Texans asked to complete the Spain equation
___By Ferrell Foster
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Texas Baptists can become the missing part of a missionary equation in Spain.
___A new partnership between the Baptist General Convention of Texas and Spanish Baptists will begin Jan. 1, 2001, said Don Sewell, director of Texas Partnerships for the BGCT. It is a three-year partnership, potentially renewable for three more years, if both parties agree.
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Texans asked to box up their love
___FORT WORTH--Texas churches have been asked to help Franklin Graham send 110,000 shoeboxes of love to children around the world this Christmas.
___The Texas contribution will be part of 4 million shoebox packages distributed this year through Operation Christmas Child, a ministry of Samaritan's Purse.
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Census Bureau report highlights ministry opportunities in Texas
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___Texas is leading the nation in the population growth of its cities, and that translates into increased missions opportunities, according to a leader of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___The U.S. Census Bureau released new population estimates Oct. 20 that show Texas having three of the nation's top six metropolitan areas in population increase over the last decade. Full Story
1995 memo notes concern about Texas
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___Southern Baptist Convention leaders have been concerned about the "situation in Texas" for at least five years, according to minutes of a 1995 meeting obtained by the Baptist Standard.
___The four-paragraph document, titled "Atlanta Minutes, May 26, 1995, 12:00 Noon," is signed by Paige Patterson, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.
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'I can no longer be associated with SBC,'
Jimmy Carter says in national mailing
___By Greg Warner
___Associated Baptist Press
___ATLANTA (ABP)--Former President Jimmy Carter, Southern Baptists' most famous layman, says he feels "excluded" by the Southern Baptist Convention and "can no longer be associated" with the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
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