Friday, February 26, 1999

• Meetings for week of February 28-March 6

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• SBC's Patterson, Land, others meet, pray with congressional members

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, February 26, 1999 (25 years ago)

  WASHINGTON (BP)--Southern Baptist Convention President Paige Patterson and ethics agency head Richard Land were among a delegation of Southern Baptists who met Feb. 25 with leaders and members of Congress to express public-policy concerns and to pray with them.

  The leaders they met with included Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R.-Miss., and House of Representatives Majority Leader Dick Armey, R.-Tex. They also visited with Sen. Don Nickles, R.-Okla., assistant majority leader; House Majori... Read More

• Midwestern students & faculty take gospel into North Africa

  by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, February 26, 1999 (25 years ago)

  ASWAN, Egypt (BP)--Foreigners are rare in the small town of Daraw in upper Egypt. So when Allen Smith, a U.S. seminary student, walked into a dominoes parlor there, all eyes turned to him.

  By the time Smith finished a few games, he had made a new friend -- an Egyptian man he had been playing against. Afterward, the man took Smith around the corner to get him some food and introduce him to some of his friends.

  "This is my friend, Allen," the man said. "He's a Christian."

  In just eight wo... Read More

• Volunteers requested for Hong Kong, Taiwan

  by Jenny Rogers, posted Friday, February 26, 1999 (25 years ago)

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Volunteers from a cross-section of church positions are needed in Hong Kong for a summer 1999 evangelistic campaign, said W.H. and Doris Jackson, International Mission Board crusade coordinators in Asia.

  With Hong Kong now under the control of mainland China, time for evangelism may be running out, Jackson said.

  "Presently we seem to have all of the freedom we have ever had, but we are concerned as to how long we will have this freedom," he said after meeting with Bill ... Read More

• At funeral, Naylor's leadership, love of Scripture, preaching cited

  by Cory J. Hailey, posted Friday, February 26, 1999 (25 years ago)

  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--"A giant has walked among us," Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Kenneth S. Hemphill said of former President Robert Naylor, "and we shall miss him."

  About 1,700 people gathered to remember Naylor, 90, at a Feb. 24 funeral service at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. Naylor died Feb. 21 at his Fort Worth home.

  "Perhaps no single president in the history of this school had such an impact on the institution," Hemphill said of Naylor,... Read More

• 15 pointers for ministers' families recounted by Ray, Anne Ortlund

  by Ken Walker, posted Friday, February 26, 1999 (25 years ago)

  LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP)--A successful pastor will take days off, emphasize family fun and find identity in Christ instead of the pulpit.

  Those are three of 15 lessons Ray and Anne Ortlund cite from their 35 years in the pastorate.

  "Take a day off every week," Anne advised. "We didn't do that at first and after awhile we had tummy troubles. The doctor said we were headed for a stroke or ulcers."

  "Frantic living sets the wrong pattern for Christian living," her husband added. "Do you own the ... Read More

• Cuba native is baseball chaplain, interim pastor, attorney & more

  by Shari Schubert, posted Friday, February 26, 1999 (25 years ago)

  PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (BP)--As a director of missions, interim pastor, practicing attorney and avid fisherman, Rafael de Armas wears many hats -- and a Texas Rangers jacket.

  De Armas, director of missions for Florida's Peace River Baptist Association, began serving as a chaplain to the baseball team's Spanish-speaking rookie players in 1996. The rookies, who train and play in Port Charlotte, were "tough guys," reluctant to come to chapel, he recalled. "They'd scatter when they saw me."

  Two ... Read More

• Baptist children's home became Vietnamese refugee's refuge

  by Russell N. Dilday, posted Friday, February 26, 1999 (25 years ago)

  MAGNOLIA, Ark. (BP)--Chau Stone knows how precious life is because hers was in danger most of her life -- until she found an island of refuge at the Arkansas Baptist Home for Children in Monticello.

  Stone, born Chau (pronounced Cho) Troung, was a resident of the home from 1991-94. A native of Vietnam, her first brush with death came just minutes after she was born.

  Abandoned at birth by her parents, an elderly couple found the baby girl wrapped in a cloth under a tree and covered in fire a... Read More