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AIDS workers debate what lessons Uganda teaches
Posted: 12/15/06
This 14-year-old arrived at the Nsambya Home Center in Kampala, Uganda, for a checkup required of all patients receiving HIV medication through the U.S. PEPFAR program. (RNS photo courtesy of David Snyder/Catholic Relief Service) AIDS workers debate what lessons Uganda teaches
By Jason Kane
Religion News Service
WASHINGTON (RNS)—Stalled in the gridlocked streets of Johannesburg on her way to an AIDS event, Rukia Cornelius fumed about the tendency of Americans to mix their religious and political beliefs. South Africans have suffered as a result, she said.
“I’m a little bit tired, but I’m also angry, because we need the money, but treatment can’t be done with such a provision on abstinence,” said Cornelius, national campaign manager of the South African AIDS lobby group Treatment Action Campaign.
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Previous AIDS ministry articles:
• To see the face of AIDS in Africa, take a look at Susan
• African leaders look to Buckner as ally in war on AIDS
• Retired pastor discovers "Blessings" among African orphans
• Buckner addresses HIV epidemic in Russian orphanages
• Warren urges ministry to AIDS victims
12/18/2006 - By John Rutledge
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DBU students raise funds to help hungry
Posted: 12/18/06
DBU students raise funds to help hungry
Dallas Baptist University students recently completed a Christmas food drive for Bro Bill’s Helping Hands Ministry in West Dallas, collecting more than 1,800 food items to benefit the West Dallas community ministry.
The DBU Ministry Student Fellowship sponsored, organized and administered the food drive.
Baskets were strategically placed at 15 locations around the Dallas Baptist University campus. They were emptied periodically and their contents boxed and stored for delivery to Brother Bill’s Helping Hands Ministry. Brother Bill’s Helping Hands Ministry grew out of West Dallas Baptist Church, where Bill Harrod served as pastor. Harrod led the church—now named Iglesia Bautista Harrod Memorial—to minister to physical needs in the community beginning in the 1950s.
The ministry’s Christmas outreach to children is its best-known program in the area, but Helping Hands also provides services—including food—to families throughout the year.
12/18/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Ex-gay says: Treat homosexuality as temptation, not orientation
Posted: 12/18/06
Ex-gay says: Treat homosexuality
as temptation, not orientationBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (ABP)—For Christians to love homosexuals like Jesus would, they should stop thinking of homosexuality as an orientation and start thinking of it as a temptation, says Tim Wilkins, himself “formerly gay.”
Wilkins, who founded a group that helps people who have “unwanted same-sex attractions,” offered his controversial view during a breakout session at Saddleback Church’s Global Summit on AIDS and the Church. The summit brought Christians and AIDS workers together to address prevention and treatment of the disease, which originally was associated with homosexuals.
See Related Articles:
• AIDS workers debate what lessons Uganda teaches
• Warren's wife helped move him to challenge church to confront AIDS
• Obama: Faith-based morality alone won't stop AIDS
• Ex-gay says: Treat homosexuality as temptation, not orientation
Previous AIDS ministry articles:
• To see the face of AIDS in Africa, take a look at Susan
• African leaders look to Buckner as ally in war on AIDS
• Retired pastor discovers "Blessings" among African orphans
• Buckner addresses HIV epidemic in Russian orphanages
• Warren urges ministry to AIDS victims
12/18/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Book Reviews
Posted: 12/15/06
Book Reviews
The Christmas Angel by Katherine Duhon, (Vantage Press)
In this children’s book, Katherine Duhon relates the story of a typical brother and sister eagerly waiting for Santa. Except this year, Milly and Tommy must see the bearded gift-giver in person. They want Saint Nick to bring back their momma’s smile after their daddy’s death.
When the jolly fellow fails to appear, the young boy and girl don coats, caps, mittens and muffs, and slip out to search for Santa. The two lose their way as the snow slows their steps and the wind whistles through the trees. But God’s Christmas angel helps the children learn a lesson in patience and the healing of time.
What are you reading that other Texas Baptists would find helpful? Send suggestions and reviews to marvknox@baptiststandard.com. Black-and-white pen-and-ink illustrations of the wide-eyed children add interest to The Christmas Angel, a story of love, hope and the magic of Christmas.
12/15/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Waco students light up lives, raise money
Posted: 12/15/06
Waco students light up lives, raise money
By George Henson
Staff Writer
WACO—Students at McLennan Community College are helping Waco-area residents hang Christmas lights this holiday season so that they can share the im-pact of Christ’s birth with other students next spring.
“There are a lot of people who can’t put up their own lights anymore, and their sons or daughters live too far away or don’t have time to put lights up for them. We get to help with that and raise money so that we can participate in Beach Reach,” Jacob Garcia ex-plained.
Students from McLennan Community College hang Christmas lights for Waco-area residents to raise money for BeachReach, a spring break evangelistic ministry. 12/15/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Cybercolumn by Jeanie Miley: The Tie that binds
Posted: 12/15/06
CYBER COLUMN:
The Tie that bindsBy Jeanie Miley
On the first Sunday of Advent, I sat in my regular place in the sanctuary of my church, looking around at all of the people who form my community of faith and anticipating the coming Christmas season with eagerness and joy. I know some of the people with whom I have gathered for worship really well, and they know me. Others are still strangers to me, even after all these years, and I often wonder if that is simply choice or if it is, somehow, a kind of failure.
Jeanie Miley I’ve served on various committees with many of these people, and we have met for prayer and projects, banquets and business meetings, fellowship dinners and the usual funerals, weddings and baby dedications that mark the passage of time and the meaning of community.
12/15/2006 - By John Rutledge
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AIDS summit challenges Baptists to ‘break the silence’
Posted: 7/07/06
David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, underscores the connection between poverty and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic during the "Breaking the Silence: Compassion for an HIV Positive World" summit, held in conjunction with the CBF general assembly in Atlanta. (Photo by Mark Sandlin) AIDS summit challenges
Baptists to ‘break the silence’By Carla Wynn
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
ATLANTA (ABP)—Baptists and other Christians responded slowly and poorly 25 years ago to the advent of AIDS, but God has been in the trenches from the start, said David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, a Christian advocacy group.
“God is in the midst of this,” Beckmann told more than 400 people gathered in Atlanta June 21-22 for an HIV/AIDS summit, dubbed “Breaking the Silence: Compassion for an HIV-Positive World.” The event was scheduled in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
