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  Texas Baptists conduct medical clinics in two villages in Senegal

  The language of love in action communicates around the globe, an 11-member Texas Baptist team recently discovered as they shared the hope of Christ in two Senegalese villages.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  SMBA renames main road Robert Fanning Drive

  San Marcos Baptist Academy honored Robert Fanning, who served on the school’s board of trustees longer than any other individual, by naming the main road through the school campus “Robert Fanning Drive.”

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  10 practices for ministerial health

  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America lists 10 best practices for ministerial health and wellness.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Leaving Eden drives home gospel message

  A season of soul-searching and reflection inspired the vision behind Brandon Heath’s most recent album, Leaving Eden, which focuses on themes of redemption, restoration and relationship with God.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptists to provide van for Japan tsunami relief effort

  Texas Baptists are providing a van for the Japan Baptist Convention to transport people and supplies in the area affected by the tsunami.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  ‘How shall they hear without a preacher?’

  The Bible says faith comes through hearing, and now Billy Fuller is ready to lead others to faith, because he can hear again thanks to a cochlear implant.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Billy Graham returns home from hospital

  Evangelist Billy Graham returned home May 15 after a five-day hospital stay for pneumonia. Graham, 92, has regained strength after treatment with antibiotics, according to his doctors at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest

  Cancer patients who consider the length of their lives to be “in God’s hands” are more willing than others to spend money on treatments that might extend their lives, a new study shows.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  The Baylor University board of regents approved a $428.6 million operating budget for 2011-2012 and elected new members of the governing board—including the first two non-Baptist regents in the school’s history.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Scholars chase Bible’s changes, one verse at a time

  New Orleans Baptist Seminary Bible scholars are buried in a 20-year project to codify the thousands of changes, verse by verse, word by word—even letter by letter—that crept into the early New Testament during hundreds of years of laborious hand-copying.

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

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  Bike Out Hunger participants insist: ‘It’s not about the ride’

  More than 35 cyclists, grueling hills, daily rides often longer than 70 miles, and an adventure in faith from Beaumont to Texarkana—that’s Bike Out Hunger.

   

  05/19/2011 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  Houston attorney Joe Jamail presented a $1 million gift to San Marcos Baptist Academy—the largest cash donation in the school’s 104-year history.

  05/18/2011 - By Administrator