Word: baptists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...We’re not highly evangelistic,” says Russell J. Schlecht, the pastor of Grace Street Church, a Protestant congregation that rents space in Old Cambridge Baptist Church and has attracted some of the converts interviewed. “We have a lot of faith that God is actually the one pursuing people. We take a great step backward in that. However, when someone is ready to commit to Christ, we’re right there...
...recruiting tactics. “Any member church, denomination or chaplain has to promise on the way in that they’re not going to engage in proselytization,” explains the Rev. Irving Cummings, president of the United Ministry and pastor of Old Cambridge Baptist Church. A church representative cannot approach a student to discuss religious matters without the student first expressing interest and giving consent. Doing so is considered solicitation. “We very much frown upon that,” Cummings says...
...Thomas 7-8 4-7 5, Brown 9-16 5-6 28, Sutton 5-12 3-9 13, Metcalf 1-11 0-0 2, Teasley 2-9 2-2 8, Baptist 1-2 0-0 2, Bell 3-5 1-2 7, McBee 0-2 0-0 0, Chambers 0-1 0-0 0, Laaksonen 0-2 0-0 0, Davis 2-2 1-4 5, Coughran 1-1 0-0 2. Totals...
There is a time to weep, a season to mourn. But there is not supposed to be a second time to do it again from the beginning. Last Tuesday night, about 100 alumni of grief filed into the Oakwood Baptist Church in Walker County, Ga. Clutching candles and tissues, they were forced to revisit the rituals of death. This time they prayed not for the souls of the dead but for the bodies--the 298 (and counting) men, women and at least one infant strewn about the landscape of a remote northwest Georgia crematory...
...clannishness that we Mormons are always accused of exists everywhere to some degree because religion is a big part of the social fabric of a community. Being a non-Mormon in Utah is like being a non-Baptist in Virginia Beach, Va., or a gentile in a Jewish neighborhood in New York City. ART J. VANTIELEN Murray, Utah...