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  Handful of Ethiopian Christians grow into denomination

  Lauralee Lindholm and husband Ray Windsor Park Baptist Church in DeSoto returned to Ethiopia after 20 years to find a growing Baptist population.

  07/09/2009 - By admin

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  Highest freedom is freely giving self to God, Baptist historian says

  Baptists must aspire to the kind of freedom that leads them to relinquish their autonomy to God, historian Walter Shurden told participants at the William H. Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society’s annual meeting.

  07/09/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs

  Delegates to the American Baptist Churches USA biennial meeting in Pasadena, Calif., torpedoed a major restructuring backed by denominational officials but criticized by some leaders and churches.

  07/09/2009 - By admin

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  Around the State

  Paisano Baptist Encampment will hold its 89th consecutive general encampment beginning July 26 and running through lunch July 31.

  07/09/2009 - By admin

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  San Antonio adoptive family grows two by two

  Soon after William and Dana Ryann married, he battled cancer and underwent radiation, making natural conception unlikely. Since the couple wanted children, and she had been adopted herself, it didn’t take them long to decide to adopt.

  07/09/2009 - By admin

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  Obama to nominate prominent Christian geneticist to head NIH

  The White House announced July 8 that President Obama would tap prominent Christian geneticist Francis Collins, who is one of the world’s most famous thinkers on the relationship between religion and science, to head the National Institutes of Health.

  07/09/2009 - By Administrator

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  Broadway Baptist Church youth choir detours through Nashville

  Fernia Harris of Nashville, Tenn., got a special surprise on her birthday July 8. A group of teenagers from Broadway Baptist Church in Forth Worth volunteered three days to scrape and paint the exterior of the 1920s-era house where Harris and her husband live and care for their disabled daughter.

  07/08/2009 - By Administrator

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  Leonard: Baptists must find new ways to express ideals

  Baptist denominational systems across the United States are in transition and being redefined, spawning a number of issues that are complicating and clouding the Baptist landscape, Bill Leonard told a group of Associated Baptist Press supporters.

  07/07/2009 - By admin

• BWA chief invites Baptists to gather around the table of fellowship

  The communion table provides a metaphor for how the Baptist World Alliance can unite Baptists in a “true spirit of hospitality,” Neville Callam insisted. Callam, general secretary of the worldwide organization, addressed the challenge of bringing Baptists together during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s general assembly in Houston.

  07/06/2009 - By Administrator

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  Religious liberty demands constant vigilance, congressman reminds Baptists

  An advocate in the U.S. Congress for church-state separation thanked Baptists for their contributions to religious liberty and reminded them of the need to continue defending the wall of separation.

  07/06/2009 - By Administrator

• Missions and ministry the focus of Texas CBF gathering

  Texas members of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship focused on missions and ministry as well as doing business when they gathered during the national CBF annual general assembly in Houston.

  07/04/2009 - By Administrator

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  Highest freedom is freely giving self to God, Baptist historian says

  Baptists must aspire to the kind of freedom that leads them to relinquish their autonomy to God, historian Walter Shurden told participants at the William H. Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society’s annual meeting.

  07/04/2009 - By Administrator