Buckner helps young adults hit the TRAIL toward success
___By Russ Dilday
___Buckner News Service
___Many former Buckner residents or foster children, once removed from the structured environment of care, often are ill-equipped to handle situations faced in adult life and have no support system on which to fall back.
___But Buckner officials believe they may have found the answer through an innovative pilot program—TRAIL, short for Transitioning to Responsible Adult Independent Living— that helps young adults who have left the care of Texas Child Protective Services and are struggling to make it on their own.
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Crime victims find love in arms of Texas Baptists
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Victim Relief Ministries, an inter-denominational program sponsored by Texas Baptist Men in cooperation with the Dallas Police Department, has helped more than 200 crime victims and their families since the program was launched last year as a pilot project in one quadrant of Dallas.
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Texan seeks to arrange 'adoptions' with Northwest
___By George Henson
___Staff Writer
___SEATTLE, Wash.--A Texas Baptist who has adopted the American Northwest wants fellow Texans to help her arrange similar adoptions.
___That's the message from Leigh Ann Powers, a transplanted Texan now working with Baptist Collegiate Ministries in Seattle, Wash.
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Faith statement not creedal, Hemphill says
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___FORT WORTH--The revised Baptist Faith & Message is not being forced on anyone, and requiring faculty at Southern Baptist Convention seminaries to sign it should not alarm anyone, according to Ken Hemphill, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
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