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Book Reviews_41805
Posted: 4/15/05
Book Reviews
The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church by Reggie McNeal (Jossey-Bass)
This former Texas pastor and now director of leadership development for the South Carolina Baptist Convention writes straightforwardly and with great insight about changes the church is facing in these days.
Rarely do you find in one volume such interesting and sometimes-scary assessments about the way our culture is changing and the church's response or lack of it.
04/15/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs_41805
Posted: 4/15/05
CBF receives $5 million gift. Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Missions received a $5 million gift from a donor who chose to remain anonymous. The majority of the funds will go to field personnel salaries, benefits, equipment and training, with additional designated funds for expanding HIV/AIDS initiatives and Partners in Hope, the CBF rural poverty initiative. The remaining $300,000 will go to the Asian response fund for tsunami relief.
Wellness Walk/Run set for SBC. GuideStone Financial Resources–formerly the Southern Baptist Annuity Board–will sponsor the third annual Living at Your Best Wellness Walk/Run June 21 during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn. Warm-up will begin at 6:15 a.m. for the one-mile and 5K courses for both runners and walkers. Start times will begin at 6:30 a.m. and will be staggered for runners and walkers. Interested individuals can register online at www.GuideStone.org or by calling (800) 262-0511.
Judge in Schiavo case leaves his church. George Greer, the Florida judge who ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed, resigned his membership from Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater, Fla., after receiving a letter from the church's pastor, Willy Rice. According to the St. Petersburg Times, Rice wrote that, although he was "not asking (Greer) to do this," that resigning his membership nonetheless "would seem the logical and, I would say, biblical course" given Greer's inactive status in the congregation and his publicly stated disagreements with church decisions. The pastor's letter to Greer came after a profile of the judge appeared in the paper. In it, Greer noted that, although he had been very active in the congregation in the past, tensions over the Schiavo issue and others had caused him to stop attending services and contributing financially to the church in the fall of 2003.
04/15/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Waco pastor leads church to embrace ethnic diversity_41805
Posted: 4/15/05
Members of Brookview Baptist Church in Waco join hands in worship and ministry, without regard to race. (Photo by George Henson) Waco pastor leads church
to embrace ethnic diversityBy George Henson
Staff Writer
WACO–Brookview Baptist Church in Waco is finding the key to its growth lies in reaching out to everyone in the community, regardless of race.
04/15/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Homes needed for Angels from Abroad_41805
Posted: 4/15/05
Homes needed for Angels from Abroad
“Angels” are looking to land in two Texas homes, according to Buckner International Adoption.
The adoption service is looking for Christian families to host two remaining sibling sets from Russia for its second installment of Angels from Abroad.
Introduced last year, the program allows adoption-minded couples and singles to host orphaned children ages 7 to 14 during their two-week vacation in Dallas June 4-20.
TOP: Dima, 11, and sister Kristina, 10; BELOW: Kostya, 12, and sister Elonara, 8, are Angels from Abroad who need host families. 04/15/2005 - By John Rutledge
