Baylor social work students learning to touch hurting lives with love
__One of the first master of social work students enrolled at Baylor. is working at a Texas prison in conjunction with Buckner Baptist Benevolences. She found teaching parenting skills to female inmates was rewarded by the interaction she observed between the women and their visiting children.
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Texas Evangelism Conference moves to San Antonio in 2001
___By Ferrell Foster
___Texas Baptist Communications
___The Texas Evangelism Conference is moving. After 13 consecutive years in Fort Worth, the conference will be held in San Antonio's Municipal Auditorium Jan. 29-30.
___Construction at the Fort Worth Convention Center forced conference planners to look for an alternative site, said Bailey Stone, evangelism director for the Baptist General Convention of Texas. They found the San Antonio auditorium to fit the bill.
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BF&M 'non-negotiable' at seminaries
___KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) --All six seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention will require "non-negotiable accountability" to the 2000 version of the Baptist Faith & Message, according to the chairman of the Council of Seminary Presidents.
___Bill Crews, president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary in Mill Valley, Calif., made that declaration in a letter to a Texas Baptist committee studying theological education options.
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'Jesus' video for kids opens eyes to gospel
___By George Henson
___Staff Writer
___LUFKIN--A movie and popcorn may be all it takes to change a child's life.
___That's the experience of Steve Sparks, associate pastor for students at Carpenter's Way Baptist Church in Lufkin. Sparks and members of his youth group took the video "The Story of Jesus for Children" with them to Mobile, Ala., this summer "not really knowing how we were going to use it."
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Group denounces evil of ethnic cleansing
___By Robert O'Brien
___Special Correspondent
___GOSTIVAR, Macedonia--Five-year-old Besnika couldn't spell "ethnic cleansing," but her words told its story more eloquently than a document crafted by multi-ethnic adults from around the world.
___"We don't want to be killed. We don't want war. All we want is to live in peace," the tiny Albanian girl told a group gathered in Gostivar, Macedonia, for the first public reading and signing of the Stockholm Accords on Ethnic Cleansing.
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