Texas trustee of IMB sent to prison for fraud
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___© 2001 Baptist Standard Publishing Co.
___DALLAS--Two weeks before he was elected a Texas trustee of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, a federal warrant was issued for Russell Kaemmerling's arrest on 19 counts of fraud.
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For fitness of spirit, develop discipline
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___WACO--Believers can "grow weary in doing good" if they do not maintain the disciplines required for spiritual fitness, conference leaders told a group of Texas Baptist women.
___Author and musician Karla Worley and university professor Deirdre LaNoue led sessions on spiritual disciplines at Texas Leadership Conference, held July 26-28 at Baylor University. The annual training event for missions leaders is sponsored by Woman's Missionary Union of Texas.
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Congressmen want U.S. to protest Palestinian changes of Temple Mount
___WASHINGTON (BP)--A group of Congressmen is seeking to cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority until it halts destructive excavations of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
___The Temple Mount Preservation Act, H.R. 2566, introduced by Rep. Eric Cantor, R.-Va., with 16 co-sponsors, would bar all aid to the Palestinian Authority, which is chaired by Yasser Arafat, as long as it continues unauthorized excavations that have destroyed artifacts on the Temple Mount.
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