Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think there is any more hope today than yesterday or last year when he will be freed," Peggy Say, Anderson's sister, said at a news conference sponsored by the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A...
Angel's search leads him from a mental hospital in upstate New York to an unfriendly Baptist church in Harlem, and, in the film's climactic sequences, to the dank swampland surrounding New Orleans. It is here that Angel discovers the nubile Epiphany Proudfoot (Bonet), as well as the truth about Favorite, Cyphre, and himself...
Among the NSC staff, Colonel North was discreet about his beliefs, but he has eagerly shared his experiences with outsiders. Two years ago, he told a complete stranger about a healing he had undergone. The Rev. Stephen King, an evangelical pastor at the Cherrydale Baptist Church in Arlington, Va., recalls that North sat down next to him in a barber shop and joyously recounted how a few years before he had been contorted by wracking back pain while in the field with a group of officers. One of the officers, a fellow charismatic, knelt down before North and prayed fervently...
...energetic Knapps, agriculturalists sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention, are among the record total of 39,309 U.S. and Canadian Protestants engaged in overseas mission careers. Adding "short-term" workers, who usually put in stints of less than a year, the North American Protestant foreign legion numbers 67,242 (in contrast to 9,124 Roman Catholics). It is sponsored by 764 mission boards (of which the Knapps' is the largest), with a combined income -- largely from donations -- of $1.3 billion a year...
...move up their dates as well. By March 15 nearly half the delegates will probably have been chosen. No one knows whether this front-loaded calendar will make for early decisions or whether the large fields will fragment the results until later in the game. The presence of two Baptist ministers -- Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left and Pat Robertson on the Republican right -- also casts conventional scenarios in doubt. But one thing is certain: more candidates are out campaigning earlier than ever in the belief that late starters are likely to be left in the dust...