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JOY ON FOUR LEGS Pet ministry in Houston_122203
Posted: 12/19/03
Nancy Malley and Niko, a poodle, greet Irene Tesch at the Regency Village Nursing Home in Webster, where pets are used as a therapeutic ministry. JOY ON FOUR LEGS:
Pet ministry in HoustonBy George Henson
Staff Writer
HOUSTON–Joy comes in all shapes and sizes, and sometimes with four legs.
12/20/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Six teens named to Texas Acteen Advisory Panel_122203
Posted: 12/19/03
BaldridgeBushaChapmanSickingStanfieldTaylorSix teens named to Texas Acteen Advisory Panel
By Ken Camp
Texas Baptist Communications
Six 11th and 12th grade Baptist girls have been selected to serve on the Texas Acteens Advisory Panel for this year.
12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State_122203
Posted: 12/19/03
Young HanMiwha HanHelmer JensenShannon JensenMike ShattuckVicki ShattuckAround the State
Appointments
Three Texas couples were among missionaries appointed by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention last month in Lexington, Ky.:
Young and Miwha Han will serve in the Caribbean Basin, where he will be a church starter. He is a former associate pastor of Korean First Church in Dallas.
12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs_122203
Posted: 12/19/03
Baptist Briefs
Johnson leaving WMU. Trudy Johnson, national director of Christian Women's Job Corps through Woman's Missionary Union, has resigned to take a new position at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. Debra Berry, adult ministry consultant with WMU, will give interim leadership to the program while a new director is sought.
Southwestern awards degrees. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary awarded 274 degrees Dec. 12 in winter commencement ceremonies at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
CBF offers kids' camps. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will partner with Passport to offer camps for children completing third through sixth grade under a new program called PASSPORTkids. The camps will be directed by veteran children's minister Mark McClintock, who recently left the staff of Seventh & James Baptist Church in Waco. For 2004, camps will be held in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Missouri. The four-day camps run from mid-June through the end of July. For more information, visit www.passport-kids.org.
12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge
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Canton children make a market for missions lesson_122203
Posted: 12/19/03
Canton children make a market for missions lesson
By Orville Scott
Texas Baptist Communications
CANTON–Fifth-grader Preston Hutcherson of First Baptist Church in Canton read about an idea for a prayerwalk in conjunction with the Lottie Moon Offering for international missions.
Members of the fourth-grade Sunday School class shown with teacher Jan Longenecker are Brittany Arnold, Caroline Giles, Kelsey Koym and Dylan Cleere. 12/19/2003 - By John Rutledge