News

IMPACTing the world from Pine Mountain
“Gap year” program builds leaders with Christian worldview
By Joe Westbury, Managing Editor
Published April 24, 2008

Most recently graduated high school students don’t struggle with how to explain their faith to someone immersed in New Age philosophy, existentialism, or nihilism. The fact is many of them have never heard the terms, and can much less spell them on the first try.

Summer missions a way of building students, churches
GBC Collegiate Ministries sees high number in missionaries
By Scott Barkley, Production Editor
Published April 24, 2008

They’re getting ready to go, leaving for places ranging from Alaska to Thailand. They come from an assortment of First Baptists as well as churches with names like Burning Bush and West Acres.

Breaks during school year lead to consistent missions emphasis
By Scott Barkley, Production Editor
Published April 24, 2008

The eight college students landed in Cancun, Mexico at the beginning of spring break. Instead of going to the beach, though, they traveled inland to the neighborhood of Las Pencas and spent the week telling children about Jesus while helping establish the church Jesus Es El Camino (“Jesus is the Way”).

Children are like arrows and seeds
By J. Gerald Harris, Editor, The Christian Index
Published April 24, 2008

Psalm 127 is attributed to Solomon, perhaps the wisest man who ever lived. He used an interesting simile when he avowed that children are like arrows. He stated, “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth” (Ps. 127:4).

ESL training to be at McConnell Memorial
Published April 24, 2008

Georgia Baptist Literacy Missions (www.literacymissions.org) will be sponsoring an English as a Second Language (ESL) workshop at McConnell Memorial Baptist Church June 12-14.

IMB appoints 92 new missionaries
Published April 24, 2008

How urgent is the world’s need for the gospel?

In New Orleans, joy abounds as congregation returns
Members of Franklin Avenue Baptist scattered since Hurricane Katrina
By Karen L. Willoughby
Published April 24, 2008

“We’re baaaaaack, y’all!” pastor Fred Luter Jr. exulted, and the New Orleans congregation exploded with joy. “We’re baaaaaack,” he repeated three more times, and each time the congregation responded with more rejoicing.

The 411 on IMPACT 360
Published April 24, 2008

Intelligent Design foes no match for Stein in 'Expelled'
By Michael Foust
Published April 24, 2008

Actor, commentator, and comedian Ben Stein – whose documentary film “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” opened April 18 – believes he’s involved in one of the leading cultural and political battles of his life: the fight for academic freedom against an establishment that teaches Darwinian evolution as fact.

Georgia Baptist women inspired, informed in missions commitment
By Margaret McCommon Dempsey
Published April 24, 2008

More than 900 Georgia Baptist women, representing 196 churches in 85 associations, gathered April 11-12 for the 125th annual WMU missions encounter at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Carrollton.

Georgia NewsBriefs

Books and other materials belonging to pastor donated to Truett-McConnell Library
Published April 24, 2008

About 1,700 books, periodicals, and other items of historical interest belonging to Malcolm Chapman were recently donated to Truett-McConnell College by his wife, Ann, an alumna of the Georgia Baptist school.

People and Places

Ordinations
Published April 24, 2008

Honors
Published April 24, 2008

Ministerial Moves
Published April 24, 2008

Cooperative Program Stories

Working for a movement in the Rust Belt
By Sherri Brown, Communications, GBC
Published April 24, 2008

When people hear “Appalachia,” they usually don’t think of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Bible Study

Appreciate Your Relationships
By Chuck Owens, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Hinesville
Published April 24, 2008

Phil. 2:19-22, 25-30; 4:15-18
Related Sunday School Lesson Bible Studies for Life, May 4

Improve Your Communication Skills
By Chuck Owens, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Hinesville
Published April 24, 2008

Dt. 6:4-9; 2 Sam. 14:23-24, 28-33; Prov. 4: 3-6
Related Sunday School Lesson Bible Studies for Life, May 11

Columns

Dare to be the 'bad guys' of the future
By J. Gerald Harris, Editor
Published April 24, 2008

I believe that America is still the hope of the world. We have the capability, the resources, and enough gospel light to change the world.

Silent witnesses stymie the gospel
By Keith Manuel, Evangelism associate, Louisiana Baptist Convention
Published April 24, 2008

A recent USA TODAY article described the rate of solved murders throughout the United States as down because of the silence of witnesses.

The Open Door
By J. Robert White, Executive Director, GBC
Published April 24, 2008

Allen Hill and I have just returned from an incredible mission experience in India.

"Commitment of will" in marriage outlasts emotional turmoil
By James Dobson
Published April 24, 2008