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Race: The final frontier
Posted: 8/31/07
The Crossing Baptist Church in Mesquite is among a growing—but still relatively small—number of churches learning to incorporate multi-cultural features in its worship services. Race: The final frontier
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
When Anglos, Hispanics, African-Americans and Nigerians gather in the same place on Sunday morning, planning worship presents challenges.
“Its a lot more than just a question of hymns or choruses,” said Charlie Brown, pastor of The Crossing Baptist Church in Mesquite.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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BOOKS: When All God’s Chidren Get Together ‘A Memoir of Race and Baptists’
Posted: 8/31/07
BOOKS: 'When All God’s Children Get Together'
A Memoir of Race and BaptistsBy Marv Knox
Editor
Baptists can change, and reconciliation is possible, Emmanuel McCall testifies in his new book, When All God’s Children Get Together: A Memoir of Race and Baptists.
McCall’s book provides a travelogue of the journey Baptists in the South took during the past 50 years. It’s a trek that transported them from segregation to repentance, from mutual mistrust to reconciliation.
That journey parallels McCall’s ministry—from when he enrolled as the only African-American student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1959, to when he stepped down as the Southern Baptist Convention’s race-relations leader in 1991, to his participation in bringing Baptists across the races together to affirm the New Baptist Covenant next year.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Opportunities, challenges confront increasingly multi-ethnic congregation
Posted: 8/31/07
Opportunities, challenges confront
increasingly multi-ethnic congregationBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
DALLAS—Soon after Pastor Bruce Troy arrived at Gaston Oaks Baptist Church in Dallas, he challenged a group in the congregation to answer one question: “What would you do if God put 100 people on your doorstep?”
Three years later, Troy observed: “That’s exactly what he’s done. They just don’t speak English.”
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Minorities are flocking to multi-ethnic campus groups for Christian fellowship
Posted: 8/31/07
Minorities are flocking to multi-ethnic
campus groups for Christian fellowshipBy Matt Kennedy
Associated Baptist Press
DALLAS (ABP)—Anglo students continue to primarily populate college evangelical organizations, but ethnic minority students have started to join them in increasing numbers.
Two of the nation’s largest parachurch campus evangelical organizations, Campus Crusade for Christ and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, stress building ethnically diverse communities in their mission statements. And recent statistics cited in the San Francisco Chronicle and Christianity Today suggest their goals for diversity slowly are starting to become a reality.
Race: The Final Frontier
• Race: The final frontier
• Baptists active on both sides in the Little Rock integration battle
• Opportunities, challenges confront increasingly multi-ethnic congregation
• Minorities are flocking to multi-ethnic campus groups for Christian fellowship
• Aging minister recalls price paid for recognizing God's image in all people
• BOOKS: When All God's Children Get Together–A Memoir of Race and Baptists08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Baptists mark centennial of social work education for churches
Posted: 8/31/07
Mallory Homeyer, a student in the Baylor University School of Social Work, ministers to orphans during a mission trip to Guatemala. Baptists mark centennial of
social work education for churchesBy Vicki M. Kabat and Franci Rogers
Baylor University
Looking back, Mallory Homeyer recalls how her desire to help other people was nurtured during her early years at First Baptist Church of Kenedy, where her mother was deeply involved in Woman’s Missionary Union.
“From a young age, the faces of the WMU women in my church were the faces of missions for me,” she said. “I grew up wanting to model my life after them,” she said.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 8/31/07
Texas Tidbits
TBM offers relief to Erin victims. Texas Baptist Men dispatched two clean-out teams, a shower unit and recovery group to two West Texas towns flooded by the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin. Clean-out teams from Amarillo and Lubbock, a recovery team from Waxahachie and a shower unit from O’Donnell headed to Merkel and Hamlin. The Ellis Christian Disaster Relief Box Unit took 2,000 moving boxes to help flood victims collect the items they would like to save. About 250 homes in Hamlin and 30 in Merkel were affected by flooding that occurred as a result of the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin. Texas Baptist Men disaster relief efforts can be supported by sending a check designated “disaster relief” to Disaster Relief, Texas Baptist Men, 5351 Catron, Dallas 75227 or via credit card by calling (214) 828-5351.
Ethics lecture program endowed at Howard Payne. A gift from Gary and Molli Elliston of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas has enabled Howard Payne University to establish a distinguished lecture program focusing on the significance of Christian ethics, beginning in the 2008 spring semester. The Ellistons endowed the Currie-Strickland Distinguished Lecture Series in honor of David Currie, executive director of Texas Baptists Committed, and in memory of Phil Strickland, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission. “On an annual basis, this lecture will provide a special opportunity to students, faculty and the general public to consider the importance of Christian ethics in the workplace, in the classroom, in ministry, in national and world affairs and in the minds of Christians as they make decisions in their daily lives,” Howard Payne President Lanny Hall said.
08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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UMHB ‘Welcome Week’ includes community service
Posted: 8/31/07
UMHB ‘Welcome Week’
includes community serviceBy Jennifer Sicking
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
BELTON—Two University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students brushed paint on a stucco stairwell outside of the Temple Public Library, while other team members inside washed windows and dusted bookcases.
Elsewhere, students filled potholes, painted walls, sorted clothes and generally lent a helping hand throughout Belton and Temple.
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor freshmen Mandi Sanders of Austin and Amanda Morgan of Round Rock help sort stuffed animals and wraps at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Belton as part of their community service during the Welcome Week activities at the university. 08/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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