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‘Comfortable’ Christians lose touch with the world, Mosaic pastor insists
Posted: 3/09/07
‘Comfortable’ Christians lose touch
with the world, Mosaic pastor insistsBy Norman Jameson
North Carolina Baptist State Convention
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP)—Unlike most pastors, Erwin McManus is more comfortable talking to people outside the church than he is to rooms full of Christians, like the ones at the recent North Carolina Baptist State Convention evangelism conference.
McManus, an El Salvador native who went to high school and college in North Carolina, today leads Mosaic—a congregation that doesn’t call itself a church and meets in a nightclub and several other locations in Los Angeles.
Erwin McManus 03/09/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist agency offers PAL to young adults leaving foster care
Posted: 3/09/07
WhenTerri Hipps cut the ribbon to officially open the Kerrville Transition Center the accompanying smiles were for the symbolic action and because after 30 minutes in biting cold everyone could go inside. (Photos by Craig Bird) Baptist agency offers PAL
to young adults leaving foster care
By Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
KERRVILLE—Baptist Child & Family Services has opened Texas’ first Preparation for Adult Living support program outside of urban areas for youths aging out of foster care.
The Kerrville Transition Center will serve hundreds of foster and at-risk youth ages 15 to 23 across a large swath of the Hill Country, including Boerne, Comfort, Fredericksburg, Junction, Leakey and Medina.
David Sprouse, a Baptist Child & Family Services trustee and a physician in Kerrville, gets down on a child’s level at the reception following the grand opening of the Kerrville Transition Center. 03/09/2007 - By John Rutledge
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CYBER COLUMN by Jinny Henson: Thank God he’s no helicopter parent
Posted: 3/09/06
CYBER COLUMN:
Thank God he's no helicopter parentBy Jinny Henson
On a flight from DFW to Chicago not long ago, I heard the most audacious example yet of helicopter parenting—a term used to describe the hovering nature of parents engineering their child’s every situation to create a positive result. Blame it on the vapid competition today’s children face or our parental thirst for validation, but these days some parents are hovering; paving the way and quick to indulge.
Jinny Henson Behind me was a mother in her late 30s attempting to instruct her son in California via cell phone how to properly load cartridges into his new Nintendo D.S. player. She had him read the directions to her twice and offered her take on them. The Nintendo, it seems, has a space for both Nintendo games and its forerunner, Game Boy game cartridges. Oddly enough, the Granny Nanny taking care of the kids was of absolutely no assistance. Imagine that.
03/09/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptists’ post-Katrina efforts in Louisiana still under way
Updated: 3/02/07
Baptists’ post-Katrina efforts
in Louisiana still under way
By Carla Wynn
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
LACOMBE, La. (ABP)—It’s been a long road for the home of Loretta and Samuel Ducre of Lacombe, La.
Their original home is gone—destroyed in August 2005 when Hurricane Katrina mauled the Gulf Coast. And its replacement, built and furnished by volunteers, has been on its way for nearly a year.
Lacombe resident Shovie Ducre talks with CBF of Louisiana disaster response volunteer Mary Beth Thomas in August. Ducre's home was among the first restore by Fellowship volunteers in Lacombe. (Photo by Carla Wynn) 03/03/2007 - By John Rutledge
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If heaven is filled with music, Larner arrived early
Updated: 3/02/07
Linda Elston helps her mother, Bernice Larner, celebrate 70 years as a church pianist. If heaven is filled with music,
Bernice Larner arrived early
By George Henson
Staff Writer
MORGAN MILL—For the last 70 years, Sunday mornings have found Bernice Larner at a church piano bench. And she’s been blessed with every hymn she’s played, including her favorite, “He Keeps Me Singing.”
In addition to 62 years at Morgan Mill Baptist Church, Larner also was pianist for a church in Odessa for four years in the mid-1950s and in Azle for four years in the late-1960s.
03/03/2007 - By John Rutledge
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ETBU international students offer global perspective
Updated: 3/02/07
ETBU international students offer
community a global perspective
By Mike Midkiff
East Texas Baptist University
MARSHALL—International students at East Texas Baptist University gave Marshall-area children and university students a glimpse into their native lands during an on-campus international fair.
At an international fair at East Texas Baptist University, Youling (Judy) Yu, a visiting scholar from Lanzhou University of Technology of China, gives instruction in origami to teacher-education student Debbie Darville of Marshall. The university’s international education office invited children’s missions and Bible groups from East Texas churches to the fair.
03/03/2007 - By John Rutledge
