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Church clinic offers hope & healing
___By George Henson
___Staff Writer
___DALLAS--Once he saw the figures, Elmin Howell could do the math in his heart. The 40,000 people from nine ethnic groups who live within 5 miles of Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church added up to one thing--ministry.
___When a closer look at the numbers revealed that more than 50 percent of those 40,000 people had no health insurance coverage, Howell saw more clearly the type of ministry needed --a neighborhood clinic.
___Something like that took a special person to lead the way, however--a person with a head for the health-care field but also a heart for ministry.
___Jenny Williams fit both those criteria perfectly.
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Baptists called to pray for Tuareg
___By Mark Kelly
___International Mission Board
___RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--The name of one unreached people group in West Africa literally means "abandoned by God."
___On May 19, Southern Baptists will ask God to help that people group, the Tuareg, know he loves them.
___Once Tuareg camel caravans transported everything from salt to slaves across the Sahara. But now the nomadic people group follows their declining herds through barren regions of Algeria, Libya, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in search of scarce pasture. Many Tuareg have fled the ravages of drought to pitch their tents on the fringes of cities like Tombouctou, Mali. And 99.9 percent never have heard of salvation in Jesus Christ.
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