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Posted: 11/19/04

Texas Tidbits

Howard Payne president recognized. Lanny Hall, president of Howard Payne University in Brownwood and president emeritus of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, has been included among 150 Christian leaders and educators to share their faith stories in "College Faith 2," edited by Ronald Alan Knott and published by Andrews University Press. Robert Sloan, president of Baylor University in Waco, and Craig Turner, president of Hardin-Simmons University, were included in the first edition of "College Faith," published in 2002.

UMHB hosts servant leadership conference. Laurie Beth Jones, author of the best-selling "Jesus, CEO" and "Jesus, Life Coach," will be the keynote speaker at a Servant Leadership Celebration Dec. 7 at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton. The program also will feature Charles Cooper, national speaker for Promise Keepers, and Charles Billingsley, vocalist for Newsong. The event, sponsored by the Servant Leadership Institute of Central Texas, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact (254) 724-3175 or e-mail kwinters@swmail.sw.org.

HBU to host lecture. Peter Flint, professor of biblical studies and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, will speak on "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible" at Houston Baptist University at 2 p.m. Dec. 3. Flint, an internationally acknowledged scholar on the Dead Sea Scrolls, regularly participates in both public seminars and academic meetings on the Dead Sea Scrolls, biblical topics, early Judaism and the Christian faith in the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.

UMHB offers community nursing symposium. The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor's Nursing Honor Society and Scott & White College of Nursing will hold the 19th Semi-annual Community Nursing Symposium from 1 to 5 p.m. Nov. 23 in the Parker Academic Center on the UMHB campus. The symposium is presented by UMHB senior nursing students and is based on community assessment projects completed throughout the semester. Projects are required to benefit the communities in which the students serve and incorporate theoretical concepts gained in class and through research. For more information, call (254) 295-4662.

Organ scholarship established at HSU. Gladys Browning Best and her immediate family have established an endowed organ scholarship at Hardin-Simmons University in memory of her husband, Carl, who served 18 years on the university's music faculty. The scholarship will benefit students studying organ in the HSU School of Music. Scholarship recipients must be full-time students in good-standing, free from any disciplinary action, and with a 2.5 overall grade point average and 3.0 grade point average in music. Best retired as associate professor of voice and music education in 1981. He was appointed to the HSU faculty in 1963, serving in a wide spectrum of services, including voice instructor, director of the HSU Chorale, director of the opera workshop and director of HSU chapel music. He was a former public school music teacher in Bryan and Sherman, and he served in the music ministry at the First Baptist churches in those cities.

River Ministry sets training events. The Baptist General Convention of Texas River Ministry has scheduled five training events in early 2005 for Mexico missions volunteers. Upstate training opportunities are Jan. 29 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel near DFW Airport during the Epicenter missions and evangelism conference and Feb. 5 at Brentwood Baptist Church in Houston during the BGCT Hispanic Evangelism Conference. Border retreats are scheduled Feb. 11-12 in Laredo/Nuevo Laredo, Feb. 18-19 at the Mission Retreat Center in the Rio Grande Valley and Feb. 25-26 at Iglesia Bautista Peniel in Eagle Pass. Training for trips to Mexico's interior will be available in the Houston and Dallas sessions. For more information, call Dexton Shores, director of BGCT River Ministry, at (888) 333-2363.