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NORMAN, Okla. (ABP) – Veteran missionary Charles “T” Thomas is expected to be hired by the Cooperating Baptist Fellowship of Oklahoma as coordinator. Thomas, currently missions coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Florida, will be recommended to the Oklahoma…

SAN DIEGO (ABP) — Adoption of a reduced 2004 budget, re-establishment of a resolutions committee and an assortment of motions highlighted the 63rd California Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. Held in San Diego Nov. 18-19, the convention drew 610 messengers,…

NASHVILLE (ABP) — “Far-out Far East Rickshaw Rally — Racing to the Son is a VBS race that will have kids dashing through the streets of Tokyo, climbing Mt. Fuji, and diving for pearls,” says a promotion of LifeWay Christian…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (ABP) — In a move unprecedented in Southern Baptist circles, a state convention president will attempt to bar a Baptist publication in Missouri from attending or reporting on state Baptist meetings. David Tolliver, recently elected president of…

(ABP) — A number of Christian ministries have borrowed a page out of the Neiman-Marcus Christmas Catalog. Like the upscale retail chain, these ministries use the seasonal catalogs to offer unique gift ideas, ranging from the simple to the extraordinary….

FLORENCE, Colo. (ABP) — “People tend to think that everyone in prison is beyond redemption socially or spiritually, that anyone who comes to chapel or asks spiritual questions is just playing games to get out of their cells or improve…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) — Associated Baptist Press has named Tim Norton of Atlanta director of development for the independent news service. Norton will provide leadership in developing new sources of annual revenue for ABP and will direct its fund-raising campaign,…

DALLAS (ABP) — Nobody ever earned God's favor by building a house for a poor family, according to the president and co-founder of Habitat for Humanity. But whether it's in rural Georgia or the war-torn Middle East, that's part of…

DALLAS (ABP) — Habitat for Humanity needs Baptists to help preserve its Christian character, founder Millard Fuller pleaded. Fuller and his wife, Linda, launched Habitat in 1976 to provide “a simple, decent, good place in which to live” for every…

LEWISVILLE, Texas (ABP) — Can a headhunter replace a search committee? Maybe not completely, but churches would do a better job of selecting ministers if they accepted outside help, David Lyons says. That's why he founded MinisterSearch, a professional recruitment…

DALLAS (ABP) — For more and more churches and their ministers, a match made in heaven may have been launched in cyberspace. Every day thousands of ministers log onto a constellation of Internet websites looking for a new church to…

WASHINGTON (ABP) — A theoretical problem that school-voucher advocates and opponents have argued about for years may have become reality in Denver. Significant public controversy developed in Denver in late october after a Baptist school with a policy of expelling…