• Missionaries grapple with leaving Japan

  Across Japan and back home in the United States, missions leaders are grappling with whether personnel should stay put or move away, either to other parts of Japan or out of the country entirely. The Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board moved its representatives in eastern Japan to a region southwest of Tokyo.

  03/21/2011 - By Administrator

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  Slain Arlington pastor’s ‘whole life really was newsworthy,’ friends insist

  Family and friends of Pastor Clint Dobson choose not to dwell on the circumstances of his death. Instead, they celebrate a life well-lived and remember a man whose actions demonstrated an unswerving love for God and people.

  03/21/2011 - By admin

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  Critics complain about Calvin’s influence on SBC Pastors’ Conference

  The president for the 2011 Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference defended a program he’s put together for June 12-13 in Phoenix, Ariz., saying critics who find it outside the convention’s mainstream hold too narrow a worldview.

  03/21/2011 - By Administrator

• CBF budget cuts total $1.1 million

  Deep staff cuts announced in January will help reduce the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's budget shortfall in the 2010-2011 fiscal year by more than $1.1 million, officials said.

  03/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Texas WMU sets $4.11 million mission offering goal

  The Texas WMU board of directors set a $4.11 million goal for the Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas Missions, which supports mission work throughout the state.

  03/18/2011 - By admin

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  Houston-area students choose service close to home

  Thirty-six students from Sugar Land’s Fort Bend Baptist Academy spent their annual March service week landscaping the grounds at Gracewood’s Wanda Lane campus.

  03/18/2011 - By admin

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  Texan helps Chileans process post-quake trauma

  Texan Dick Price made 14 trips to Chile last year after a devastating earthquake to help victims deal with the trauma.

   

  03/18/2011 - By admin

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  Pastor sees healthy lifestyle as act of worship

  First Baptist Church of Kenova, West Va., is changing its community for the better after the congregation was challenged from the pulpit about obesity.

   

  03/18/2011 - By admin

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  Missionaries in devastated Japan pray for ‘divine wind’

  Having endured the damaging winds of a tsunami, Baptist missionaries in Japan now are praying for a low east wind to carry any radioactive emissions away from their country without spreading to other population centers.

  03/17/2011 - By Administrator

• HSU freshman drowns in canoeing accident on Dallas-area lake

  An 18-year-old Hardin-Simmons University freshman who was considering a call to ministry drowned in a spring break canoeing accident on Lake Ray Hubbard, east of Dallas.

  03/17/2011 - By Administrator

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  Nuclear threat complicates Japan relief efforts

  The danger of radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has greatly complicated Southern Baptist disaster relief efforts in Japan, one member of the assessment team reported.

  03/17/2011 - By Administrator

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  Sanctity of life bigger than one issue, Gushee tells UMHB

  Sanctity of human life transcends politics and reaches far beyond one or two hot-button issues, Christian ethicist David Gushee told students and faculty at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.

  03/17/2011 - By admin