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By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor   
Monday, May 23, 2011

Causey to retire / Cherokee agreement / Finnish connection / CBFNC challenge

 
As need for child care declined, a church refocused ministry on seniors
By Norman Jameson, Contributing Writer   
Sunday, May 22, 2011
RURAL HALL, N.C. -- Making a tough decision to close its day care center after 20 years prompted a small North Carolina church to establish a center for senior adults in Rural Hall, N.C., a mid-state area with a high number of seniors who live alone.
 
Ed Vick, moderate Baptist lay leader, dies
By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press   
Friday, May 13, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) -- Ed Vick, a prominent Baptist layman and supporter of moderate causes including Associated Baptist Press, died May 13, seven weeks after being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He was a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C.
 
BJC says North Carolina county's policy threatens religious liberty
By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press   
Friday, May 13, 2011
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A Baptist church-state watchdog group urged the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower-court’s decision barring a North Carolina county commission from opening its meetings with prayers in Jesus’ name.
 
J. Alfred Smith finds Gardner-Webb University open to diversity
By Norman Jameson   
Thursday, May 12, 2011
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. (ABP) -- A predominantly white Baptist college in rural North Carolina might seem an unlikely place to find an African-American pastor known for an agenda of prophetic justice, but Gardner-Webb University just said goodbye to J. Alfred Smith, its first scholar-in-residence.
 
Soccer pulls church into community ministry in former textile town
By Norman Jameson   
Monday, May 09, 2011

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (ABP) -- First Baptist Church in Kannapolis, N.C., had architectural drawings in hand for a new $20 million complex. But when pastor Tom Cabaniss asked a key question -- “What if we became the place that people thought of when they thought of ministry in Kannapolis?” -- those plans changed.

 
Soccer league opens church door for family who found community there
By Norman Jameson   
Monday, May 09, 2011

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (ABP) -- When the soccer season sponsored and funded by First Baptist Church in Kannapolis, N.C., wound down, Chris and Jennifer Roman realized they were going to miss the new friends they found while mingling with church families at the soccer field.

 
Minister moms split their time between pulpit and potty training
By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service   
Thursday, May 05, 2011

WASHINGTON (RNS) -- Female pastors with one flock at home and another in the pews say being a minister and a mom is a perpetual juggling act. At the same time, they say, it can also be a profound blessing.

 
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