2006 Archives
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Texas Baptist schools recognized in national rankings
Posted: 9/29/06
Texas Baptist schools
recognized in national rankingsU.S. News & World Report recognized eight universities affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas in its annual ranking of colleges across the country.
Baylor University, Dallas Baptist University, East Texas Baptist University, Hardin-Simmons University, Houston Baptist University, Howard Payne University, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Wayland Baptist University recently were recognized by the publication.
East Texas Baptist University English Professor Annemarie Whaley helps a student with a writing assignment in the English writing lab at ETBU’s Scarborough Hall. ETBU was ranked 11th in the category “Best Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor’s” category in the western portion of the nation. It also was named second-best “Great School, Great Prices” in that category.
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Board examines total expected BGCT 2007 expenditures
Posted: 9/29/06
Board examines total expected
BGCT 2007 expendituresBy Ken Camp
Managing Editor
DALLAS—The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board not only recommended a $50.6 million 2007 budget proposal, but also looked at total anticipated expenditures from all sources during a Sept. 25-26 meeting in Dallas.
For the first time, the Executive Board examined all expected expenditures for the coming year, including allocated funds from investments and interest income from designated wills and trusts—a responsibility performed by the Administrative Committee prior to changes in the convention’s governance.
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Veteran missions leader Fenner to be nominated for VP
Posted: 9/29/06
Veteran missions leader
Fenner to be nominated for VPBy Marv Knox
Editor
DALLAS—Veteran missions leader Joy Fenner will be nominated for first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas when the BGCT holds its annual meeting in Dallas Nov. 13-14.
Fenner, a former missionary to Japan who later served 20 years as executive director-treasurer of Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas, will be nominated by Ed Hogan, pastor of Jersey Village Baptist Church in Houston.
Joy Fenner 09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Female ex-offenders find ‘Grace’
Posted: 9/29/06
Billy and Jacqueline Thornton provide a transitional home for previously incarcerated women. Female ex-offenders find ‘Grace’
By Lauren Kirk
Special to the Baptist Standard
SAN ANTONIO—Billy and Jacqueline Thornton may be retired, but their lives have been far from leisurely since they founded Grace House—a transitional residence for previously incarcerated women.
The Thorntons have taught Bible classes at Bexar County Adult Detention Center 15 years. Mrs. Thornton realized the women in her class needed help once they left the facility. Women made professions of faith in Christ and left thinking they had their lives together, but within six months, they would be back in the class because they lacked support, stability and spiritual guidance.
Jacqueline Thornton (right) offers guidance to female ex-offenders at Grace House. 09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum
Posted: 9/29/06
Texas Baptist Forum
College football on Sunday
Regarding Bruce Parsons’ protest of the recent Sunday evening football contest between Baylor and TCU (Sept. 18): My alma mater, Baylor, and many other church-affiliated institutions nationwide have competed regularly on Sundays for decades in a variety of other intercollegiate sports, including baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, and tennis, among others.
• Jump to online-only letters below Letters are welcomed. Send them to marvknox@baptiststandard.com; 250 words maximum. 
“I’m not the Christ. I’m just a donkey the Christ rides on.”T.D. Jakes
Pastor of The Potter’s House in Dallas (Texas Monthly/RNS)“This idea that God wants everybody to be wealthy. There is a word for that—baloney. It’s creating a false idol. You don’t measure your self-worth by your net worth. I can show you millions of faithful followers of Christ who live in poverty. Why isn’t everyone in the church a millionaire?”
Rick Warren
Author and pastor of Saddleback Valley Church in California (Time magazine/RNS)“When we present Jesus as a pro-war, anti-poor, anti-homosexual, anti-environment, pro-nuclear weapons authority figure draped in an American flag, I think we are making a travesty of the portrait of Jesus we find in the gospels.”
Brian McLaren
Leader of the “emerging church” movement and pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Montgomery County, Md. (The Washington Post/RNS)“Amid a culture inundated with bigness and cellular technology, iPods and TiVo, the technologized megachurch is no longer impressive. In fact, many young Christians come to church to get asylum from this worldliness. Infinitely more than the megachurch’s ‘stuff,’ my generation wants religion. We want everything our parents didn’t, and that seems increasingly to be summed up in the word ‘meaning.’”
Clint Rainey
Student at the University of Texas at Austin“It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
Winston Churchill
British orator, author and prime minister during World War II (Thinkexist.com)The fact a football game on Sunday draws objection says, I think, more about the exalted position football enjoys in our state than it suggests a recent cultural abandonment of a religious tradition surrounding Sunday nights.
Moreover, Baylor football on Sunday is neither recent nor unprecedented. Baylor played Sunday football games seven times between 1900 and 1933, including two games won over our fellow Texas Baptists at Howard Payne University.
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Pastor’s wife finds her service niche in literacy missions
Posted: 9/29/06
Pastor’s wife finds her service
niche in literacy missionsBy Carol Gene Graves
Baylor Center for Literacy
WACO—Despite growing up a pastor’s daughter and becoming a preacher’s wife, Judy Hughes of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Waco never found her niche for Christian service until she discovered literacy ministries.
She found literacy missions 14 years ago, but her passion to share Christ with others while teaching them English continues to grow, she insists.
Judy Hughes of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Waco teaches English to Silvia Hernandez (left) and Juana Loredo. (Photo by Carol Gene Graves/Baylor Center for Literacy) 09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Technology links ministers to church members
Posted: 9/29/06
Technology links ministers to church members
By Angela Best
Communications Intern
MARSHALL—Technological innovations leave ministers without excuse for keeping church members informed, said Brian Pearce, minister of youth and recreation at First Baptist Church in Marshall.
09/29/2006 - By John Rutledge
