2006 Archives
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 7/21/06
Texas Tidbits
Pilgrim provides record gift to DBU. Dallas Baptist University took a major step toward building its first chapel in 108 years, thanks to an $8 million contribution from Bo Pilgrim, chairman of the Pilgrim’s Pride poultry company. The gift represents half of the university’s $16 million chapel campaign. The 1,400-seat Patty and Bo Pilgrim Chapel will be located in the heart of the campus in southwest Dallas. “We are grateful beyond words for the generosity of Mr. Pilgrim,” DBU President Gary Cook said. “With this gift, we will be able to fulfill a dream for a chapel, which has been on the heart of members of the DBU family ever since we moved to Dallas in 1965.” The chapel will accommodate student chapel services and host major campus events. Additional space will be allocated for the Alumni Association office, intercessory prayer ministry and Cook Graduate School of Leadership. DBU has held chapel services in the Burg Center, a multi-use facility that doubles as the school’s gym. For information on the chapel campaign, contact Adam Wright by phone at (214) 333-5597 or by e-mail at adam@dbu.edu.
Baylor Medical named among top hospitals. For the 14th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has designated Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas among the nation’s top 50 hospitals in seven specialties in its 2006 “America’s Best Hospitals” guide. Baylor Dallas made the list in each of seven specialties—digestive disorders (No. 20), endocrinology (No. 17), gynecology (No. 37), heart/heart surgery (No. 44), kidney disease (No. 34), neurology and neurosurgery (No. 42) and orthopedics (No. 22). Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation also ranked 20th among the nation’s top rehabilitation facilities.
07/21/2006 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Next generation deserves investment
Posted: 7/21/06
TOGETHER:
Next generation deserves investmentChildren and teenagers get a lot of attention from churches during the summer, and we are hearing great reports of decisions made and lives touched. This is happening through Baptist camps, Super Summer, Vacation Bible Schools, the Texas Baptist All-State Choir and Band, Youth Evangelism Conference, church mission trips and other activities.
Of course, children and youth ministries are not just for the summer. Every Sunday of the year, young people study God’s word in Sunday school, learn to relate to one another and discover the church and its leaders truly care for them.
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
Jesus said, “Let the children come to me.” Jesus-kind-of-churches reach out to children and young people. They pray for them and give them opportunities to know the Bible and to respond to the Holy Spirit’s invitation to follow Christ. These churches, like Jesus, know how to enjoy life, how to have a party with their kids. They are not stodgy, grim or afraid of life. They believe God loves every kid in town and are looking to reach out to every one of them.
If a church quits caring for children and youth, making a real place for them in the life of the church, soon a whole generation of kids comes and goes without the gospel making a difference in their lives. It can happen before you know it. A church can get preoccupied with other things, can go through division and hurt, and can disappoint through the moral failure of leaders.
07/21/2006 - By John Rutledge
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Another generation grows in faith under Womack’s care
Posted: 7/21/06
Susan Womack cares for the children of one-time children she has served during her 32-year tenure as minister of preschool education at Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston. Another generation grows
in faith under Womack’s careBy John Hall
Texas Baptist Communications
HOUSTON—Six-year-old Zoe couldn’t contain herself. She had made what she believed to be the most important decision of her life and had to tell someone.
07/21/2006 - By John Rutledge
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