FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Paul Montacute, director of the Baptist World Alliance's relief-and-recovery arm BWAid, will retire in July 2012, the BWA executive committee learned in meetings March 7-9. Paul Montacute BWA leaders are expected next March to elect…
Some foreign aid helps, other kinds do more harm than good, experts assert
(ABP) — Even though the Green Bay Packers won this year’s Super Bowl 31-25, up to 100,000 individuals in developing countries are wearing new T-shirts erroneously labeling the losing Pittsburgh Steelers as NFL champions. Children and adults in Zambia receive…
D.C. Baptists to vote on new exec
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A former director of missions in Alabama is being nominated as executive director of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention. If elected by the convention's board March 15, Ricky Creech, 47, would succeed Jeffrey Haggray, who resigned…
Baptists prepare response to Japan quake, tsunami
ATLANTA (ABP) — Baptist groups prepared March 11 to meet human needs caused by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake that spawned tsunami waves as high as 23 feet in Japan and prompted tsunami warnings in Hawaii and watches as far away…
Reciprocity or dependency?
Relationship is the heart of mission involvement, and the form that relationship takes determines whether believers minister “with” or “to” others, missiologists insist. Today, they add, relationship translates as partnership, collaboration and reciprocity. “I definitely see more cooperation, partnership and…
Reciprocity or dependency?
(ABP) — Relationship is the heart of mission involvement, and the form that relationship takes determines whether believers minister “with” or “to” others, missiologists insist. Today, they add, relationship translates as partnership, collaboration and reciprocity. Access to safe drinking water…
Fighting hunger makes economic and political sense, Christian activist says
DALLAS (ABP) — Despite deep divisions in U.S. society, Christians can lead the way toward bipartisan solutions to the pain of poverty, insisted one of the world’s top hunger fighters. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and 2010…
‘Bad advocacy’ can do more harm than good, Baptist scholar insists
CORRECTION: This story includes a new fourth paragraph correcting a reporter's error. The original story inaccurately identified the Enough Project as an example of groups advocating a boycott of Congolese minerals. While Enough has urged companies to avoid using conflict minerals in manufacturing, the…
Baptist leaders denounce Muslim hearing
ATLANTA (ABP) — Leaders of four national Baptist organizations signed a statement released March 10 critical of the hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Homeland Security on the subject of radicalization within the American Muslim community. Cooperative Baptist…