THE BAPTIST STANDARD

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		Issue of January 26 2000

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MISSION TEXAS, the five-year plan Bill Pinson championed from 1985 to 1990, resulted in Texas Baptists starting 2,000 new congregations in the state. Pinson retires Jan. 31 after 17 years as Executive Director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Full story

BULLETIN: Wanda Lee named
new WMU executive director
Wanda Lee, 50, of Columbus, Ga., was elected executive director of Woman's Missionary Union Jan 22. In March she will succeed Dellanna O'Brien, who retired last September.
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Brett Younger, one
of our four new columnists for the Online Standard, learns a life lesson from children's basketball tryouts.
He Said/ She Said
by Mark and Alison Wingfield
Great Questions
of the Bible
by Darrel Rains
To predict or proclaim?
Commentary by Jerl Watkins

Great Questions of the Bible

asks "Isn't this Joseph's son?" from Luke 4:2, with insight

from Darrel Rains, pastor of Casa View Baptist Church in Dallas.

takes a journey into the question all parents ask: How can such sweet children act so ugly sometimes?

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Academy seeks to help students
after dorm director accused
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___SAN MARCOS--Brad Bartlett-Dixon, a dormitory director at San Marcos Baptist Academy, has been charged with sexual crimes against minors. Authorities believe he may have victimized six boys who attend the academy's middle school.
___Students reported the alleged sexual misconduct to academy administrators Saturday, Jan. 15.
___The administrators immediately contacted the Hays County Sheriff's Department and notified parents of the students who made the report, academy President Paul Armes said. The school also has written to parents of all current students, as well as parents of former students who have attended the academy since Bartlett-Dixon was employed.
___Bartlett-Dixon immediately was removed from the campus, Armes said. He has been suspended with pay pending investigation of the alleged incidents.

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Ministry needs along
border growing rapidly
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Evangelism and church planting are not keeping pace with the explosive population growth along the Texas/Mexico border, according to Dexton Shores, director of River Ministry with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___Seventy-two percent of the 14 million people living along the Rio Grande do not practice any religion, Shores noted. And on the Mexico side of the border alone, the population is expected to triple in the next 20 years.
___"In spite of all that Texas Baptists have done along the border, with the growing population, we only have one Baptist church for every 67,000 people on the Mexico side of the border," he said.
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State Missions Commission hires first
African-American evangelism staffer
___The Baptist General Convention of Texas' State Missions Commission hired its first African-American evangelism staff member and voted to change the name of the Sunday School/discipleship division at its winter meeting, Jan. 20 in Dallas.
___Kenneth Blake, senior pastor of Westside Baptist Church in Lewisville, was elected as the African-American church strategy consultant in the evangelism division. It is a part-time position; he will remain as pastor of the church.
___The new position is intended to expand the effectiveness of sharing the Christian gospel with about 2.5 million African-American Texans and to assist the growing number of African-American Texas Baptist churches with evangelism strategy.

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