2004 Archives
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Mother’s Day column by Brett Younger: Mother’s dance_51704
Posted: 5/06/04
MOTHER'S DAY:
Mother's dance
By Brett Younger
My mother should be a dancer. She would, of course, roll her eyes at this idea. All of her conservative Baptist life, dancing has been as off-limits as rock and roll, playing cards and Methodists. And yet, though she will deny it until Jesus comes back—which she would want me to point out could be any minute—my mother would be a magnificent dancer.
Brett Younger My mom has the athleticism of a ballet dancer. Her brief, but glorious, hoops career is legendary in Northeast Mississippi. Grandma wouldn’t let my mother play basketball for the purple and gold of Itawamba High School because the team’s short pants were two feet too short. On one famous night in 1948, several Lady Indians fouled out in the third quarter of a tight game with their bitter rivals—the Houston Hilltoppers—so the coach went into the stands to beg Clarice Graham to play. Mom slipped into a borrowed pair of boogie shoes and, in a dress that hit just below the ankles, scored several key baskets, dancing the Indians to a celebrated victory.
05/07/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Convencion, CBF church-starting partnership ready for work_50304
Posted: 5/03/04
Eddie Aldape, one of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's Global Missions field personnel, speaks to a class at the Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio. BUA is training ministers to serve in the new churches being started as a part of the CBF partnership with the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas. Convencion, CBF church-starting
partnership ready for workBy Craig Bird
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Less than a year after shaking hands and agreeing to work together, the Hispanic Baptist Convencion of Texas and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship are rolling up their sleeves toward jointly starting at least 400 Hispanic churches throughout the United States by 2010.
04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Number of hungry people in world increasing by 4.5 million every year_50304
Posted: 5/03/04
The number of poor and hungry people around the world continues to grow at an alarming rate, according to Bread for the World's annual report. Number of hungry people in world
increasing by 4.5 million every yearBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
The number of hungry people in the United States and the developing world is greater now than it was when international leaders set hunger-cutting goals in the mid-1990s, said a recently released report by a faith-based anti-hunger organization.
04/30/2004 - By John Rutledge
