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Baptists
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By Robert Marus
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 |
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Chilean Baptist leader Raquel Contreras speaks during the BWA Executive Committee meeting March 10 in Falls Church, Va. (BWA photo)
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) -- Chilean Baptists’ top leader tearfully thanked Baptist World Alliance officials March 10 for the aid and support shown to her country since its Feb. 27 earthquake -- and said that the needs and opportunities remain great in the devastated South American nation.
“Maybe because Haiti is so big we have forgotten maybe how in Chile needs are tremendous at this point,” said Raquel Contreras, president of the Union of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Chile, during the BWA Executive Committee meeting at the group’s headquarters just outside the nation’s capital.
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Baptists
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By Bob Allen
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
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ATLANTA (ABP) -- With nearly $350,000 raised from churches and individuals for earthquake relief in Haiti as of the end of February, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders said March 9 that more funds are needed for ministry that will go on for months and even years to come.
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Baptists
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By ABP staff
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) -- The leader of the Alabama state affiliate of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will leave that post at the end of May to return to local-church ministry after a Texas church voted to call Brent McDougal as pastor March 7.
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Baptists
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By Ken Camp
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
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DALLAS (ABP) -- A Dallas church has changed its website to identify
itself as inclusive of varied sexual orientations -- a move that
potentially could put the congregation at odds with the Baptist General
Convention of Texas, which previously has excluded another church over its embrace of openly gay leaders.
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Baptists
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By Bob Allen
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 |
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ATLANTA (ABP) -- Bucking a trend in many churches to eschew four-part harmonies for praise choruses projected on a screen, a new hymnal released March 8 seeks to introduce both old favorites and lesser-known new compositions to a new generation of Baptist congregations.
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