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San Marcos teacher learned to forgive through his own trauma
___By George Henson
___Staff Writer
___SAN MARCOS--Chris Carrier sees a lot of similarities between his life and that of the Old Testament patriarch Joseph.
___"Both of us went through some things we never would have chosen, but God worked them out for good in ways we never could have imagined," he said.
___Like Joseph, Carrier has an amazing story to tell.
___And like the Joseph story, "it's not so much my story as it is the story of God's provision," he explained.
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Texas Baptists help New Yorkers with bear therapy
___By James Dotson
___North American Mission Board
___NEW YORK CITY (BP)--It was the day after the crash of United Airlines Flight 587, and as family members of the victims gathered at one end of the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, a team of Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers delivered and quickly spread 200 plush toys around a small child-care center inside.
___While the parents gathered for an informational meeting on dealing with identifying remains and other grisly and painful details, the idea was to give the children a small reminder from individuals across the United States and Canada that they do not stand alone.
___They call them trauma bears, but the items include purple dinosaurs, bunnies and other stuffed toy creatures.
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