayland more than 40 years—first as a student and member of the track and field team, and then later as a coach and administrator. He served, at various times, as director of special services, academic vice president, advancement vice president and executive vice president.

Foundation grants scholarship to Wayland San Antonio. Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio made a $60,000 scholarship gift for the 2007-2008 academic year to the San Antonio campus of Wayland Baptist University. The funds will be available for local students in the undergraduate nursing program, and in the master’s- level Christian ministry and counseling degree programs. The gift is a $10,000 increase over last year.

Estate gift benefits Howard Payne. Howard Payne University’s Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom will receive about $1.7 million for scholarships from the estate of Terry and Ouida Dunsworth of Bedford. With the addition of this gift, the academy’s total endowment is valued at $7 million, said Howard Payne President Lanny Hall.

Baptist communicators honored. Public relations representatives from several Texas-based Baptist agencies and institutions were honored in the Wilmer C. Fields Awards competition, sponsored by the Baptist Communicators Association. The marketing and public relations office at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor received the exceptional achievement award in interactive communications and first place in the website division. Miranda Bradley of Children at Heart Ministries won first place for a single feature article and second place for a series in the newspaper or newsletter division. Erin Tooley with Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas won first place in the poster or flyer division and first place for a direct mail kit or campaign. Dallas-based Guidestone Financial Resources’ communications department won first place in the special events category, and Guidestone’s Lisa Hennington won first place in the single direct mail category.

New director for Laity Lodge named. The H. E. Butt Foundation has named Steven Purcell director of the Laity Lodge Christian retreat center. Purcell, a native Texan, is a former managing director of Schloss Mittersill, a Christian retreat and conference center in Austria with ties to Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Owned and operated by the H.E. Butt Foundation, Laity Lodge has been presenting adult retreats since 1961 at its 1,900-acre facility in the Texas Hill Country.

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

TOGETHER: Simple ideas put emphasis on missions

Posted: 4/27/07

TOGETHER:
Simple ideas put emphasis on missions

A group of Texas and world Baptist leaders put missions at the top of their agendas last week when they met for a Missions Exchange in Waco. The discussion generated many great ideas—some big and strategic, others small and practical. Here’s a sampling:

• Encourage pastors to place a world map on their desks to remind them the whole world should be on the heart and mind of the church.

Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board

• Have a missions website with a global map that helps people connect with efforts being done by churches and institutions and with ways for people to discover where they could get involved.

• Understand missions must be done from the inside out, with people first gaining an internal passion for missions before it is expressed in an outward fashion. Help churches discover their “Mission DNA” and call members to a missions lifestyle.

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

Six Baptist-affiliated students among 32 dead at Virginia Tech

Posted: 4/27/07

Six Baptist-affiliated students
among 32 dead at Virginia Tech

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP)—At least six of the 32 dead in the April 16 massacre at Virginia Tech had ties to Baptist churches in Virginia, Baptist leaders in the state said.

Here is what is known about the six with Baptist ties, based in part on reporting by MSNBC:

• Brian Bluhm, 25, was active in the Baptist collegiate ministries at Virginia Tech and attended Blacksburg Baptist Church, adjacent to the campus. Bluhm, who received a degree in civil engineering, was preparing to defend his graduate thesis about water resources. Born in Iowa and raised in Detroit, he already had accepted a job in Baltimore. Bluhm’s parents moved to Winchester, Va., while he was in school, so Blacksburg became his real home, said Bluhm’s close friend Michael Marshall of Richmond, Va.

Bluhm was an ardent fan of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, which announced his death before last Tuesday’s game against Kansas City. “He went to a game last weekend and saw them win, and I’m glad he did,” Marshall said. Bluhm also loved Virginia Tech’s Hokies football team and often traveled to away games with a close group of friends.

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

Tech students gather at Baptist campus center

Posted: 4/27/07

Tech students gather at Baptist campus center

By Jim White

Virginia Religious Herald

BLACKSBURG, Va. (ABP)—As the sun began to set and the wind continued to howl over a wounded campus and city, Virginia Tech students gathered for prayer, comfort and counseling at the school’s Baptist student center.

Blacksburg, the small city that houses the university’s 26,000-plus students, was even quieter than usual the night after a massacre unprecedented in American history. The gunman, who shot 32 students and professors and then took his own life, also had silenced the usually bustling activity on the commercial strips around the sprawling campus’s edges.

Virginia Tech students who gathered at the Baptist ministry center in Blacksburg cried, prayed and hugged. (Jim White/Religious Herald)

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

Texas students pray, remember peers at Virginia Tech

Posted: 4/27/07

University of Mary Hardin-Baylor student Sarah-Jane Saunders prays for grieving people at Virginia Tech. Several dozen faculty, staff and students gathered at UMHB to hold a special prayer service the day after the deadly shooting at Virginia Tech. (UMHB photo by Randy Yandell)

Texas students pray, remember
peers at Virginia Tech

By Barbara Bedrick

Texas Baptist Communications

USTIN—A week after the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, Texas Baptist college students continued to gather in chapels, sing tributes and pray for the families of the victims, students, faculty and staff.

In a special tribute to the victims and their families, the Dallas Baptist University Chorale—already scheduled to perform at Washington National Cathedral’s “Texas Day” celebration April 22—was asked to provide prelude music for a procession that included Virginia Tech officials and alumni. They placed 33 candles at the foot of the altar—one for each victim and one for the man who killed them, Seung-Hui Cho.

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

NO EASY ANSWERS: Campus ministers struggle to explain the inexplicable

Posted: 4/27/07

Grieving students join thousands of their peers in the football stadium at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., for a convocation and speech by President Bush following a shooting rampage on campus. (Newhouse/Matt Rainey/The Star-Ledger)

NO EASY ANSWERS:
Campus ministers struggle
to explain the inexplicable

By Kevin Eckstrom

Religion News Service

Sometimes, answers to the tough questions just don’t come, campus ministers at Virginia Tech insist. When they do, they don’t come easily. And they often come up short.

As ministers and counsel-ors descended on Virginia Tech to offer comfort and consolation in the tragedy’s immediate aftermath, they said it was still too early to try to make sense of it all. There will be time enough for that.

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge

Cartoon

Posted: 4/27/07

04/28/2007 - By John Rutledge