Baptist Briefs
___ NAMB show gaining ground. Since its April 3 premiere, "At Home--Live with Chuck & Jenni Borsellino" now has a potential audience of more than 28 million television households and has developed a loyal audience out of 86 percent of the FamilyNet affiliates that carry the program live. The daily, one-hour morning show features a variety of topics that relate to home, family and relationships. It is produced by the North American Mission Board's broadcast communications center in Fort Worth.
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CHARTLOTTE HART (left) of Woods Baptist Church in Tyler helps Helen Stone of First Baptist Church of Kingsport, Tenn., make a western collar during a Senior Adult Chautauqua event at Ridgecrest Conference Center this fall. Hart has been leading the crafts workshop at Chautauquas with her husband, Claude, for 16 years. (LifeWay photo by Terri Lackey)
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___ CBF plans event for children's ministers. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's new children's ministry network will host a retreat in San Antonio March 8-10. The retreat will provide an opportunity for children's ministers to network, share ideas and grow spiritually and professionally together. Guest speaker will be veteran education minister Bob Fulbright. For registration information, contact John Echols at jecholstn@aol.com or Cathy Anderson at CAnderson@fbca.net or call (828) 252-4781.
___ Missionary killed in Texas. A Southern Baptist missionary was killed and his wife and two children were seriously injured Nov. 27 in a five-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 south of San Antonio. Roger Berno, 48, an International Mission Board general evangelist in Zacatecas, Mexico, was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency response personnel. His wife, Cynthia, also 48, and their two children, Shaundra and Sean, both 13, were hospitalized in San Antonio with serious injuries. The family had been visiting relatives in Dewar, Okla., and were returning to Mexico.
___ California to keep "Southern." The largest evangelical body in California will continue to be known as the California Southern Baptist Convention after a vote on whether to remove the word "Southern" failed for a second consecutive year. Messengers, meeting Nov. 14-15 in Riverside, also voted overwhelmingly to affirm the Baptist Faith & Message statement of beliefs as revised by the SBC earlier this year. The name change proposal was the fifth such attempt in 15 years.
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