Search for Prodigal Son
leads Texas family
to two daughters
___By Scott Collins
___Buckner News Service
___ATHENS--Lee and Susan Bush's first journey to Russia started as a search for the Prodigal Son. It ended when they found two lost daughters.
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Baptist luminary Chafin dies
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___HOUSTON--Baptist pastor, professor, evangelist and strategist Kenneth Chafin died Jan. 3 of leukemia. He was 74.
___Chafin enjoyed one of the most varied and influential careers of any Baptist minister in the 20th century. He taught at the Southern Baptist Convention's two largest seminaries, served as pastor of two influential inner-city congregations, directed the convention's evangelism efforts and worked with international evangelist Billy Graham.
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50 years later, C.S. Lewis'
Great Lion still roaring
___By Steve Rabey & Cecile Holmes
___Religion News Service
___WASHINGTON (RNS) --Once upon a time--and long before Harry Potter--a childless, bookish British bachelor created a series of best-selling and wonder-inducing children's books featuring now-familiar literary elements like witches, magic and battles between good and evil.
___The time was 1950, and the writer was C.S. Lewis.
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San Antonio churches cooperate to reach Gypsies
___By Alison Wingfield
___World A Link Office
___Three Texas churches adopting unreached people groups helped the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's Adopt-A-People initiative pass the century mark in adoptions.
___Three San Antonio churches pushed the number beyond 100 when they joined a group of six other churches in the San Antonio area that had adopted the Gypsy people group.
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