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  Mentoring program offers HPU students opportunity to serve

  A pair of Howard Payne University students who lead a mentoring program for girls at a juvenile correctional facility insist its worth their time investment to let the young women know Christians care about them.

  12/27/2011 - By Administrator

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  Charitable giving up slightly but still ailing

  Charitable giving is trickling back up as the economy heals, but it could take years to return to pre-recession levels, nonprofit leaders say.

  12/26/2011 - By Administrator

• 2011 notable deaths

  Here is a list of notable deaths in 2011 that were reported by Associated Baptist Press.

  12/23/2011 - By Administrator

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  2011 in the rearview mirror

  Associated Baptist Press published 586 news and feature stories in 2011. Some were more memorable than others. Here is a review of some of the year’s top newsmakers.

  12/23/2011 - By Administrator

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  Healthy Start families participate in reenactment of Nativity

  This year, more than 80 families served by the Baptist Child & Family Services Healthy Start program in Laredo celebrated the Christmas season with a traditional Mexican posada—a reenactment of the journey by Joseph and Mary's to Bethlehem.

  12/23/2011 - By Administrator

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  BCFS auxiliary brightens Christmas for local children

  Members of the Baptist Child & Family Services Auxiliary are making this Christmas special for 38 children in the BCFS Family Ties program.

  12/21/2011 - By Administrator

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  Buckner provides 4,500 pairs of shoes to Dallas homeless

  Thousands of people wrapped in blankets huddled outside Dallas Convention Center last Saturday, waiting for 8:30 a.m. when the doors would open for the eighth annual Christmas Gift 2011, an event sponsored by Operation Care International and supported by Buckner International.

  12/21/2011 - By Administrator

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  DBU basketball team serves community for Christmas

  Before heading home for Christmas break, members of the Dallas Baptist University Patriot basketball team partnered with the North Texas Food Bank to provide food to families in need.

  12/21/2011 - By Administrator

• BWA, SBC leaders meet for first time since 2004

  Leaders of the Baptist World Alliance traveled to Nashville, Tenn., to meet Dec. 19 with leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, a founding member of the BWA that withdrew in 2004 over theological differences.

  12/21/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baylor University releases draft of strategic plan

  A draft of Baylor University’s new strategic plan underscores the school’s desire to be known as “a national research university that resolutely embraces its Christian identity.” However, the draft focuses on broad aspirations for the school’s future—not specific mandates.

  12/21/2011 - By Administrator

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  Gaza Baptist Church, ‘functioning’ but ‘restricted,’ says Brother Andrew

  The last remaining evangelical church in Gaza is functioning but in danger of dying, famed Bible smuggler Brother Andrew said after a recent visit to Gaza Baptist Church.

  12/20/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baptists, Pentecostals seek common ground

  Leaders of two large Christian traditions held preliminary conversations Dec. 13-15 to lay groundwork for ecumenical dialogue between Baptists and Pentecostals around the world.

  12/20/2011 - By Administrator