AUGUST 13, 2001
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SOUTHERN BAPTIST missionary Pam Ammons radiates enthusiasm about the response she sees when Asheninka Indians tell and retell Bible stories through simple words and pictures in a technique known as "storying." (RNS photo by Tyrone Turner)
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Baptist Decision 2001:
Missions-sending Agencies Study

CYBERCOLUMNS:

Brett Younger:
Mondo's welcome home

What about Harry Potter?
By Bob Campbell

Poem: The Dream
By Whitley Cadenhead

A Closer Look at
'The Prayer of Jabez'
by Michael D. Riley

Religious Freedom:
winning youth essay
by Sean Holster

He Said/ She Said
by Mark and Alison Wingfield




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Wayland marks 50 years of integration
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___Wayland Baptist University
___PLAINVIEW--It wasn't a matter of breaking new ground or setting a precedent. And it wasn't about who was right or wrong.
___For Annie Taylor, applying to attend Wayland Baptist University was simply a matter of convenience. But her act, and the college's acceptance, would gain international media exposure for its role as a blow to the nation's practice of segregation.
___This summer marks the 50th anniversary of Taylor's admission to Wayland--and of Wayland's move to voluntarily integrate, becoming the first four-year liberal arts college in the former Confederate South to do so.
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14-year-old is go-to girl for missions support
___By George Henson
___Staff Writer
___AZLE--Most Baptist ministries at one time or another undertake a building project. But few of them have a 14-year-old girl in charge of the fund-raising.
___It's appropriate that Melissa Petry lead the charge to enlarge the Mission House of First Baptist Church of Castle Hills in Azle, however, since she is largely responsible for the need for additional space.
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Three NAMB administrators leave due to Baptist Faith & Message
___By Steve DeVane
___North Carolina Biblical Recorder
___ATLANTA--Three North American Mission Board administrators have left the agency over disagreements with the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message.
___Gerry Hutchinson, Denoso Escobar and George Pickle have left the board "because they said they could not do their ministries in accordance with the Baptist Faith & Message," according to NAMB spokesman Martin King.
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