“Dad,” my daughter Karis said, “it was just so random!” She added, “This is the kind of stuff that happens to other people.” What my 15-year- old was reacting to was the recent carjacking she had endured. “Dad,” my daughter Karis said, “it was just so random!” She added, “This is the kind of stuff that happens to other people.” What my 15-year- old was reacting to was the recent carjacking she had endured. My wife, Mindy, and our two daughters -- Karis and 12-year-old Hannah, were visiting family in Texas. They had arranged to meet my oldest brother’s family at a convenience store near my in-laws home in the small town of Salado. The purpose of the rendezvous was to pick up my 15-year-old niece so she could spend the night with her cousins. At approximately 10 o’clock that evening, Mindy and Karis arrived at the convenience store about the same time as my brother and his family. Hannah had elected to stay behind at their grandma’s house. Karis left the passenger seat to welcome her cousin, Sidney. Mindy left the van and walked around to greet our sister-in-law. They said “hi” and hugged as the girls were transferring Sidney’s overnight bag from my brother’s car to our van. When Mindy returned to the … [Read more...]
Angola graduates 44
Each graduating class of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary aptly may be called a “Katrina class” for the next several years: In one way or another, NOBTS students were all put to the test by the storm. ANGOLA, La. (BP) – Each graduating class of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary aptly may be called a “Katrina class” for the next several years: In one way or another, NOBTS students were all put to the test by the storm. The Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, home to the seminary’s first prison extension program, escaped the damage and destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina. However, inmates there are well-acquainted with the far-reaching impact of the hurricane, as some 2,000 prisoners from the New Orleans area were deposited there temporarily. “About two years ago, our program underwent a major test,” said Darryl Waters, an inmate who was among 44 Angola graduates to receive their diplomas May 22. “Within a week after Katrina hit New Orleans, an influx of Orleans and Jefferson Parish prisoners entered the gates of Angola. “Our local, state and federal governments were not quite prepared to handle a catastrophe of that magnitude,” he continued, “but we were.” Shortly after the … [Read more...]
Record $150 million offering to result in more missionaries
Southern Baptists topped the 2006 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal, delivering the largest gift in the offering’s 118-year history. RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – Southern Baptists topped the 2006 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal, delivering the largest gift in the offering’s 118-year history. After the books closed May 31, the final tally hit $150,178,098.06, an 8.9 percent increase over last year’s $137.9 million. Southern Baptists last exceeded their goal three years ago by giving more than $136.2 million to the 2003 offering after missionary appointments lagged because of insufficient funds. The offering supports the work of more than 5,100 missionaries across the globe. This year’s gifts are expected to have a notable impact on the number of personnel being sent to the field. Board leaders anticipate sending 200 extra missionaries over the next two years, in addition to the normal appointment numbers. “Because we are a missionary-sending organization, the number of missionaries we are able to send is directly related to the gifts we receive from Southern Baptists through the Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering,” said Jerry Rankin, president of the International … [Read more...]
San Antonio draws 8,600
Southern Baptists meeting in San Antonio June 12-13 reelected Frank Page as president, focused on a call for repentance and passed a motion identifying the Baptist Faith and Message as the denomination’s “only consensus statement of doctrinal beliefs.” SAN ANTONIO (BP) – Southern Baptists meeting in San Antonio June 12-13 reelected Frank Page as president, focused on a call for repentance and passed a motion identifying the Baptist Faith and Message as the denomination’s “only consensus statement of doctrinal beliefs.” The pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C., Page was elected unopposed, one year after he surprised many observers by being elected on the first ballot in a three-man race. Page this year used his first presidential address to say the denomination must repent of its “hubris” and “arrogance” in order to hope for revival. With more than 8,600 messengers in attendance, it was the first annual meeting held in San Antonio since 1988. “For 30 years we’ve been trying to raise baptism levels among non-revived churches among non-revived people who’ve lost their passion for the lost,” said Page, adding he was paraphrasing longtime evangelism professor Roy Fish. “But interestingly enough, … [Read more...]
Most Winn pastors are bivocational
Twenty-three churches in the north central Louisiana piney woods of Winn Parish will mark the association’s 148 years of service this fall. … [Read more...]
Roaches served in Yemen
As a child, Beth Roach wanted to be the world’s first singing-astronaut-turned-international missionary, she told the Vernon Baptist Association WMU gathered at First Baptist Church here recently. LEESVILLE – As a child, Beth Roach wanted to be the world’s first singing-astronaut-turned-international missionary, she told the Vernon Baptist Association WMU gathered at First Baptist Church here recently. Though the singing-astronaut gig fell by the wayside, Roach did become an international missionary with the IMB and served with her husband, Bruce, for almost seven years in Yemen, a small, Middle Eastern nation that is almost 100 percent Muslim, she said. Now, however, the couple, along with their two sons, leads a quieter life in Minot, N.D. “Wherever God sends you is exciting,” Roach told her audience. “God knows where we are now. He brought us to the Dakotas and knows what He has for us.” The Roaches, both Louisiana natives, are entrenched not only in North Dakota life but also in the task of spreading the gospel in that state, Beth said. She is the adult missions consultant while her husband, a doctor, is also very active in their church, Cross Roads Baptist, as a deacon. The Message incorrectly listed Roach’s … [Read more...]
Louisianian finds life’s call serving pastors
With his genesis in the poor delta parish of Franklin in far northeast Louisiana, Winn Association Director of Missions Clovis Sturdivant can certainly appreciate the “immediate connection” he enjoys in the rural north central parish he now calls home. WINNFIELD – With his genesis in the poor delta parish of Franklin in far northeast Louisiana, Winn Association Director of Missions Clovis Sturdivant can certainly appreciate the “immediate connection” he enjoys in the rural north central parish he now calls home. “The joke I make is that I was born in a sanitarium. Of course, all we know about a sanitarium today is that it’s a mental institution. But back nearly 59 years ago, a sanitarium was just a hospital – King’s Sanitarium in Winnsboro. He was one of the doctors in town. It was a hospital on blocks, no air conditioning.” The sturdy, gravel-voiced DOM now lives in Winnfield, where he had led this association for 11 years, but his journey here from Bayou Mason in the Crowville area was not necessarily direct. His father, a World War II Army veteran, died in 1952 of a war-related condition. “It was me and my sister, who was a year old; times were hard. My sister and I were … [Read more...]
Louisiana College faculty news
English professor earns Ph.D. English professor earns Ph.D. Don Shipley, Jr. received his Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Religion and Literature from Baylor University on May 12, 2007. The title of Shipley’s dissertation was Chesterton and His Interlocutors: Dialogical Style and Ethical Debate on Eugenics. Shipley is the coordinator for the Division of Humanities at Louisiana College. New Testament/Greek prof earns Ph.D. Jason Meyer, professor of New Testament and Greek, received a doctor of philosophy degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., on May 18. Meyer graduated with a Ph.D. degree in New Testament. His dissertation title was Paul, the Mosaic Covenant, and Redemptive History. English professor earns MFA degree Rosanne Osborne, Ph.D., Hixson Professor of English, received an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Ky. on June 1. Osborne’s thesis, Between Dream and Memory, is a collection of poems in four parts: poems triggered by news stories juxtaposing autobiographical fragments and cultural commentary, a sonnet sequence that reckons with the shaping influence of tools in life, autobiographical memories … [Read more...]
Louisiana Landscape
. BOGALUSA – Pat Dubroca was to be guest speaker for the Hilltopers meeting June 12. Topic: Medicare and supplemental insurance. Clay Norwood is pastor. HAYNESVILLE – First Baptist plans its annual churchwide celebration for July 1, and a weekend revival for July 7-8. BATON ROUGE – Broadmoor plans its Holy Moses Extreme Summer Music Camp for 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 25-29, for all children who have completed kindergarten through fifth grade. Cost: $50. Auditions for the main cast are set for 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, June 21. Register by June 14. John Goodwin is pastor. HOUMA – The 240 youngsters who attended VBS at Mulberry Baptist as a missions project made 290 “cookie boxes” for soldiers from Houma serving overseas. Two dozen cookies were carefully packaged in a box that also included a letter from a child, a photo of the class the child was in and an evangelistic tract. Mary Dowden was VBS director. Steve Graves is pastor. Mulberry Houma by the end of the year will have $100,000 due in a mortgage balloon note. Steps are being taken to pay off the note so it doesn’t have to be refinanced. “We do not want the efforts to pay off the building note to affect tithing; this is a separate financial … [Read more...]
Milestones
Welcome! Drew Kelley is new as minister of music at Temple Baptist in Springhill. Wayne Reeves is pastor. Shawn (wife Laurie) Kaffka is new as minister of students at First Baptist Haynesville. Shelby Cowling is pastor. Jodie McGlocklin is new as minister to children at First Baptist Morgan City. David Willoughby is pastor. Mark Spradling is new as minister of youth at First Baptist Morgan City. David Willoughby is pastor. Chris Canterbury is new as youth minister at First Baptist Spearsville. James Miller is pastor. Jay Avance is new as pastor at Bluff Creek Baptist in Clinton. Robert C. Rollins Jr. is to be ordained to the gospel ministry at 2 p.m. June 24 at Harmony Baptist in Glenmora. Needed Olla First Baptist Church is seeking a full-time pastor. Please send resumes to Olla First Baptist Church, PO Box 326, Olla LA 71465. Attn: Pastor Search Committee. Phone: 318.495.5506. St. Landry Baptist, Ville Platte, seeks a full-time pastor. Send resume to Pastor Search Committee, 134 Benny St., Ville Platte LA 70586 or call 337.363.5051 or 337.461.7299. College Place Baptist, Monroe, seeks a full-time minister of music/education. Send resume to College Place Baptist Church, Attn: … [Read more...]
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