AUGUST 27, 2001
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LUIS AND ANA SURA left Mexico with dreams of making money and then returning home. He made the money, but they didn't go home. Instead, God changed Sura's plans, calling him to become a pastor and to study at Hispanic Baptist Theological School in San Antonio.
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Baptist Decision 2001:
Missions-sending Agencies Study

CYBERCOLUMNS:

Berry D. Simpson:
An ear to hear

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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___By Mark Wingfield
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___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
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___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
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___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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