BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--When most Southern Baptists think of Baptist history in China, they think of Lottie Moon, the beloved missionary to China for whom the
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions is named. Lottie Moon arrived in China in 1873, but the history of Baptist missionary work there goes back even further. When the Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board) was founded in 1845, China was its first mission field. The board's first missionary to China was Samuel C. Clopton. When Lottie Moon went to China in 1873, she actually followed her sister, Edmonia, who had gone the previous year. Lottie served 39 years as a missionary, mostly in China's Shantung province. Initially, she taught in a girls' school and often made trips into China's interior to share the Gospel. Read More
Criswell president Jerry Johnson resigns DALLAS (BP)--Jerry Johnson, president of Criswell College in Dallas, resigned Aug. 5 after a controversy went public about the direction of the College and its relationship with the First Baptist Church of Dallas, which founded the school and maintains active ties through trustee selection.
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Bible printing company expands in China BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--As of May 18, one of the largest Bible printing facilities in the world is putting copies of the Word out by the millions -- right in the heart of China.
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LETTER FROM CHINA: Hospital bombed WUCHOW, China -- Dear Dr. Maddry, Now that the heavy rush of caring for the wounded is over, I have time to write you in more detail. We were bombed July 26th at one o'clock p.m. Eighteen planes took part in the raid.
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DENVER (BP)--When the Democratic National Convention meets at Denver's Pepsi Center Aug. 25-28, the "Mile High City" will absorb an estimated 225,000 visitors.
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Erich Bridges Solzhenitsyn: prophet of truth
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--The beginning of the end of communism as a global force dates not to the close of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall or the deaths of various tyrants.
Phil Boatwright Teens & profanity
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)--Name me a PG-13 film that doesn't employ profanity (that is, language misusing God's name). Shoot, even most PG films nowadays contain such language.
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