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Church shows love to teenaged parents at Care Fair
Posted: 1/06/06
Young mothers and mothers-to-be learn CPR at a Care Fair sponsored by First Baptist Church in Farmers Branch. Church shows love to
teenaged parents at Care FairBy George Henson
Staff Writer
FARMERS BRANCH–More than 50 teenaged unwed mothers and mothers-to-be gathered at First Baptist Church in Farmers Branch for an aptly named Care Fair.
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Mexican families enjoy new homes, thanks to Baptist efforts
Posted: 1/06/06
Texas Baptist River Ministry Director Dexton Shores (left) presents the key to a new home to a Mexican family victimized by Hurricane Emily, while Associate Director Loren Fast gives them a Bible. Mexican families enjoy new
homes, thanks to Baptist effortsBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
LA CAPILLA, Mexico–Baptist General Convention of Texas River Ministry leaders presented 11 families with keys to new homes that can help them begin their lives again after Hurricane Emily.
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State
Posted: 1/06/06
First Church in Orange elected to help the helpers by presenting a check to the Texas Baptist Men's Top of Texas Disaster Unit. The check was to be used toward purchase of a tilt skillet that would increase the food-serving capacity of the TBM feeding unit from 20,000 meals per day to 30,000 meals per day. First Baptist Treasurer Don Mohon and Deacon Chairman Don Ball presented the check to Tim Willis of the Top of Texas team. While serving in Orange, the TBM crew served more than 240,000 free meals to people whose lives were turned upside down by Hurricane Rita. While the TBM volunteers of business owners, farmers, secretaries and retirees come from all over West Texas, the feeding unit is based at First Church in Plains, a community of about 1,200 people. Around the State
Baylor Health Care System's pastoral care department and the Baptist General Convention of Texas' office of chaplaincy relations will begin a 14-week course titled “Hands On Ministry” Feb. 2. The course, taught by professional chaplains, is aimed at providing lay people with an opportunity for increasing the knowledge, skills and ability needed to provide effective, compassionate care to others. Classes will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each Thursday, with the exception of Maundy Thursday, through May 11. The training fee is $25. For more information, contact Bob Duncan at (214) 820-4893 or Reba Gram at (888) 311-3900. The third annual singles conference of San Jacinto Baptist Association will be held Feb. 25 from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Northside Church in Baytown. Don Piper, author of 90 Minutes in Heaven, will be the keynote speaker. Singles of all ages are welcome. The $25 cost includes an autographed book and lunch. For more information, call (281) 422-3604 or go to www.sjbaptist.org. Baylor University has named two faculty members as master teachers. Honored with the designation were Thomas Hanks Jr., professor of English, and Gerald Powell, the Abner V. McCall Professor of Evidence at Baylor Law School. Hanks began teaching at Baylor in 1976 and is a noted expert in medieval English literature. Powell has taught in the Baylor law school since 1986. 01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews
Posted: 1/06/06
Book Reviews
Evaluating the Church Growth Movement: Five Views by Gary L. McIntosh, general editor (Zondervan)
Evaluating the Church Growth Movement provides an opportunity to understand a variety of North American church-growth views. Five scholars express their perspectives as well as critique each other's writings. They delve into church growth, sharing their own historical understandings and interpretations.
Gary McIntosh, the general editor writes:
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Church activists see federal budget as moral document
Posted: 1/06/06
Jim Wallis, founder of the anti-poverty group Call to Renewal, leads a budget protest outside the U.S. Capitol. (RNS photo courtesy of Ryan Beiler/Sojourners) Church activists see federal
budget as moral documentBy Kevin Eckstrom
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)–When mainline Protestant leaders assembled in the nation's capital last March to denounce President Bush's proposed budget as “unjust,” they were received much like the Old Testament prophets they look to for inspiration–just another lonely voice, crying out in the wilderness.
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Transitions spotlight new face of Baptist higher education
Posted: 1/06/06
Beneath the shadow of the cross, Dallas Baptist University students walk accross campus to classes after a chapel service. (Photo courtesy of Dallas Baptist University) Transitions spotlight new face
of Baptist higher educationBy Hannah Lodwick
Associated Baptist Press
DALLAS (ABP)–Three of the nation's largest Baptist universities each have chosen a different strategy in selecting the president who will shape the school's future. Now pundits wonder which model will emerge as the new face of Christian higher learning.
01/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
Baylor Health Care System's pastoral care department and the Baptist General Convention of Texas' office of chaplaincy relations will begin a 14-week course titled “Hands On Ministry” Feb. 2. The course, taught by professional chaplains, is aimed at providing lay people with an opportunity for increasing the knowledge, skills and ability needed to provide effective, compassionate care to others. Classes will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each Thursday, with the exception of Maundy Thursday, through May 11. The training fee is $25. For more information, contact Bob Duncan at (214) 820-4893 or Reba Gram at (888) 311-3900. 
The third annual singles conference of San Jacinto Baptist Association will be held Feb. 25 from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Northside Church in Baytown. Don Piper, author of 90 Minutes in Heaven, will be the keynote speaker. Singles of all ages are welcome. The $25 cost includes an autographed book and lunch. For more information, call (281) 422-3604 or go to www.sjbaptist.org. 
