Baptist Briefs
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Centrifugers give $400,000. Teens who attended Centrifuge camps this summer pitched in more than $400,344 for a mission offering that will go toward projects spearheaded by the North American Mission Board. Each summer, campers give to a mission offering for specific causes. This year's offering will help build dorms for seminary students in Puerto Rico; build a house for summer missionaries in Casper, Wyo.; and give assistance to college students serving as summer missionaries.
___ Passport campers give $24,000. Teens who attended Passport youth camps this summer gave $24,315 to help Kosovo Albanian refugees. A total of 55 Texas youth participated in the camps, an independent youth camping program based in Louisville, Ky.
___ Scholarships available. Baptist Communicators Association, a professional organization for Baptist communicators of all types, seeks applicants for its annual scholarship program. College students who aspire to work in Baptist communications are eligible for two $1,000 and one $500 scholarship for the 2000-2001 academic year. For an application, call Keith Beene at (615) 904-0152 or Larry Brumley at (254) 710-1964.
___ Midwestern cancels classes for state convention. To encourage student participation as messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention, classes at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have been canceled Oct. 26, the seminary announced. Conservatives and moderates within the state have been in a heated fight to chart the future of the convention. The seminary recently was criticized by Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director Jim Hill for sponsoring a one-day class on the history of state Baptist conventions which he said gave an appearance of being political in nature.
___ Southeastern trustees OK construction. Trustees of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary agreed Oct. 12 to begin construction immediately on a $3 million, 16,000-square-foot world missions training center and proceed with student housing improvements totaling more than $6 million.
___ New Orleans trustees launch campaign. Trustees of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary authorized a $50 million capital campaign to fund the seminary's new master plan during their Oct. 12-13 meeting. The plan calls for total renovation of a main classroom facility; construction of 52 student apartment units, a new playground, tennis courts and faculty homes; and renovation of existing homes.
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