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Student’s technology skills helped support missions, humanitarian groups
Posted: 9/08/06
Surrounded by his six-screen computer setup, Wayland senior Jerod Clopton does research for a missionary during his summer missions experience at Greater Good Global Support Services outside Meridian, Texas. Student's technology skills helped
support missions, humanitarian groupsBy Teresa Young
Wayland Baptist University
PLAINVIEW—The phrase “summer missions” typically conjures images of students sharing the gospel in foreign countries or doing manual labor in inner-city areas, with evangelism the prevalent concern. Jerod Clopton knows first-hand, though, that missions takes on very different shapes and each experience has the power to change lives.
Clopton, a senior math major at Wayland Baptist University and a native of O’Donnell, spent his summer on a farm near Meridian, working for an agency called Greater Good Global Support Services, or G3S2, as an agent of Go Now Missions, an arm of the Baptist General Convention of Texas collegiate ministries.
09/08/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Stem-cell advance raises hope, ethical questions
Posted: 9/06/06
Stem-cell advance raises hope, ethical questions
By Robert Marus
Associated Baptist Press
WORCESTER, Mass. (ABP)—New scientific research may defuse the culture war over embryonic stem-cell research, but it also may raise new ethical questions.
In a study publicized on the website of the journal Nature, members of a team of scientists headed by Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Mass., reported they had successfully grown stem-cell colonies that were extracted from human embryos without destroying the embryos in the process.
09/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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FDA approval of new contraceptive stirs reaction
Posted: 9/06/06
FDA approval of new contraceptive stirs reaction
By Robert Marus
ABP Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON (ABP)—After a three-year-long debate, the federal Food and Drug Administration has approved wider distribution of a “morning-after” contraceptive, angering some religious conservatives and anti-abortion groups.
FDA officials recently announced they had approved non-prescription sales of “Plan B,” a drug designed to prevent ovulation and fertilization of a woman’s egg. The decision, however, only allows women 18 years of age or older to have over-the-counter access to the drug.
09/06/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Displaced New Orleans resident finds home at Gracewood
Posted: 9/01/06
Displaced New Orleans
resident finds home at GracewoodBy Miranda Bradley
Children at Heart Ministries
HOUSTON—Rochelle Wright lost everything to Hurricane Katrina—everything except what matters most to her.
“There was a time when I thought I was going to die,” she said, thinking back to events that changed her life. “I’ve tried to block out a lot of what happened.”
Rochelle and Rayven Wright walked 10 miles in waist-deep water to escape Katrina. Now they live at Gracewood, a Children At Heart Ministry, their "first real home" since the storm destroyed theirs. 09/05/2006 - By John Rutledge
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LIFE GOES ON: Crossroads project aims to rebuild in New Orleans
Posted: 9/01/06
Habitat for Humanity houses in New Orleans are being built by church-based volunteers and by future residents who provide at least 350 hours of “sweat equity.” (Photo by ABP) LIFE GOES ON:
Crossroads project aims to rebuild in New OrleansBy Hannah Elliott
Associated Baptist Press
NEW ORLEANS (ABP)—Last year, New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward was one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, with more than 90,000 homes ruined.
This year, it’s the site of the largest Habitat for Humanity project ever undertaken by a single denomination anywhere in the world.
Teens from a youth group at First Baptist Church in Salado work on a Habitat for Humanity housing project in New Orleans. (RNS photo by Ted Jackson/The Times-Picayune in New Orleans) 09/05/2006 - By John Rutledge
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East Texas church sends minister to southern Louisiana
Posted: 9/01/06
A team working with Celebration Church in Metairie, La. help clean up hurricane damage. East Texas church sends minister
to southern LouisianaBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
METAIRIE, La.—When David Jochum felt God calling him to leave First Baptist Church in Marshall to help a New Orleans-area church in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the East Texas congregation decided to send him as their missionary to southern Louisiana.
First Baptist Church agreed to pay Jochum’s full salary and benefits as pastor of enlistment at Celebration Church in Metairie, La., for one year. The Marshall church also pledged to continue their financial support up to four years on a sliding scale, as Celebration Church becomes capable of gradually assuming responsibility for the position Jochum will continue to fill there.
09/05/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptists urged to adopt unreached groups in Houston
Posted: 9/01/06
Texas Baptists urged to adopt
unreached groups in HoustonBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
HOUSTON—Significant numbers of people in Texas’ largest city never have heard the gospel.
But the Baptist General Convention of Texas is seeking to change that with a new ministry opportunity supported by the Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas Missions.
09/05/2006 - By John Rutledge
