Baptist Invade Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (BP)–Vietnamese Baptists met at Grace Baptist Church in Ho Chi Minh City Jan. 10-11 to celebrate the church’s receiving official government recognition and to organize a new national confederation. This historic development is expected to encourage future evangelism and church-planting efforts in the country.
The Vietnamese government made this possible by granting a certificate of religious practice to the church. The 400-member group met to create Grace Baptist Southern General Confederation. It adopted a constitution and elected officers for the new organization, which will organize and represent new churches across Vietnam.
Amazing Memory Man Brain Being Tested By Scientists
Imagine being able to recall just about anything, your mind functioning as a nearly endless encyclopedic scrapbook of names, pictures, dates and events. Wisconsin resident Brad Williams’ total recall makes him a personified version of Google. His extensive memory allows him to recall almost any news event and anything he has experienced, including specific dates and even the weather.
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Influencing The Flock’s Vote
AUSTIN – The Texas Restoration Project, aimed at motivating pastors to influence state elections, has become a national model to boost evangelical influence in the presidential race. Mike Huckabee hopes to be the beneficiary, meeting privately next week with Christian pastors in Florida after similar briefings in Iowa and South Carolina.
In Texas, the project held a series of closed-door pastor briefings, urging ministers to encourage their congregations to register and vote for candidates who match their moral agenda.
Bankrolled largely by wealthy Republican political contributors, the effort recruited 300,000 “values voters” in Texas and helped re-elect Gov. Rick Perry and pass a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
Now, key figures in the Texas effort have taken their project on the road to the presidential primary states.
The Florida Renewal Project next week in Orlando is the latest in a series of “pastors’ policy briefings” in advance of GOP primaries in several states.
Sponsors say the briefings are nonpartisan and designed to mobilize churches around a moral agenda, not a particular candidate.
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