Louisiana Fellowship People - Newsletter


E-NEWS April 14, 2008

February - March - April '08
* Embrace the World: Going Glocal
* CBF-LA Partner Churches Give Leadership
* Bridgewater Church Receives Missional Grant
* And A Child Shall Lead Again
* Disaster Response Staff at National Emergency Training
* Keith Holmes Coming to Louisiana

November - January '08
  * Embracing the World: 2007-2008 Global Missions
  * Glen and Clista Adkins (with FBC Shreveport ties) Join Mission Work to Romany
  * 2007 Stagg-Tolbert Forum: Bill Coates on Postmodern Generation, Words and the Word
  * Humanitarian Crisis Right Under Our Noses – Reid Doster and Charles Ray
  * John Daugherty Accepts Call to Florida Pastorate – Resignation Letter
  * The Work of Christmas – Howard Thurman

August - October '07
  * Places of Grace – CBF-LA State Ministries
  * Bags of Hope Turns Into a Party
  * Cancelling Debts – Bill Hoffman
  * "Seed Grant” for Community Garden
  * David: Thoroughly Human – Bill Coates
  * The Big Family Gathers – D.C. Assembly
  * Kenny and Shirley Crump’s 11th Mission Trip to China

May - July '07
  * Loaves and Fishes Goal Met – Moldolva Congregation to Have Building
  * Nearly 600 Volunteers Build Habitat Houses for 12 Katrina families
  * Broadmoor Pastor John Goodwin Retires
  * Disaster Response Mileposts
  * Pastor John and Bethlehem Church

March - April '07
  * Gathering in New Orleans for Renewal
  * Grady Nutt, Jerry Clower, Jinny Hinson: Jesters in the King’s Court – Kyle Kelley
  * Through Hurricane, Tornado and Bureaucracy: Ducre Home Complete!
  * Humor – Jinny Henson: The Pork Chop (Slippery Slope to Becoming Preacher’s wife)
  * Together for Hope Highlights
  * Ministry at the Vulcanesti Outpost

January - February '07
  * Returning to New Orleans
  * Disaster Response – A Year in Numbers
  * Cactus Bloom in Landscape of Poverty – Bill Hoffman
  * Poverty: A Religious Issue – Bread for the World
  *  Bridgewater Church Celebrates 1st Anniversary

November - December '06
  * When Stars Held Their Breath – Madelein L’Engle (and Hubble Space Telescope)
  * Expanding Gypsy Ministries – Daughertys Visit Holland
  *  Saying Thank-you
  *  Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to Aid LaComb
  *  Stagg – Tolbert Forum

September - October '06
  * The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Clarence Jordan
  *  Rebuilding, Rebirth – Carla Wynn and Reid Doster
  *  The Migrant’s Meal – Jay Hogewood
  *  What is the Price of Being the Presence of Christ? – John Daugherty
  *  A Church Without Walls – Reid Doster
  *   Readers Write
  *  Words to Make Fishers of Men – Mary van Rheenen

July - August '06
  *  $200,000 Church Recovery Initiative with Baptist Builders
  *  Volunteer Finds Faith – Carla Wynn
  *  John Daugherty on Missional Christians
  *  Prayer: The Conversation of a Lifetime – Mary Gurski
  *  The Book Bag People and More
  *  Touching Lepers With Jesus
  *  Daniel Vestal on Lamenting, Praying and Acting for our World
  *  Past Sunflower Fields – Mary van Rheenen

May - June '06
  *  It’s About Partnerships: Pass the Grapes! – Kyle Kelley
  * Up From Adversity: Bridgewater Church – Carla Wynn
  *  Volunteers With Fury – Stephen Meriwether
  *  Twister Yields Twisted Irony
  *  Singing the Lord’s Song in a Foreign Land – Larry Taylor
  *  Planting Hope In Lake Providence, Spreading Hope in Tensas – Mary Wynn
  *  The Problem of Our Day: Complex, Spiritual, Moral – Daniel Vestal
  *  Sinti Tent Meeting: Food, Stories, Faith – Mary van Rheenen

March - April '06
  *  New Wineskins: Called To Do a New Thing
  *  A Church is Born
  *  Disaster Response 101: He Who Has the Showers Has the Power – Reid Doster
  *  Orphan Tongue – Mary van Rheenen
  *  A Day in the Life of Us – Mary van Rheenen
  
January - February '06
  *  Bridgewater: Fresh Start After Katrina
  *  Heart to God, Hand to Our Brothers and Sisters – Reid Doster
  *  Following Jesus Against the Grain (White Preachers in Trouble) – Kyle Kelley
  *  Christmas in the Bayou – Reid Doster
  *  Romany “Woon-Wagon-Camp” and How Jesus Makes Siblings Of Us All -- Mary van Rheenen

November - December '05
  *  CBF-LA Goes Charismatic
  *  From Sprint to Marathon: Disaster Response and Using Our Gifts
  *  Fisher Humphreys Addresses Stagg-Tolbert Forum, Lynn & Edith Hawkins Honored
  *  Volunteer Gifts in China – Kenny Crump
  *  Lacombe: God Knows Our Name, Cares About Our Story – Reid Doster
  *  Gifted to Serve: Team Based Ministry – Ron Perritt

September - October '05
  *  Katrina and Being the Presence of Christ
  *  Father, Son and Holy Spirit – Fisher Humphreys
  *  Raia and Eduardo: Romany Dreams for Independence – Mary van Rheenen
  *  Church in Exile – Carla Wynn

July - August '05
  *  Turning 100: Baptist World Alliance Birthday Party
  *  Baptist Women Walking Together – Sarah Frances Anders
  *  Seeing With New Eyes: Women’s Declaration, Baptist World Alliance
  *  Free Water and a Free Library! – Mary van Rheenen
  *  Louisiana Baptists in a Texas Greenhouse – Kyle Kelley
  *  My Sexuality – Malcolm Tolbert

May - June '05
   *  Sons and Daughters of Abraham: Baptist / Jewish Dialogue in New Orleans – Kyle Kelley
   *  The Inexorable Messianic Question – Steven Meriwether
   *  Swatting Mosquitoes or Draining the Swamp? – Kyle Kelley

March - April '05
   * “Breakout Year” for CBF-LA
   *  Following Jesus Together in a World of Pain – Daniel Vestal and Bill Hoffman
   *  Developing a Marriage Ministry in Your Church – Greg and Priscilla Hunt
   *  Of Saints and Sea Legs – Kyle Kelley
   *  Grief: Journeying Together – Lee Weems
   * Discipleship in Mark’s Gospel – Carlton Winberry

January - February '05
   *  Why Louisiana Baptists Need to Know Daniel Vestal
   *  ‘Pastor Dan’ In His Own Words: Gleanings from Vestal on Line
   *  To Our Most Bitter Opponents – Martin Luther King
   *  Committing to Long Term Needs in SE Asisa – Carla Wynn

November - December '04
   *  Louisiana Couple: The Presence of Christ Among Gypsies
   *  Romany at a Glance
   *  A Missionary’s Heart – Keith Holmes
   *  Is God an American? – Greg Hunt
   *  In Prison You Visited Me: The Gospel in Restorative Justice
   *  Christians Need Not Check Their Brains at the Door of the Church: Malcolm Tolbert at Biblical Forum

September - October '04
  * Two Louisiana Treasures: Frank Stagg and Malcolm Tolbert
  *  BWA: Not a New Airline
  *  Louisiana College: Are the Pine Trees Drooping? – Kyle Kelley
  *  Coming Full Circle, A Walking Miracle – Ronney Joe Webb
  *  The Isaiah Platform