In a recent press release, the World Council of Churches reported that there was a March 3 meeting between Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and Rev. Dr Geoff Tunnicliffe, international director of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), at the Ecumenical Center in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss common concerns around Christian unity.
Rev. Jane Esdale, founder and former director of Cameron Community Ministries, Rochester, N.Y., died on Wednesday, February 24, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., after a three-week illness. She was 62 years old.
Dr. Paul T. Losh, former president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, KS and executive minister of the Vermont Baptist State Convention, died Saturday, February 27, 2010 at Meadowood Retirement Community in Worcester, PA where he had resided since 2003.
An additional $21,600 in One Great Hour of Sharing funds has been sent to an International Ministries’ (IM) partner in Haiti. This amount is in addition to the $105,000 already provided to IM’s various Christian partners in Haiti in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, the capital of this Caribbean nation, and the surrounding area.
National Ministries seeks to ensure that all Haitian American Baptist congregations are aware the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced availability of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians who cannot return to their country because of the devastation caused by January’s massive earthquake.
Within a month after the devastating January 12 earthquake in Haiti, American Baptists overwhelmingly responded with more than $1 million for relief efforts in that Caribbean nation. These funds represent gifts by local congregations and individuals during the initial weeks after the earthquake as well as direct donations to International Ministries (IM) provided through mid-February.
nuChristian: Finding Faith in a New Generation (Judson Press) has been recognized by Outreach magazine in its 7th Annual Outreach Resources of the Year issue. Russell E. D. Rathbun’s book is named in the Youth Outreach category.