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Posted: 3/16/07
Texas Tidbits
Board OKs changes to scholarship program. The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board approved an increase in the amount of money given to each 2007 recipient of the Mary Hill Davis Ethnic/Minority Scholarship. Each full-time student will receive $800 a semester, double what was offered in 2006. Members of ethnic and minority congregations affiliated with the BGCT who are planning to attend a BGCT-affiliated university can apply for the scholarship by April 15. More information about the scholarship and an online application can be found at www.bgct.org. The application and information also can be obtained by calling Tom Ruane or Amber Young at (888) 244-9400. The scholarship is provided by funds through the Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas Missions.
Numbers add up for ETBU math scholarship. The Rutledge McClaran Mathematics Scholarship now honors the longtime mathematics professor and administrator at East Texas Baptist University. McClaran retired from full-time responsibilities last August, but he still is a part-time consultant at the university. He is an ETBU graduate and served on the faculty more than 41 years. He has been professor of mathematics, chair of the department of mathematics and computer science, academic dean, dean of instruction and dean of liberal arts. In 1989, he became the director of institutional planning, assessment and research. Gifts can be made to the McClaran Mathematics Scholarship by calling the ETBU office of institutional advancement at (903) 923-2070.
03/16/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Cybercolumn by Berry D. Simpson: Reading habits and expanded horizons
Posted: 3/16/07
CYBER COLUMN:
Reading habits and expanded horizonsBy Berry D. Simpson
I read books all the time. When I was a kid, we would go to the library once a week as a class, and I always checked out a book. I remember one year—I don’t remember which grade, I think fourth or fifth, or which teacher, Morris or Henry, but I can picture the layout of the library in my mind—the librarian telling us boys to stick to Boys Life magazine and stop looking at the pictures in Seventeen. She also told me I should read something different. She thought I was reading too many books about war. She thought I should branch out a bit.
Berry D. Simpson I remember thinking at the time, in my smart-alecky boy logic, that I was reading more books and thicker books than anyone else in class, certainly more books than any other boy, and shouldn’t my teacher have been satisfied with that? Why did she have to boss me around about which book I was reading, especially when this was leisure reading and not book-report reading?
03/16/2007 - By John Rutledge
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NAE rebuffs Bush administration in joining anti-torture statement
Posted: 3/16/07
NAE rebuffs Bush administration
in joining anti-torture statement
By Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (ABP)—The nation’s umbrella group for evangelicals has endorsed a statement that takes aim at the Bush administration’s alleged use of torture in the war on terrorism.
Directors of the National Association of Evangelicals have endorsed a document called “An Evangelical Declaration Against Torture: Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Terror.” The endorsement came at the board’s March 8-9 meeting in Minnesota.
03/16/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Terror victims receive relief for soles, hope for souls
Updated: 3/15/07
Staff and volunteers with Russian Ministries, a partner of Buckner and Shoes for Orphan Souls, personally delivered shoes to children in Beslan and Chechnya which helped open doors for further Christian ministry in the mostly Muslim-populated region. (Photos courtesy of Russian Ministries) Terror victims receive relief for soles, hope for souls
By Russ Dilday
Buckner International
Thousands of children in war-torn regions of Beslan, Russia, and Grozny, Chechnya, recently received thousands of pairs of shoes donated through the Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls drive.
Russian Ministries, a Christian group that collaborates with Buckner for ministry, distributed the shoes as part of a larger evangelistic effort to reach children and their families in the mostly Muslim-populated areas with the message of Christ.
Children orphaned by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 1, 2004 in Beslan received new shoes last December thanks to the Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls shoe drive. 03/15/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baugh’s witness, generosity recalled
Updated: 3/15/07
Baugh's witness, generosity recalled
By Greg Warner
Associated Baptist Press
HOUSTON (ABP)—“‘There was a man sent from God whose name was John,’” Daniel Vestal told about 800 people at a Houston memorial service for Baptist philanthropist John Baugh March 8.
Quoting the biblical description of John the Baptist from the Gospel of John, Vestal said the life of John Baugh had parallels to the New Testament prophet of the same name.
John Baugh and his wife, Eula Mae 03/15/2007 - By John Rutledge
