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By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer Inside a noisy, but remarkably clean shop, 85-year-old Mel West oversees the operations of the PET Project. Five members of First Baptist Church, Columbia, join the “regulars” at the volunteer organization to load 166 PETs, or Personal Energy

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Baptists quick to respond to flooding in Midwest

July 3, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer As flood waters begin to recede across the Midwest, home and business owners are left with the task of mudding-out and rebuilding. Baptists across the country are partnering to make sure those tackling such efforts aren’t alone. “The devastation

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Two streams of Baptists

June 24, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor The Southern Baptist Convention and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship usually hold their national meetings on back-to-back weeks. Few people from either group seem to take much notice of the other these days. With a few exceptions, speakers tend not to

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Burma still needs help of Baptists

May 27, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor Burma was a blip that wasn’t even on the radar screen of Adoniram and Ann (Hasseltine) Judson when they set sail from New England as Congregational missionaries to India back in 1812. The young missionaries arrived in Calcutta as Baptists;

2008 Archives

Baptists mobilize relief efforts after Mother’s Day tornadoes

May 13, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Vicki Brown (ABP) – Various Baptist disaster-relief groups began mobilizing chainsaw teams and feeding units May 12 to assist victims of deadly tornadoes that tore across the Midwest and Southeast Mother’s Day weekend. The storms claimed the lives of

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Victims, Baptists focus on relief after deadly storms

February 7, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Hannah Elliott and Robert Marus JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) -- Baptist churches and organizations are both suffering and helping in the wake of deadly tornadoes that devastated the Mid-South Feb. 5-6. According to initial National Weather Service reports, more than 60 tornadoes

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Atlanta meeting unique enough to prompt real change, Baptists say

January 29, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

NEW YORK (ABP) -- The Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant meeting will feature some notable guests: Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Tony Campolo and John Grisham, to name a few. But after the star-studded dust settles, what will emerge from the convocation?

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Mo. Baptists stay in the news during 2007

January 9, 2008

author: Ken Satterfield

By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor JEFFERSON CITY — Baptists in Missouri remained in the news during 2007 with various developments, not the least of which was turmoil within the ranks of Missouri Baptist Convention self-described conservatives. It was a year in which the MBC Executive

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Mo. Baptists go back to Bethel

August 21, 2007

author: Ken Satterfield

By Jackie Huffman Word&Way Correspondent A large number of people, most Baptists from Southeast Missouri, gathered Saturday, Aug. 18, at the site of the first Protestant church built and used west of the Mississippi River for a dedication service of the reconstruction of the building

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2006 a busy year for Missouri Baptists

January 11, 2007

author: Ken Satterfield

By Vicki Brown, Word&Way Associate EditorAs we enter a new year, Word&Way takes a brief glimpse at news that affected Baptists in Missouri throughout 2006. Legal issues, single alignment and stem cell research were among the difficult items Baptists in Missouri faced.Continuing lawsuitLegal issues top

Columbia Baptists help crank out mobility

Baptists quick to respond to flooding in Midwest

Two streams of Baptists

Burma still needs help of Baptists

Baptists mobilize relief efforts after Mother’s Day tornadoes

Victims, Baptists focus on relief after deadly storms

Atlanta meeting unique enough to prompt real change, Baptists say

Mo. Baptists stay in the news during 2007

Mo. Baptists go back to Bethel

2006 a busy year for Missouri Baptists

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