Texas Tidbits

Posted: 10/13/06

Texas Tidbits

BGCT assists Mexican flood victims. The Baptist General Convention of Texas has sent $7,500 to help 75 Mexican Baptist families whose homes recently were flooded. The designated disaster response funds will be channeled through the Rio Grande Valley Baptist Association to purchase 75 mattresses, sheets and blankets. Mexican Baptist churches in Reynosa and Rio Bravo will distribute the supplies.

DBU preview event slated. Dallas Baptist University’s Patriot Weekend event Nov. 11 offers high school students and their parents a preview of college life. Prospective students will eat breakfast with DBU professors, attend mock classes and have the opportunity to interview for scholarships. In addition, DBU will waive the application fee for students who apply for admission during Patriot Weekend. The event also includes seminars for parents on topics such as financial aid, student life and parent services. The weekend event also will include a performance by DBU’s show choir, Legacy. Cost is $25, which includes two meals for both students and parents. For more information about Patriot Weekend, contact the office of undergraduate admissions at (214) 333-5360 or register online at www.dbu.edu/patriotday.

Historical Society meets prior to BGCT. The Texas Baptist Historical Society will elect officers, recognize winners of the annual church history writing awards and hear a presentation on “Reclaiming our Independence: Renovating and Remodeling the Texas Baptist Historical Museum” by Alan Lefever, director of the Texas Baptist Historical Collection, at the group’s annual meeting Nov. 13 at the Dallas Convention Center. Cost of the lunch meeting, which begins at 10:45 a.m. in Room D160 on the convention center’s first floor, is $20, and the reservation deadline is Nov. 3. The meeting will adjourn prior to the opening session of the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting. For reservations, call (972) 331-2235 or e-mail autumn.hendon@bgct.org.

UMHB sets Missions Week. Baptist Student Ministries at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor will sponsor its annual Missions Week Oct. 23-27. The theme is “Big World: You are Here.” The emphasis gives students exposure to missions by allowing them to interact with missionaries in the classroom, at meals, in chapel, during Bible studies and in multiple settings on campus.

Youth revivalists to dedicate heritage display. Leaders of the Youth Revival Movement, which spread from Baylor University and impacted a generation of post-World War II students, will reunite in Waco to dedicate a memorial to the event Oct. 19-22. Veterans of the Youth Revival Movement will speak in Baylor and Truett Seminary classes Thursday and Friday, Oct. 19-20, and will participate in Baylor’s homecoming Saturday, Oct. 21. Then they will gather in the Truett Seminary chapel for a worship service that will dedicate a permanent memorial to the movement, to be located at Truett Seminary. The worship-and-dedication service will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 22. Speakers are to include BO Baker, Dick Baker, Frank Boggs, Howard Butt, Buckner and Martha Fanning, Ralph Langley, Jess Moody, Jack Robinson and Charles Wellborn, as well as Baylor President John Lilley and Truett Dean Paul Powell. John Wood is chairman of the reunion steering committee.

Clarification. An article in the Oct. 2 issue of the Baptist Standard stated Iglesia Bautista Manantial de Vida in Penitas applied for a $100,000 loan to the Baptist General Convention of Texas and was turned down. The BGCT loaned the church $50,000 on July 21, 2005. Also, the BGCT Church Starting office has approved $18,000 in program support money to help the church with early payments on the loan.