BAPTIST STANDARD: PREMIUM EDITION

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		Issue of Sept. 15 1999

AFTER the shooting stopped at Wedgwood Baptist Church, Avonda Hightower consoles her son, Chris, who saw a friend shot and killed. (Photo by Matt McClain, Dallas Morning News)

Lone gunman slays
seven in Texas church
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor

___FORT WORTH--When Glen Bucy first heard gunshots outside the sanctuary of Wedgwood Baptist Church the night of Sept. 15, he thought it was part of a skit.
___The time according to his watch was 6:55 p.m. And the program for this Wednesday night youth rally called for a skit about that time, he explained in an interview the day after the shooting at the southwest Fort Worth church.
___"I thought they were trying to do something about Columbine to remind us," he explained, referencing the deadly rampage last spring at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.
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AL MEREDITH (center), Pastor of Wedgewood Baptist Church, answers questions about the shooting. With him are the Fort Worth City Manager (left) and acting Fort Worth Police Chief, Ralph Mendoza. (BP Photo by Jim Morris)

Seminary mourns

Was it a hate crime?

Spiritual warfare

Memories of Daingerfield

Counselors kept watch

The challenge of 'The Wall'

AT MOUNT LEBANON BAPTIST ENCAMPMENT, a young camper nears the top of "The Wall," a simulated cliff used for confidence building and athletic training. This camper was part of a group sponsored by Buckner Children and Family Services of North Texas and Dallas Baptist Association. The special camp was designed for children who live in the inner-city. See story on page 2. (Photo by Russ Dilday)
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TEENAGE GIRLS may join boys in violent acts, counselors warn.

Bubba Stahl, pastor of First Baptist Church in Boerne, explores Joseph's brothers' question in Genesis 37:26: "What will we gain if we kill our brother?"

Memories of a home church. Mark and Alison Wingfield missed their recent 40th anniversary reunion at their home church, but the church's influence burns bright regardless.

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Lineberger withdraws from BGCT nomination as executive director
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___Phil Lineberger has withdrawn his nomination as a candidate for executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___Lineberger, pastor of Williams Trace Baptist Church in Sugar Land, had been the choice of a committee seeking a successor to Bill Pinson, who will retire Jan. 31, 2000.
___The committee announced Lineberger as its candidate Aug. 30 and called a Sept. 14 meeting of the BGCT Executive Board to vote on him. That meeting has been cancelled.
___Lineberger reported his decision to withdraw in a letter to the search committee. "...after agreeing to be nominated, I could get no peace from God about serving in this high position," he wrote.
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Troubled Arizona foundation had recruited investors in Texas
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___TEMPLE--Texas pastor Sam Callaway first learned about the Baptist Foundation of Arizona while escorting a group of church members to a senior adult Chautauqua at Glorieta Baptist Conference Center. He was impressed with the foundation's high rates of return.
___"The big selling point was that it was going to be helping mission churches," said Callaway, pastor of Lakeview Baptist Church in Temple. But in July, officials with the Arizona Corporation Commission charged that foundation executives did not fully disclose to investors the foundation's true financial condition.
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Glazener to be nominated
for BGCT president
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___FORT WORTH--Clyde Glazener, pastor of Gambrell

GLAZENER

Street Baptist Church in Fort Worth, will be nominated for president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas when it meets in El Paso Nov. 8-9.
___Glazener will be nominated by Rudy Camacho, president of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas, who announced his intentions last week.
___"Clyde Glazener is definitely a Texas Baptist friend," Camacho said. "He has vision. He is a very cooperative person and has proven his fairness as chairman of the (BGCT) Executive Board."

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