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Friday, August 10, 2007

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  • Children's ministry spurs baptisms, church's growth
    by Norm Miller, posted Friday, August 10, 2007 (15 years ago)

    ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)--The way to reach an entire family with the Gospel of Jesus Christ is through exciting and meaningful ministries to children and teens. So says Rodney Gage, pastor of Fellowship of Orlando, a church started six years ago by Gage and First Baptist Church in Orlando.

    Photo courtesy of Fellowship of Orlando
          After convening in several successive locations, the young church is now located in a former retail facility and is booming, having grown in the last 18 months from 100 to about 500 attendees.

    courtesy of Fellowship of Orlando
          At the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting at San Antonio in June, LifeWay Christian Resources honored the church and Gage with a pastor's excellence in evangelism award. For the 2005-06 church year, Fellowship's record of baptisms ranked among the top 100 SBC churches with 400 members or less. Fellowship's membership is about 275. Read More

  • Gift Bible helps skeptic find God
    by Norm Miller, posted Friday, August 10, 2007 (15 years ago)

    ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)--Veral Neuschaefer was 6 years old when he started playing pool in a bar. His parents owned the bar and the apartment above it where they lived. In the wee hours of the morning, Neuschaefer and his brother would sneak downstairs after the bar had closed, squeeze their small hands into the coin-operated mechanism that released the pool balls, and then the two would play. Read More

  • Clinton pledges to be 'partner' with gays
    by Michael Foust, posted Friday, August 10, 2007 (15 years ago)

    LOS ANGELES (BP)--Appearing at an historic Democratic presidential forum on homosexual issues Aug. 9, leading Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said she hopes to be a partner with the homosexual community if elected president and pledged to work on a broad range of like-minded issues upon taking office, including passage of a civil unions bill and repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't" tell policy. Read More

  • Family members go 'on mission' together
    by Marilyn Stewart, posted Friday, August 10, 2007 (15 years ago)

    NEW ORLEANS (BP)--For the 32 families battling the sweltering heat and humidity of New Orleans this summer, the inaugural Families On Mission project in the "Crescent City" was more than a mission trip. It was a chance to pass on a legacy of missions service, evangelism and faith to a younger generation.

    The New Orleans week was one of five Families On Mission projects sponsored by the North American Mission Board (NAMB) taking place throughout the United States this summer. Other projects ... Read More

  • Registration opens for BP journalism conf.
    by Staff, posted Friday, August 10, 2007 (15 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Students will be challenged to attain "Excellence in Journalism" with a biblical worldview at the 7th annual Baptist Press Collegiate Journalism Conference Oct. 11-13 at a new location, the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.

    Lauren Green, a religion correspondent for Fox News Channel, is among the keynote speakers, as well as Manny Garcia of the Miami Herald, Don Boykin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Gary Fong of the San Francisco Chronicle.

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  • A threat to the disabled & everyone
    by R. Albert Mohler Jr., posted Friday, August 10, 2007 (15 years ago)

    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The state of Oregon legalized a form of assisted suicide in 1994, but its neighbor to the south, the nation's most populous state, has no such provision. Read More

  • COMPENDIO CULTURA: Ex activista expone el vacío de la homosexualidad; ...
    Por Erin Roach, posted Friday, August 10, 2007 (15 years ago)

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Incluso cuando estaba en lo más profundo del pecado de la homosexualidad Michael Glatze sabía que estaba mal. Ahora Glatze, un ex líder del movimiento homosexual, cuenta la historia de su pasada manera de vivir a la vez que pone al descubierto la vacía y lasciva mentira que es la homosexualidad. Read More

  • EDITORIAL: ¿Quién puede tener acceso a Dios?
    Por Octavio J. Esqueda, posted Friday, August 10, 2007 (15 years ago)

    FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Disfrutar de una relación íntima con el Dios del universo es el propósito principal del ser humano. En Dios encontramos respuesta y sentido a nuestras vidas. El salmo 15 describe al tipo de persona que puede relacionarse personalmente con el Creador. Read More