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Book says nation watching this year's Lottie Moon offering

Book says nation watching this year's Lottie Moon offering

A Christian organization that tracks giving to religious groups says other denominations will be watching this year's Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, which funds overseas missionaries of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Church opens doors to victims of workplace violence

Church opens doors to victims of workplace violence

A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church opened its doors to more than 50 employees of an engineering firm in downtown Orlando, Fla., rocked by workplace violence Nov. 6.

Mural enriches children’s ministry

Mural enriches children’s ministry

On a hot South Texas summer morning, parents and children stream into the Children’s Center at San Antonio’s Trinity Baptist Church for Sunday School. Visitors are greeted warmly, and children are directed to their classrooms: downstairs for the youngest, upstairs for older children.

 
Opinion: Georgia Baptists, the Bible and women pastors
(ABP) -- In a recent Baptists Today article, I read about a 19th-century Baptist congregation that censured a slave for dancing. The slave was a "member" of the church, though as human chattel, it was his job merely to sit in the slave balcony, keep his mouth shut, be subservient as they believed the Bible required (Eph. 6:5; Col. 3:22), and count on his heavenly reward to someday make everything right.
 
Opinion: Thankful for finding my long-lost brother
(ABP) -- My dad left one treasure for me to find after he died. Without a map for guidance, I needed providence and social media on my journey to discovery.
 
For one Texas woman, love for teaching kindergartners lasts 60 years

DALLAS (ABP) -- Some things have changed a bit since 1949 at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas. Then, the church met in a house. Today, its 9,000 members fill a mammoth sanctuary in multiple worship services.

One thing hasn’t changed, though: Martha Howard still can be found teaching her room full of kindergartners every Sunday morning -- just as she has for 60 years.

 
Bucking national trend, Virginia Baptists increase 2010 budget
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (ABP) -- Despite a shaky economy, Virginia Baptists in their recent annual meeting adopted a 2010 budget of $14 million -- about 1.4 percent larger than 2009’s budget, which is expected to see a shortfall.
 
Opinion: Giving thanks in a troubled land
(ABP) -- Thanksgiving week is upon us. The annual celebration centered on gratitude for God’s blessings -- for our nation, for family and all other good gifts -- comes to a troubled, hungry, divided nation this year.
 
Ending hunger statewide by 2015 is subject of Baylor summit
WACO, Texas (ABP) -- Federal, state and local leaders met at a Baptist college Nov. 19 to begin a discussion that they hope will lead to actions to endfood insecurity in one of the nation’s biggest states by 2015.
 
Advocate believes Christian-run prison would be constitutional
DALLAS (ABP) -- A Baptist minister hoping to open the nation's first faith-based prison says he is confident it will pass constitutional muster.
 
Opinion: Does the SBC respect local-church autonomy or not?
(ABP) -- During the November 11, 2009, business session of the Georgia Baptist Convention, messengers to the Southern Baptist-affiliated state body dismissed the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Ga., from fellowship for the church's calling of Julie Pennington-Russell as senior pastor in 2007. The SBC will not establish a database to track ministerial child abusers out of fear of "violating local church autonomy," but when it comes to a church calling a woman to preach the gospel, church autonomy is slain at the feet of conventional conformity.
 
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