Baptist school cancels mission trip for church dismissed from SBC

FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — A Kentucky Baptist university has, at the last minute, withdrawn its invitation to host a youth mission team from Texas after the Southern Baptist Convention disfellowshipped their church for its toleration of homosexuals.

Brent Beasley, pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, said the church’s youth minister received a call June 30 from an official at the University of the Cumberlands informing her that the congregation’s youth choir is no longer welcome to stay in dorms or perform mission work through the school’s Mountain Outreach construction program, which builds houses for the disadvantaged in Appalachia. Beasley said a church near the school’s Williamsburg, Ky., campus also canceled a concert that had been scheduled as part of the mission trip.

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Schoolboy banned over moustache

A DAD has slammed a school’s decision to send his son home for having a moustache – because it doesn’t fit in with a strict uniform policy.

Akaash Iqbal, 14, was banished from Manchester Academy – and says teachers told him to shave or not be allowed back.

His dad, Asif Mahmood, claims he was called by the school and told to be on standby with a razor.

But Mr Mahmood, 42, refused and has branded the saga ridiculous as Akaash is stranded at home ahead of an important exam.

Mr Mahmood, from Fallowfield, said: “It’s a nonsense. He’s not shaving – he’s only 14 and if he starts now he’ll have to do it for the rest of his life.

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I’ll Be There – Acapella

There are a lot of YouTube vidoes where the instruments of Michael Jackson’s songs have been taken out, so all you hear is his voice.  I knew he had an amazing voice, but after listening to several of these really left me impressed.  “I’ll Be There” is my favorite, and it just amazes me how talented he was as a kid.

Just for good measure, here’s one from his adult life.

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