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Official confirms church-starting fund probe in U.S. Attorney’s Office
Posted: 9/13/07
Official confirms church-starting
fund probe in U.S. Attorney’s OfficeBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
BROWNSVILLE—Contrary to an Internet blogger’s assertions, all documents pertaining to a probe into misappropriated Texas Baptist church-starting funds in the Rio Grande Valley have been turned over to federal authorities, a high-ranking official in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston said.
Tim Johnson, first assistant in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the southern district of Texas, confirmed receipt of materials related to a Baptist General Convention of Texas-initiated investigation into allegations of fraud and misappropriation of church-starting funds.
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of Valley funds scandal articles09/13/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist museum to be remodeled
Posted: 9/07/07
This conceptual rendering illustrates a vision for the remodeled and expanded Texas Baptist Historical Museum. Texas Baptist museum to be remodeled
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
INDEPENDENCE—The Texas Baptist Historical Museum is set to be remodeled and expanded.
Designs are being drawn for a reworked museum that leaders hope will open in 2008 and include more exhibit space, a theatre and a patio area. Alan Lefever, director of the Texas Baptist Historical Collection, said the improvements are meant to help visitors quickly understand Texas Baptist history.
09/07/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Fidelity to God’s calling motivates musician
Posted: 9/07/07
Fidelity to God’s calling motivates musician
By George Henson
Staff Writer
CARROLLTON—Blake Bolerjack enjoys singing for congregations throughout Texas and Oklahoma. The concert and recording ministry he began two years ago is beginning to blossom—and he and his bride of less than two years, Jenna, are thrilled about that.
But the most invigorating thing is that they believe they are living and ministering squarely in the center of God’s will.
Blake and Jenna Bolerjack perform a Christian music concert at a North Texas church. (Photo by George Henson) 09/07/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Three-minute challenge exposes more than 4,600 bikers to gospel
Posted: 9/07/07
Rows and rows of motorcycles line the streets of Sturgis, S.D., during an annual motorcycle rally—an occasion Baptists used to share the gospel. Three-minute challenge exposes
more than 4,600 bikers to gospelBy George Henson
Staff Writer
STURGIS, S.D.—The field was black and blue, covered in leather and denim, but four men from Immanuel Baptist Church in Paris were among those who could tell that it was white and ready for harvest.
The event was the world’s largest motorcycle rally held each August in Sturgis, S.D. It has swelled to include a half-million people who crowd its streets—all in a town with a population of less than 7,000 people the other 51 weeks of the year.
09/07/2007 - By John Rutledge
