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Church makes community interaction a fine art_122203
Posted: 12/19/03
Church makes community interaction a fine art
EAGLE LAKE–A small Texas Baptist church became an art gallery for a day this fall, as church members sought to help their community connect the dots between faith and art.
Artists involved with the Art & Soul event at First Baptist Church of Eagle Lake included Jessica Thacker, Margo Harrison, Tony Tyler and Sandra Benge The group is shown Pastor Chris Thacker and Tyler's scultpture, “The Dance.” Following the lead of a successful similar event in 2001, members of First Baptist Church of Eagle Lake hosted “Art & Soul: A Celebration of Faith and Art.”
Church members Margo Harrison and Sandra Benge coordinated the Sunday afternoon event. They began contacting local artists, encouraging them to share their works with the community and informing them that each piece would be displayed gallery-style in the church's Fellowship Hall.
02/22/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Blended family
Posted: 2/17/06
Blended family
By Russ Dilday
Buckner Benevolences
MESQUITE—Between bites of cereal and swigs of juice at the breakfast table, the Moers family’s three children seem to be talking at once. Mom prepares food, while the two sisters lean on each other, playing with each other’s hair. Dad sips coffee and answers a deluge of questions from the middle child, a son.
Christine Moers serves breakfast to her children, Andrew, McKenzie and Precious, whom she and her husband Michael adopted through Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services. Photos by Russ Dilday/Buckner Benevolences The youngest daughter stands out among the other family members not just because she’s the only African-American in a family of fair-skinned blonds, but also because of her smile, charm and distinctive name—Precious.
02/21/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Buckner Seeks African-American Families to Host Black Orphans from Russia
Posted: 2/21/06
Buckner Seeks African-American
Families to Host Black Orphans from RussiaBuckner Orphan Care International, a subsidiary of the 127-year-old Buckner Benevolences in Dallas, is seeking African-American families from the Christian community to host two black orphans from Russia this summer. The children will spend two weeks in the metroplex in June with Buckner Angels from Abroad.
Jennifer Marisa Launched in 2004, Buckner Angels from Abroad allows adoption-minded families the opportunity to host orphaned children ages 6-12 when they visit the United States during their two-week summer vacation. For the first time, this year’s Angels contingent will include two black orphan sisters from Orphanage No. 9 and Veritsa Orphanage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Jennifer and Marisa are 8 and 9 years old, respectively, and represent Russia's small black orphan population who–according to orphanage directors–are predestined to a life of prostitution, crime and early death due to their underclass standing in a largely monochromatic, post-communist society.
The Angels will stay in host family homes during their visit to Dallas and will participate in several Buckner-organized events, including a family picnic, Vacation Bible School, cultural and recreational excursions and a swim party. In addition, host families may plan their own activities around the schedule of events. Buckner staff will be in daily contact with each host family to lend support and guidance as needed. In addition, interpreters will be available to assist families with communication.
Interested families are required to attend an information workshop on Saturday, March 4 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco. The host family application deadline is March 31.
02/21/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Chinese Christian leader Wenzao Han dies
Posted: 2/21/06
Chinese Christian leader Wenzao Han dies
By Robert Marus
ABP Washington Bureau
NANJING, China (ABP) — One of China's most prominent modern-day Christian leaders has died at the age of 83.
Wenzao Han died Feb. 3 in Nanjing. He served from 1996 to 2002 as president of the China Christian Council, and in other capacities with the organization, which is the officially state-sanctioned Protestant denomination in China.
Related Story:
• COMMENTARY: On the death of Han Wenzao (1923-2006)
02/21/2006 - By John Rutledge
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COMMENTARY: On the death of Han Wenzao (1923-2006)
Posted: 2/21/06
COMMENTARY:
On the death of Han Wenzao (1923-2006)
By Britt Towery
The news of the death of Dr. Han Wenzao in Nanjing caught my wife and me by surprise. Jody put her hand to her mouth, for it was like losing a member of the family. We paused to pray for his wife Zhuo Zhaohua, who was by his side for six decades.
For my wife and I, Han was as fine a Christian leader as we have ever met. The term "Christian statesman" fit Han Wenzao perfectly. We enjoyed the fellowship of the Hans in their home and work with the China Christian Council which he led for many years.
Related Story:
• Chinese Christian leader Wenzao Han dies
In 1953 when Jody and I felt God's leading us to China as missionaries political realities made it impossible. We took the next best assignment, that of Taiwan, the Republic of China, some 100 miles off the East China coast.
02/21/2006 - By John Rutledge
