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Hardin-Simmons students, faculty work in Piedras Negras children’s home_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
Patients leaving the clinic where the Hardin-Simmons University physical therapy ministry team served. Hardin-Simmons students, faculty
work in Piedras Negras children's homeSeveral Hardin-Simmons University physical therapy students and four faculty members traveled to the recently flooded area of Piedras Negras, Mexico to minister to people there.
They worked in Casa Bethesda, a home for indigent and abandoned children, many of whom have been diagnosed with cerebral palsy, autism or Down's syndrome. They also worked the Clinica Bethesda, a medical facility.
Marsha Rutland, instructor of physical therapy at Hardin-Simmons University, and students Alex Griffin and Kathy Tilson work with children at the Clinica Bethesda in Piedras Negras, Mexico. Physical therapy faculty who attended were Dennis O'Connell, Janelle O'Connell and Marsha Rutland. Teresia Taylor, a Spanish professor, went with the group to help with translation.
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Family wants ministry to disabled children started in Romania_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
Becky Oprean reads her favorite scripture, Psalms 139, before giving her testimony at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Bucharest, Romania, in 1999. Her mother, Lidia Oprean, holds her Bible for her. Family wants ministry to disabled children started in Romania
By Craig Bird
Special to the Baptist Standard
The verbal and visual messages resonate in any setting–a smiling, wheelchair-bound teenager confidently quoting Psalm 139: “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Dallas church plans to rise from ashes and rebuild ministry_51704
Posted: 5/14/04
A fire in 2002 left the east Dallas landmark Ross Avenue Baptist Church building a burned-out shell of its former glory. The church will demolish the old building and rebuild on the site. Dallas church plans to rise from ashes and rebuild ministry
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS–Ross Avenue Baptist Church's building stands a shell of its former glory. Its walls are propped up with large beams. A stained-glass dome that once called a community to Christ is now but a memory.
05/14/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Mother’s Day column by Brett Younger: Mother’s dance_51704
Posted: 5/06/04
MOTHER'S DAY:
Mother's dance
By Brett Younger
My mother should be a dancer. She would, of course, roll her eyes at this idea. All of her conservative Baptist life, dancing has been as off-limits as rock and roll, playing cards and Methodists. And yet, though she will deny it until Jesus comes back—which she would want me to point out could be any minute—my mother would be a magnificent dancer.
Brett Younger My mom has the athleticism of a ballet dancer. Her brief, but glorious, hoops career is legendary in Northeast Mississippi. Grandma wouldn’t let my mother play basketball for the purple and gold of Itawamba High School because the team’s short pants were two feet too short. On one famous night in 1948, several Lady Indians fouled out in the third quarter of a tight game with their bitter rivals—the Houston Hilltoppers—so the coach went into the stands to beg Clarice Graham to play. Mom slipped into a borrowed pair of boogie shoes and, in a dress that hit just below the ankles, scored several key baskets, dancing the Indians to a celebrated victory.
05/07/2004 - By John Rutledge
