SAN ANTONIO (ABP) — Global Women established its first endowment, created a funding plan for its projects and adopted next year’s projects at a recent board meeting. Gathering in San Antonio, board members established an endowment to ensure the future…
Houston school suffers from Ike; Baptists respond in Texas, La.
HOUSTON (ABP) — Baptists continued Sept. 17 to send relief teams into hard-hit areas along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which battered the area five days earlier. In the storm’s path, Houston Baptist…
Houston school suffers from Ike; Baptists respond in Texas, La.
HOUSTON (ABP) — Baptists continued Sept. 17 to send relief teams into hard-hit areas along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Ike, which battered the area five days earlier. In the storm’s path, Houston Baptist…
Missions in a Dangerous World: Don’t deceive, expert says
PLANO, Texas (ABP) — Deception is never an appropriate stance for mission workers, a former employee of both the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the International Mission Board insists. But that’s not the same as telling everything one knows or does,…
Missions in a Dangerous World: Tell the whole truth?
(ABP) — Christian workers who serve in countries closed to traditional missions outreach should tell the truth — but that doesn’t necessarily mean full disclosure, some Christian ethicists and missiologists say. “It is not correct to lie about the reason…
Missions in a Dangerous World
(ABP) — Imagine being invited to go on a short-term mission trip to a country closed to mission personnel and bordering a closed nation torn by civil war. Participants cannot disclose the underlying reason for the trip — ministry to…
Missions in a Dangerous World
(ABP) — Imagine being invited to go on a short-term mission trip to a country closed to mission personnel and bordering a closed nation torn by civil war. Participants cannot disclose the underlying reason for the trip — ministry to…
Faith leaders to candidates: Stop neglecting Gulf Coast
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A coalition of religious leaders are asking politicians in this election year to address what they say is a moral scandal: Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, much of the region is still far…
As Ike disaster draws focus, Caribbean relief continues
GONAIVES, Haiti (ABP) — Even as the attention of Americans turns to the disaster caused by Hurricane Ike in their own country, Baptist agencies are responding to massive devastation across the Caribbean islands, battered by three successive tropical cyclones since…
Relief, recovery efforts begin after Ike ravages Texas coast
GALVESTON, Texas (ABP) — Less than 24 hours after Hurricane Ike ravaged the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts Sept. 12, Baptist groups were mobilizing supplies and relief workers for the disaster zone. The massive storm — rated as a strong…
Poll: On torture, evangelicals not looking to Bible, doctrine
ATLANTA (ABP) — A new survey suggests the very Americans who claim to follow the Bible most assiduously don’t consult it when forming their views about torture and government policy. The poll of 600 Southern white evangelicals was released Sept….
Poll: On torture, evangelicals not looking to Bible, doctrine
ATLANTA (ABP)—A new survey suggests the very Americans who claim to follow the Bible most assiduously don’t consult it when forming their views about torture and government policy. The poll of 600 Southern white evangelicals was released Sept. 11 in…