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  Missional, emergent church movements place premium on church starting

  The missional church and emergent church movements are sweeping through many aspects of religious life—including church planting. While both most often are tagged as movements, they also function as foundations for birthing new congregations.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Common denominator for new churches: They all need funds

  Regardless of the method or process used to start them, all new church plants have one thing in common—the need for money.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Homeowners weigh morality of walking out on mortgages

  Up to 25 million homeowners—about one in four—are “underwater”  on the home mortgage. Those who walk away in a "strategic default" face an array of financial consequences, as well as a moral question– is it the right thing to do?

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Musician teaches young girls that modest is hottest

  Musician Jaime Jamgochian designed a popular "Modest is Hottest" T-shirt and started a conference that focuses on teaching young girls how to dress in the latest styles while maintaining modesty.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Abilene couple cooks for missions, ministries

  Bill and Janis Altom of Abilene have baked more than 10,000 cookies for Hardin-Simmons University students over the years and helped to raise money for missions at the same time.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Faith Digest: Church attendance up

  A new Gallup Poll found Americans’ self-reported church attendance has increased slightly since 2008.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Lines of church-state separation may get blurry in disaster zones

  Relief workers acknowledge the close working relationship between government and religious agencies may blur the lines of church-state separation, especially when the desperation of victims pushes such concerns to the back burner.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Churches start their own humanitarian aid agencies

  As American Christians grow more skeptical and less dependent on traditional institutions, individual churches are starting their own humanitarian aid organizations, doing their own projects on their own terms.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Buckner seeks adoptive family for special-needs baby

  Buckner International is hoping to find a family to adopt a seven-month-old special-needs boy born with spina bifida.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs: Crumpler honored

  Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler, former executive director of Woman’s Missionary Union and a past moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, received the annual Courage Award from the William H. Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society during the CBF general assembly in Charlotte, N.C.

  07/15/2010 - By admin

• Texas Tidbits

  A best-selling college guide for college-bound students and their parents has named Baylor University a “Best Buy” for the fifth consecutive year.

  07/14/2010 - By admin

• On the Move

  Javier Alamanza to Flatonia Church in Flatonia as student minister.

  07/14/2010 - By admin