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CBF continues to help South Asia rebuild
Posted: 1/06/06
Through gifts to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Asian Response, a sewing center opens in the Indian village of Sardu Kadapa, where local teenage girls learn sewing skills that will generate income for themselves and their families. CBF continues to help South Asia rebuild
By Carla Wynn
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
SARDU KADAPA, India–Sixty-year-old Ramajayamma believes one person can change a village. For 45 years, she has gone door-to-door sharing Jesus Christ with neighbors in her southern India fishing village. Over the years, her efforts have helped form four churches with more than 1,500 Christians.
01/09/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs
Posted: 1/06/06
Baptist Briefs
Adams unanimous choice for Illinois Baptist directorship. Illinois native and Southern Baptist missions leader Nate Adams was a search committee's unanimous choice to become the Illinois Baptist State Association's next executive director. The committee will present Adams to the Illinois Baptist executive board at a special called meeting this month. Adams has served the past eight years as vice president of mission mobilization for the North American Mission Board. Prior to joining the mission board, Adams served as corporate vice president of publishing for Christianity Today in Carol Stream, Ill. He has been a bivocational church planter and youth minister in Illinois and interim pastor in Georgia. He has an undergraduate degree in communication from Judson College in Elgin, Ill., and a master's degree in management and human resources from National-Louis University in Evanston. Adams and his wife, Beth, have three sons, Caleb, 17; Noah, 15; and Ethan, 12.
Baptist Health Foundation awards scholarships. Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio and the former Baptist Health Services Foundation awarded 338 scholarships in 2005 to students at the BHS School of Health Professions. The scholarships totaling $378,744 benefited students enrolled in the school's nursing and allied health educational programs. They were financed through the foundation's unrestricted funds and various donor-restricted funds.
Cooperative Program giving down in 2005. Contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program totaled $45.4 million in 2005, down 1.8 percent from 2004 receipts, the SBC Executive Committee reported. The total is 95.7 percent of the 2005 budget. Designated gifts in 2005–including disaster relief gifts in the wake of the Gulf Coast hurricanes–totaled close to $10.6 million, up 2 percent over 2004.
01/08/2006 - By John Rutledge
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‘Acts of God’ considered top national/global story
Posted: 1/06/06
TOP TEN: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita–and Baptist response to the disasters– comprised the Baptist Standard's top nation/global story in 2005. 'Acts of God' considered
top national/global storyBy Marv Knox
Editor
A couple of “acts of God” trumped all other events to claim the Baptist Standard's No. 1 national/international Baptist story of 2005.
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
