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Protests rise as Chinese govt. plans forced abortion

Clock November 18 2008 by Baptist Press
WASHINGTON — A woman who is six months pregnant is being held in a Chinese hospital for a forced abortion under the government's infamous population control program. Arzigul Tursun, a mother of two, is awaiting an abortion she opposes while under guard in a hospital in Xinjiang, a vast region in the northwest part of the world's most populous country, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA). As a Uy...

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Wrap: Messengers worship, adopt single giving plan

Clock November 17 2008 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor
North Carolina Baptists celebrated world missions to open their 178th annual meeting Nov. 10-12 and restricted missions giving options to close it. Between those bookends, the smallest number of messengers since 1956 commissioned 38 international missionaries; approved an extensive rewrite of the Baptist State Convention’s Articles and Bylaws; witnessed the launch of three ministries and adopte...

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NAMB to premier mission TV show

Clock November 17 2008 by Mickey Noah, Baptist Press
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The North American Mission Board (NAMB) will launch the pilot of a new 30-minute TV program, “On Mission Xtra” (OMX), on Nov. 26, at 9:30 p.m. on the FamilyNet television network. Atlanta-based FamilyNet — operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week — is seen in more than 30 million TV households in more than 200 markets via cable systems and broadcasters in the United States....

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More churches using CBF-NC giving plan

Clock November 14 2008 by Steve DeVane, BR Managing Editor
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBF-NC) Mission Resource Plan was growing even before the Baptist State Convention decided to stop letting churches send money to the national CBF through its giving channel. It may take off even more after messengers voted Nov. 12 to kill an amendment to a proposed giving plan that would have provided a convenient way for churches to give t...

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Stony Fork stays together after tough fall meeting

Clock November 14 2008 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor
A shortage of persons willing to fill associational offices put Stony Fork Baptist Association in temporary jeopardy in September, but interim Director of Missions Roy Gryder said Nov. 7 the problem resolved itself. "Those problems kind of went away," said Gryder, who, like all six pastors in the association, is bivocational. During the associational meeting Sept. 12 at Bailey's Camp Baptist...

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Option vote kicks air from committee’s lungs

Norman Jameson
That hissing sound you hear is air whooshing from the lungs of members of the Giving Plans Study Committee—and the 45 percent of messengers who supported their proposal to adopt a single giving plan, with options. The other 55 percent of messengers said clearly they do not want the option of allowing churches to pass money to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship through the Baptist State Convention...

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