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Louisiana All-State Baptist Youth Choir

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Newly-built Cross Point Baptist Church flourishes in Benton

Cross Point Baptist Church has prospered before and since it was chosen as a 2008 recipient of the Georgia Barnett Offering for State Missions.

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Students of the Year attend Ellerbe Road

When the Louisiana Department of Education chose its three [one each in the fifth, eighth, and twelfth grades] Students of the Year, they could not have expected two of those students to live in the same city. And what are the chances they also would attend the same church?

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Rural Fairview Baptist Coushatta invests in Brazil missions

The rural Fairview Baptist Church is a church with an outsize heart for missions.

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Volunteers at work rebuilding burned cabin at Camp Bethany

Lightning struck a cabin about noon Monday, May 11, at Camp Bethany, starting a fire that raced through the building in a matter of minutes.

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BCMs use new technology to find incoming freshmen

The National Collegiate Ministry Division of LifeWay Christian Resources has launched a new Transitions Ministry website to help connect high school seniors with the collegiate minister of the college or university they will attend.

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Women's leaders goal: transformation

About 50 women’s ministry leaders who gathered at Tall Timbers Baptist Conference Center one recent Saturday learned that their goal was to “bring women to a place where their lives can be transformed,” said Deb Douglas of First Baptist Bossier City.

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David Hankins, Fred Luter named to Great Commission Task Force

Twenty-four Southern Baptists from a broad cross-section of the denomination comprise the new North American Great Commission Task Force set to meet for the first time on Tuesday, June 23, prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.

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Whitman honored for preaching

Lloyd Whitman, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dry Prong, recently received the 2008 J.D. Grey Preaching Award from the Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation.

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Speaker's tournament winner: No excuses

With the words all planned out in her head, she stands up on stage in front of a crowd of people ready to speak and be heard. For Mary Unsworth, what is the number one fear in America is her greatest thrill – public speaking.

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Kelley receives honorary doctorate from William Carey University

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Chuck Kelley was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree from William Carey University at the school’s spring commencement in May.

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World Changers help reconstruct First Chalmette

A large white building surrounded by orange construction equipment overlooks a major city street in this, the largest city in St. Bernard Parish.

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First Dry Prong assists churches in Vacation Bible School

For 24 years, First Baptist Church of Dry Prong has brought Vacation Bible School to churches throughout Louisiana, in other states and even Honduras.

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Northside Lafayette VBS students send soldiers 'Letters from Home'

Northside Baptist Church in Lafayette hosted a Boomerang Express VBS for 47 youngsters and 33 workers the first week of June.

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Churches merge, build United Baptist Church

Probably the most exciting part of this story is that everybody’s excited!

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