2005 Archives
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Spring break means missions to many Texas Baptist students_40405
Posted: 4/01/05
Dallas Baptist University students work on a Habitat for Humanity building. (Photos courtesy of Hardin-Simmons University, Dallas Baptist University and Houston Baptist University) Spring break means missions
to many Texas Baptist studentsBy Ferrell Foster
Texas Baptist Communications
Hundreds of Texas Baptist college students used their spring breaks for missions efforts again this year. Some went to distant countries; others just went down the street.
04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits_40405
Posted: 4/01/05
Texas Tidbits
Reform group honors CLC director. Campaigns for People will honor Phil Strickland, director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas' Christian Life Commission, along with Mickey Jo Lawrence, former member of the Texas Ethics Commission, at a "Clean Up Texas Politics" dinner at 6 p.m. April 12 in Austin. The event will be at Hill's Café, 4700 South Congress. Tickets are $30 per individual and $15 per student. For more information, contact Amy Prichard Tutt at (512) 472-1007.
TBM volunteer presumed dead after refinery fire. A veteran Texas Baptist Men volunteer was missing and presumed dead following an explosion at a Texas City oil refinery, where he worked. Dan Hogan was unaccounted for after the March 23 blast. Hogan had been involved in nearly every aspect of Texas Baptist Men service for three decades, including disaster relief, church renewal and Royal Ambassadors.
ETBU group visits Poland. Faculty and staff representatives from East Texas Baptist University are slated to travel to Czestohowa, Poland, this week to visit the campus of Jan Dlugosz University. "Our hope is to establish a partnership/exchange program for faculty and students similar to the one we have with the Lanzhou University of Technology in Lanzhou, China," said ETBU Vice President for Academic Affairs Paul Sorrels.
04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Pray for the ministers in your church_40405
Posted: 4/01/05
TOGETHER:
Pray for the ministers in your churchAlmost 3,000 Hispanic young people erupted in applause and celebration at Congreso when I shared the news that the Baptist General Convention of Texas has added 1,024 new congregations during the past five years. Those congregations represent the ethnic and racial diversity that is today's Texas–83 ethnic congregations, 223 African-American, 296 Anglo and 422 Hispanic.
Then I asked: “Who will be the youth ministers, the worship leaders, the future pastors of these and other new churches? They will come from the people in this room.” Again they cheered.
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
I rejoice at what God is doing in and through our Hispanic youth. These young people want to be leaders in their churches, in their homes and in their society. They want to be great fathers and mothers, giving themselves to raising their children. And some of them will be pastors and ministers in churches for years to come.
04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texan helps Sri Lanka develop foster care program_40405
Posted: 4/01/05
David, Eva and Kim Beckett. The Boerne couple had just arrived in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit. The couple put aside their just-developing business as gem merchants to assist in relief work. San Antonio-based Baptist Child & Family Services has named Beckett its Sri Lanka director of Children's Emergency Relief International (its overseas arm) which has been asked by the Sri Lankan government to develop the country's first foster care system. Texan helps Sri Lanka
develop foster care programBy Craig Bird
Baptist Child & Family Services
Sri Lanka's government has invited a Baptist agency to shape the country's first child protective services program, and the man who got Texas Baptists involved in tsunami relief will lead the effort.
04/01/2005 - By John Rutledge
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