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'We are all sent'
EULESS—“We need to equip our friends, our churches, our Sunday School classes, our small groups to think like missionaries,” the International Mission Board’s Eric King told those gathered in a classroom at First Baptist Church of Euless for a session called “5 Milestones of a Missional Church.” His plea could easily [...]
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Another reason to embrace the world
I read the story of Yousef Nadarkhani, a pastor in Iran who is possibly facing execution for becoming a Christian, with a combination of outrage and heartache. Nadarkhani is closing in on three years behind bars for being of resolute conscience on this matter. The plight of Chen Guangcheng, a [...]
Continue ReadingSBTC communications department honored
FORT WORTH—Members of the SBTC communications department earned five awards during the Baptist Communicators Association (BCA) annual workshop and awards competition, April 11-14 in Fort Worth. The BCA meeting draws journalists, public relations practitioners, graphic artists, videographers and photographers from Southern Baptist Convention agencies, state conventions and Baptist newspapers across the [...]
Continue ReadingDon’t drift, pastor tells SENT audience
EULESS—Don’t let your heart drift from God, Joel Engle, pastor of The Exchange Church in Keller, warned those attending the plenary session of the SENT [...]
Continue ReadingPastors’ Conference to spotlight Father’s Day
NEW ORLEANS—Change is in the air for the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference, June 17-18 in New Orleans, themed “Changing: Lives, Communities, the World.” “I am changing. [...]
Continue ReadingNumerous groups plan meetings around SBC
Numerous events are planned around the SBC Pastors’ Conference and annual meeting in New Orleans during the second and third weeks of June. The following list includes most of the meetings announced by press time: The Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship will meet June 15-16 at First Baptist Church in Kenner, La., [...]
Continue ReadingFormer Corpus pastor to serve ministers, churches
IRVING—Heath Peloquin of Corpus Christi was elected to serve as associate in the minister-church relations (MCR) department at the April 24 meeting of the Executive [...]
Continue ReadingRazorwire & bedtime stories
HENDERSON—“‘Jungle Book’ rocks!” Such was the declaration of a Texas prison inmate to Jo Freeman, a volunteer with the Storybook Project, as she prepared to guide the man through the nuances of prose reading for children. She wanted to make sure he knew how to pronounce the peculiar names in the [...]
Continue ReadingUnlikely prison missionary ‘all in’ for inmates
HENDERSON—Providence is ironic sometimes. He had a hard heart. His attitude, in his own words, “was about as bad as it could be.” And just as God told Jonah to preach to the object of his disdain, the Lord told Ken Hale, “You need to change your attitude because I’ve got [...]
Continue ReadingERLC investigating Land comments
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Comments by Richard Land about the Trayvon Martin killing “have angered many and opened wounds from the past,” the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s executive committee said in a statement released April 18. The executive committee also noted concern that Land, the ERLC’s president, had used sources from other media [...]
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