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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 12/01/06
Texas Tidbits
Academy receives donated computer system. San Marcos entrepreneur Pat Price donated a new computer system to San Marcos Baptist Academy recently. Price, an academy alumnus, serves on the school’s fund-raising council. The computer and 17-inch, flat-screen monitor will replace an older system and will be used primarily for video editing purposes.
BUA names search committee. Teo Cisneros, pastor of Templo Jerusalem in Victoria, will chair a presidential search committee for Baptist University of the Americas. BUA trustees named a search committee to nominate an interim president and initiate a nationwide search for a successor to Albert Reyes, who has been named president of Buckner Children & Family Service. Search committee members who will serve with Cisneros are Debbie Ferrier of San Antonio, Francis Barrera of Plainview, John Bobo of Hurst and Doug Diehl of San Antonio. The board also named a council of advisers that includes Baldemar Borrego, president of the Hispanic Baptist Convención; Frank Palos, interim director of Hispanic ministries with the Baptist General Convention of Texas; Robert Rodriguez, BGCT second vice president; Alcides Guajardo, immediate past-president of Convención; Robert Cepeda, chairman of the BGCT Executive Board’s missions, evangelism and ministries committee; Alfonso Flores of San Antonio; Keith Bruce, director of BGCT institutional ministries; Irma Alvarado, president of Hispanic Woman’s Missionary Union; Rudy Camacho, a former president of Convención; and Delia Vela, president of the Convención Minister’s Wives Conference.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Book cancellation shows Baylor troubles not over
Updated: 12/15/06
Book cancellation shows
Baylor troubles not overBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
WACO—Baylor University reversed plans to publish a book about its recent history—a work critics called a defense of the school’s previous administration and defenders called a valuable interpretive analysis of issues facing Christian higher education.
The announcement came one week after former Baylor President Herb Reynolds sent a sharply critical e-mail to the volume’s editors, but university officials insisted their concerns predated that decision by at least five months.
Schmeltekopf Hankins 12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Love given, received at Cornerstone outreach
Updated: 12/15/06
Love given, received at Cornerstone outreach
By Barbara Bedrick
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS—The gift of love is lighting up the lives of two Carrollton volunteers, but their gift of time has blessed dozens of other people.
Deidra Stribling and Carl Wafer, who are engaged to be married, volunteer with community outreach programs at Cornerstone Baptist Church, an inner-city Dallas congregation—programs from which they benefited just one year ago.
Carl Wafer and Deidra Stribling met last Thanksgiving at a community outreach meal for needy people sponsored by Cornerstone Baptist Church in Dallas. This year the couple—who are engaged to be married and attending church regularly —worked as volunteers at the event. 12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Baylor prof says Schaeffer remained a fundamentalist
Updated: 12/15/06
Baylor prof says evangelical godfather
Schaefer returned to fundamentalismBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (ABP)—Many evangelical scholars agree Francis Schaeffer was the single greatest force that propelled evangelicals into political action—ultimately putting George W. Bush in the White House. But some question whether he rightly is described as a fundamentalist.
While some scholars think Schaeffer, the popular author and theologian who helped a generation of evangelicals move toward the public square, left fundamentalism behind during his lifetime, Baylor University professor Barry Hankins is reticent to concede that point.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Bone marrow donation provides the gift of life
Updated: 12/15/06
Bone marrow donor Jennifer Hammons teaches a class at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. (UMHB Photo) Bone marrow donation provides the gift of life
By Jennifer Sicking
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
BELTON—One person’s whim became another family’s answer to prayer when Jennifer Hammons gave a little of herself to an unknown girl an ocean away.
Hammons, a University of Mary Hardin-Baylor graduate and adjunct teacher, became a bone marrow donor.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Wreaths help single mothers turn their cottages into homes
Updated: 12/15/06
A Family Care resident shows off her wreath during the Texas Baptist Children's Home annual wreath party.. Wreaths help single mothers turn
their cottages into homesBy Miranda Bradley
Children at Heart Foundation
ROUND ROCK—For single mothers in Texas Baptist Children’s Home Family Care program, a Christmas wreath represents more than a seasonal decoration. It’s a vehicle to help them reclaim their identities.
For the past nine years, the Family Care program has provided an opportunity for single mothers to express their creativity. During its annual wreath-making party, the program provides dinner, childcare and a variety of bows, ornaments, trinkets and baubles to adorn each evergreen ornament.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Federal authorities receive Valley report
Updated: 12/15/06
Federal authorities receive Valley report
By Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Director Charles Wade has turned over to federal authorities the full report—including supporting evidence—compiled by a team that investigated misappropriated church starting funds in the Rio Grande Valley.
Wade notified members of the BGCT Executive Board by e-mail Dec. 11.
• See complete list of Valley funds scandal articles 12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Around the State
Posted: 12/15/06
Around the State
• Registration for spring classes at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor will be held Jan. 8 and 9. Classes begin Jan. 10. Registration time is based on students’ last names. For more information, call (254) 295-4510.
• The B.H. Carroll Theological Institute will hold its winter colloquy Jan. 15-16 at First Church in Arlington. The theme will be “The Moral Maze.” David Cook of Wheaton College will be the keynote speaker. For more information, call (817) 274-4284.
• A statewide senior adult camp will be held April 23-26 at Alto Frio Encampment in Leakey. Paul Powell will be the preacher, D.L. Lowrie will lead the Bible study, and Dale Durham and Ginger McKay will lead the music. Call (830) 232-5271 to make reservations or to receive more information.
East Texas Baptist University recently unveiled the “Scarborough/Linebery Cross.” The cross from the original Scarborough Chapel spire now is incorporated into a memorial to the late Evelyn Scarborough Linebery, a longtime benefactor of the school who died in 2001. • Students from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Hardin-Simmons University and Howard Payne University competed with students from 18 universities in an ethics match held in Dallas. Four students from UMHB—Lauren Graber, Danny Jeanes, Elaine Lipscomb and Ray Wilson—won first place in their division. The HSU squad—Samuel Argumaniz, Robert Hatcher and Sarah Osborn—earned a fourth place standing. The HPU students—Amanda Whisler, Shanna McCalum, Ronald Duvall and Brett Campbell—ranked in the top half of the schools competing. The competition consisted of five rounds in which two teams met before a moderator and three judges—all of whom are business leaders. The questions in the final round were about a CEO who lied on his resume about college degrees and outsourcing business and closing U.S. facilities because of rising costs. Students from UMHB received the first place trophy and a $1,000 grant to continue discussions of ethics with business leaders in their local community. Members of the HSU team received a $500 grant.
Anniversaries
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs
Posted: 12/15/06
Baptist Briefs
Arizona Baptists take steps to split gifts 50/50 with SBC. Messengers to the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention’s Nov. 14-15 annual meeting unanimously adopted a missions funding growth plan to increase the percentage of Cooperative Program gifts forwarded to the SBC for national and international missions and ministries. The eventual goal is to divide undesignated Cooperative Program mission gifts 50/50 with SBC causes. Currently, 75 percent of the undesignated receipts are used in Arizona and 25 percent forwarded to the SBC. Arizona messengers adopted a $3.4 million Cooperative Program budget and a $3.8 million state convention operating budget for 2007. Next year’s Cooperative Program budget is a 1.8 percent increase over the present budget, and the operating budget is down from $4 million.
BWA mission advancement director named. Alan Stanford, Baptist World Alliance regional secretary for North America, has been appointed BWA director of mission advancement. He succeeds Ron Harris, who now works as a consultant with BWA. Stanford is pastor of First Baptist Church Clarendon in Arlington, Va., and previously served the BWA as director of promotion and development.
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
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2nd Opinion: Getting lost in Christmas
Posted: 12/15/06
2nd Opinion:
Getting lost in ChristmasBy BO Baker
Most of you know Christmas is my favorite time of the year. Of course, I know that scores and scores of you find the season harsh, upsetting, stressed and tear-stained, making it easy to get lost in Christmas.
Consider the truly poor who tuck their pride away long enough to accept a basket of Christmas love so their wide-eyed children can have a taste of what most of us have as normal daily fare. O yes, one can get lost in Christmas!
Face those who carry grownup grief into Christmas morning or watch with eyes of compassion as more and more of our young soldiers darken by their deaths the hearts of their parents, marriage partners and their little children—children too young to understand why those around them are crying, wondering who and what is in that flag-draped case. Indeed, one can get lost in Christmas!
12/14/2006 - By John Rutledge
