Monday, March 15, 1999

• Huckabee invites churches to ‘adopt’ welfare families

  by Trennis Henderson, posted Monday, March 15, 1999 (25 years ago)

  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP)--Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has announced the formation of a private, nonprofit foundation through which congregations across the state can help the needy move from welfare to work.

  Outlining plans for an Arkansas Faith and Families Foundation to a gathering of more than 150 religious leaders, Huckabee said the new initiative will seek to encourage “every single congregation in Arkansas to participate in assisting welfare families in the transition from dependenc... Read More

• Experiences in witnessing shared in panel discussion

  by Macon Fritsch, posted Monday, March 15, 1999 (25 years ago)

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--"Many of us wind up either feeling very guilty that we aren't witnessing, or witnessing to everything that moves and feeling like we're bumbling because we don't know what to do," said Cornelia Williams, an adjunct professor of Christian education at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

  "You see a rushing crowd of people going down a river, drowning, and you don't know how to help them and you're desperate," Williams said of the often-frustrating feelings Christians ha... Read More

• Expository preaching advocated to help church regain its voice

  by John Gaskin, posted Monday, March 15, 1999 (25 years ago)

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP)--Tom Ascol, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Cape Coral, Fla., advocated a time of honest March 12 at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

  “Despite our accomplishments, statistics and resources of which we [evangelicals] boast, we have had very little impact upon our culture,” Ascol said. “The church has lost its voice.”

  Ascol presented statistics revealing there is no discernable difference between the morality of evangelicals and those w... Read More