2007 Archives
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Baptist volunteers spread cheer by ‘Serving Irving’
Posted: 11/30/07
Baptist volunteers spread
cheer by ‘Serving Irving’By Leann Callaway
Special to the Baptist Standard
IRVING—For more than a decade, members of Oak View Baptist Church in Irving have spent Thanksgiving “Serving Irving.” Willow Bend Baptist Church in Plano also helped this year to provide more than 2,000 traditional Thanksgiving meals to apartment complexes throughout the city.
Sergio Matassa, Oak View’s minister of missions, coordinated the outreach ministry. Six teams of volunteers helped with the project.
Volunteer Alyssa Raley serves meals to a family on Thanksgiving at The Raible Place Apartments in Irving. (Photos/Leann Callaway) 11/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Thanksgiving feast serves nearly 2,000
Posted: 11/30/07
Approximately 560 members of the Brownwood community enjoyed the 24th annual Community Thanksgiving Feast held at HPU. Additionally, 1,305 individuals had the meal delivered to their home that day. Thanksgiving feast serves nearly 2,000
BROWNWOOD—More than 130 volunteers served 1,976 meals to friends and family in Brownwood area at the 24th annual Community Thanksgiving Feast on Thanksgiving Day at the Howard Payne University Mabee Center.
“Howard Payne University’s Mabee Center was filled, as 560 guests enjoyed the traditional Thanksgiving meal prepared by the university’s Sodexho Food Service,” said Bill Fishback, coordinator of the event for the past 15 years and assistant vice president for business and human resources at HPU. Last year, 620 people were served at the Mabee Center and 1,305 meals were delivered to families in the community.
The staff of HPU’s Sodexho Food Service donated their time preparing the food so others can enjoy the Thanksgiving meal.
“We have the best university food service anywhere,” said Fishback. “Don Green and his staff did another outstanding job preparing the food for our friends and neighbors. And then, many of them go home and do the same thing for their own families.”
11/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Tidbits
Posted: 11/30/07
Texas Tidbits
Couple gives $5 million to Baylor. Baylor University received a $5 million gift from Clifton and Betsy Robinson of Waco. The gift will establish the C. Clifton Robinson and Betsy Sharp Robinson Endowed Scholarship Fund in the Honors College at Baylor. The scholarships will provide need-based financial assistance for academically gifted incoming freshmen, as well as some current Baylor students, who will be known as Clifton and Betsy Robinson Scholars. Scholarship recipients will study in any of the four Honors College programs—Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, the Honors Program, University Scholars and the Great Texts Program —established when the Honors College was created in 2002.
Music scholarship established at HSU. Francis McBeth recently established an endowed scholarship at Hardin-Simmons University to benefit sophomore, junior or senior theory composition majors in the School of Music. McBeth, a former Cowboy Band member and 1954 Hardin-Simmons graduate, served 40 years on the faculty at Ouachita Baptist University, and he was the conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in Little Rock from 1968 to 1972. He received the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Sudler Medal of Honor in 1999, and he was appointed the Composer Laureate of the State of Arkansas.
11/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Gratitude to God prompts giving
Posted: 11/30/07
TOGETHER:
Gratitude to God prompts givingIn this wonderful time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, our hearts are filled with gratitude for our families and friends, for our churches and the gospel, for our work and time to rest, for our country and our world.
Counting your blessings always is a good thing to do.
Executive Director
BGCT Executive Board
In my life, this has been the time that I have thought more carefully about giving than at any other time of the year. Perhaps you are the same way. I have no doubt that much of that has to do with Christmas and the giving of gifts to family and friends. But it also has to do with giving mission offerings so that the “best gift I give is to Jesus.” After all, it is his birthday that I celebrate. So making sure the most expensive gift I give is to advance his name and the good news of the Redeemer’s kingdom always has seemed to me to be the right thing to do.
The best motivation for giving always is gratitude. We give because God first gave to us. He gave us life and bountiful provisions in creation. He has given us new life and a sense of significance in salvation. We celebrate creation and redemption, earth and heaven, new life now and eternally. We marvel at the fullness and richness of God’s bountiful love. We find courage to press on in life’s most difficult trials. And we have learned in years of giving that we never have out-given God.
11/30/2007 - By John Rutledge
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