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together_63003
Posted: 6/27/03
TOGETHER:
Numbers paint picture of missionsSummer brings a change of pace for most of us. Family vacations are most often planned for this time of the year. Churches take on a different dynamic, too, as the sounds of children and youth can be heard throughout the week. Camp programs, Vacation Bible Schools, summer mission trips, Super Summer youth evangelism conferences, recreational activities and local community mission involvement all contribute to the “hum” around the church house.
That hum goes on statewide, as well. Rosemary and I, along with scores of Baptist General Convention of Texas staff, attended the annual meeting of the Hispanic Baptist Convention June 22-24. In a few days, the African-American Baptist Fellowship will convene in Houston, July 8-11. What I love about these meetings is the way entire families show up. There are activities for children and young people. And the adults celebrate and rejoice in the achievements of their children and grandchildren.
CHARLES WADE
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
It is the stated goal of the BGCT to “reach all people.” We want, as a pastor in the Valley expressed, our churches and convention to look like the face of Texas. We want Hispanics, African-Americans, Asian-Americans and anyone else to feel as much at home in the BGCT as do Anglo-Americans. And if we are to do that effectively, we must encourage one another, and in order to do that, we must know one another.
06/27/2003 - By John Rutledge
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truett_grads_63003
Posted: 6/27/03
Members of the 2003 class of Truett Theological Seminary pose in the seminary's Powell Chapel. Truett Seminary to produce 79 graduates in 2003
WACO–Baylor University's Truett Theological Seminary honored 79 members of the class of 2003, including 35 spring graduates, during baccalaureate ceremonies.
Bill Sherman, pastor of First Baptist Church of Fairview, Tenn., delivered the baccalaureate address on “The Compulsion of the Cross.” Sherman told the graduates, “The Christ of the cross compels us to believe and to believe strongly, … to act and to act greatly, … to love and love supremely … and to praise and praise gloriously.”
Sherman admonished the seminarians, using the words of British World War I chaplain G.A. Studdert-Kennedy, to “serve in such a way that you will hear God as you stand before him in eternity say, 'Well done' rather than, 'Well!'”
06/27/2003 - By John Rutledge
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learning_lab_62303
Posted: 6/20/03
Student summer missionary Martha Ann Trull, one of more than 200 sent out this year through the Baptist General Convention of Texas, tells a Bible story to children gathered at a mission site of Oak View Baptist Church in Irving. Twenty student missionaries spent 10 days at the Irving church before heading to other work in the Northwest this summer. Irving church offers
missions learning lab for studentsBy Leann Callaway
Special to the Standard
IRVING–The missions program of Oak View Baptist Church has become a learning lab for 20 student missionaries this summer.
06/24/2003 - By John Rutledge
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hesaid_62303
Posted 6/23/03
He Said/ She Said:
He Said:
Girls
Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls. And never the twain shall meet in our house–at least for now.
Luke and Garrett, having just completed the fifth grade, still subscribe to the theory that girls have cooties and are not to be trusted. Soon, no doubt, they'll realize that girls don't have cooties but still aren't to be trusted.
MARK WINGFIELD Some of their friends already have fallen to the dark side. A few, in fact, have fallen so hard they've damaged their heads, I think.
06/23/2003 - By John Rutledge
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