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Texas Baptist Men Retiree Builders began work May 14 on a home for the family of 11-year-old Courtney Akard. The sixth-grade honor student with a beaming smile has been confined to a wheelchair since a car wreck five years ago injured her spinal cord.

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El Paso missionary recalls Rankin pledged no signing 4/8
Missionaries explain reasons for not signing BF&M 4/8 See previous articles on this topic here.

CYBERCOLUMN:
John Duncan:
Words and deeds

COMMENTARY:
A simplified life 5/13
Somebody stand up for WMU' 5/13
Last letter from a soldier and son 5/13
Church/ State partnerships lead to denial of liberty 5/6

FOUR FACES OF ISLAM


If we're shouting, why can't the lost hear us? 5/20
Why are the missionaries the newest political pawns? 5/13,




The practices of the movie industry top the Wingfields' list of pet peeves

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BGCT taps layman, bank executive as state convention's new treasurer
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By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___David Nabors, a certified public accountant with more than two decades of banking experience, has been named treasurer and chief financial officer of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___The BGCT Executive Board at its May 21 meeting in Dallas unanimously elected Nabors, a former senior vice president with Bank of America. He succeeds Roger Hall, who retired March 31 after more than 18 years with the BGCT.

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BGCT Executive Board
sees danger in two House bills
___DALLAS--Legislation proposed in Washington that would allow churches to engage in partisan politics and make contributions to political campaigns is a bad idea, the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board warned May 21.
___At the conclusion of the board's spring meeting in Dallas, members approved without dissent a resolution proposed by Don Wilkey, pastor of First Baptist Church of Onalaska. The resolution addressed House Resolution 2357, the Houses of Worship Political Speech Protection Act, and House Resolution 2931, the Bright-Line Act of 2001.

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