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TBM mobilizes disaster relief team to meet needs in southern Mexico
Updated: 11/08/07
TBM mobilizes disaster relief team
to meet needs in southern MexicoBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
Baptists have responded to urgent needs in southern Mexico after hundreds of thousands of people were driven from their homes in that region’s worst-ever flooding. Texas Baptist Men mobilized a disaster relief team to serve in the state of Tabasco, and both the Baptist World Alliance and the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board sent funds to Baptists in the region.
When more than a week of heavy rains caused the Grijalva River to burst its banks, floods displaced up to 800,000 people in Tabasco. Later, at least 16 people were missing and presumed dead when a mudslide buried the San Juan de Grijalva community in the state of Chiapas.
Federal police assist a group of flood-affected residents as they prepare to board a helicopter on the outskirts of Villahermosa, the state capital of Tabasco, in southeastern Mexico. Thousands of homes were flooded after rivers burst their banks in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco and heavy rains left 70 percent of the swampy region under water. (Photo/Tomas Bravo/REUTERS) 11/15/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Nigeria mission trip takes volunteer far outside her comfort zone
Posted: 11/09/07
Nigeria mission trip takes volunteer
far outside her comfort zoneBy Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
KINGWOOD—Paige Maupin played the numbers—10 days, 6,500 miles one way, 800 patients, 24 professions of faith, two remote villages and one life changed forever—her own.
Maupin, a member of First Baptist Church of Kingwood, near Houston, joined a recent Children’s Emergency Relief International medical missions team to Nigeria. The trans-Atlantic journey challenged her, since she can “count on the fingers of one hand” the number of times she has flown on an airplane and had “never imagined going to another country to serve God,” even for a few days, she said.
Paige Maupin struggled for a year before getting out of her comfort zone to go on a mission trip to Nigeria that she says changed her life forever. (CERI photos) 11/09/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Buckner volunteers help Valley woman receive dying wish
Posted: 11/09/07
Juvencio and Martina Garcia and youngest son, Marcos, 2, survey the construction of their new home. (Photos by Analiz Gonzalez/Buckner) Buckner volunteers help
Valley woman receive dying wishBy Analiz González
Buckner International
ELSA—Martina García wanted to live, and she asked God for life. But if she couldn’t have that, she made one request—that God would give her family a home.
For 12 years the García family lived in a bus in Elsa, a small community northeast of McAllen. When they moved in, there was no electricity or water. They had to go to a friend’s house to shower and cool off from the South Texas heat. Then they carried back buckets to wash clothes and dirty dishes.
The bus where the Garcias lived before their house was completed. 11/09/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Laura Bush affirms faith-based youth programs
Posted: 11/09/07
Laura Bush affirms faith-based youth programs
By John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
DALLAS—First Lady Laura Bush urged Americans to engage and encourage young people in the United States during a regional Helping America’s Youth conference held at Dallas Baptist University.
Saying today’s youth face more challenges than previous generations, Bush called the country’s adults to provide positive examples for youth.
First Lady Laura Bush urged Americans to engage and encourage the country’s youth during a regional Helping America’s Youth conference held at Dallas Baptist University. (Photo courtesy of DBU) 11/09/2007 - By John Rutledge
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