2005 Archives
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Mane Mission seeks record to benefit ministry
Posted: 8/19/05
Breckenridge Village residents and staff are hoping for up to 20,000 people to attend a record-breaking horse parade that they hope will help raise money for the ministry. Mane Mission seeks record to benefit ministry
By Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
TYLER–A Texas-sized challenge to support a Texas Baptist ministry is making a run at the Guinness Book of World Records Oct. 8-9 in Tyler.
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Student missionaries see God at work in Thailand
Posted: 8/19/05
The Go Now tsunami relief team serving in Thailand consisted of (front, left to right) Cole and Dawn Younger from Texas Tech University; Karen and Keith Garner from Texas Tech; Kyle Roach from Texas Tech; Chris Smith from the University of Texas; (top row, left to right) Buddy Downey of Dallas Baptist University; Jalissa King from Wayland Baptist University; Stephen Jansen from Dallas Baptist University; and Paul Parris from Texas Tech. (Photos courtesy of Texas Tech Baptist Student Ministries) Student missionaries see God at work in Thailand
By Meghan Merchant
Communications Intern
KHAO LAK, Thailand–Pictures of missing people nailed to trees serve as a reminder, months later, that the devastation of the Dec. 26 tsunami remains in Thailand.
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State
Posted: 8/19/05
Orchard Hills Church in Garland sent a team of 21 students and adults to the Rio Grande Valley. The team's work included street evangelism in Matamoros, Mexico, a one-day Vacation Bible School in an apartment complex and a three-day VBS in a trailer park. Throughout the week, the group saw more than 110 people make professions of faith in Christ. Shane Pruitt is student minister. Around the State
San Jacinto Baptist Association will present its third annual single adult conference Oct. 1 from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Northside Church in Baytown. Don Piper, author of the book 90 Minutes in Heaven, will be the speaker. The cost of $25 includes lunch and an autographed copy of the book. To register, call (281) 422-3604. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorsed 32 chaplains and pastoral counselors at its endorsement council meeting held in Grapevine. Texans receiving endorsement include Cherry Moore, chaplain with Hospice Brazos Valley in Bryan; Joseph Gross, chaplain with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Dallas; Mary Lewis, a CPE resident at Audie Murphy Veterans Memorial Hospital in San Antonio; and Cindy Goza, board certified chaplain for the Association of Professional Chaplains in Houston. After 25 years as worship leader for Paisano Baptist Encampment, Ed Wittner has retired. Wittner's connection to the camp began in his youth. His parents, Robert and Lillie Wittner, lived on the grounds while his father was a pastor and director of missions for District 7, which included the Big Bend area. Nathan McBride, pastor of First Church in Lamesa, will begin his term as worship leader in 2006. 08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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The Bible goes to school
Posted: 8/19/05
Photo by David ClantonControversy surrounds National Council on Bible Curriculum
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
As students load their backpacks for school this fall, a growing number include the Bible among their textbooks.
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Christian teachers walk the line between church & state
Posted: 8/19/05
Christian teachers walk the
line between church & stateBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Many Christian public school teachers see their vocation as more than a job; they view it as a divine calling. But some wrestle with how to follow Christ without stepping out of bounds.
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews
Posted: 8/19/05
Book Reviews
The Bible and Healing: A Medical and Theological Commentary by John Wilkinson, M.D. (Eerdmans)
The title is precise. It is not a history of Christian healing (touched on) or a systematic theology of Christian healing (regularly alluded to but never developed) but a survey of the Bible and healing.
There is one ambiguity. Wilkinson knows that “the Bible and medicine” is a much smaller topic than “the Bible and healing,” but the book leans as hard on medicine as it can. That is, it scours the text for any scrap of anything we today might recognize as medical, and it uses medical terminology and categories wherever it can. (Don't be intimidated.)
08/19/2005 - By John Rutledge
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorsed 32 chaplains and pastoral counselors at its endorsement council meeting held in Grapevine. Texans receiving endorsement include Cherry Moore, chaplain with Hospice Brazos Valley in Bryan; Joseph Gross, chaplain with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Dallas; Mary Lewis, a CPE resident at Audie Murphy Veterans Memorial Hospital in San Antonio; and Cindy Goza, board certified chaplain for the Association of Professional Chaplains in Houston. 
