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  Cybercolumn by Jeanie Miley: Trust the source_51704

  Posted: 5/07/04

  CYBERCOLUMN:
  Trust the source

  By Jeanie Miley
  

  From the freeway to the subdivision where we were having dinner with friends couldn’t have been more than a mile. On that route, we passed five churches, all of which are “nondenominational.”
  

  This isn’t my father’s world, I thought to myself, recalling that when I was riding my bicycle around the sidewalks of the churches he pastored. When I was a child, swinging in the backyards of the parsonages, most of which were next door to the church, somebody different was a Methodist!

  Jeanie Miley

  05/07/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Upward Homes makes dreams come true, teaches stewardship_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  Upward Homes makes dreams
  come true, teaches stewardship

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  UNIVERSAL CITY–Kathleen Vinglas lights up at the mention of her home. It provides a quick way for her to talk about how Texas Baptists helped her.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Southern Baptist churches show membership growth, but baptisms decline_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  Southern Baptist churches show
  membership growth, but baptisms decline

  By Polly House

  LifeWay Christian Resources

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–The Southern Baptist Convention reported a record membership of 16,315,050, up 0.41 percent over 2002, and grew to 43,024 churches, an increase of 249 new congregations, according to statistics compiled by the convention.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

• PFLAG community center named for retired Baylor prof_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  PFLAG community center named for retired Baylor prof

  WACO–Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays recently opened a community center in Waco named for a retired Baylor University religion professor and his wife who have a homosexual son.

  The center is named for Eddie Dwyer, 92, who taught in the Baylor religion department 37 years–including six as interim department head–and his wife, Velma, who was a credit manager in the university's financial aid office 31 years.

  Paul Dwyer, a Baylor alumnus who has worked the last 30 years as a specialist in the Congressional Research Service in Washington, D.C., told his parents 13 years ago he was gay.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Nocona teens know where to go for ‘soul food’_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  Nocona teens know where to go for 'soul food'

  By Jo Gray

  Special to the Baptist Standard

  NOCONA–On any given Tuesday, about one-third of the students at Nocona High School can be found at church–eating lunch.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Ministry to people with disabilities needs lots of hugs, handshakes, smiles_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  Ministry to people with disabilities
  needs lots of hugs, handshakes, smiles

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  Starting a ministry to special-needs individuals is as simple as a smile, handshake or hug, say Texas Baptists who lead such efforts in their churches.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Convencion, CBF church-starting partnership ready for work_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  Eddie Aldape, one of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's Global Missions field personnel, speaks to a class at the Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio. BUA is training ministers to serve in the new churches being started as a part of the CBF partnership with the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas.

  Convencion, CBF church-starting
  partnership ready for work

  By Craig Bird

  Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

  Less than a year after shaking hands and agreeing to work together, the Hispanic Baptist Convencion of Texas and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship are rolling up their sleeves toward jointly starting at least 400 Hispanic churches throughout the United States by 2010.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Number of hungry people in world increasing by 4.5 million every year_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  The number of poor and hungry people around the world continues to grow at an alarming rate, according to Bread for the World's annual report.

  Number of hungry people in world
  increasing by 4.5 million every year

  By Ken Camp

  Managing Editor

  The number of hungry people in the United States and the developing world is greater now than it was when international leaders set hunger-cutting goals in the mid-1990s, said a recently released report by a faith-based anti-hunger organization.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Nehemiah Project Making an impact_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  Worship leader Justin Cofield urges a response from youth during the closing night of the six-day, inter-denominational Impact evangelistic events in Mineral Wells. (David May/Mineral Wells Index Photo)

  Nehemiah Project: Making an impact

  By Ken Camp

  Managing Editor

  MINERAL WELLS–Many church leaders talk about the importance of breaking down walls or going beyond the walls of a church to minister. But the inspiration for Tommy Pophin's ministry vision came from an Old Testament passage about building a wall.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas, Mexico partnership produces base camp for ministry_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  Volunteers help construct facilities at Camp Getsemani, the only church camp in Coahuila, Mexico.

  Texas, Mexico partnership produces base camp for ministry

  By George Henson

  Staff Writer

  ACUNA, Mexico–A partnership between a Mexican church and three Texas congregations has produced a ministry base camp on the south side of the Rio Grande.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

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  CLC staff denied access to governor’s office_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  CLC staff denied access to governor's office

  By Ferrell Foster

  Texas Baptist Communications

  DALLAS–Representatives of Texas Baptists' moral concerns agency have been trying since spring 2003 to talk with Texas Gov. Rick Perry about public school financing.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge

• Evangelical Christians–powerful or persecuted?_50304

  Posted: 5/03/04

  Evangelical Christians–powerful or persecuted?

  By Robert Marus

  ABP Washington Bureau

  WASHINGTON (ABP)–Although American evangelicals overwhelmingly view themselves as part of mainstream America and think they hold significant political influence, they nonetheless believe they are a besieged minority, a new study has found.

  04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge