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Missouri Baptist Convention moves toward tightening its membership requirements_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

Missouri Baptist Convention moves toward
tightening its membership requirements

RAYTOWN, Mo. (ABP)–The fundamentalist-oriented Missouri Baptist Convention took the first step toward limiting membership to “Southern Baptist” churches and excluding churches that support moderate organizations, including the state and national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist General Convention of Missouri.

Messengers to the convention's annual meeting agreed to vote next year on four constitutional changes that would tighten requirements for MBC membership. Membership would be open only to churches identified as “Southern Baptist” and affiliated solely with the Missouri Baptist Convention.

If approved, the changes would exclude congregations that support both the traditional Missouri Baptist Convention and the newer alternative state convention established by moderates. Likewise, congregations that support the moderate Cooperative Baptist Fellowship would not be allowed to participate.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

Nigeria offers evangelistic door to reaching rest of Africa, national Baptist leader says_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

Nigeria offers evangelistic door to reaching
rest of Africa, national Baptist leader says

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

The evangelistic “door” to Africa is waiting for Texas Baptists to help turn the knob and open it, a Nigerian Baptist leader insists.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

North Carolina Baptists retain multiple giving options_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

North Carolina Baptists retain multiple giving options

By Steve DeVane

N.C. Biblical Recorder

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP)–Messengers to the annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina voted to keep the convention's four giving plans. But a move to eliminate the plan favored by moderates still looms as a possibility.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

On the Move_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

On the Move

Scott Ayres to First United Methodist Church in Sugar Land as recreation minister from Eastwood Church in Gatesville, where he was minister of youth.

David Bonnet to First Church in Evant as pastor.

Brian Branum to River Road Church in Amarillo as music director.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

Distance no barrier for churches in partnership_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

Distance no barrier for churches in partnership

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

When a pair of missions-minded Baptist churches decided to help each other expand their ministries, they were not going to let a little barrier like 1,800 miles stand in their way.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

Abilene’s Pioneer Drive Primetimers find joy in serving others_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

Abilene's Pioneer Drive Primetimers find joy in serving others

By George Henson

Staff Writer

ABILENE–Senior adults involved in the Primetimers ministry of Pioneer Drive Baptist Church in Abilene are using the prime time of their lives to serve other people.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

Religious Right opposes pro-choice Republican as Senate committee chair_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

Religious Right opposes pro-choice
Republican as Senate committee chair

By Robert Marus

ABP Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON (ABP)–Religious conservatives are raising loud objections to the elevation of a pro-choice Republican to the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

SUDAN: ‘Falls the shadow’_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

Displaced Sudanese children rest on the ground in the Otach camp in Sudan's Darfur region. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly Photo)

SUDAN: 'Falls the shadow'

By David E. Anderson

Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS)–Sudan's government and rebel groups in the nation's troubled Darfur region, under political pressure from a United Nations Security Council meeting in Kenya, signed something of a peace agreement.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

Tennessee Baptists to investigate teachings at three affiliated colleges_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

Tennessee Baptists to investigate
teachings at three affiliated colleges

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (ABP)– Tennessee Baptists turned back an attack on “anti-Christian” teaching in public schools but agreed to investigate the biblical views taught in their three affiliated Baptist colleges.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

Texas Tidbits_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

Texas Tidbits

Howard Payne president recognized. Lanny Hall, president of Howard Payne University in Brownwood and president emeritus of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, has been included among 150 Christian leaders and educators to share their faith stories in "College Faith 2," edited by Ronald Alan Knott and published by Andrews University Press. Robert Sloan, president of Baylor University in Waco, and Craig Turner, president of Hardin-Simmons University, were included in the first edition of "College Faith," published in 2002.

UMHB hosts servant leadership conference. Laurie Beth Jones, author of the best-selling "Jesus, CEO" and "Jesus, Life Coach," will be the keynote speaker at a Servant Leadership Celebration Dec. 7 at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton. The program also will feature Charles Cooper, national speaker for Promise Keepers, and Charles Billingsley, vocalist for Newsong. The event, sponsored by the Servant Leadership Institute of Central Texas, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact (254) 724-3175 or e-mail kwinters@swmail.sw.org.

A selection from the Isaiah Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls.(Photo from the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia)

HBU to host lecture. Peter Flint, professor of biblical studies and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, will speak on "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible" at Houston Baptist University at 2 p.m. Dec. 3. Flint, an internationally acknowledged scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls, regularly participates in both public seminars and academic meetings on the Dead Sea Scrolls, biblical topics, early Judaism and the Christian faith in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

TOGETHER: Priorities map BGCT transformation_112204

Posted: 11/19/04

TOGETHER:
Priorities map BGCT transformation

The Baptist General Convention of Texas is in the midst of a continuing and exciting transformation. We are determined to recognize the changing realities of the world in which we minister. As we go through this change, we have set six priorities to guide us.

These priorities will guide budgeting and personnel assignments of the Executive Board and the staff. We pray these priority statements will find broad acceptance among our Texas Baptist pastors and churches.

Unto the glory of God, we will:

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge

Author lectures at DBU_112204

Posted: 11/19/04 Author lectures at DBU Robert Webber, author of “Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World” and about 40 other books, recently lectured at Dallas Baptist University on…

11/19/2004 - By John Rutledge