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  Georgia Baptists reject church with woman pastor

  The Georgia Baptist Convention has decided to refuse gifts from a historic member church that last year called as pastor a woman—Julie Pennington-Russell, formerly of Calvary Baptist Church in Waco.

  11/17/2008 - By Administrator

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  DBU students, staff serve from Southeast Texas to South Korea

  Three teams of Dallas Baptist University students and staff used their fall break to served in Houston, rural Louisiana and South Korea.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

• Activists arrested, but not at DBU & Southwestern

  Three gay-rights activists were arrested on the campus of Baptist-affiliated Union University and others were arrested on other campuses, but not at Dallas Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

• Pastors often find church roadmaps quite confusing

  Most pastors of small Baptist churches see what God is calling their congregations to be and do and have laid the groundwork for accomplishing the mission, but their efforts are frustrated by “turf” battles and a failure to clarify and evaluate plans, according to a new study by LifeWay Research.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

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  Katy church ministers to victims in Galveston

  Redeemer Community Church in Katy went outside its walls one Sunday morning to help people in Galveston who no longer had walls.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

• Baptist churches draw gay-rights supporters’ protests

  About 100 people stood outside First Baptist Church of Dallas Nov. 9 to protest a sermon publicized on the church marquee with the title, “Why gay is not OK.”

  11/13/2008 - By admin

• FCC approves ‘white space’ technology; some churches worry about interference

  The Federal Communications Commission has decided to grant Google, Motorola, Dell and Microsoft permission to develop “white space” devices that some pastors worry will interfere with wireless microphones.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

• 2010 = kingdom assignment

  Randel Everett’s greatest fear is that Texas Baptists will miss out on their “kingdom assignment” from God.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

• Foundation presents annual missions awards

  The Texas Baptist Missions Foundation recognized the work and ministry of three missions leaders—Paul Powell, Chris Simmons and Joe T. Lenamon—during a luncheon at the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

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  Ministry awards honor perseverance, empathy & creative care for others

  The 2008 Texas Baptist Ministry Awards sponsored by Baylor University and the Baptist Standard honored a long-tenured small-church pastor, a pioneer in ministry to the mentally disabled and a leader in teaching English to adults.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

• Worship should transform participants, educator tells Texas Baptist workshop

  When it comes to worship, too many Christians resemble neutrinos—subatomic particles that can pass through matter without being affected, a workshop leader told a Texas Baptist group.

  11/13/2008 - By admin

• Not all missionaries are Baptist, but all Baptists should be missionaries, speakers maintain

  The call to engage in missions is not a distinctively Baptist belief, but devotion to Baptist principles should produce a commitment to missions, ethics professor Bill Tillman told a Texas Baptist workshop.

  11/13/2008 - By admin