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(Updated 05/16/2008)

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Economic downturn effects N.C. churches

While North Carolina Baptists feel effects of a slowing economy some areas feel the pinch more than others.

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Abundant field of SBC candidates may signal relaxed political reins

INDIANAPOLIS - Candidates are lining up two-by-two for this year's Southern Baptist Convention presidency, like animals filing into Noah's Ark - two big-church pastors, two small-church pastors, two former missionaries.

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Churches reconsider bypassing BSC with mission funds

Some churches that for years bypassed the Baptist State Convention (BSC) by sending large portions of their mission money directly to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) are rethinking that strategy - and saying the BSC's conservative direction is prompting their move.

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Men from Graffiti Church in New York work on an Operation Inasmuch project.
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New Yorkers Graffiti Caldwell association

Joining 28 other churches, Graffiti Church sent 11 men from New York City to work with Operation Inasmuch volunteers in Caldwell County.

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Opinion

SBC presidential field wide open

The announcement May 12 that Les Puryear, pastor of Lewisville Baptist Church, will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) crowds the field but adds a distinctive choice.

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