The original issue can be found at: http://www.baptistpress.com/issue-04/10/2000 DISCLAIMER: Baptist Press should be credited for any reprinted stories that originate with BP. Suggested credit line: Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention. Please note that Baptist Press periodically carries stories from other sources by permission. Individuals interested in reprinting non-BP stories should contact the entity where the story originated to seek reprint permission. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Movement for Bible instruction for public school students builds by Ken Walker Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday KINGSPORT, Tenn. (BP)--Although her local school board curtailed its experiment to give public school students an opportunity for off-site biblically based instruction, Ann Bennett is continuing her push for released time education.

Her motivation is the 14-year-old boy who accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior two years ago. His cousin had invited him to attend the final term in the pilot project at a Kingsport, Tenn., middle school.

"The last day of class he said, 'I want to make an announcement. I've accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior,'" recalled Bennett, a member of Indian Springs Baptist Church. "I've never seen that happen in Sunday school, let alone in front of a public school class. This is the greatest home missions opportunity out there."

After a new superintendent recommended the Sullivan County school board discontinue the one-hour, off-campus sessions, the mother of three took her fight to the state legislature.

A bill to authorize released time instruction statewide is pending in both branches of the Tennessee legislature. It was revised by a citizen group after a similar proposal last year was voted down in a subcommittee the day shooting erupted at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.

Similar legislation has been proposed this year in Alabama, part of a grassroots effort that supporters say will expand these classes nationwide.

Originating in 1914, released time education offers Bible classes and related subjects. These sessions, which must be conducted off campus, vary from 30 to 60 minutes. Some meet weekly, others once a month.

Although its constitutionality was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952, released time education sometimes faces an uphill battle.

Sullivan County's board voted to scuttle the program after an atheist complained she should be allowed to offer classes in her beliefs, Bennett recounted. Last January, a school board in Lubbock, Texas, voted 6-1 against a proposal from a citizen-led group.

Despite these obstacles, supporters believe the movement is on the upswing.

"We hope we're on the verge of an explosion," said Dave Johnson of Knoxville, Tenn., a missionary with CBM Ministries who oversees programs in three Tennessee counties. "People are so frustrated with the lack of religious instruction in public schools they want to do something. Most school boards don't know about it and are afraid to take the first step."

The executive director of a new, national association promoting released time education said programs have sprung up this year in California, Oklahoma and South Carolina. In addition, he has received requests for information from several other states.

Bob Entner of the BEST (Bible Education in School Time) Network said whenever his group publicizes its efforts, many parents ask, "Why can't we do this in our community?"

"We're real encouraged," Entner said. "This is a wonderful way of reaching thousands of kids and it's very efficient. You can teach the same lesson to students in different areas."

Formed by half a dozen groups involved in Bible-based ministries, the network will hold its first national conference Oct. 11-12 in Ontario, Calif. Paul Cedar of Mission America -- which organized the Lighthouses of Prayer movement -- will be the keynote speaker.

Entner said the meeting will serve as BEST's kickoff. He said its purpose is to organize groups around the nation into a cohesive, unified voice. The network's Internet site is www.mediassoc.com/bestnet/index.htm.

Released time programs have been such a grassroots effort that leaders aren't even sure how many students are enrolled, he said.

Although the commonly accepted estimate is 250,000, Entner said that may be too low. He knows of 17,000 students from one Catholic archdiocese in New York and said there are Jewish and Mormon groups who probably aren't counted.

Even organizations like Child Evangelism Fellowship don't maintain a nationwide count of pupils, he said.

His group is currently working to raise funds for research to verify enrollment statistics.

"We've got a lot of work to do," Entner said. "A lot of these programs are run by volunteer, stay-at-home moms and senior citizens. That's why we feel it's important to have a national organization to link them together and give them encouragement."

Bennett calls the new organization a significant step, saying it will provide more help for groups like the Sullivan County Released Time Committee (on the Internet at www.isbc.org).

Bennett and a network of Christians from Memphis spearheaded the move for statewide legislation.

Prepared with the help of attorneys who have worked with other released time programs, the proposal requires at least three parents to request classes, with all funding and liability assumed by the instructional organization.

"We have a black Memphis sponsor in the House and a white rural senate sponsor, which reflects most released time programs," Bennett said. "They're in the inner city or rural areas. It meets resistance in the suburbs. They have the best schools and think they don't need God.

"We always meet anti-Christian bigotry from people who don't want the Bible taught," she added. "But released time has been part of the school day since 1914. It was here before family life education, AIDS education or drug and alcohol education. Arguments against it are brought up by people who want total religious confinement."

The president of the Southern Baptist Convention's church-state agency, meanwhile, has called released time the best alternative for offering Bible instruction to public school students without church-state problems.

Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said recently that guidelines to offer "fair and impartial" instruction about the Bible in public schools will be a nightmare.

"Those with the best of motives who have been pushing teaching the Bible in public schools are going to hate the results when the lawyers and school administrators get through with it," he said.

Under released time education, Land said, "a Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or Muslim student [can] be 'released' during ... to be instructed in his understanding of the Bible by a qualified, religious teacher from his faith perspective under a syllabus worked out jointly between representatives of that faith tradition and the public-school officials."

In addition to the BEST Network website, additional information about released time resources can be found at the National Bible Association's www.releasedtime.org website.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Off-campus Bible class booster seeks to lessen students' fear of calamity by Ken Walker Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday LUBBOCK, Texas (BP)--The leader of a move to bring off-campus biblically based instruction to public school students in Texas received her inspiration from a Southern Baptist periodical.

While in a hospital waiting room, Barbara Mandry read an article about released time education, which appeared in LifeWay Christian Resources' HomeLife magazine in September 1998. Several months later, she and her husband were shocked by the student massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.

Mandry, who was already active with a grief support organization, felt released time classes could make an excellent preventive measure to prevent further sorrow among students.

"We see a great connection to the ministry we've been involved in," said the founder of SONshine Promises, which was organized in 1994. "We've seen a lot of heartache. Our hearts were affected by Columbine."

Her group's emphasis had been on grief support, through a series of 16-week peer support groups. They use curriculum she wrote based on God's promises from the Bible.

But last May, the group set up "The Nehemiah Project" to organize released time education in the Lubbock area. It also pledged to provide resources and training for other Texas communities wanting this form of Christian education. The organization's Internet site is sonshinepromises.com.

However, Mandry's first attempt in behalf of released time education didn't succeed. First proposed to the Frenship Independent School District last July, it was discussed for six months.

The board voted it down last January in spite of unanimous support from parents and students who spoke at the meeting, Mandry said.

Despite the setback, the member of The Springs United Methodist Church was encouraged by the widespread support from the Christian community.

That included a letter of endorsement from Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which was helpful in approaching Southern Baptist churches, she said.

After one board member said he hadn't heard anything about the released time proposal, church members and parents flooded the board with calls and letters, she recounted. A group of citizens also packed the meeting room for the final discussion and vote.

She plans to continue the battle. She has worked with a group from Littlefield, Texas, where an informational session was held April 2 at Trinity Fellowship Church.

She is also working with groups of parents and concerned Christians from Amarillo and the Idalow School District located 15 miles east of Lubbock.

"The Scripture, 'My people perish for lack of knowledge,' applies here," Mandry said. "People don't think it can happen here. We need to share the good things that are happening in places like Virginia and California.

"Virginia has been doing it for 49 years, with 95 percent participation. Now, if we could just get folks from Texas to catch this vision. The more we share with folks and tell them about this, the more say they want to be a part of it."

One reason for her concern comes from her contact with children at a Wednesday night children's class she teaches at her church.

At a recent session, students' prayer requests concerned their fears of such possible calamities as being shot at school or hearing other teens threatening to use a bomb to blow up the building.

"Talk to the kids for a few minutes," she said. "This is on their mind."

Ann Bennett had a similar experience when she taught a group of eighth-graders during a one-year pilot project at a middle school in Kingsport, Tenn. The school board there voted not to continue with released time after the 1997-98 school year.

The member of Indian Springs Baptist Church said she heard such prayer requests as:

-- "My brother tried to commit suicide last night and is in the hospital."

-- "I've got a boyfriend and I'm having sexual temptations."

-- "Pray for my daddy. He's drinking himself to death."

"You can't have that in a counseling session," she said. "We had 43 students sign up for class out of 75 (eighth-graders) in the school. I saw how hungry these kids were. When there is an established released time program, 90 percent of the students will participate."
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Drive-through passion play enables church to broaden its Easter message by Alysia Mathisen Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday ANNAPOLIS, Md. (BP)--A drive-through passion play may not be the first thing that comes to mind for evangelism at Easter, but at least one church has found the effort to be more than worth it.

"It's all about making church user-friendly and relevant to everyday living," said Dennis Gray, senior pastor of Riva Trace Baptist Church in Annapolis, Md., which uses "bridge events" to attract unchurched families to the gospel.

"The Scenes of Easter" is just such an event presenting a unique drive-through experience on the church grounds depicting seven live, dramatic scenes chronologically from Easter week.

"It's like going to the theater without ever getting out of your car," said Bill Bloomquist, minister of music and producer of The Scenes of Easter.

Many people will not set foot in a church, but they will bring their children and out-of-town guests to see a drive-through Easter presentation. It costs nothing, is entertaining and is a non-threatening way to celebrate a spiritual holiday. "Our advantage," Bloomquist said, "is that we get to share the gospel story."

The first scene depicts Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Next is the Lord's Supper scene where Jesus bids farewell to his disciples. It opens with Jesus predicting his betrayal by Judas and his crucifixion.

Following the Lord's Supper is the arrest in the garden and Peter's denial.

"People seem stunned," said Carol Thompson, church member and scene director. "They can't believe we go through all this trouble -- for free. I think many wonder what motivates us to do this."

The answer is staged in the next two scenes -- Jesus before Pilate and the crucifixion. The crucifixion scene is the most dramatic. It features an actual cross assembled with wooden pegs and Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross.

The drive-through finale is the resurrection scene. A fog machine and strobe lights are used for special effects as the stone is rolled away from the empty tomb and an angel appears announcing that Jesus has risen.

The Scenes of Easter is consistently a successful community evangelism event for Riva Trace, which could be adapted by most churches. But it does require months of advanced planning, volunteer recruitment and hours of preparation.

"Our first year we made 80 costumes," Bloomquist said. "The following years we added new costumes and upgraded old ones." His wife, MaryAnn, a member of the Screen Actors Guild, directs the cast of 100 actors and the seven scene directors who monitor the scenes during each night's performance.

Meanwhile, the publicity committee is hard at work. A logo was developed the first year and is now used in paid advertising and all printed materials promoting the event. Church leaders encourage members to hang professionally printed posters in public locations. One month prior to the event, they print free tickets that are inserted in the Sunday bulletin for members to hand out to friends and acquaintances. They purchase ad space in the local newspaper.

In April 1999, more than 2,000 people attended The Scenes of Easter, and due to the unexpected influx of people, many were guided through on foot by church staff so no one would be turned away.

"Without proper planning," Bloomquist cautioned, "this can be a logistical nightmare." To avoid a disaster and ensure a successful outreach event for a community, he offers these tips:

-- Don't procrastinate. You can't start too early. Your biggest time-buster is the costumes. And don't forget to hone those scripts.

-- Get support. This is a big project, and success requires church leaders' support. Volunteer recruitment is most difficult the first year.

-- Create authentic scenes. Begin with research and build the scenes from your findings. Each scene's backdrop or flat should be designed and painted by an artist. Use colors from the time period, mostly natural earth tones and jewel tones. Build easel-like supports for the flats that can be assembled and anchored to the ground with ease. Also work on your props.

-- Plan your setup and logistical needs. Survey church property and determine the best route for the cars and positioning of the scenes. Determine your electrical needs. Time each scene during a dress rehearsal, determining the total time to complete the drive-through and how best to manage traffic.

-- Avoid traps that distract from the primary purpose of evangelism. Don't be too ambitious. Be realistic, and don't try to be too big too soon. Pray a lot, and always remember what's really important -- that people need a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

Mathisen is the communications liaison for the Center for Christian Statesmanship in Washington, D.C. Reprinted from March-April 2000 issue of On Mission magazine of the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board.

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Holman Christian Standard Bible makes Christian booksellers top 10 by Staff Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Holman Christian Standard Bible translation has been listed on the top 10 "General Versions and Translations" sales chart in the April 2000 issue of CBA Marketplace, a monthly magazine for Christian booksellers.

"Seeing the new translation's ranking on this chart is a great encouragement to us," said David R. Shepherd, vice president of Broadman & Holman Bibles and reference books. "It's clear that a growing number of people share our desire to preserve the Scriptures as the absolute and final authority of God instead of watching them shift according to modern cultural trends."

Produced by Holman Bible Publishers, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, the New Testament will be released in 2001, with the complete translation available in 2004.

To date, the first four books of the New Testament have been released under the title, "Experiencing the Word Through the Gospels," and featuring devotional notes from Experiencing God author Henry Blackaby.

More than 80 scholars, translators and editors representing 20 Protestant denominations and several nondenominational churches from around the world are working on the Holman Christian Standard Bible translation. The translation team is attempting keep a balance between readability and accuracy.

In July, "Living with the End in Sight," the Book of Revelation, will be released with devotional commentary for each chapter.

Individuals interested in receiving news about the Holman Christian Standard Bible's progress may e-mail broadmanholman@lifeway.com and request to be added to the translation's free quarterly newsletter mailing list.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- 15-member Utah church benefits from Kenyan's encouragement by Cory J. Hailey Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--The town is set in perhaps some of the most majestic country on earth, marked by fortresses of stone and high, reddish mesas that appear sculpted by the finger of God. But like the shadows cast by the area's rocky arches and towering crags, a darkness is present amid the natural beauty surrounding this southeastern Utah town.

Moab, Utah. Population 8,000. To this remote corner of creation a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary student from Kenya went during his spring break in March to encourage a small outpost of the faithful against the power of the prince of darkness.

Mwaura Sampson Wanyoike, a master of arts in church and community ministry student, was one of 84 students who took part in the seminary's spring evangelism practicum, an annual program that sends students all over the country to conduct revival services in small churches that otherwise might not be able to have them. Wanyoike went to Moab, a place he described as "the uttermost ends of the earth."

The windswept rock formations and brown desert soil were a far cry from the Kenyan shores of the Indian Ocean where Wanyoike calls home. But wherever he is bringing a message of revival is exactly where he feels the Lord wants him to be. That was not always the case.

After earning a master of divinity from Southwestern in Fort Worth, Texas, Wanyoike returned to Kenya to teach at Kenya Baptist Theological College for 10 years. When he returned to Texas in 1997, he said he was on the "verge of burning out."

In Kenya, he was teaching and pastoring a church. The 10 years, he said, felt like 20.

"I was really beginning to lose my focus on where I was supposed to serve," he said. Back in Texas, he entered a clinical pastoral education program in Temple. Serving at the hospital there and relating to patients and his peers were a challenge, Wanyoike said, but the hospital was also where his personal revival began as he discovered he had been evasive not only in relationships with others, but also in his relationship with God.

"I needed to learn how to get close to God," he said.

That need fed a desire to learn more about holiness, renewal and revival.

"Revival will be a practice for me for the rest of my life," he said.

Wanyoike's East African background is one reason he ended up in Moab. Dale Clayton, pastor of Angel Rock Fellowship, one of two Southern Baptist churches in Moab, said when he heard two Kenyan students were available, he requested that one come to Utah.

"The church thought it would be interesting to have someone from overseas," he said.

Moab's economy relies primarily on tourism. It has a Mormon presence, but unlike many communities in Utah, Mormonism is not dominant, noted Clayton, who said New Age and satanic influences as well as spiritual apathy are also present.

Church member Pearle Watson estimated that roughly 30 percent of the town's population is Mormon, and another 30 percent follow New Age beliefs. Evidence of satanic practices is most apparent around Halloween when small animals like cats have been skinned alive and sacrificed.

"[Evidence of satanic rituals] is common knowledge around here," she said, adding that pentagrams have been found in caves near town.

Despite the spiritual challenges surrounding the small church, its 15 members have a vision to reach the unsaved of Moab.

"We have a vision to reach people who have never been to church before," Watson said. "There are so many people out there who don't know Christ."

Angel Rock began in 1995 when some members from the First Southern Baptist Church of Moab, the other Baptist church, felt God calling them to start a mission in the southern part of town. Since then Angel Rock has been nomadic, moving five times, once taking up residence in a former Mormon church building. It now rents a building it shares with the Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission. The small corridor to the room where the congregation meets is lined with posters of movies made in the area, including "The Greatest Story Ever Told" with John Wayne and Charlton Heston.

Across from the church parking lot, a New Age shop displays a statue of the Hindu god Shiva, symbolic of the spiritual division of the town and the darkness with which Christians have to contend.

The revival services did not concentrate on numbers. Instead, the emphasis was on something vital in a town like Moab: encouraging the faithful.

In addition to an emphasis on spiritual renewal within the church membership, the revival also aimed at strengthening the church to embark on establishing a mission church in Thompson, a town of less than 100 about an hour's drive north of Moab. Though the process will take time, Angel Rock wants to begin by starting a regular Bible study in the town.

During the week, Wanyoike drew from John 4, Luke 15, Genesis 35 and Isaiah 6 in giving a picture of how Christians "need to be changed and bury our spiritual garbage."

The Samaritan woman at the well, Wanyoike noted in his sermon on John 4, came to the well when she did not expect anyone else to show up, but Christ was there.

"We see the nature of God," said Wanyoike. "Christ was condemned over and over again for associating with sinners. He came for sinners. No matter how ugly you think yourself, Jesus will have time for you."

And when the woman realized that Christ was the Messiah, she went back to the village and told the residents about him, not caring what their reactions might have been, Wanyoike said.

The passage demonstrated how Jesus led the woman to recognize her need for living water that only Christ can give. "We need to have this thirst," Wanyoike told the church.

Between services, Wanyoike spoke with the mayor and invited people to the services. Though in human terms there was not much success, the way men see success and the way God sees it are different, Wanyoike noted in his sermon on Genesis 35.

In human eyes, he said, Jacob was a complete failure, having had to flee first from the wrath of his brother Esau and then from his uncle Laban. But God came to Jacob and told him to return to Bethel where Jacob had seen a vision of the Lord and had built an altar to him.

When he returned and got rid of his idols, he was given a new name -- Israel. "It is the same thing God does to us. We get a whole new way of life," said Wanyoike, reminding the congregation that the blood of Christ cleanses lives of sin. "Build yourself an altar in your heart. You need to build yourself a Bethel."

As the church set out from the services to fulfill the vision of reaching the lost in Moab and beginning a mission church in Thompson, Wanyoike took away needed experience and a commitment to continue the work of evangelism. When revival comes to one's heart, he said, "it has to overflow. You cannot have a revival and just keep it to yourself."
-------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Partners in the Harvest' campaign garners 2 public relations awards by Todd Starnes Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Cooperative Program's "Partners in the Harvest" campaign has earned two awards from the Public Relations Society of America.

Partners in the Harvest won first place in the 2000 Parthenon Awards in the category of internal communications program. The campaign won second place and a certificate of merit for integrated communications.

Partners in the Harvest is the theme for the 75th anniversary of the Cooperative Program, Southern Baptists' channel for support missions and ministry nationally and internationally. The campaign was designed in conjunction with The Maryland Group, an advertising firm based in Nashville, Tenn.

David Hankins, Cooperative Program vice president with the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, said the success of Partners in the Harvest has been far-reaching. "This campaign is unique in that every state convention and SBC entity has agreed to participate," Hankins said. "I believe the campaign has raised the visibility of CP missions and raised the standard for quality and promotion."

Partners in the Harvest campaign is becoming a rallying point for Southern Baptists, Hankins said, noting, "I think it personifies the cooperation we have in the convention."

Partners in the Harvest has three major goals: 1 million baptisms, record volunteer missions involvement and $750 million in combined CP and other missions gifts. As part of the financial goal, churches are being asked to consider increasing the percentage of their budget devoted to CP missions by at least 1 percent during the budget year.

Partners in the Harvest materials are available from state CP offices or by calling the CP development division of the Executive Committee at 1-800-722-9407.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Wales' 19-year sense of call yielded 'Christy,' media openness by Linda Lawson Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)--A 19-year sense of call culminated with the 1995 CBS television series that broke new ground in portraying the importance of faith, the producer of the "Christy" series told participants in the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference April 5.

"I hope for your sakes and God's sake it doesn't take you that long," Ken Wales told the 140 people attending the five-day conference at Ridgecrest, a LifeWay conference center in North Carolina.

Wales, a film producer and faculty member at the University of Southern California's school of cinema, urged participants to "write for your soul and your spirit. Lives are changed by what you do."

Wales said "Christy," based on the late Catherine Marshall's book about her mother's role as a teacher in a rural east Tennessee cove, opened the door to stories of faith on network television.

"It was the first series in prime time where a hero or heroine did what she did because of what she believed, because of her faith. As a result, other programs such as 'Touched by an Angel' were possible," Wales said.

He traced his 19-year struggle to make a feature movie based on the book, beginning with efforts to buy film rights from MGM studios. In the next 11 years, MGM changed hands 18 times as Wales made contact with one executive after another.

He met Catherine Marshall who "believed I was an answer to prayer," Wales recalled. She had despaired of the studio ever releasing the movie rights.

"I went through two mortgages on my house and was just about out of money," Wales said. "I still somehow knew that Christy had to happen."

In the late 1980s, through the intervention of a friend, Wales finally was able to purchase the film rights to "Christy" for three times the amount he had envisioned. In 1990, he turned down an invitation from CBS to produce "Christy" as a television series.

"My vision was a feature film," he said. When he was contacted again by CBS in 1992, Wales reconsidered.

"I was giving up my dream of the big film and turning the answer over to God, to let go and let something else happen," Wales said. "I gave up my plan so God's greater plan could happen."

He began to see how God had been at work through the 19 years when he realized "Christy" star Kelli Martin had been "born the same month I started to read and work on 'Christy.' She had to be born and to grow up to play Christy."

Response to the series also illustrated God's plans were greater than Wales' as 42 million people tuned in, "10 times the number who would ever have seen the story as a feature film."

Wales deflects credit for his efforts, pointing instead to God, to Marshall and to Christy.

"It's their story," he said. "I was simply a steward."

The writers conference included workshops on writing fiction, inspirational books and articles, films and other styles. Sessions provided help in working with a literary agent, managing time to write and getting published.

In a concluding dialogue session, 87-year-old Billie Gregory of Black Mountain, N.C., expressed appreciation for negative feedback she had received from a faculty member concerning something she had written.

"I took it home, tore it up and started over. That's what we must do," Gregory said.

In response to a question about breaking into the film industry, Ted Baehr, chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission based in Camarilla, Calif., urged being willing to start at the bottom.

"A lot of kids from the Christian community stoop to conquer," Baehr said. "The people who do well are the people who keep their values and commitment to Christ."

Elaine Wright Colvin, author, writing coach and founder of Writer's Information Network, said the key to becoming a published writer is hard work, practicing the principles of good writing and prayer.

"Get five to 10 people who will commit to pray for your writing ministry regularly," said Colvin, of Bainbridge Island, Wash. "Get those people behind you and God will reward your effort."

The 2001 conference will be held April 1-5 at Ridgecrest.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- EDITORS' NOTE by Staff Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday Concerning the BP story, "Dutch weigh legalized euthanasia even for children as young as 12," dated 4/7/00, the writer, Patrick Goodenough, is the London bureau chief for CNSNews.com, and the story was written from London, not The Hague, Netherlands.

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-------------------------------------------------------------------- CORRECTION by Staff Date: April 10, 2000 - Monday In the BP calendar, dated 4/7/00, please change the date of the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary trustee meeting to May 1-2.

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