Week of January 23, 2006 Potpourri WESTLAKE – Westlake First church: The Singing Ministers and Singing Women in concert; Feb. 2, 7 p.m.; Larry Thompson, pastor. DRY CREEK – Dry Creek camp: Games Workshop; for those that work with young people; Feb. 16, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Stephanie Bruce, workshop leader; $50 per person/includes snacks and lunch; limited to first 30 registrants; to register, call (337) 328-7531; Curt Iles, camp manager. DRY CREEK – Dry Creek camp: Turkey Hunter’s Seminar; Feb. 11, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; Pat LaFleur, guest speaker; $10 per person/includes lunch; for information or to register, call (337) 328-7531; Curt Iles, camp manager. SWARTZ – First church: The Providential Quartet in concert; Feb. 5, 8 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.; Collin Wimberly, pastor. FARMERVILLE – Cross Roads church: Marriage Enrichment Seminar; Feb. 10, 6-9 p.m.; Feb. 11, 1-5 p.m. with banquet, concert by HIS gospel singers and hayride to follow; Larry Emory, seminar leader; Mark Norwood, pastor. WEST MONROE – Northeast Association: Sponsoring “Ropin for the Redeemer” featuring Paul Dailey of Wild Horse Ministries at the Monroe Civic Center Pavillion; Feb. 4, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Feb. 5, 2 p.m.; Andy Myrick, … [Read more...]
LC trustees commended
Last year, I wrote to crticize the board of trustees regarding their actions that led to probation for Louisiana College. It only seems proper to write again to commend the trustees, new president, faculty and others who have worked quickly and effectively to remedy the situation. Last year, I wrote to crticize the board of trustees regarding their actions that led to probation for Louisiana College. It only seems proper to write again to commend the trustees, new president, faculty and others who have worked quickly and effectively to remedy the situation. I hope lessons have been learned by all concerned and that Louisiana College and its students will be the beneficiaries. Stephen Pruett Bellaire Baptist Church Bossier City … [Read more...]
World of religion
Week of January 23, 2006 World Changers ’06 Churches have until Feb. 1 to pay $50-per-person deposits to “lock in” project and youth registrations for the 2006 World Changers. Thousands of teenage through college-age Southern Baptist students are expected to renovate substandard housing around the country in 93 U.S. cities. Renovation projects will kick off June 10 and run through Aug. 5, said John Bailey, North American Mission Board national manager for World Changers. Among the cities scheduled for projects are Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Shreveport. However, available spots for those three cities were near capacity at press time. Mission board leaders said in the wake of last fall’s devastating hurricane season on the Gulf Coast, World Changers is increasing the number of construction renovation projects in the affected states of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Churches that have not yet registered can call (800) 462-8657 or visit worldchangers.studentz.com site to sign up or see a list of project cities. Walk Like a Wildcat Louisiana College has scheduled its first Walk Like a Wildcat weekend for Feb. 9-10, with a second being March 9-10. The two-day event is designed to introduce high school students … [Read more...]
Hondurans give $18,000 to Metairie Hispanic church affected by Katrina
Seven years ago, members of Good Shepherd Hispanic Baptist Church in Metairie, La., had compassion on fellow believers in Honduras hit hard by Hurricane Mitch. And now the favor is being returned many times over as Good Shepherd recovers from Hurricane Katrina. Seven years ago, members of Good Shepherd Hispanic Baptist Church in Metairie, La., had compassion on fellow believers in Honduras hit hard by Hurricane Mitch. And now the favor is being returned many times over as Good Shepherd recovers from Hurricane Katrina. The congregation at Good Shepherd sent 12 containers of food and clothing to an evangelical church and a Baptist church in Honduras in 1998 to help meet some of the needs left by the destructive storm. “Now that Katrina has hit New Orleans, we never expected they would appreciate what we did for them seven years ago and they would decide to come here,” explains Gonzalo Rodriguez, pastor of Good Shepherd. Juan Ramon Rivera, pastor of the Baptist church in Honduras that Good Shepherd helped, brought a love offering of $1,000 from his church when he visited the church in October. “He brought $1,000 from people who work in the marketplace and who are very poor,” Rodriguez explains. Daniel … [Read more...]
Two-hundred participate in New Orleans prayerwalk
Wearing T-shirts bearing the fleur-de-lis lily symbol long associated with the city of New Orleans, 200 participants traveled throughout the South Louisiana community to pray for its residents last month. Wearing T-shirts bearing the fleur-de-lis lily symbol long associated with the city of New Orleans, 200 participants traveled throughout the South Louisiana community to pray for its residents last month. Organized by the Louisiana Baptist Convention evangelism and church growth team in conjunction with the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans, the prayerwalk attracted persons from Louisiana as well as Baptists from surrounding states. Wayne Jenkins, LBC evangelism and church growth team leader, described the event as “praying on-sight with insight.” He encouraged participants to look for opportunities to provide spiritual or physical help to residents they encountered while prayerwalking through neighborhoods. Jenkins said the participants’ T-shirts provided an in-roads for witnessing to the city’s residents. He designed the piece of clothing after a similar one used on T-shirts in New York City following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center towers. “People would come up to us … [Read more...]
World of religion
Week of November 28, 2005 Marriage policy Memphis recently became the 197th U.S. city to embrace a Community Marriage Policy. More than 175 faith and community leaders at Shelby County’s Second Annual Healthy Marriage Summit affirmed their commitment to equip “individuals, couples and families for healthy, successful relationships,” as stated in the Mid-South Community Marriage Policy. The goal of the policy is to reduce both the rate of divorce and the number of children born out of wedlock in participating communities by 20 percent by 2010. Results from an independent study revealed that over a seven-year period divorce rates in 114 Community Marriage Policy cities fell 17.5 percent compared to a 9.4 percent decline elsewhere in the country – and cohabitation rates fell 13.4 percent compared to a 19 percent rise in cities without such a policy. The study by the Institute for Research and Evaluation is posted at www.marriagesavers.com. GuideStone service GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention now offers free online retirement planning guidance to its retirement participants. The service offers personalized retirement strategies and resources designed to help … [Read more...]
Brantley Center adapts to post-Katrina New Orleans
What do you do when you run a homeless shelter and the city has evacuated all the homeless? That’s the situation facing Tobey Pitman, director of the Brantley Mission Center in New Orleans. What do you do when you run a homeless shelter and the city has evacuated all the homeless? That’s the situation facing Tobey Pitman, director of the Brantley Mission Center in New Orleans. As the city rebuilds from Hurricane Katrina, Pitman is among the many local residents who must adjust to a new sense of normal. “We’re retooling our ministry,” explains Pitman. “We’ve gotten out of the homeless business temporarily because there are no homeless.” Instead, the Brantley Center reopened last month as a 250-bed dorm for Baptist volunteers coming from throughout the country to rebuild churches and homes. “There’s at least a year’s work to be done,” he says. “We just hope the interest is not lost in coming to New Orleans.” Pitman and the Brantley Center, just a block away from New Orleans’ famous French Quarter, have generated a lot of interest in the past two months. Just weeks before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Pitman and his wife, Cathy, were profiled in Missions Mosaic, the missions magazine of … [Read more...]
Thanks to New Orleans Seminary for not running from challenge
A hearty expression of appreciation is due New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Chuck Kelley and the trustees of the school for their determination to rebuild the school’s main campus in New Orleans! A hearty expression of appreciation is due New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Chuck Kelley and the trustees of the school for their determination to rebuild the school’s main campus in New Orleans! The school’s campus suffered severe damage during the hurricanes that blasted that city with wind, then hit it again with surges of water. At least one estimate is that the school suffered $90 million of damage. In addition, the lives of the faculty, staff and students have certainly been disrupted as they suffered the same losses as the other residents of the hard-hit areas. As the students have been distracted from school, one would imagine they have dropped out of school during the recovery. The school’s buildings were well insured, but nothing can pay the costs of the agony of the destruction and energy that will be needed to rebuild the school and the lives of many of their staff, faculty and students. The trustees could have voted for the school to walk away from the New … [Read more...]
Apparently, these children had been a lot more naughty than nice
“Big people” may think they have explained something to a four-year-old, but what the adult says and what the child hears can be quite different. “Big people” may think they have explained something to a four-year-old, but what the adult says and what the child hears can be quite different. The grandmother explained to the pert four-year-old granddaughter the purpose of the shoe boxes they were filling with small Christmas gifts. “We are gathering these toys so we can send them to children in a foreign country. They are very poor and their parents will not be able to give them any gifts, so we are sending them these toys so they will have a better Christmas.” The young lady shook her head, indicating she understood. Later, after the toys were rounded up from various stores, the grandmother took the lass home. When they went inside, the grandmother told the child, “Explain to your mother what we have been doing.” “We have been getting toys and candy and things and putting them in shoe boxes. Then we are going to send them to children who do not live here.” “Tell you mother why we are sending the gifts to the children.” “Well, there are some really, really bad children,” the little … [Read more...]
LBC speaker reminds pastors to give God their best effort
Randy Harper admits he always has not given God his best. By Brian Blackwell LBM Newswriter Randy Harper admits he always has not given God his best. “One day God let me know I was hiding,” Harper, pastor of Bellaire Baptist Church in Bossier City, told messengers during the annual convention sermon last month in West Monroe. “I was giving him my best physically (at my construction job),” he said. “But I wasn’t giving him my best with faith. I (then) believed that he didn’t need me to break up a house to be able to have a platform for Christ.” He explained that God had called him to preach the gospel. “He convinced me that I didn’t need an attention-getting gimmick,” he said. “I just needed to tell others about the cross and the blood of Jesus Christ.” Harper explained there are four ways pastors can give God their best effort. • First, he said pastors must conduct an honest inventory of their spiritual life. “We need to come to grips with the why, you begin to understand who it’s about,” he explained. “It’s not about you and it’s not about me. It’s about God.” He asked pastors to examine their hearts. “Am I pleasing God with my life and my ministry?” he asked. “As you inventory … [Read more...]
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