More Churches, Less Baptisms
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–While the number of Southern Baptist churches in 2006 increased by 524 and reported more than $11.3 billion in total receipts, LifeWay Christian Resources President Thom S. Rainer reported April 17 that total baptisms in the Southern Baptist Convention fell for the second consecutive year.
According to the Annual Church Profile gathered by LifeWay, baptisms last year dropped from 371,850 to 364,826, or 1.89 percent, eclipsing 2005 as the lowest annual total since 1993. The 2005 ACP reported a 4.15 percent drop.
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Teen describes affair with her church youth leader
FORT WORTH — The teenager estimated that she had sexual intercourse with Jason Scott Wamsley — her church youth director and a teacher at Castleberry High School — no fewer than 60 times.
They had sex at his house, at her house, in different rooms and buildings at the River Oaks United Methodist Church.
They even had sex, she testified, while Wamsley’s wife was in the hospital where she had just given birth to his second child.
“He put [the older child] down for a nap, and we had sex in his bedroom,” the teen, now 18, told a jury of six women and six men.
The teen was prosecutors’ final witness Tuesday before they rested their case against Wamsley.
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Famousr
Who’s more famous? That question led to this site. Famousr keeps track of over 8,000 actors, calculating a “fame rank†from a variety of data sources, including: mentions online, on blogs, and in the news, as well as the popularity and volume of movies/shows they were featured in. The algorithm tends to favor current actors (famous NOW), big budget movie actors (Tom Cruise), and press-worthy actors (Paris Hilton, sadly). It in no way signifies the quality of the actor!
Basically you just click on who you think is more famous and see if you guessed right.
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