First Hispanic leads Texas executive board
March 2, 2000
DALLAS — Rudy Sanchez made history Feb. 22 when he became the first Hispanic to preside over the 231-member Texas Baptist executive board. Sanchez, 63,
Small airplane proves valuable to Montana director of missions
March 2, 2000
It’s not every church where a bright yellow Piper Cub airplane could casually pull up in the parking lot on a Sunday morning, but at
Ministry to Armed Forces gets new chair
March 2, 2000
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Robert C. Vickers, director of the chaplaincy evangelism team at the North American Mission Board (NAMB), has been elected chairman of the
Southern Baptist congregations set record
March 2, 2000
A record 1,747 new Southern Baptist congregations were added during 1999, according to a recent report compiled by the North American Mission Board. The previous
Seminaries offer Bibles to prospective students
March 2, 2000
LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Seminaries have begun sending a CD-ROM Bible to prospective students after finding a growing number of incoming freshmen at Christian colleges do not
Jail deputy suspended for praying with inmates
March 2, 2000
TAMPA, Fla. — The Associated Press reported in early January that a jail deputy in the Tampa Bay area was suspended for refusing to stop
Study reveals ‘born again’ has new meaning
March 2, 2000
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — “Born again” doesn’t mean what it used to, according to researcher Wade Clark Roof of the University of California-Santa Barbara. Roof’s
Church arsons continue to decrease
March 2, 2000
WASHINGTON — Church arsons have decreased for the third straight year after a jump in the arson rate in 1996, a task force studying the
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