• TBM sending teams to New England; preparing for Gulf storm

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief has been asked to send two assessment teams to Vermont and four chainsaw teams to North Carolina to serve in the wake of Hurricane Irene, which recently struck the country’s Eastern seaboard.

  09/02/2011 - By Administrator

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  Aledo church seeks to be ‘radical’ in its mission for Christ

  Challenged to be "radical" in their missions efforts, about 190 members of First Baptist Church in Aledo responded,  and in the past year they've seen hundreds come to faith in Christ in Peru, Cambodia, Austria, Hungary, Egypt, Panama, Venezuela, Portugal and Jamaica, as well as Colorado and Vermont.

  09/01/2011 - By Administrator

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  Debate over Adam and Eve continues

  Author Brian McLaren and Southern Baptist Seminary President Al Mohler have entered into an ongoing debate over whether the belief in a literal Adam and Eve is necessary to correctly understand Christ’s saving work.

  08/31/2011 - By Administrator

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  Student adopts 30-days-on-$30 fast to identify with global poor

  Nathan Adair, a Texas Baptist student at London's University of Westminster, is subsisting on $1 a day for a month to focus attention of world hunger needs and raise money to fund a solar micro-enterprise project to benefit an orphanage in India.

  08/31/2011 - By Administrator

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  Fort Bend pastor nominated for BGCT 2nd VP post

  Byron Stevenson, founding pastor of The Fort Bend Church in Sugar Land, one of the fastest-growing churches in the state, will be a candidate for second vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas this fall.

  08/30/2011 - By Administrator

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  New gardening approaches have Mexican group home seeing green

  When Juan Carlos Millán, Buckner International's Mexico program director, and his wife started researching hydroponic gardening—growing plants in water rather than soil—the possibilities bloomed.

  08/30/2011 - By Administrator

• TBM gears up to serve after Hurricane Irene

  Texas Baptist Men received requests to provide disaster relief in North Carolina, and leaders expect to be called on to serve in Vermont, as well.

  08/30/2011 - By Ken Camp

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  Religious leaders laud MLK in memorial service

  An earthquake and a hurricane interrupted plans to honor Martin Luther King Jr. in the nation's capital, but religious leaders and civil rights veterans said King's legacy is unshakable.

  08/29/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baptist relief agencies begin Mid-Atlantic cleanup in wake of Irene

  As Hurricane Irene continued its destructive track north Aug. 28, Baptist relief agencies in the Mid-Atlantic began deploying volunteers in the region, which was left with rising water and little electricity in the wake of the storm.

  08/29/2011 - By Marv Knox

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  Faith & Work

  In an uncertain and unstable economy, how do Christians reconcile work as a reflection of the image of God in them with high unemployment and under-employment rates?

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Churches offer ‘Soul Food,’ encouragement to the unemployed

  When people are in trouble following natural disasters, churches usually respond rapidly and generously. The disaster of chronic unemployment creates a different set of challenges, but some churches across the country provide models of ministry to people affected by economic instability by meeting immediate needs for food and shelter.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Christians called to address both immediate needs, social inequities

  While many churches reach out to meet the immediate needs of people who have lost jobs, Christians also are called to tackle underlying social issues related to employment and to partner with others to help make long-term changes, some ethicists advocate.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator