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Posted: 9/02/05
James Moore, East Texas Baptist University director of choral activities, has received the Texas Choirmaster Award from the Texas Choral Director's Association. The award, which has not been presented since 1997, is the highest honor given by the organization. According to the TCDA, the award is given to “a person who has exhibited unparalleled leadership in the choral field and is a consumate conductor and musician.” Dean Tom Webster of the ETBU School of Fine Arts said, “The Texas Choirmaster Award is essentially a lifetime achievement award that is awarded only on those rare occassions when the TCDA leadership believes that an individual has made a major contribution to the art of choral music through many years of outstanding work.” Around the State
An 18-hole Hunger Hounds Golf Tournament is set for Sept. 16 at Mead-owbrook Country Club in Kilgore, with all entry fees going to a church or charity of the player's choice. Ana-Lab in Kilgore is underwriting the tournament. The tournament format is a two-person scramble with a 1 p.m. start. The cost is $150 per team. Lunch is from noon to 1 p.m. Hunger Hounds is a group of Baptist laypeople committed to feeding hungry children. Golfers make their entry fee checks payable to any church or other charity. For more information, call (903) 753-2500. More than 31,000 people attended the Franklin Graham Festival held in Corpus Christi last month, with more than 2,400 people making professions of faith for the first time.
Clara Herrera, a second-year student at Howard Payne University, is the recipient of the Rudy and Micaela Camacho Scholarship for the 2005 academic year, provided by the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas. She is majoring in exercise and sports science. 09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews
Posted: 9/02/05
Book Reviews
Gospel Tracks Through Texas by Wilma Rugh Taylor (Texas A&M University Press)
What did U. S. Christians learn about reaching people from the Russian Orthodox Church? The author says the use of converted railroad passenger cars to “chapel cars” in the 1880s on the Trans-Caspian railroad to reach the peoples of Eastern Siberia was the forerunner of 13 such rolling churches used in the western part of this country between 1891 and 1940.
In Gospel Tracks Through Texas, Taylor describes in intricate detail the mission work of chapel car Good Will between 1895 and 1903 to reach lost souls, to minister to believers, and to aid or establish churches in railroad towns and cities.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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EDITORIAL: As hearts break, aid Katrina’s victims
Posted: 9/02/05
EDITORIAL:
As hearts break, aid Katrina's victimsWhich image tormented you the most in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Brothers in Gulfport, walking through sticks that once framed their apartment. An old woman in a boat, evacuating her home. An elderly person sitting on a cot in the Superdome with a gaping hole in the roof behind her. People crouched on their rooftops, shingled islands in a muddy sea. Or floodwaters engulfing huge swatches of New Orleans, where life will not be “easy” for a long, long time.
I'm still haunted by the news clip of a distraught man describing the last time he saw his wife. Their home split between them. He tried in vain to pull her to safety, until she told him she was slipping away and he needed to take care of their children. The story overwhelmed both the widowed father and the reporter who interviewed him. By the time the clip was over, they both were weeping, along with millions of us whose hearts broke with his.
If Katrina didn't break your heart, don't worry about suffering cardiac arrest. You don't have a heart in your chest. But for all of us who love New Orleans and its Creole charms, who have been mesmerized by the Gulf Coast's pristine beaches, who have even the remotest ability to empathize with suffering, Kristina is a tragedy of epic, heart-rending proportions.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texans help tent church needing permanent facility
Posted: 9/02/05
Guellele Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, meets under a tent. Texans help tent church
needing permanent facilityBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
In 1984, hungry Ethiopians gathered beneath a large tent to get some much-needed food. More than 20 years later, hundreds of people regularly find their spiritual needs met under the same canvas roof.
09/02/2005 - By John Rutledge
An 18-hole Hunger Hounds Golf Tournament is set for Sept. 16 at Mead-owbrook Country Club in Kilgore, with all entry fees going to a church or charity of the player's choice. Ana-Lab in Kilgore is underwriting the tournament. The tournament format is a two-person scramble with a 1 p.m. start. The cost is $150 per team. Lunch is from noon to 1 p.m. Hunger Hounds is a group of Baptist laypeople committed to feeding hungry children. Golfers make their entry fee checks payable to any church or other charity. For more information, call (903) 753-2500. 
More than 31,000 people attended the Franklin Graham Festival held in Corpus Christi last month, with more than 2,400 people making professions of faith for the first time. 
