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Baptist Times newspaper to cease publication

Baptist Times newspaper to cease publication

The editor of the Baptist Times has expressed his sadness over the decision to cease publication of the newspaper at the end of 2011..

  • Footplate Padre and young hearts in love

    Footplate Padre Mark Tronson in his monthly article in the On Track railway e-magazine says that the railways have their fair share of humorous stories and many a yarn had to be curtailed as if the full truth had been known, as no one would have believed the \'real\' story. Truth, it seems is quite often stranger than fiction and his November story is such from the annuls of the Western Australian Government Railways, as the railways opened up the wheat country around the period of the First Wo

  • An overview of Israel's history to independence

    In 1948 the United Nations voted for the establishment for the State of Israel. Many have suggsted it was because of the guilt many countries felt after the effects of the Holocaust became known. Although the Nazis would have allowed Jewish immigration from Germany prior to 1939, many nations did not accept the refugees at that time.

  • Cows deliver $300,000 of hope for outback youth

    School chaplaincy in regional and rural Queensland has received a massive boost of funds and awareness thanks to a cattle drove through central Queensland.

  • Medical ship volunteer in Africa: "Exactly where God wanted me"

    Nick, who works at Royal Brisbane Hospital, is home after five months service as a volunteer with Mercy Ships in Sierra Leone, West Africa, one of the world's poorest nations. In 2010, he spent more than six months in Togo, a time he describes as 'absolutely amazing'. "My first information about Mercy Ships came from a friend who raved about it as a great way to demonstrate God's love in a very practical way. Then I looked into it, fell in love with the idea, and literally jumped onboard."

  • Those trying to be helpful or becoming a whistleblower, be wary: A case study in the electronic age.

    A recent case of someone trying to be helpful was reported in the Sydney Morning Herald which shows that people who try to inform companies of mistakes are not immune from nasty backlashes when they try to do the right thing, even now, in this electronic age when they reveal IT problems and try to be 'good citizens' by reporting the problem.

  • Operation Christmas Child campaigns to send 8.5 million boxes globally

    More than 100 volunteers dressed as Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes will be canvassing New York City Thursday in an effort to encourage people to get involved in their campaign to provide gifts to 8.5 million children globally.

  • Israel: A new temple. A subject of much interest.

    The Apostle John wrote The Revelation about AD95, so when John speaks of the Temple (The Revelation 11 verses 1 and 2), it must refer to a new Temple as Herod's Temple was destroyed 25 years earlier, in 70AD. Now that made \'us\' take a step back and consider its implication.

  • Sue Spencer speaks to the Australian Missionary News IPTV highlighting her family's "sea-change

    Sue Spencer along with husband Sean are the Laguna Quays Respite co-ordinators on the Whitsunday\'s Carlisle Coast (Midge Point) and when interviewed by the Australian Missionary News IPTV spoke of how the Holy Spirit spoke to both her and Sean independently regarding a sea-change out of Brisbane.

  • 15 marathons in 15 days to highlight plight of the poor

    The founder of Christians Against Poverty launched his bid this morning to run 15 marathons in 15 consecutive days.

  • Hugh Jackman and Deborra‐Lee Furness applaud dollarmatching scheme for East Africa

    World Vision Ambassadors Hugh Jackman and Deborra‐Lee Furness said the Federal Government's dollarmatching scheme meant their generous donations would help twice as many drought‐stricken families in East Africa.

  • Does our society need administrators? Is there a case for the pen pushers?

    The story of Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, was a wise man in the ways of administering such a large number of people as the Israelites. Moses was finding himself snowed under with every little complaint within each and every jurisdiction of Israelite life.