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Posted: 1/19/07
Texas Tidbits
Hispanic Mission Network to debut. Leaders of Hispanic Texas Baptist churches that are engaging members in missions—along with representatives from Baptist University of the Americas, WorldconneX and Buckner International—will launch a Hispanic Mission Network at the Hispanic Evangelism Conference, Feb. 2-3 in San Antonio. Participants plan to conduct a global/local mission project within the network’s first year that could provide a model for Hispanic church involvement. About 30 Hispanic leaders and missions practitioners met at Baptist University of the Americas recently for a Plaza Global two-day event to discuss the network and explore emerging trends in global missions.
Hardin-Simmons, ETBU athletic trainers honored. The athletic training staffs at Hardin-Simmons University and East Texas Baptist University each were named by their peers as division winners of the American Southwest Conference athletic training staff of the year awards for 2005-06. Hardin-Simmons was presented the west division award, and ETBU took the east division honor. The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor won the west division honor the previous academic year.
01/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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BGCT intercultural mission trip slated for Vancouver
Posted: 1/19/07
Up to 40,000 Japanese call Vancouver home, and Pastor Yutaka Takarada wants Texas Baptists to partner with Canadian Baptist counterparts to reach them. BGCT intercultural mission
trip slated for VancouverBy Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS—When Yutaka Takarada flew to Vancouver, British Columbia, last year, he found ample salmon, Japanese restaurants and views of the harbor.
But what he didn’t see worried him. Even though Vancouver has a sizeable Japanese population, the president of the Japanese Southern Baptist Churches of America couldn’t find many Japanese Baptist churches.
01/19/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Carter, Clinton use convocation to call Baptists to compassion
Posted: 1/09/07
Carter, Clinton use convocation
to call Baptists to compassionBy Marv Knox & Greg Warner
ATLANTA—Baptists from across North America will convene in Atlanta early next year to emphasize compassion rather than the racial, theological and social conflict that has divided them for 160 years.
Headed by former U.S presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton—two of the world’s most famous Baptist laymen—about 80 leaders of 40 Baptist organizations gathered at the Carter Center in Atlanta Jan. 9 to announce the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant. The event is tentatively set for Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2008.
The convocation will be “one of the most historic events, at least in the history of Baptists in this country, maybe Christianity,” Carter predicted.
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• Carter, Clinton use convocation to call Baptists to compassion
• Planned 2008 convocation grows from desire for ‘new Baptist voice’
• Texas Baptist leaders applaud call for inclusive convocation’
• Baptist leaders insist covenant offers chance to heal racial wounds’01/12/2007 - By John Rutledge
