Gospel spreads in Southeast Asia despite persecution, peril | Baptist Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Words can't describe what John saw that day under the blazing sun of Southeast Asia.
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Baylor volleyball heads to Japan | Baptist Press
DALLAS (BP)--Baylor's women's volleyball team departed from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Monday morning, bound for the land of sushi and Fuji. Coming off a 16-15 season and a seventh-place finish in the rigorous Big 12 Conference, the Bears will spend the next two weeks training in Japan in preparation for…
Bacon Boy & Bible bring meaningful camp experience to younger children | Baptist Press
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP)--Summer camp. For some, those words may conjure up memories of squeaky bunks, sweaty recreation and rain-soaked boredom.
Louisiana College: high hopes going into 2nd football season | Baptist Press
PINEVILLE, La. (BP)--Louisiana College head football coach Marty Secord called it a vacation, a 32-year vacation during which the Wildcat football program was dormant. And last year, one thing Secord discovered while heading up Louisiana's first football team since 1968 was that it's tough to come back from a holiday.
Baptist basketball team shares gospel in Brazil | Baptist Press
FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil (BP)--Six hundred quarts of Brunswick stew: $2500. Five portable basketball goals: $700. Price airlines wanted to carry basketball goals: $1,500. Thirteen Virginia Baptists sharing the message of Christ in Florianopolis, Brazil: priceless.
Baseball loses one of its good guys as Rico Brogna announces retirement | Baptist Press
ATLANTA (BP)--The retirement announcements of Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken created all kinds of hoopla in the media, and rightfully so, BPSports columnist Tim Ellsworth writes. Gwynn and Ripken are two future Hall of Famers, and their absence on the field after such remarkable careers is a big story.
LifeWay's 'redirection of ministry' puts church needs first, Taylor says | Baptist Press
RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--A "redirection of ministry" is taking place at LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Bill Taylor says churches are the focus.
Holman Christian Standard Bible New Testament now available | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Although selected Bible books from the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) have been released in various forms since 1999, the newest translation made its debut recently with the release of the complete New Testament featuring devotional notes by Henry Blackaby. Part of…
Golden Gate prof to lead church mobilization program | Baptist Press
SAN FRANCISCO (BP)--Don R. Simmons has resigned from the Christian education faculty at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary to lead a major urban ministry program of the One By One Leadership Foundation based in Fresno, Calif.
Groups urge assurances of rights for 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing | Baptist Press
OXFORD, England (BP)--Disappointed with Beijing's selection July 13 to host the 2008 Olympic Games, international human rights groups are calling on the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and others to press China to improve its human rights record before and during the Games.
