EDITORIAL: Take ‘ONE’ step to end world hunger_71105

Posted: 7/08/05

EDITORIAL:
Take 'ONE' step to end world hunger

Here's a sobering test of faith: “If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?” (1 John 3:17)

Severe hunger plagues at least 800 million people. They don't just “go to bed hungry”; they live hungry. They don't just miss a meal; they don't receive enough nutrients to sustain their organs. They don't just look skinny; they die.

When I was a kid, we referred to these people as the “starving children in China.” But that's just a metaphor for a horrible reality. Children have it the worst, but they're joined closely by the elderly and nursing mothers, as well as adults with mental and physical illnesses. China is far from the most treacherous place for hunger. Hunger spans the globe, but it's most acute in Africa.

08/16/2005 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for August 28: Draw comfort from God’s awareness

Posted: 8/16/05

BaptistWay Bible Series for August 28

Draw comfort from God’s awareness

• Revelation 21:1-8; 22:1-6; 16-17

By Wayne Smith

08/16/2005 - By John Rutledge

Explore the BIble Series for August 28: Prayer & Bible reading are beginning of knowing God

Posted: 8/16/05

Explore the Bible Series for August 28

Prayer & Bible reading are
beginning of knowing God

• Daniel 9

By Dennis Tucker

08/16/2005 - By John Rutledge

Cyber Column by Brett Younger: Footsteps of Jesus?

Posted: 8/16/05

CYBER COLUMN:
Footsteps of Jesus?

By Brett Younger

I recently got a call from The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, because they needed an expert on flip-flops. I was surprised to learn that my ministerial standing makes me an authority on footwear, but if the shoe fits.

On July 12, the Northwestern University’s women’s lacrosse team went to the White House and created a stir when half of the players wore flip-flops. When the photograph appeared in local papers, some of their mothers burst into tears. This is, of course, a major issue that raises questions regarding the state of America’s youth as well as national security.

08/16/2005 - By John Rutledge

Music and mission combined in Valley event

Posted: 8/12/05

Music and mission combined in Valley event

By David Wilkinson

Special to the Baptist Standard

HARLINGEN—Musical talent and a heart for missions were on display as high school students from churches across the state gathered in South Texas for the 2005 Texas Baptist All-State Music & Missions event.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baylor wins suit again student who started ‘lewd’ e-mail barrage

Posted: 8/12/05

Baylor wins suit again student
who started 'lewd' e-mail barrage

By Robert Marus

Associated Baptist Press

WACO (ABP)—A Baylor University seminary student who lost his scholarship in 2003 for homosexual behavior also has lost a lawsuit the school filed against him for alleged lewd conduct.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Bead making offers Kenyan women livelihood

Posted: 8/12/05

Bead making offers Kenyan women livelihood

By Brittany Burcham

Baylor University

Pulling into the driveway of the Kazuri beads factory in Kenya, members of a women’s leadership team from Baylor University began to count their shillings and think about gifts for friends and relatives at home.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baylor choir sings at Kenyan graduation ceremony

Posted: 8/12/05

Baylor choir sings at
Kenyan graduation ceremony

By Stephen Kim

Baylor University

American students aren’t used to seeing parents rushing toward their children to congratulate them in the midst of a graduation ceremony, but that’s what a Baylor University student missions group witnessed at Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi, Kenya.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Students install solar lighting system for Kenyan deaf school

Posted: 8/12/05

Students install solar lighting
system for Kenyan deaf school

By Courtney Schultz

Baylor University

A banner hung outside a small, brick-framed school building in Oyugis, Kenya, welcoming engineering and deaf education students from Baylor University to the Kenyan School for the Deaf.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Students defy smoke, lack of supplies to learn English

Posted: 8/12/05

Students defy smoke, lack of
supplies to learn English

By Stephen Kim

Baylor University

As smoke from a nearby oven wafted through their classroom, 5-year-old students at the Xcel School in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, took their first steps toward mastery of the English language.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Missions veteran gathered Baylor School of Nursing team for Kenya trim

Posted: 8/12/05

Missions veteran gathered Baylor
School of Nursing team for Kenya trim

By Amanda Sawyer

Baylor University

Linda Garner understands the importance of missions education. Missions leaders instilled it in her as a child growing up in a Baptist church, and she wants to pass it on to a rising generation of students at the Baylor School of Nursing.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Orphanage offers hope to HIV-infected children in Kenya

Posted: 8/12/05

Orphanage offers hope to
HIV-infected children in Kenya

By Matthew Waller

Baylor University

From the guarded entryway to the diagnostic laboratory, the HIV-positive children of the Nyumbani orphanage outside Nairobi, Kenya, enjoy privileges millions who share their diagnosis do not. They have more toys than their dorm mothers know what to do with, and singing and dancing fill their Sunday morning worship services.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge