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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

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  • Battling sex trafficking, trekking to hotels & motels
    by Grace Thornton, posted Wednesday, February 15, 2017 (7 years ago)

    NOVI, Mich. (BP) -- Amy Lipovsky felt like a song playing on loop -- walking into the same hotels, saying the same things week after week and showing the same pictures of missing girls.

    "It's emotionally draining" trying to get people to care, she said of FRe Outreach, which helps hotel and motel employees in the Detroit suburbs to recognize and rescue victims of sex trafficking. "There's not a lot of visible return for your efforts." Read More

  • Lent has narrow appeal, LifeWay Research reports
    by Bob Smietana, posted Wednesday, February 15, 2017 (7 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- During the season of Lent, some Americans give up chocolate or another favorite food. Others dump guilty pleasures like binge-watching television or social media.

    But most give up Lent.

    Three-quarters of Americans (76 percent) say they don't typically observe Lent, according to a survey from Nashville-based LifeWay Research released today (Feb. 15). Read More

  • Shelters for trafficking victims aid their healing
    by Grace Thornton/The Alabama Baptist, posted Wednesday, February 15, 2017 (7 years ago)

    Photo courtesy of The WellHouse
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Erin Futch rolled up her sleeves and got to work in the kitchen of Mountain Brook Baptist Church right next to a girl who looked like she was about her age.

    They started talking that morning, swapping stories. Turns out both of them were 22 and had played softball in high school -- not only that, they'd played against each other.

    But then their stories had gone vastly different directions. Read More

  • Independent church aligns with Missouri Baptists/SBC
    by Benjamin Hawkins/Missouri Pathway, posted Wednesday, February 15, 2017 (7 years ago)

    SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (BP) -- The shared vision of transforming lives and communities with the Gospel has led a historically independent church whose pastor serves as president of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International to become a cooperating church with the Missouri Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Burnt aprons, hospitality & the Gospel
    by Melissa Meredith, posted Wednesday, February 15, 2017 (7 years ago)

    For Christian women who want to have hospitable hearts and homes, Melissa Meredith writes that it "does not depend on your home mirroring the pages of House Beautiful or mastering Martha Stewart's latest recipe." Read More