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Friday, November 20, 2009
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Annual meeting draws few for business, many for outreachThe BGCT annual meeting in Houston attracted the fewest messengers in at least 60 years, but a series of evangelistic events prior to the meeting marked the largest number of professions of faith in Christ of any similar event in recent history. 
Pilots for Christ lifts patients on a wing and a prayerAlabama car dealer Tommy Lee flies his Piper Cheyenne turbo-prop for Pilots for Christ taking patients to hospitals. The group depends on volunteer time given by pilots and the use of their planes, and on donations that pay for fuel and mission support. 
Churches share Christ by celebrating culturesMore than 500 people participated in an international festival at Houston’s Lansdale Park sponsored by 19 Baptist churches representing the Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Laotian, Malaysian and Vietnamese population in the area. 
Prison ministry weekend sees 1,405 people accept ChristMore than 200 volunteers shared their faith with 14,000 offenders in the Pam Lynchner State Prison and the Harris County jail, and 1,405 men and women became followers of Christ. In all, more than 2,400 spiritual decisions were made as a result of the outreach.
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Some things have changed a bit since 1949 at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas. Then, the church met in a house. Today, its 9,000 members fill a mammoth sancutary in multiple worship services. One thing hasn’t changed. Martha Howard still can be found teaching her room full of kindergartners—just as she has for 60 years.
The next disaster facing the United States isn’t a hurricane, tornado or flood, a Huntsville pastor insisted. It’s a ‘tsunami’ of families affected by incarceration, which may be as large as 350,000 people.
