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Texas Tidbits_80904
Posted: 8/06/04
Texas Tidbits
Carroll Institute starts classes. The B.H. Carroll Theological Institute started its first fall semester Aug. 2, offering 30 courses at churches in the Houston, San Antonio, Bryan-College Station, Dallas-Fort Worth areas. The schedule features two eight-week terms in the fall–Alpha running from Aug. 2 to Sept. 25, and Emmanuel from Sept. 27 to Nov. 20. Beginning Aug. 30, the institute also will offer seven on-line, on-demand courses. The curriculum is divided into four learning clusters: Scripture and witness, faith and heritage, ministry and formation, and worship and mission. For registration and enrollment information, visit www.bhcti.org; phone (817) 274-4284; e-mail admin@bhcti.org; or mail to 120 E. Abram St., Arlington 76010.
Baylor regents approve graduate programs. Baylor University regents have approved new graduate programs in exercise, nutrition and preventive health; theological studies; and engineering. The department of health, human performance and recreation in Baylor's School of Education will offer a doctor of philosophy program in exercise, nutrition and preventive health–one of the first such multidisciplinary doctoral programs in the United States. Regents also approved a master of theological studies degree at Truett Theological Seminary. The graduate program will provide a basic foundation in biblical and theological disciplines, while allowing students to combine theological studies with other Baylor graduate degrees in social work, music, education, business administration and law. Baylor's engineering department will offer eight joint bachelor's/master's degree programs in electrical, computer, biomedical and mechanical engineering.
Incomplete annuals mailed. The Baptist General Convention of Texas began mailing copies of the 2003 BGCT Annual to churches last week before staff discovered 48 pages were missing from some of the books. The printer left out pages 186-234 in about 10 percent of the annuals, said Rand Jenkins, director of BGCT's creative services office. The missing pages include statistical information about BGCT institutions. Churches that receive an incomplete annual should contact Shirley Smith via e-mail at ssmith@bgct.org and a new one will be sent to them.
08/06/2004 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: BWA blesses Baptists from Texas_80904
Posted: 8/06/04
TOGETHER:
BWA blesses Baptists from TexasWe had breakfast in Seoul, South Korea, with a Baptist missionary from Nagaland who serves in Cambodia. His bright smile and winsome personality blessed us as we talked about mission strategy and rejoiced in the work of our Baptist family around the world.
I learned 90 percent of the population in Nagaland–a province of India–is Christian, and almost all the Christians are Baptists. When American and Canadian Baptists first came to the area in the late 19th century, they reached the tribes by starting schools and caring for the people. The tribesmen were headhunters who counted severed heads as trophies of their dominance. But they no longer are warlike people. Their hearts have found their place in the love of God and gospel of Christ. Now these self-supporting Baptist churches send missionaries to people in other parts of the world. The Nagaland Baptist Church Council is one of 211 Baptist conventions that work in cooperation with the Baptist World Alliance.
CHARLES WADE
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
The Korea Baptist Convention is another. BWA President Billy Kim, the founding pastor of the 20,000-member Central Baptist Church of Suwon, is “Mr. Baptist” in Korea. He translated for Billy Graham in a great Korean crusade in the '70s, and he knows and encourages many of his nation's spiritual, business and political leaders.
08/06/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Missionaries bring light to ‘heart of darkness’_80904
Posted: 8/06/04
Union Femenil Misionera elected officers during the Woman's Missionary Union of Texas Leadership Conference in Waco. The officers are: (l-r) President Irma Alvarado of First Baptist Church in Donna, Secretary Frances Barrera from Jericho Baptist Church in Plainview and Vice President Esther Molina of Primera Iglesia Bautista in Round Rock. Missionaries bring light to 'heart of darkness'
By Sarah Farris
Texas Baptist Communications
WACO–Texas Baptists do not have to go far to find “world-class lostness,” Missionaries William and Orpha Ortega told the Texas Leadership Conference.
08/06/2004 - By John Rutledge
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WMU speakers challenge women to be followers of Christ_80904
Posted: 8/06/04
Joy Fenner (center) announces Suzy Wall (left) of Hereford as the first recipient of a missions scholarship named in Fenner's honor. Wall will minister during the Olympics in Athens this August. Fenner credited Jeane Talley (right) with getting the fund started through her "stewardship of time, money and personality." WMU speakers challenge women to be followers of Christ
By Ferrell Foster
Texas Baptist Communications
WACO–The parade of speakers at the Texas Leadership Conference spanned several generations. They included missionaries, the children of missionaries and just regular Texas Baptists. But all spoke of following Christ in missions.
08/06/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Use ‘basics’ to involve families in missions_80904
Posted: 8/06/04
Use 'basics' to involve families in missions
WACO–The key to getting families involved in missions is to “just make a start” and stick to the basics, a veteran missions volunteer told a Woman's Missionary Union training conference.
“You can use the basic things you already know and make them something special,” Suzy Wall of Hereford said during a workshop titled “Hats Off to Families on Mission” during the Texas Leadership Conference in Waco.
Wall, who will serve as a mission volunteer at the Olympics in Athens, Greece, gave participants several ideas for getting families involved.
Suzy Wall of Hereford offers helpful hints for involving families in missions. 08/06/2004 - By John Rutledge
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