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  mhd_volunteers_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Volunteers: The future of border missions

  By Craig Bird

  Texas Baptist Communications

  MISSION–Volunteers “are pretty much the future” of Texas Baptist efforts to share the gospel in the Borderlands, insists Loren Fast.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

• ministry_awards_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Nominees sought for Texas Baptist ministry awards

  LUBBOCK–The Baptist Standard and Baylor University will honor three of the state's most outstanding vocational and lay ministers during the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual session this fall.

  Nominations are being accepted for the Texas Baptist Ministry Awards, to be presented at the Truett Theological Seminary dinner at the BGCT meeting in Lubbock.

  The awards program encompass three recognitions, each named for a prominent Texas Baptist.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

• mission_eastdallas_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Church's vision for a clinic
  grows with aid from other churches

  By Heather Price

  Texas Baptist Communications

  DALLAS–Many poor families enter the Mission East Dallas County Health Services Clinic, each with their own story of heartache. They leave with free medicine, stuffed bears, children's books and the gospel of Jesus.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

• network_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Missions network edges forward

  By Ken Camp

  Texas Baptist Communications

  DALLAS–Texas Baptists' currently unnamed missions network moved a step closer to being named at its Aug. 7 meeting, and it took strides toward becoming a formally constituted non-profit corporation.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  onthemove_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  On the move

  Leobardo Flores to Second Church in Harlingen as pastor.

  Casey DuBose to Coastal Plains Area as church development director, from Alamo Heights Church in Port Lavaca, where he was pastor.

  Adam Espurvoa to Iglesia Emanuel in Bastrop as pastor from Primera Iglesia in Elgin.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  ossuary_fraud_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Owner of James ossuary suspected
  in far-reaching antiquities fraud

  By Elaine Ruth Fletcher

  Religion News Service

  JERUSALEM (RNS)–Israeli investigators are exploring the possibility antiquities dealer Oded Golan, now in police custody, was the leader of the alleged forgery of the purported first century A.D. inscription on the famous James ossuary, which included a reference to Jesus.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

• paisano_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  PAISANO: Family camping

  By George Henson

  Staff Writer

  ALPINE–About 1,400 people recently returned to Paisano Baptist Encampment near Alpine for a once-in-a-lifetime experience that comes around once a year.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

• poll_undergod_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Majority approve of reciting 'under God'

  WASHINGTON (RNS)–More than 60 percent of Americans think government officials should be able to post the Ten Commandments in government buildings and believe it is constitutional for teachers to lead the recitation of “one nation under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.

  The “State of the First Amendment 2003” survey, released Aug. 1, was jointly commissioned by the First Amendment Center and the American Journalism Review.

  Sixty-eight percent of respondents said teachers leading the pledge with the words “one nation under God” were not violating the principle of separation of church and state, while 26 percent said they were.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  progreso_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Evening sports camps offered KidsHeart volunteers the opportunity to teach sports to local children, but the camps also provided the chance for the visitors to bond with children. (Scott Collins/Buckner Photo)

  24 churches join in Progreso mission

  By Scott Collins & Lance Wallace

  Buckner Benevolences & Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

  PROGRESO–Julian Vigil raised the hammer over his head, and with a violent swing, struck the ceiling of Jorge and Ramona Lopez's bedroom.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  pryor_debate_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Religious affiliation adds
  a jolt to appointment debate

  By Sean Reilly

  Religion News Service

  WASHINGTON (RNS)–When Bill Pryor won a full four-year term as Alabama attorney general in 1998, advocates of religious tolerance also chalked up a victory: In a state with a long history of antagonism toward Roman Catholicism, Pryor's staunch allegiance to that faith publicly never stirred a murmur.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  school_supplies_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Deja Richardson, a kindergarten student at J.L. Everhart Primary School in Longview, receives a free eye exam from a Heaton Eye Associate volunteer at the Back-To-School Carnival Aug. 3. At right: Nine-year-old Kabreuntray Jackson was one of three children in the Jackson family to receive school supplies from the School Supply Train.

  School Supply Train greeted eagerly in Longview

  By Amy Seale

  Buckner News Service

  LONGVIEW–In the corner of a dimly lit hallway, separated from the crowd, two girls sat beneath the light of an open window. Before them, a colorfully illustrated book lay open, detailing the life of Christ and his gift of salvation. For one of the teens, it was the perfect opportunity to talk about Christ with her young friend–an opportunity that began with a truckload of school supplies and a gym full of backpacks.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  spann_81103

  Posted: 8/8/03

  Mitsura Watanabe, one of the first four music majors at the Brazilian seminary, is shown with Ed Spann 30 years ago and at the reunion.

  Memories Spann the ages
  as professsor visits school he started

  By George Henson

  Staff Writer

  DALLAS–Ed Spann recently returned to the scene of the sublime as he traveled to São Paulo, Brazil to celebrate the anniversary of a school of sacred music he started 30 years ago.

  08/08/2003 - By John Rutledge