Hispanic Population Helping U.S. Christianity Thrive

With the Hispanic population booming in the U.S., one prominent evangelical believes Hispanics will be the “lifeguards for Christianity in America in the 21st century.”

The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez made the comment to The Christian Post on Tuesday in response to the latest U.S. Census Bureau report, released last week, which revealed that the Hispanic population has grown to 50.5 million, or roughly 1 in 6 Americans.

Reflecting on the massive increase, Rodriguez, president of America’s largest Hispanic Christian organization, The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, talked about the impact from a church perspective.

It has “two powerful impacts” on the church, he said.

Firstly, “it forces the Anglo-Saxon American churches to expand their outreach in their communities.”

He explained, “Previously, the Anglo-Saxon church was able to survive by reaching out exclusively to its own people, but now it can no longer do so.”

Secondly, the Hispanic church is experiencing the fastest growth in history in such a way that the largest denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, Assemblies of God, Churches of God, and The United Methodist Church, among others, have confirmed that their growth comes largely through Hispanic churches.

“In other words, without the Hispanic population the evangelical church in the U.S. would decline,” he observed.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I watched Real Sports on HBO last night about how college players don’t get any financial compensation.  At one point it was mentioned that all men basketball players all across the country were going to protest by just sitting at mid-court.  That would have been a sight to see.
  • Former college coach Rich Rodriguez was on the round table panel.  The entire time I kept thinking he better watch what he says if he ever wants to coach again.
  • I’m not a big fan of how the NCAA can profit out of the likeness of players in video games.
  • As of right now, college players may get a full ride scholarship, but they aren’t allowed to work a part time job, which means they don’t have any spending money to buy clothes or go on a date or whatever.  If big programs make big money, then I think those programs can afford to give the players what a student worker would earn working 10-20 hours.
  • But at the same time, it’s hard for me to have sorry for anyone getting tuition and room and board payed for.  For instance, if a high school senior gets a full ride at Oklahoma, you are looking at tuition of almost $14,000 a semester.  So even though they may not get any spending money, at the end of four years, they get an education worth over $110,000 and can enter the workforce with a college diploma.
  • I got the $110,000 figure by taking the $14,000 and multiplying it by eight semesters (four years of college).
  • There are a lot of hot sports opinions about that topic.
  • Former Texas basketball head coach was on the show and looked to be in poor health.
  • I had another attic insulation come out for a quote and they came in under a grand that the previous company, and instead of paint/coating they were going to install the radiant barrier foil.  I think I’ll have one more come out for a quote before I pull the trigger, probably the company my friend Andy recommended.
  • Interesting casting – Bill Murray will play FDR
  • My home town paper reports that a 16-year-old was arrested at the high school for trying to pass a forged $20 bill in the cafeteria.
  • The Wonder Woman costume has been updated after negative fan reaction.
  • A gown made out of children’s Golden Books
  • Survey: Recession’s effects fading for some churches
  • For the fans of ‘Breaking Bad’
  • Obama has his own computer
  • Star Wars Welsh Corgis
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After 30 Years Apart, Brother and Sister Reunite on Bizarre Blind Date

You should always be cautious on a blind date, and here’s why.

After connecting through an Internet dating service, two anonymous love seekers realized they were in fact estranged siblings when they finally met face to face last week.

Sarah Kemp, a cleaner living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and George Bentley, a London-based builder, began a correspondence through ForgetDinner.co.uk last November. After several months emailing back and forth, the pair — brother and sister, that is — eventually chose to “bite the bullet” and unite in person.

“I would never have agreed to go to London on a blind date, but we hit it off from the beginning, and our relationship blossomed as we emailed each other more and more often,” Kemp told Scotland’s Daily Record.

After about an hour of conversation at the White Horse, Bentley’s favorite East Ham pub, the two would-be lovers realized they were actually siblings.

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12 year-old gives birth during school trip

A 12 year-old Dutch schoolgirl gave birth to a baby girl during a school trip, according to local health services.

“Neither the girl nor her family had realised she was pregnant, and there were no external signs to show it,” a spokesman for the health services said, adding he did not know how many months pregnant the girl had been.

The girl, from Groningen in the north of the Netherlands, was on a day out on Tuesday last week with her classmates where she began to feel violent stomach pains, the spokesman said.

A supervisor thought the pains suspicious and alerted the emergency services.

When ambulance staff arrived they saw the girl was on the point of giving birth and rushed her to a nearby building where she had her baby.

Both “are doing well” in the maternity ward of a Groningen hospital, the spokesman said.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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