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Texan helps Sri Lanka develop foster care program_40405

Posted: 4/01/05

David, Eva and Kim Beckett. The Boerne couple had just arrived in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit. The couple put aside their just-developing business as gem merchants to assist in relief work. San Antonio-based Baptist Child & Family Services has named Beckett its Sri Lanka director of Children's Emergency Relief International (its overseas arm) which has been asked by the Sri Lankan government to develop the country's first foster care system.

Texan helps Sri Lanka
develop foster care program

By Craig Bird

Baptist Child & Family Services

Sri Lanka's government has invited a Baptist agency to shape the country's first child protective services program, and the man who got Texas Baptists involved in tsunami relief will lead the effort.

04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge

Couple’s example inspires church_40405

Posted: 4/01/05

Couple's example inspires church

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

WACO–Pastor Jay Swoveland said his congregation is learning what it means to be “missional,” and now Meadowbrook Baptist Church in Waco has an example to follow in the form of two of its members.

04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge

Earthquake in South Asia may set back tsunami recovery process_40405

Posted: 4/01/05

Earthquake in South Asia may
set back tsunami recovery process

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

An 8.7-magnitude earthquake near Indonesia that sent tsunami warnings throughout portions of South Asia may set back the psychological recovery process from the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami as far as one year, a trauma expert maintains.

04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge

Tsunami looks different through child’s eyes_40405

Posted: 4/01/05

Tsunami looks different through child's eyes

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

DALLAS–A Victim Relief Ministries chaplain recently discovered a tsunami looks much smaller through the eyes of a child, but the lessons are much greater.

04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge

Cybercolumn by John Duncan: King Jesus_40405

Posted: 4/01/05 CYBERCOLUMN: King Jesus By John Duncan I’m sitting here under the old oak tree, reflecting on the days after Easter. I find myself thinking of Jesus as “King.”…

04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge

Spring Mexico mission trips safe, despite crime warnings_40405

Posted: 4/01/05 Spring Mexico mission trips safe, despite crime warnings By John Hall Texas Baptist Communications Leaders of spring break mission trips into Mexico have not reported any hostile incidents…

04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge