Bead making offers Kenyan women livelihood

Posted: 8/12/05

Bead making offers Kenyan women livelihood

By Brittany Burcham

Baylor University

Pulling into the driveway of the Kazuri beads factory in Kenya, members of a women’s leadership team from Baylor University began to count their shillings and think about gifts for friends and relatives at home.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baylor choir sings at Kenyan graduation ceremony

Posted: 8/12/05

Baylor choir sings at
Kenyan graduation ceremony

By Stephen Kim

Baylor University

American students aren’t used to seeing parents rushing toward their children to congratulate them in the midst of a graduation ceremony, but that’s what a Baylor University student missions group witnessed at Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi, Kenya.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Students install solar lighting system for Kenyan deaf school

Posted: 8/12/05

Students install solar lighting
system for Kenyan deaf school

By Courtney Schultz

Baylor University

A banner hung outside a small, brick-framed school building in Oyugis, Kenya, welcoming engineering and deaf education students from Baylor University to the Kenyan School for the Deaf.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Students defy smoke, lack of supplies to learn English

Posted: 8/12/05

Students defy smoke, lack of
supplies to learn English

By Stephen Kim

Baylor University

As smoke from a nearby oven wafted through their classroom, 5-year-old students at the Xcel School in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya, took their first steps toward mastery of the English language.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Missions veteran gathered Baylor School of Nursing team for Kenya trim

Posted: 8/12/05

Missions veteran gathered Baylor
School of Nursing team for Kenya trim

By Amanda Sawyer

Baylor University

Linda Garner understands the importance of missions education. Missions leaders instilled it in her as a child growing up in a Baptist church, and she wants to pass it on to a rising generation of students at the Baylor School of Nursing.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Orphanage offers hope to HIV-infected children in Kenya

Posted: 8/12/05

Orphanage offers hope to
HIV-infected children in Kenya

By Matthew Waller

Baylor University

From the guarded entryway to the diagnostic laboratory, the HIV-positive children of the Nyumbani orphanage outside Nairobi, Kenya, enjoy privileges millions who share their diagnosis do not. They have more toys than their dorm mothers know what to do with, and singing and dancing fill their Sunday morning worship services.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Nairobi street kids find refuge at center

Posted: 8/12/05

Nairobi street kids find refuge at center

By Amanda Sawyer

Baylor University

Baptist student missions and education team members talked excitedly as they drove out of the heart of Nairobi to the suburbs. Streets became muddy from the new rains and the bus bounced up and down, dodging as many potholes as it could.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Lady Bears visit the White House

Posted: 8/12/05 Lady Bears visit the White House The Lady Bears, Baylor's NCAA national championship women's basketball team, visited the White House July 20. President George W. Bush honored the…

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baptist World Alliance Identity Statement

Posted: 8/12/05

Baptist World Alliance Identity Statement

This is he complete text of the BWA's Identity Statement:
Message from the Centenary Congress
Baptist World Alliance
Birmingham, United Kingdom
July 2005

To all Baptist believers throughout the world with love and joy from those assembled together in Birmingham, UK, at the Centenary Congress of the BWA.

Together those Assembled:

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

CBF church, Buckner building neighborhood community center

Posted: 8/12/05

CBF church, Buckner building
neighborhood community center

By Lance Wallace

Buckner Communications

DALLAS – Officials at Buckner Children and Family Services and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-affiliated Cliff Temple Baptist Church in Oak Cliff announced plans Aug. 9 to build a community center on the church’s property just south of downtown Dallas.

08/12/2005 - By John Rutledge

Commentary: Christian nurses helping people in difficult circumstances

Posted: 8/10/05

COMMENTARY:
Christian nurses helping people in difficult circumstances

By Sarah Stone, RN

Hendrick Health System, Abilene

My mind is crowded with pictures of nurses caring for people in physical and emotional pain .

08/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

BaptistWay Bible Series for August 21: God’s power will be revealed in end-time events

Posted: 8/09/05

BaptistWay Bible Series for August 21

God’s power will be revealed in end-time events

• Revelation 19:11–20:10

By Wayne Smith

08/09/2005 - By John Rutledge