• Health care needs in Texas demand innovative response, ministry leaders say_100404

  Posted: 9/24/04

  Health care needs in Texas demand
  innovative response, ministry leaders say

  By John Hall
  

  Texas Baptist Communications
  

  SAN ANTONIO—Medical needs in Texas are vast, as 8 million uninsured residents struggle to receive adequate and timely healthcare, health ministry leaders maintain.

  09/24/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Medical ministry focuses on patients as people, not problems to diagnose_100404

  Posted: 9/24/04

  Medical ministry focuses on patients
  as people, not problems to diagnose

  By John Hall
  

  Texas Baptist Communications
  

  SAN ANTONIO—It may sound like a cliché, but people are not patients; patients are people. And that is the heart of medical ministry, a leader in the Baylor Health Care System insists.

  09/24/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Lifeway trustees approve funds to revitalize Glorieta, Ridgecrest_100404

  Posted: 9/24/04

  Lifeway trustees approve funds
  to revitalize Glorieta, Ridgecrest

  By Chris Turner
  

  LifeWay Christian Resources
  

  RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)—LifeWay Christian Resources trustees adopted a $446 million operating budget for 2005 and approved a significant investment in the company’s conference centers to fast-track their revitalization efforts.

  09/24/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Paris church knows broadcasting high school football is ministry in Texas_100404

  Posted: 9/24/04

  Paris church knows broadcasting
  high school football is ministry in Texas

  By George Henson
  

  Staff Writer
  

  PARIS—Cable television viewers in Paris know the call-letters “FBC-TV” stand for First Baptist Church. But each fall, they represent the Foot Ball Channel.

  09/24/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Cybercolumn by Jeanie Miley: Growing Edges_100404

  Posted: 9/24/04

  CYBERCOLUMN: Growing edges

  By Jeanie Miley
  

  Leaving the hospital after a two-day wait, I drove home through the dark, quiet streets of the city, streets that would be bustling in just a few hours with tens of thousands of patients and the people who care about them—health care professionals and support staff who keep the Texas Medical Center running.
  

  I had just left my own daughter in the care of people I have never seen before and her newborn daughter under the watchful eye of her ecstatic father, whose first words about her were, “She’s so beautiful!”

  09/24/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Cybercolumn by John Duncan: Lighthouses and the Light_92004

  Posted: 9/20/04

  CYBERCOLUMN: Lighthouses and the Light

  By John Duncan
  

  I am sitting under the old oak tree, thinking of lighthouses and the Light and my friend Mike.
  

  Lighthouses dot the landscape on the eastern coast of the United Sates. Imagine a lighthouse creating a fixed point for the captain of a ship to navigate toward safe harbor. Imagine a storm tossing the ship like a bottle floating on the ocean’s surface. Imagine the light penetrating the darkness, shining like a star against the black night sky.

  John Duncan

  09/20/2004 - By John Rutledge

• TBM continues serving in wake of Ivan; Grenada requests assistance_92004

  Posted: 9/20/04

  TBM continues serving in wake
  of Ivan; Grenada requests assistance

  By John Hall
  

  Texas Baptist Communications
  

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief work in the wake of repeated hurricanes that blew through the Caribbean Sea and across Florida has expanded to include an additional unit, more personnel and another country.

  09/20/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Outreach has nothing to do with canned meat or unwanted e-mail_92004

  Posted: 9/17/04

  Outreach has nothing to do with
  canned meat or unwanted e-mail

  By George Henson

  Staff Writer

  HOUSTON–Twenty-seven people committed their lives to Christ. Sounds like a good reason for another SPAMARAMA next year, organizers say.

  09/17/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Frances leaves indelible mark on Florida church_92004

  Posted: 9/17/04

  Frances leaves indelible mark on Florida church

  By Barbara Denman

  Florida Baptist Convention

  MELBOURNE, Fla. (BP)–While most people evacuated Cocoa Beach, Dave Guise decided to ride out Hurricane Frances' onslaught inside First Baptist Church, thinking he could help protect the structure in the event of fire or other danger.

  The steeple of First Baptist Church of Cocoa Beach, Fla., was severed by Hurricane Frances and speared the roof of the sanctuary, coming to rest in the balcony. No one was injured. (ABP/Greg Warner Photo)

  09/17/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Evangelist wins souls by offering chance to win motorcycle_92004

  Posted: 9/17/04

  Evangelist wins souls by offering chance to win motorcycle

  By Sherri Brown

  Baptist Press

  BRISTOL, Tenn. (BP)–In the shadow of the Bristol Motor Speedway, just across from a booth selling Dale Jr. T-shirts and down from a fried Oreo stand, Ronnie Hill was making his pitch. “Get your free chance to win a Harley! All you gotta do is listen to me for 10 minutes.”

  09/17/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Congressman outed by gay-rights website_92004

  Posted: 9/17/04

  Congressman outed by gay-rights website

  By Robert Marus

  ABP Washington Bureau

  NEW YORK (ABP)–Rep. Ed Schrock (R-Va.), one of Congress' staunchest opponents of gay rights, has declined to seek re-election to a third term in the House after a website claimed he solicited sex with men on a gay telephone-rendezvous service.

  09/17/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Most Protestant ministers lack understanding of other faiths_92004

  Posted: 9/17/04

  American Protestant ministers unfamiliar with other faiths

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–Protestant ministers in the United States often have some familiarity with the core beliefs of Islam but little familiarity with faiths such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Scientology or Wicca, a recent study revealed.

  Protestant clergy tend to be most familiar with Roman Catholicism and Judaism among non-Protestant faith groups, the study found.

  Ellison Research, a marketing research firm in Phoenix, conducted the poll for LifeWay Christian Resources' Facts & Trends magazine.

  09/17/2004 - By John Rutledge