Click here to see the Nov 17 issue of The Messenger Digital. Click here for the Nov. 24 issue. (Note: Search for the Messenger Mobile App in the Apple and Google App Stores.) As the Baptist Messenger prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2012, the publisher and editorial staff announced the availability of Messenger

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Francisco Javier Salgado Coronel and his wife, Denis, (pronounced Denise) were taken to the Oklahoma County Detention Center in  Oklahoma City on Oct. 21. Thankfully, their visit was a short one, however. Coronel, administrative sub-secretary for public security for the State of Guerrero, Mexico, joined officials from the Guerrero Regional Baptist Convention and the Seminario

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by Marty O’Gwynn SHAWNEE—Paving the way for a new student housing village, Oklahoma Baptist University trustees approved plans for three on-campus construction projects during their fall semester meeting on the campus in Shawnee, Oct. 7. Board members granted OBU administrators the authority to begin construction when funding is available for the first phase of a

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MOORE—A family that kicks (K.I.C.S.) together sticks together. Sounds dangerous, but Brandon Boozer believes it is valid. Boozer, a member of Moore, First, is a martial arts instructor who donates his time and ability to give kids, as well as their parents, free lessons in martial arts training at the church’s gymnasium. “It’s valuable for

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Peteris Sprogis was elected Bishop (President) of the Union of Baptist Churches in Latvia in 2006. He soon became keenly aware of the issues facing his denomination and society. “It would have been easy for the Baptists to continue living our comfortable denominational life,” he said.  “However, it did not take a prophet to see

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Kings aren’t the only people who have dreams, a.k.a. Martin Luther and Nebuchadnezzar in the second  chapter of Daniel. In fact, Faxon has a whole dream team composed of members of First Church and their pastor Floyd Allen Jr. “Every year we make a dream sheet,” said Allen. “We pick out three items we feel

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