• On the Move

  Rudy Hernandez to Community Bible Chapel in Spur as interim pastor.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

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  Christian Men’s Job Corps helps ex-offenders start new lives

  Christian Men’s Job Corps is a personal, spiritual and job-skills development effort  sponsored by Woman’s Missionary Union that teaches topics such as money management, resume writing, interview coaching and computer training.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

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  Granbury churches show love for their community

  More than 600 volunteers from churches representing seven denominations participated in the "Love Granbury" outreach effort to the community.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

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  Is God trying to send people a message through disasters?

  What is it about nature’s fury that attracts theological interpretation? For many religious leaders, scholars say, it’s an opportunity to win new believers.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

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  ‘Miss Jan’ keeps order at Georgia church, where Carter draws crowd

  Jan Williams is the head peacekeeper at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga. where former President Jimmy Carter teaches a Sunday school class. At 8 a.m. on any given Sunday morning, “Miss Jan” steps out the church’s front doors and encounters a line of visitors already forming.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs

  Leo Endel, executive director of the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention, is joining an increasingly crowded field of candidates who will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the June 15-16 meeting in Orlando.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

• Seminaries not preparing pastors to minister to disabled, some assert

  An expert in the field of disability ministry says theological seminaries are doing little to prepare ministers to deal with the estimated one in five Americans living with some kind of disability.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

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  Welcoming people with special needs can mean spiritual, numerical growth

  Churches that do a good job of including members with special needs like autism often reap side benefits of a positive witness to their community and sometimes even numerical growth, says an expert in disability ministries.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

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  First person: Anybody can be a friend

  Not everyone has the expertise or ability to do something significant about a problem as big as helping families deal with disabilities, but “anybody can be a friend.”

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  Author describes what having an autistic child taught her about God

  Kathleen Deyer Bolduc, a nationally recognized author and speaker in the field of disability ministry, said she was unprepared to parent a special-needs child before the birth of her third son.

  05/20/2010 - By admin

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  Barriers of attitude block people with disabilities from full inclusion in churches

  A longtime advocate for people with disabilities said the greatest barriers to including special-needs individuals in churches are not architectural or language but rather barriers of attitude.

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  Around the State

  The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor awarded its first doctoral degrees during spring commencement ceremonies. Six students earned doctoral degrees, 21 received master’s degrees and 281 earned baccalaureate degrees. Andy Davis, pastor of First Church in Belton, was awarded an honorary doctorate.

  05/20/2010 - By admin