ETBU football players share gospel in the Czech_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

Chad Glover	Micah Huckaby

ETBU football players share
gospel in the Czech Republic

By Jocelyn Delgado

Communications Intern

For two weeks this summer, two East Texas Baptist University Students traveled to the Czech Republic with nine other student volunteers to minister by sharing the gospel and playing a little football.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

Mission Devine focuses on community involvement_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

Volunteers from First Baptist Church in Devine help renovate a house in their comunity. Seventeen homes were renovated during the week through a mininstry that also included Backyard Bible Clubs, discipleship events, and yard-and-street cleaning. (Photos by Danielle Young)

Mission Devine focuses on
community involvement

By George Henson

Staff Writer

DEVINE–About six months ago, the staff at First Baptist Church in Devine decided to make this summer about missions. And they wanted to focus on the local community.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

DOWN HOME: Worship wars ‘We’ can overcome_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

DOWN HOME:
Worship wars: 'We' can overcome

I stumbled into the worship wars.

On July 30, 1997, I revealed that my daughter Molly, then 10, had absolutely no idea what I meant when I hinted she might earn a “star” in her “crown” if she agreed to visit prospects for our church with me.

Kids these days. They haven't heard of, much less sung from, the lovely 1956 Baptist Hymnal. Molly never intoned the plaintive question, “Will there be any stars, any stars in my crown?”

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

EDITORIAL: Will Bush supporters receive payoff?_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

EDITORIAL:
Will Bush supporters receive payoff?

Here's why so many people with strong opinions spent so much money and worked so hard during the last presidential election: Presidents nominate Supreme Court justices.

Presidents and members of Congress, powerful as they are, come and go. But Supreme Court justices serve on and on and on for decades, and their decisions determine how Americans live for generations.

So, while movers and shakers may have been talking about George W. Bush when they worked for his re-election, they were thinking about William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor, the justices most likely to retire during this presidential term.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

El Paso Baptist volunteers serve in Mexico City_72505

Posted: 7/22/05 El Paso Baptist volunteers serve in Mexico City Director of Missions Josue Valerio led church leaders from El Paso Baptist Associations on a mission trip to Mexico City….

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

LifeCall Missions launched to involve volunteer_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

LifeCall Missions launched to involve volunteers

By John Hall

Texas Baptist Communications

DALLAS–Committed to the idea that God leads people into service as a lifetime calling rather than a one-time event, the Baptist General Convention of Missions Equipping Center has launched LifeCall Missions, a volunteer missions program for Texas Baptists of all ages.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

On the Move_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

On the Move

Drew Allen to Calvary Church in Mexia as interim minister to youth/students.

Jack Boggs has resigned as pastor of First Church in Matador.

Clay Carter to First Church in Perryton as youth/education minister from McKinney Street Church in Denton, where he was youth minister.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

Reyes will not seek second term as BGCT president_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

Reyes will not seek second
term as BGCT president

By Marv Knox

Editor

Albert Reyes will not seek a second one-year term as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

Wichita Falls volunteers plant seedlings, gospel seeds in South Africa_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

Wichita Falls volunteers plant seedlings,
gospel seeds in South Africa

By George Henson

Staff Writer

WICHITA FALLS–Members of First Baptist Church in Wichita Falls not only planted seedlings to nourish bodies, but also left seeds of evangelism to transform souls in South Africa.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

TOGETHER: Davis Offering makes lasting impact_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

TOGETHER:
Davis Offering makes lasting impact

In a few weeks, the women in your church likely will talk about the Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas Missions. Every year, Texas Baptists give almost $5 million over and above our regular church budget gifts to make an impact on the needs of Texas. Our WMU leaders have worked especially hard to help Texas Baptists be on the cutting edge of mission advance.

The apartment ministry movement, Rio Grande River Ministry, college scholarships for ethnic students and the surge in church starts in Texas all are trophies for the vision of Texas Baptist women. While continuing to support these efforts, Texas WMU is challenging us with stories about the rise of cowboy churches, about partnership efforts in New England, about training and linking people involved in innovative church plants and responding to the new realities in Texas.

Executive Director BGCT Executive Board

When you support our missions offering, you will help prepare training materials to help our church members work directly with at-risk children, youth and families in crisis. Children live near you who do not even know the name of Jesus except as a curse word.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

El Paso store offers needy women on-the-job training_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

El Paso store offers needy
women on-the-job training

By Jocelyn Delgado

Communications Intern

EL PASO–A new grocery store opened in El Paso, but it's not in business to make money. Its goal is to provide job training for women seeking to turn their lives around.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge

Lubbock ministry meets needs, changes lives_72505

Posted: 7/22/05

Lubbock ministry meets needs, changes lives

By Jocelyn Delgado

Communications Intern

LUBBOCK–Soon after graduating high school, Tanji Lamar was pregnant and living in an abusive relationship. She always planned to attend college, but after seven years, she thought it never would happen.

07/22/2005 - By John Rutledge