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Irving church becomes missions learning lab for students
Posted: 8/19/05
Student missionaries leading worship for children. They sang songs such as "Zacchaeus," "Father Abraham" and "Jesus Loves Me." Irving church becomes
missions learning lab for studentsBy Leann Callaway
Special to the Baptist Standard
IRVING–The missions program of Oak View Baptist Church became a learning lab for eight student missionaries this summer.
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Baylor professor a delegate to ONE Campaign summit
Posted: 8/19/05
Jon Singletary, center, spends time with two African orphans, Peter and Paul. Baylor professor a delegate
to ONE Campaign summitBy Carla Wynn
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
WACO–A passion commitment to end poverty in Africa and a newspaper editorial describing the continent's needs landed Baylor Uni-versity professor Jon Singletary in Edin-burgh, Scotland, when the world's eight wealthiest nations gathered in nearby Gleneagles for this summer's G-8 Summit.
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 8/19/05
Texas Tidbits
Churches, associations honored. The Baptist General Convention of Texas honored three churches and three associations for their work in starting African-American churches. First South-west Baptist Church in Houston, where Rickie Bradshaw is pastor, received the Antioch Award for starting the most African-American churches in the last two years–14 congregations. Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Dallas started the second-most congregations with nine, and Lakeside Baptist Church in Dallas started eight. Dallas Baptist Association, where Gary Hearon is executive director, received the Barnabas Award for the association starting the most African-American churches–37 congregations. Union Baptist Association started 35, and Waco Baptist Association started 13. Glenn Majors, director of BGCT Cooperative Program services, received the first E.B. Brooks Excellence in Service Award for encouraging and connecting new African-American churches with BGCT resources.
Byron WeathersbeeBaylor names interim chaplain. Byron Weathersbee, co-founder and president of Legacy Family Ministries, has been appointed interim university chaplain at Baylor University. Weathersbee, 42, will provide leadership for Baylor's twice-weekly chapel services, and pastoral care to the university community. He also will lead university ministries, directing resident chaplains, discipline-specific mission opportunities and the sports chaplain program, as well as relating to Baptist Student Ministries. Weathers-bee is a graduate of Baylor, and he earned a master's degree in religious education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a doctor of education degree in leadership from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has served in staff positions at First Baptist Church in Gatesville, Immanuel Baptist Church in Temple and Columbus Avenue and University Baptist churches in Waco. In 1995, Weathersbee and his wife, Carla, founded Legacy Family Ministries, a nonprofit organization that does relationship development with students, marriage preparation courses for engaged couples and family camp weekends. The Weathersbees have three children–Bo, 18; Brittney, 16; and Casey, 12. They are members of Columbus Avenue Baptist Church.
BGCT revises church profiling efforts. The Baptist General Convention of Texas is revising the way it attains yearly information about churches in an effort to better serve its constituency. The convention is streamlining the traditional LifeWay Annual Church Profile reporting form from 51 categories to 17 to make it easier for congregations to indicate aspects of their respective ministries. BGCT leaders also are making category titles more generalized rather than program-specific to accommodate a wider range of outreaches. The new process will have fewer stewardship categories because some financial data can be based on actual funds given through the BGCT. Church contributions for the Texas Cooperative Program, Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas Missions, Annie Armstrong Offering for North American Missions and Lottie Moon Offering for International Missions already are known and do not need to be reported through the ACP. The new forms will be capable of being scanned to help associations cut down on the amount of data entry required for each church.
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: This could be God’s perfect time for us
Posted: 8/19/05
TOGETHER:
This could be God's perfect time for usThe Samaritan woman came to the well at noonday. It was a terrible time to have to fetch water but God's perfect time for her. That day, she met a man who gave her Living Water. And she was never the same again.
Jesus Christ Living Water was the theme for the centenary Baptist World Congress in Birmingham, England, where a drama troupe from Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston helped us understand at a deeper level the gift Jesus brings to thirsty souls. The Tallowood Players is a team of 13 high school students, selected from the 90-member youth choir and led by Randy Kilpatrick, the church's associate minister of music and founder of the drama ministry.
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
Baptists of the world loved them. As a Texan, I was justifiably proud that they represented Texas Baptists, their church, their families and their Savior with such grace and poise. What did it mean to them to be there?
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Agency offers healing from tsunami’s emotional damage
Posted: 8/19/05
Marla Rushings visits with one of CERI's initial foster famlies in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka. (Photos by Craig Bird) Agency offers healing from
tsunami's emotional damageBy Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
As staggering as the visible destruction from last December's tsunami still is in Sri Lanka, the hidden emotional damage–especially to children–probably is even worse, Baptist Child & Family Services officials insist.
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
Ron Cook has completed an interim pastorate at First Church in Mart. 
