October 2, 2000

Baptist Briefs
___ Fund honors Ashcraft. Friends of retired North Carolina Baptist educator Morris Ashcraft have donated $100,000 in his honor to the capital campaign of a seminary he "walked out on a limb" to help launch a decade ago. The anonymous gift from a North Carolina Baptist couple was announced Sept. 12 during the 10th anniversary convocation of Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (Va.) that honored Ashcraft and other founders.
___ Centrifuge gives to missions. Nearly 54,000 teens attending Centrifuge and Ministry-Fuge camps this summer pitched in $513,169.63 for international missions projects being conducted by the Southern Baptist International Mission Board. The money will go to four specific IMB projects: Street ministry for children in Brazil, sports evangelism in India and China, Bible ministry for people groups who do not have the Bible in their own language and worldwide international youth missions.
___ Type size to be increased. The large print in the large-print editions of Sunday School for a New Century curriculum, used Sept. 3 for the first time in churches, will become larger, officials said. Due to a production error, the LifeWay literature was composed with the wrong type size. It will be corrected beginning with the spring 2001 issues.
___ Kentucky church leaves SBC. First Baptist Church of Frankfort, Ky., voted to withdraw from the Southern Baptist Convention Sept. 24, saying the SBC "has moved dramatically away from ... historic Baptist beliefs" and has begun intruding into local church life by saying who should and should not be called as ministers. The historic church in the state capital is the first Kentucky Baptist Convention church in recent history to break ties with the SBC while retaining ties to the KBC.

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