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Call lowers anxiety over GCR recommendations

Clock March 16 2010 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor
Ronnie Floyd, chairman of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, lowered the anxiety level of some participants in a national conference call Tuesday with up to 500 participants arranged by the Network of Baptist Associations. Floyd reaffirmed that any recommendations concerning the North American Mission Board would still involve partnerships and that NAMB would not be a strategy “is...

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Haitian judge weighs new charge for Silsby

Clock March 16 2010 by Baptist Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Laura Silsby, the last of 10 Baptist missions volunteers detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping, now faces a new charge. Silsby, who led the team, now is accused of attempting to take 40 children out of Haiti without proper paperwork on Jan. 26, three days before the 10-member team was prevented from crossing the border into the Dominican Republic with 33 ch...

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Pastor wept after quake, then got to work

Clock March 16 2010 by Tristan Taylor, Baptist Press
CONSTITUCIÓN, Chile — As the house trembled, Chilean pastor Juan Mauricio Muñoz prayed with his wife, son and a young woman who was staying with them. When the 8.8-magnitude earthquake was over, they were shaken but unharmed. But the worst was yet to come. Though no tsunami warning was issued, the pastor knew to expect a wave. “We were always taught from a young age that in any kind ...

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Uzbekistan levies massive fines on Baptists

Clock March 16 2010 by Associated Baptist Press
OSLO, Norway — Thirteen members of an unregistered Baptist church in Uzbekistan have been fined 100 times the nation’s minimum monthly salary, an international news service that tracks stories about abuses of religious freedom reported March 15. The Norway-based Forum 18 news agency said fines were handed down Feb. 23 following arrests Jan. 24 on charges of “illegal teaching of religiou...

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N.C. Baptists aid Kenyan churches through homes

Clock March 15 2010 by Dianna L. Cagle, BR Assistant Managing Editor
“To know someone is concerned, to know that someone wants to know them and know of their lives and needs, to know that someone wants to be their co-workers — all of this is highly valued in our country where guests are often treated as royalty,” said Bert Yates, an International Mission Board missionary in Kenya. ...

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Bad data skewed GCR position

Norman Jameson

In all the dialog about the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force’s study of processes in Southern Baptist life as it seeks efficiencies to get more money “to the nations,” the single most arresting fact that committee members quoted was that two-thirds of missions money and personnel allocated through the North American Mission Board was deployed in the old south states.   I still remembe...

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