 Pastor searches packed with perils
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___The work of pastor search committees today is "much more difficult than it was" in the past, reported Vaughn Manning, a former Texas Baptist pastor and director of missions who now assists churches through the BGCT minister-church relations office. The task is made more difficult, he said, both because of the political climate in Baptist life today and because of the changing expectations about pastors in churches.
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Retiree Builders shore up skills on reinforced project in Tahoe City
___By Becky Bridges & Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___TAHOE CITY, Calif.--More than 30 Texas Baptist retired couples spent the summer near Lake Tahoe. But unlike other visitors to the popular vacation site, they devoted every daylight hour to the hard work of framing and decking a church building designed to withstand an earthquake.
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Flower Mound Baptists and Jews share space for peace & prosperity
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___FLOWER MOUND--Did you hear about the Baptist pastor and the Jewish rabbi who ... ?
___No, it's not a joke. David Williams of First Baptist Church and Geoff Dennis of Congregation Kol Ami in Flower Mound are good friends and next-door neighbors, of sorts.
___The Baptist and Jewish congregations share more than a property line; they also share building space and ideas about faith.
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