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  Texas Baptists to gather in Houston, wanting to share hope

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting are gathering Nov. 16-17 with an eye toward Easter. They will focus on how they can pray for neighbors, care for people in need and share the gospel with every Texan by Easter 2010.

  11/05/2009 - By admin

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  Merritt, Gushee: On creation care, evangelicals must move toward ‘we’

  American Christians must move beyond a theology of “me” to a theology of “we” in order to play a meaningful role in creation care, according to speakers at a two-day conference recently held Oct. 29-31 on the campus of Mercer University in Macon, Ga.

  11/05/2009 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  The Mission Centers of Houston will be the recipients of a canned food drive at the BGCT annual meeting in Houston, Nov. 16-17.

  11/04/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs

  A judge in Uzbekistan has found three Baptist leaders guilty of tax evasion and involving children in religious activities without their parents’ permission, ending a high-profile trial in the Uzbek capital city of Tashkent.

  11/04/2009 - By admin

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  Around the State

  The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor College of Humanities will host former Baptist Standard cartoonist Doug Dillard as he presents a lecture on “The World of Cartoon Publishing” Nov. 23 at 11 a.m. in the Brindley Auditorium of the York Science Center.

  11/04/2009 - By admin

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  Russian Baptists alarmed by proposed changes to religion law

  Russian Baptist leaders have raised concerns about proposed revisions to the nation's religion law — changes they contend would greatly curtail religious freedom in Russia.

  11/04/2009 - By Administrator

• British missions society writes prime minister about global warming

  The urgent need for action on global climate change is the subject on which a 217-year-old British Baptist missionary-sending organization has chosen to write what its leaders believe to be the group's first-ever open letter to a prime minister.

  11/03/2009 - By Administrator

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  First Baptist Church Dallas launches $130 million building project

  First Baptist Church in Dallas has launched a $130 million building project that includes the congregation's first entirely new sanctuary since the 1890s.

  11/03/2009 - By Administrator

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  Trustees & directors nominated for BGCT consideration

  Nominations to be considered by messengers to the BGCT annual meeting, Nov. 16-17 in Houston have been presented by the Committee on Committees, Committee to Nominate Executive Board Directors and the Committee for Nominations for Boards of Affiliated Ministries.

  10/30/2009 - By admin

• Messengers approve CP funds to lawsuits, two allocation options offered

  RAYTOWN — Missouri Baptist congregations will have to formally vote during a church business meeting if they wish to protect their Cooperative Program gifts from being used to fund ongoing legal action. Messengers to the 175th Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting adopted an Executive Board recommendation that establishes CP allocation plans. Plan A, the default plan, designates 3 percent of CP allocations to be used to pay legal costs.

  10/30/2009 - By Administrator

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  Crash victim remembered with random acts of kindness

  On Oct. 29 lawyers took cases pro bono, a man installed a water heater for a disabled man who previously showered on his back porch and a man stopping to give a stranded motorist a jump wound up replacing her battery. All were acts of kindness to mark what would have been the 13th birthday of a girl killed this summer by injuries received in a church-bus accident.

  10/30/2009 - By Administrator

• Wayland Missions Center outlines five-year goals, develops strategies

  More than 30 community and church leaders—including representatives from the Baptist General Convention of Texas and associations of churches in West Texas—met recently to develop goals for Wayland Baptist University’s Missions Center.

  10/30/2009 - By admin