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...they thank God for Bobby's new glasses. For 45 minutes, their teacher, Joel Allen, 28, leads the students through Bible study. "Who made you?" he asks. "God made me. Job 33:4, "the children answer. During the course of the 6½hour day at the Bridgeport Baptist Academy, the students, ages four to 18, are drilled in the basics and the Bible. Says Allen: "We don't consider it a job working here. We consider it a ministry...
...independence of that ministry was resoundingly upheld last week. In a strong, unambiguous decision, a Michigan judge reaffirmed the First Amendment guarantee of separation of church and state by exempting private Christian schools from state supervision of their curriculum and teachers. Ministers, teachers and parents of the Bridgeport Baptist Academy and the Sheridan Road Christian School, both near Saginaw, had charged that attempts by the state's board of education to supervise curriculum and teacher qualifications violated their religious freedom. Judge Ray Hotchkiss agreed, ruling that the board, by imposing its secular standards of education on religious schooling, "interfered...
...people the missionaries are trying to reach. The change is exemplified by the efforts of the Rev. Dan Schellenberg, who is trying to improve the farming techniques of the same Kenya tribes that his father evangelized. Schellenberg, who is with the biggest U.S. mission agency, the Southern Baptist Convention, says, "My father wouldn't approve of what I'm doing," and calls his father's methods of seeking converts "buttonholing for Jesus." Yet the younger Schellenberg remains an evangelist. When a hot day's work is done, he chats with farmer friends about the threat...
...stonecutter immigrant from northern Italy, Bernardin was the only Catholic boy on the block in his home town of Columbia, S.C. Of necessity, childhood became a venture in grass-roots ecumenism. He recalls, "I used to go to the Bible school that the Baptist church sponsored, especially on the days when they gave out ice cream...
Born in the "West End" ghetto of Chester. Pennsylvania, Kenyatta--unlike most law students--spent his childhood attending a segregated elementary school. Soon after his fourteenth birthday, he was ordained a Baptist minister at Chester's Calvary Baptist Church. He has been a minister for almost 25 years now and has spent most of that time as a civil rights activist. His activism has led to threats on his life by both the FBI and "Black Mafia" drug dealers, he says...