No more volunteers needed for tsunami relief, but be prepared, leaders say_11005

Posted: 1/11/05

No more volunteers needed for tsunami
relief, but be prepared, leaders say

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

Volunteers are not needed to help yet with the relief effort in South Asia, but they need to be prepared for action.

01/11/2005 - By John Rutledge

Baylor social work staff stitches gift for orphans_11005

Posted: 12/24/04

Baylor social work staff stitches gift for orphans

By Julie Carlson

Baylor University

WACO—Some babies and toddlers in the Ukraine soon will have some warm clothes for the winter, thanks to a group of women at Baylor University.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

Texas Baptists join worldwide Tsunami relief response_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Texas Baptists join worldwide Tsunami relief response

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

Texas Baptist Men volunteers are joining Baptist World Aid and other humanitarian agencies in what many observers have called the largest international disaster relief effort in history, after a series of earthquake-spawned waves struck 12 countries in South Asia and Northeast Africa the day after Christmas.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

’20-somethings’ follow own path to faith_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

'20-somethings' follow own path to faith

By Nancy Haught

Religion News Service

PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS)–In Christianity, the image of the shepherd leading sheep is a powerful one. For generations, the same could be said of parents leading their children to their religion.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

2004 left America seeing red, observers say_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

2004 left America seeing red, observers say

By Kevin Eckstrom

Religion News Service

WASHINGTON (RNS)–Red, color experts say, is a serious color that denotes passion, heat, importance, even danger. Power ties, celebrity carpets and stop signs are all red. Red says, “Stop what you're doing and pay attention.”

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

Expressing faith through visual images_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Expressing faith through visual images

By G. Jeffrey Macdonald

Religion News Service

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS)–As an evangelical preacher, Bruce Marcey belongs to a sermon-centered spiritual tradition that took root nearly 500 years ago with the Bible, the pulpit and the elimination of all distractions–including art.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

Quilts for Moldova a labor of love for volunteers_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Quilts for Moldova a labor of love for volunteers

By Craig Bird

Baptist Child & Family Services

SAN ANTONIO–Fran Dunkum, Pam Keith and Lisa Weldon autograph each of the quilts they make for an Eastern European orphanage with a heart instead of their names.

01/10/2005 - By John Rutledge

More young adults waiting longer to get married_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

More young adults waiting longer to get married

By Greg Warner

Associated Baptist Press

WASHINGTON (ABP)–New data from the U.S. Census Bureau confirms young adults are waiting longer to get married. The result may be healthier marriages, some researchers insist.

01/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Buckner, CBF Volunteers Celebrate With Orphans_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Buckner, CBF volunteers celebrate with orphans

By Scott Collins

Buckner News Service

NAIROBI, Kenya–Marlene Grant put her arms around Teresia Ngao and helped the little girl cut out figures of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus.

01/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Antiphony Conference challenges students with a call to ministry_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Antiphony Conference challenges
students with a call to ministry

By Carla Wynn

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — For five days, more than 250 college students wrestled with their response to God’s call to minister and the world’s cry for help during the inaugural Antiphony conference at the Wynfrey Hotel in Birmingham, Ala.

01/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

CBF check will help start churches_11005

Posted: 1/07/05 CBF check will help start churches Phil Hester (right), director of church planting for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, presents a $60,000 to Abe Zabaneh, director of the Baptist…

01/08/2005 - By John Rutledge

Ministry offers peace to people with HIVAIDS_11005

Posted: 1/07/05

Ministry offers peace to people with HIV/AIDS

By Lisa Jones

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

NEW YORK (ABP)–“Peace be with you,” says Frank Tomaselli as he ends a conversation. But these words are more than a slogan to Tomaselli. They're a way of life.

01/07/2005 - By John Rutledge