• Messengers wouldn’t bite on challenge to Baylor nominee_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  Messengers wouldn't bite on challenge to Baylor nominee

  By Mark Wingfield

  Managing Editor

  LUBBOCK–A nominee to fill the unexpired term of a Baylor University regent who resigned this fall was challenged on the floor of the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual session Nov. 10.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist University of Americas named_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  Baptist University of Americas named

  By Russ Dilday

  Buckner News Service

  LUBBOCK–A new name for Hispanic Baptist Theological School was approved by messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual session Nov. 10.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Wade pledges openness to change, calls Texans to cooperate_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  Wade pledges openness to change, calls Texans to cooperate

  By Mark Wingfield

  Managing Editor

  LUBBOCK–The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board staff is willing to meet changing needs of churches, Executive Director Charles Wade said in his report to the BGCT annual session Nov. 10.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Motions call for study of HBU’s ties and funds for restorative justice_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  Motions call for study of HBU's ties and funds for restorative justice

  By Mark Wingfield

  Managing Editor

  LUBBOCK–The Baptist General Convention of Texas will evaluate the implications of Houston Baptist University's fraternal relationship with a competing state Baptist convention.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  BGCT session gives survey of black Baptist history_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  BGCT session gives survey of black Baptist history

  By Craig Bird

  Texas Baptist Communications

  LUBBOCK–What if black Baptists offered a church history class and a bunch of white folks came?

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Be an army of one in ministry, McBride urges_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  Be an army of one in ministry, McBride urges

  By Mark Wingfield

  Managing Editor

  LUBBOCK–Texas Baptists should be an army of one, moving out as the presence of Christ in a lost world, Paul McBride urged.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  Crossover Lubbock warms hearts on High Plains_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03

  Young Wang accompanied his parents to a Texas cultural event for internationals held at the Texas Tech Baptist Student Ministry as part of Crossover Lubbock, a ministry and evangelism blitz that preceded the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual sesion last week.

  Crossover Lubbock warms hearts on High Plains

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  LUBBOCK–Hundreds of High Plains residents found shelter from chilly temperatures in the warm welcome of Baptist church members during evangelistic outreach prior to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual session.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Hunt still on for Texas Baptist Men executive director_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  Hunt still on for Texas Baptist Men executive director

  By John Hall

  Texas Baptist Communications

  LUBBOCK–Texas Baptist Men continues looking for a permanent executive director.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  WMU: Tell the generations_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03

  In celebration of the 90th birthday of the missions education program Girls in Action, GAs and GA leaders participated in a processional of world flags.

  WMU: Tell the generations

  By Teresa Young

  Wayland Baptist University

  LUBBOCK–Share missions with the coming generations, leaders urged during the 123rd annual meeting of Texas Woman's Missionary Union.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  Pinson: How to make a Baptist_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  PINSON:
  How to make a Baptist

  By Marv Knox

  Editor

  LUBBOCK–Despite their diversity, Baptists are made from the same recipe, Bill Pinson told seminar participants at the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual session.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

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  BGCT program signs, seals and delivers missions emphasis_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03

  Charles Wade (seated left) and Gilberto Gutierrez sign a formal agreement authorizing a working relationship between the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the National Baptist Convention of Mexico. Wade is executive director of the BGCT, and Gutierrez is president of the NBCM. They are surrounded by other missions leaders in Texas and Mexico.

  BGCT program signs, seals and delivers missions emphasis

  By Craig Bird

  Texas Baptist Communications

  LUBBOCK–It started with the slow, stirring wail of a single bagpipe. It ended with a pastor-wife team from a 17-member congregation that puts it money and its time where its heart is.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge

• Lubbock woman challenges MSC volunteers to dream_111703

  Posted: 11/14/03
  

  Lubbock woman challenges MSC volunteers to dream

  By Teresa Young

  Wayland Baptist University

  LUBBOCK–Shirley Madden just smiles when she hears people say her dream facility can't be completed. To her, that's a sure sign God has great things in store.

  11/14/2003 - By John Rutledge