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  HPU: Sweet Sleep

  Student Missions Blog: Members of the Baptist Student Ministry at Howard Payne University slept outside on campus to help raise money for “Sweet Sleep,” a group that helps provide beds and mosquito netting to children in Uganda.

  04/15/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Haiti: Messy, imperfect and delightful

  Student Missions Blog: Filthy from head to toe, too short to reach the tall clothesline, and dropping clothes all over the place—this must be what it’s like for God to look at my work.

  04/13/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Down Home: Playing trains inside an expansive imagination

  Every now and then, I imagine I’d be a better granddad if I had a broader range of skills. Like, for example, engineering.

  04/13/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Richard Ray: Plan to attend the WMU and bivocational/ small-church meetings

  The Bivocational/Small Church Association has a long history of support from the Texas Woman’s Missionary Union. We always are grateful for the support WMU has provided to those serving on the small-church mission field.

  04/13/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Kathy Hillman: #LoveMomEndHunger one action at a time

  How do we teach our children about hunger? How can they grasp the disparity between themselves and nearly 12.5 million hungry children in America or 805 million chronically undernourished worldwide?

  04/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Hawaii: Melting pot of cultures

  Student Missions Blog: Hilo, Hawaii, is a melting pot of cultures. Through working here with the Baptist Student Ministry, God has opened my eyes to the world.

  04/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  HPU: Resurrection and revival

  Student Missions Blog: As we approached our observance of Resurrection Week at Howard Payne University, we began to prepare our hearts and minds.

  04/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Right or Wrong: Leadership and ‘followship’

  How can we tell if our church suffers from poor leadership or poor “followship?”

  04/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Editorial: Be a life-saver; sign up to donate your organs

  You could be somebody’s hero. Maybe even eight somebodies. All you need to do is register to be an organ donor.

  04/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  2nd Opinion: We should worry when millennials dismiss religion

  I’m a secular baby boomer myself, but I worry secularism has led many of my generation, and even more millennials, to discount religion’s influence in ways that could prove dangerous.

  04/09/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Haiti: From adorable to absolutely perfect

  Student Missions Blog: I was sitting outside playing with Jayrele, who is about 3 years old. He was just sitting on my lap playing patty cake with me and hugging me.

  04/08/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Letters: Glorieta leaseholders took risky gamble

  Updated: The Glorieta lawsuit by Kirk and Susie Tompkins sounds more like “Oops, I made a bad business decision and someone needs to pay for my mistake.”

  04/07/2015 - By John Rutledge