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  Hall warns Texas Baptists Committed to avoid mistakes of failed corporate CEOs_72604

  Posted: 7/16/04

  Hall warns Texas Baptists Committed
  to avoid mistakes of failed corporate CEOs

  By Marv Knox
  

  Editor
  

  HOUSTON—Lessons learned from failed businesses can spur the Baptist General Convention of Texas to success, BGCT President Ken Hall insisted.

  07/16/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Baptists, Jews break bread together, build relationship_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Baptists, Jews break bread together, build relationship

  By Kirsten Pasha

  Associated Baptist Press

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP)–Members of Jewish and Baptist communities met for lunch during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly to share stories and encourage an interfaith relationship.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  CBF votes to help launch national ecumenical organization_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  CBF officers for 2004-05 are Moderator-Elect Joy Yee, pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church in San Francisco; Recording Secretary Susan Crumpler of Mason, Ohio; Moderator Bob Setzer Jr., pastor of First Baptist Church of Christ in Macon, Ga.; and Moderator Cynthia Holmes of Overland Baptist Church in St. Louis, Mo. (Stanley Leary Photo)

  CBF votes to help launch national ecumenical organization

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship voted to help start a national ecumenical organization, approved a $16 million budget and elected new leaders during its annual general assembly in Birmingham, Ala.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Vestal tells Coordinating Council it’s time for CBF to ‘step up’ and be good BWA member_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Vestal tells Coordinating Council it's time
  for CBF to 'step up' and be good BWA member

  By John Pierce & Greg Warner

  Baptists Today & Associated Baptist Press

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP)–Daniel Vestal, coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, said the Baptist World Alliance “is going to find a new vision and new life” in the next few months and years, even though it recently lost its largest member and donor.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Being near the right Son opens doors, theologian preaches_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Being near the right Son opens doors, theologian preaches

  By Robert Marus

  Associated Baptist Press

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP)– Being near the right Son can open doors for you, Virginia theologian John Kinney told participants at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's general assembly.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Split personality compels Baptists to fight, historian asserts_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Split personality compels Baptists to fight, historian asserts

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–Baptists fight because of centuries-old paradoxical tendencies in their nature, church historian Bill Leonard believes.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Fellowship welcomes Baptist World Alliance with open arms_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Fellowship welcomes Baptist World Alliance with open arms

  By Trennis Henderson

  Kentucky Western Recorder

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP)–One week after Southern Baptist Convention messengers voted to cut ties to the Baptist World Alliance, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship participants welcomed the global alliance with open arms.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Faithful can help media set the record straight_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Faithful can help media set the record straight

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–Although the media often “miss the story” when religion and politics make the news, people of faith can respond to set the record straight, according to the editors of Associated Baptist Press.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Networking, collaborating fellowships on rise, speaker tells congregational leaders_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Networking, collaborating fellowships
  on rise, speaker tells congregational leaders

  By Kirsten Pasha

  Associated Baptist Press

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala (ABP)– “Lord, help us to become more of what you have already made us to be.”

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Jesus the foundation for fellowship in CBF, coordinator says_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Jesus the foundation for fellowship in CBF, coordinator says

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala.–“Fellowship” is a defining principle for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, CBF Coordinator Daniel Vestal declared at the organization's general assembly.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Baptist Women in Ministry affirm continuing need for organization_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Baptist Women in Ministry affirm
  continuing need for organization

  By Sandi Villarreal

  Associated Baptist Press

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala., (ABP)–Baptist Women in Ministry has affirmed the need for its existence, despite concerns brought up last year that the group is outdated.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Patterson reaffirms allegations that BWA too open to gays, too anti-American in tone_71204

  Posted: 7/09/04

  Patterson reaffirms allegations that BWA
  too open to gays, too anti-American in tone

  By Robert Marus

  Associated Baptist Press

  WASHINGTON (ABP)–A Southern Baptist Convention leader reacted to charges that he slandered the Baptist World Alliance in a speech by affirming his complaints against the worldwide Baptist body–and issuing more.

  07/09/2004 - By John Rutledge