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N.C. pastor facing deportation gets bond hearing
September 1 2010 by Associated Baptist Press
WINSTON-SALEM — A Hispanic North Carolina pastor is scheduled to have a bond hearing in Atlanta Sept. 2 in the first stage of deportation proceedings against him — the consequence of a 15-year-old crime he committed before accepting Christ. Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina have been soliciting urgent prayer for Hector Villanueva, pastor of a Spanish-s...
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NAMB trustees to consider Kevin Ezell Sept. 14
September 1 2010 by Staff
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)—A special meeting of the North American Mission Board's (NAMB) trustees has been called for Sept. 14 to consider the nomination of Louisville pastor Kevin Ezell as next NAMB president. While a NAMB news release Aug. 31 announcing the special meeting did not name Ezell, search committee chairman Ted Traylor told the Florida Baptist Witness the nominee was Ezell, pastor of Hi...
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NCBM prepared to respond to Hurricane Earl
September 1 2010 by BSC Communications
North Carolina Baptist Men (NCBM) are prepared for the possibility of responding to a storm threatening the North Carolina East Coast. The National Hurricane Center reports that Hurricane Earl, now a Category 3 storm, is expected to approach the coast by Friday morning. Maximum sustained winds are about 125 mph. Mandatory...
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Katrina proved mettle of Baptist disaster relief
September 1 2010 by Mickey Noah, Baptist Press
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — “As early as Aug. 26, we had pulled in a skeleton crew and opened the disaster operations center (DOC),” recounted Mickey Caison, disaster relief coordinator at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) in Alpharetta, Ga., in 2005. “We had also called the state conventions and mobilized an incident command team.” On Monday, Aug. 29, at about 6:10 a.m. Hurricane Katrina ma...
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Ground Zero Orthodox church in limbo
September 1 2010 by Religion News Service
NEW YORK — Buried by falling rubble from the World Trade Center towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, all that remained of the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church were some candles, two icons and a bell clapper. These salvaged artifacts are being kept at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America while the church’s 70 member families worship at a cathedral in Br...
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Day 6 Haiti: It had to happen
It had to happen, I suppose. After a week of mass numbers, gross results and overwhelming needs assaulting every sense — 230,000 killed in 30 seconds; 1,300 refugee camps; 3,000 helping agencies at work among victims; 80 percent unemployment; 50 percent literacy; only 40 percent with access to clean water — I thought I'd grown heart callouses hard enough to deflect any emotional tugs while I w...
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