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Alabama church named nation’s fastest growing

January 1, 2009

BIRMINGHAM — Birmingham’s Church of the Highlands has been named the fastest-growing church in America by Outreach magazine, a publication for religious leaders that does

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Shocco Springs celebrates 60 years, looks to future

January 1, 2009

When Rebekah Waller was born, her parents were working at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega. When Waller got older, she spent her summers

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Students blitz city in one of state’s biggest-ever projects

January 1, 2009

Christmas break brought something big for Alabama Baptist missions work. More than 270 Alabama college students, their leaders and trained disaster relief workers participated in

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Samford graduates 265, awards Hull honorary doctorate

January 1, 2009

Samford University in Birmingham conferred degrees on 265 graduates from 19 states and three foreign countries and awarded an honorary doctorate to retired former provost

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Tonga suffering relieved by Baptist food project

January 1, 2009

BINGA, Zimbabwe –– Southern Baptists have brought badly needed relief to an isolated region of Zimbabwe, where a national political impasse — compounded by hyperinflation,

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Southwestern announces budget cutbacks

January 1, 2009

FORT WORTH, Texas — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) is “making difficult decisions in an effort to protect the institution from future financial crisis,” according

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Southern Seminary facing budget shortfall

January 1, 2009

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The head of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is predicting layoffs and tuition increases to manage a $3 million budget

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Rick Warren to give invocation at presidential inauguration

January 1, 2009

Rick Warren, founder of the Southern Baptist Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, Calif., will give the invocation at Barack Obama’s Jan. 20 presidential inauguration. In August

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