• Mimicking trends could turn musician into worship ‘barista,’ leader warns

  Trying to adapt to every trend in worship can become disruptive and distracting to a church, said Tim Studstill, director of music and worship for the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

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  Super Summer super for all involved, participants insist

  More than 4,000 young people who attended Super Summer camps learned how share their faith naturally through relationships with other people.

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  Dallas church forms partnership with Baptist associations in New England

  Members of Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church recently signed a partnership agreement with the Greater Boston Baptist Association and the Southeastern New England Baptist Association, committing to provide financial and ministerial assistance to the churches in these two associations.

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• Faith groups push to increase minimum wage to $10 an hour

  A nonpartisan coalition of more than 90 faith, community, labor and business organizations has launched an ambitious “$10 in 2010” campaign to raise the federal minimum wage within two years.

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  Baptist layman provides gift of life to music minister

  Hal Rowe, an Alzheimer's patient, decided to donate a kidney to his friend Randy Parsons, a former music minister at Trinity Baptist Church in Lubbock and instructor at Wayland's University's Lubbock campus. Soon, Parsons will be singing again.
  

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• Obama, McCain both struggle to seal the deal with evangelical voters

  If Obama can cut McCain’s margin among evangelical voters from 78 percent to 68 percent, the election may be his, a political observer says.

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  Unexpected travel problems in 2007 lead to youth mission trip in 2008

  Engine trouble on a mission trip in 2007 threw a youth group from First Baptist Church in Duncanville unexpectedly together with a church in Chillicothe, which led to a diferent kind of mission trip this summer.

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  Sunday school class project sparks international ministry

  An eye-opening visit by a Baptist Sunday school class from Columbia Baptist Church in suburban Washington, D.C., to a Moscow hospital nearly 20 years ago sparked a project that today provides millions of dollars in medical supplies to almost 100 countries around the world–CrossLink International.

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• Faith no laughing matter, court says

  Making jokes and comments about a person’s religion can create a “humiliating and painful environment” and be a form of on-the-job discrimination, New Jersey’s highest court recently ruled.

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  Band leader wants to be ‘catalyst for life change’

  The Justin Cofield Band is earning a reputation for heart-felt lyrics and solid melodies in their original songs.

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  A Prayer for China: Olympics bring back memories for Britt Towery

  The Olympic Games are bringing back China memories for former missionary Britt Towery. Most of the memories are good, but some are not. (Baptist Press Photo)

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  A Prayer for China: The legacy of Bishop Ting

  Though some would vehemently disagree, Philip Wickeri says Chinese Bishop K. H. Ting is one of the greatest church leaders of the 20th century.

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