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LAY THE HISTORY of African-American Texas Baptists alongside the story of Anglo Baptists in the state, and it reads like a tale of twins separated at birth. Above, E.C. Estell, pastor of St. John Baptist Church in Dallas, accompanies Martin Luther King Jr. into a meeting of the National Baptist Convention US, Inc., at the newly opened Memorial Auditorium in Dallas.
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Czech fan leaves Olympics with 'More Than Gold'
___By Ferrell Foster
___Texas Baptist Communications
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K CITY, Utah--Sylvia Jordan went to the Winter Olympics hoping to share Christ with children. On the first Saturday night, she found herself posted outside a beer tent where few moms with children ventured.
___Restrictions in Park City prevented Christians from sharing their faith unless someone asked, Jordan said. Before the evening ended, she had been asked, and a man from across the ocean heard about Jesus Christ and prayed to become a Christian.
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Bibles set ablaze in Georgian vandalism
___TBILISI, Russia--A defrocked Russian Orthodox priest reportedly led more than 100 people to burn Bibles and books stolen from a Baptist warehouse in the Georgian city of Tbilisi Sunday morning, Feb. 3.
___The vandals arrived at the warehouse in three buses and were led by former Orthodox priest Basil Mkalavishvili, reported Lukhum Maisuradze, an official with the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia.
___"They broke locks with big iron sticks (and) forced their way into the warehouse owned by the Baptist church," Maisuradze said. The United Bible Societies of Georgia reportedly kept a large inventory at the warehouse as well.
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