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Florida based Bay Area Baptist Church of Clearwater is launching a “Church with a heart” ministry.2008-03-25 13:33:11 — Patterning itself after the great First Baptist Church of Hammond which boasts over 30,000 and spending over $2 million a year helping the needy, Bay Area Baptist Church of Clearwater is about to launch a ministry that will duplicate this great church.
Excitement is in the air in the Tampa Bay Area where Bay Area Baptist Church of Clearwater is conducting a poll of interested Christians and in particular of Independent Baptists who live in the area to participate in a poll of interest in the founding of another multi-ministry church that will spread love to the many hurting people in the area.
Pastor David Williams who met his wife in Clearwater in the 70’s and preached on Big Pier 60 while they were dating, has most recently been on the street again standing up for Terry Schiavo. He was seen on T.V for many weeks preaching, singing with his guitar and even playing his violin to the crowds that gathered around the Hospice in Pinellas Park.
What has prompted this plan to start a new church is the declining numbers in the Independent Baptist Movement because of pastors or churches that have moved or changed their emphasis away from what Independent Baptists are traditionally known for, soul-winning and bus ministry. Pastor Williams has visited neighborhoods where hundreds of children who used to ride a bus to church now are disenfranchised because nearly every church that used to be in that benevolent activity have canceled their endeavors to reach the poor in that way. …
Pastor Williams has a real vision and because of his sending church in Hammond, Indiana, First Baptist Church, and Hyles-Anderson College, he has access to trained staff to handle every one of these ministries.
With thousands of people suffering due to divorce, incest, murder, child molesters, gang related crime, teen suicide, homeless, displaced families, drug abuse, and other such evils of society, a church that has a department for ministering for every one of these needs. …
Punch line: Unfortunately, it’s Jack Hyles’ Independent Fundamental Baptist church responsible for “people suffering due to divorce, incest, murder, child molesters … and other such evils of society”!
Case dismissed against man who hit motorcyclists with truckApril 5, 2008
VALPARAISO [Indiana] — The Crown Point man whose February trial for reckless homicide ended in a hung jury will not go to court again.
Prosecutor Brian Gensel’s office has elected not to pursue another trial and dismissed the case against Paul G. Kruse, 53, Deputy Prosecutor Andrew Bennett said in court Friday.
Kruse was accused of turning the Creviston mail truck he was driving in front of four motorcyclists in Hebron on Sept. 26, 2006.
One of them, Peter Stassis, 32, of Valparaiso, died, and another was hospitalized. …
Kruse, a minister who works at Hyles-Anderson College in Crown Point, had taken the mail truck job so he and his wife could purchase land next to their home. He doesn’t plan to return to that job, he said.
