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Church’s foster care focus enriches Chester family
Posted: 8/04/06
Cheyanne, age 12, has found a foster home with Stephanie (left) and Terry Chester of Orchard Road Baptist Church in Lewisville, and everyone concerned is looking forward to the day when her adoption by the Chester family will be finalized. Peggy Starkey (right), a Child Protective Services specialist with the CHILD (Congregations Helping in Love and Dedication) program, helped bring the new family together. Church’s foster care focus enriches Chester family
By George Henson
Staff Writer
LEWISVILLE—It may be unusual for a church to focus its ministry on foster care, but 12-year-old Cheyanne certainly is glad one North Texas church has done just that.
Orchard Road Baptist Church in Lewisville has made foster care the cornerstone of its ministry, and Cheyanne is the first child taken in by a family there. And soon, when she calls Terry and Stephanie Chester “Mom” and “Dad,” it will be official. Permanent adoption papers are making their way through the system.
08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Mission East Dallas: A gift of healing
Posted: 8/04/06
Doris Hinton, Mission East Dallas volunteer, registers a patient at the ministry’s medical clinic. (Photos by Angela Best) Mission East Dallas: A gift of healing
By Angela Best
Communications Intern
DALLAS—Francisco suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes, but he has no insurance to help cover costs of treatment and medication.
Even so, he is on his third visit to the Mission East Dallas medical clinic, where he receives both treatment and medication at no cost. “I was looking for somebody to help me
08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Mission Lubbock worker seeks to transform lives
Posted: 8/04/06
Mission Lubbock worker
seeks to transform livesBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
LUBBOCK—An abandoned church sanctuary may seem like an odd place for people to try on shoes, select clothing and pick out kitchenware. But Judy Cooper sees it as a vast improvement over where the ministry to Lubbock’s low-income multi-housing residents started.
Cooper heads Mission Lubbock—a multi-housing ministry she launched in April 2005, patterned after the successful Mission Arlington model. She runs the ministry from the facility Carlisle Baptist Church occupied until last fall, when the struggling congregation closed its doors and gave its property to the association.
Judy Cooper heads Mission Lubbock–a multi-housing ministry she launched in April 2005, patterned after the successful Mission Arlington model. 08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Forney volunteers successfully evacuated from Lebanon
Posted: 8/04/06
Amy and Ron Byrd embrace as a prayer of thanksgiving is offered before a bus delivers them to their home church, First Baptist in Forney. She was part of a team from the church that was stranded in Lebanon when war broke out. She and the rest of the volunteer team had just arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport after being evacuated from Lebanon. (Photo by Bill Bangham/BP) Forney volunteers successfully
evacuated from LebanonBy Angela Best
Communications Intern
FORNEY—A volunteer missions team from First Baptist Church in Forney that had to be evacuated from Lebanon testified they found God’s peace in the midst of chaos and confusion.
“God can bring peace when it feels like there is no reality of that,” said team member Amy Byrd.
08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Love for God, love of the game motivate Texas author
Posted: 8/04/06
Love for God, love of the
game motivate Texas authorBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Hugh Poland—a Kentucky-born catcher who broke into the big leagues in 1943 when World War II drained the talent pool—played with four teams before the Cincinnati Reds released him May 28, 1948.
“So far as I can tell, he’s no relation to me,” explained a different Hugh Poland, author of Steal Away: Devotions for Baseball Fans. “I’m not a former ballplayer. I’m a minister of music.”
Texas Baptist music minister Hugh Poland uses baseball stories to deliver spiritual truth. 08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews
Posted: 8/04/06
Book Reviews
C.S. Lewis’s Case for Christ: Insights from Reason, Imagination and Faith by Art Lindsley (InterVarsity Press)
An abundance of good books are available on that late Anglican layman whom many classify as “one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.”
Art Lindsley draws from C. S. Lewis’ various books, letters and lectures to condense the Narnian’s thoughts and theology into a 200-page gem. In the process, we learn some of Lewis’ obstacles to faith as an atheist and how he answered those tough questions after coming to faith in Christ. The problem of evil and suffering, myth and religion, rationalism, belief in miracles, and the purpose of imagination in faith each get chapters.
What are you reading that other Texas Baptists would find helpful? Send suggestions and reviews to books@baptiststandard.com. Having read most of Lewis’ writings, I especially enjoyed reading Lindsley’s take on what Lewis would say (or actually did say) about the important contemporary topics of postmodernism, moral relativism and religious pluralism.
08/04/2006 - By John Rutledge
