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Here's a first look at the Baptist Standard issue for December 31, 2001. Just click on the story links below to see the entire article on our website at www.baptiststandard.com


SPECIAL FEATURE
--2001: The Year in Review
--Overheard during 2001: quotations by newsmakers

FRONT PAGE
--New church stakes its tent in Comanche
--Billy Graham crusade coming to North Texas in October

TEXAS BAPTISTS
--San Antonio church turns postal warehouse into place of worship
--Wayland announces two new initiatives
--New church stakes its tent in Comanche
--Comanche Baptists take church to town's unchurched
--Jugglers for Jesus: Texas couple combines art & soul
--Park Cities chorale sings at White House
--Volunteer builders urgently needed
--Bruce McIver, pastor emeritus of Wilshire Church, dead at age 76
--A whole new ballgame: Texas natives use sports in evangelism in South Africa
--Texas Tidbits.

BAPTIST NEWS
--Trailers make block parties portable
--IMB worker rescues 16 aid workers in Kenya
--Baptist Briefs.

RELIGION
--Islam growing in United States

OPINION
--Another View: Don't toss the baby....
--Editorial: May the fire of suffering refine the promise of hope
--Charles Wade: Thanks God for tender childcare
--Down Home: Don't look now, but time's ticking
--He Said/ She Said
--Texas Baptist Forum

BIBLE STUDY
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for December 30 .
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for January 6.
--Commentaries on Explore the Bible and Family Bible Study LifeWay lessons for January 13.
--Commentaries on Bible Study for Texas for Jan. 6, 13, 20 and 27


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