Young Clergywomen Blaze New Trails

After a recent worship service at Branches United Methodist Church in Florida City, Fla., the Rev. Audrey B. Warren returned to the sanctuary to turn off the lights. There, draped in Warren’s stole and with the microphone in hand, was 4-year-old Cassandra.

“I didn’t catch what she was saying, but I have to believe that she was ‘playing pastor,'” Warren recalls. “If that is not progress … I don’t know what is. How amazing for young girls to dream of being pastors.”

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Kentucky Committee OKs Bible Classes for Public Schools

A Kentucky Senate Education Committee on Thursday approved a bill that would set up guidelines for Bible courses to be taught in public schools.

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Freed Detainee Asks That People Focus on Haiti Citizens

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–A Baptist volunteer who was jailed in Haiti for nearly three weeks says he hopes people will once again focus on the plight of the citizens of the earthquake-ravaged country.

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Tony Lane YCE Training Team: 2010 Conference – Philippines

The Asian Seminary of Christian Ministries in Makati City, Philippines, led by President Scott Rains, hosted the Tony Lane YCE Training Team last February 3, 4, and 5, 2009. The 3-day conference “Building the Missional Church” was attended by the entire faculty, staff, and student body of the Asian Seminary along with invited guests. Church of God National Overseer of the Philippines, Dr. Mark Ligero, led a group of COG regional overseers and district officers with members of their corresponding churches who came in from all over the Philippines to be equipped by the awesome and dynamic teaching of 8 seasoned teachers, preachers, and trainers from the United States.

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