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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

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  • Late-night churches reach Chinese restaurant crews
    by Emily Rojas/Biblical Recorder , posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016 (8 years ago)

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    ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (BP) -- Sundays at 11 p.m. after a long day's work, Chinese restaurant workers in Rocky Mount, N.C., meet at Sunset Avenue Baptist Church to worship the Lord.

    The congregation is one of many for Chinese restaurant workers in small cities across the U.S. through Friends of International Restaurant Employees (FIRE), a ministry of Chinese American church planter Kewen Dong. Holding worship meetings late at night allows restaurant workers to attend. Read More

  • Gaines: Election rhetoric can inhibit evangelism
    by David Roach, posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016 (8 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Conviction and kindness are the prescription of Southern Baptist leaders for the final eight weeks of the U.S. presidential campaign.

    With early voting by mail having begun in North Carolina and in-person early voting slated to begin in three states next week, Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines, Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. and Cedarville University President Thomas White are among those to weigh in with ethical and spiritual advice for voters. Read More

  • Attacks in India against Christians rising in 2016
    by World Watch Monitor, posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016 (8 years ago)

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    NEW DELHI (BP) -- The Evangelical Fellowship of India's Religious Liberty Commission has tallied 134 attacks on Christians or their churches in the first half of 2016 -- nearly as many as the annual totals for both 2014 and 2015.

    The EFI, pointing out that the cases chronicled from Jan. 1 to June 30 were just a "fraction of the violence on the ground" (only "carefully corroborated" incidents were included), made several recommendations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist government, including the repeal of the controversial "anti-conversion laws." Read More

  • GameDay Church, in 2nd NFL season, ready to expand
    by Nicole Kalil/Florida Baptist Witness, posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016 (8 years ago)

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    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) -- When most people think about tailgating, they think of football, food and fun with family and friends.

    But believers in the Jacksonville area will have the chance to add faith to the mix before every Jacksonville Jaguars home game as GameDay Church returns for the 2016 NFL season.

    Last year more than 200 people gathered for a new kind of worship experience as GameDay Church held its first service outside EverBank Field just before the Jags took on the Indianapolis Colts on Dec. 13. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Your Facebook identity
    by David Jeremiah, posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016 (8 years ago)

    On Facebook, David Jeremiah writes, "you are inviting the entire world to know about your life -- or at least hundreds of 'friends.'" His admonition for being part of Facebook's world: Use it "to cultivate the life you want your best friend, Jesus Christ, to see daily." Read More