Three Texas Baptist Men feeding units were sent to Southeast Texas to help victims of Hurricane Humberto.

The category 1 storm made landfall with 85 mile per hour winds and brought as much as 16 inches of rain. More than 110,000 people were without electricity Sept. 13.

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Buckner collaborates with Hispanic San Antonio church. Buckner Children and Family Services entered a collaborative agreement with South San Filadelfia Baptist Church to provide community ministry programs in the congregation’s southside San Antonio neighborhood. Buckner and South San Filadelfia will provide after-school care, a food pantry, health clinics and youth mentoring. Buckner currently provides community programs in several Texas Baptist churches and one church in Knoxville, Tenn., but the collaboration with South San Filadelfia marks the first with a Hispanic congregation. Sara Rangel will serve as site coordinator at South San Filadelfia.

Baylor hospital CEO packs a punch. Joel Allison, president and chief executive officer of Baylor Health Care System, was named No. 26 among Modern Healthcare magazine’s “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.” More than 26,000 readers visited the Modern Healthcare website and voted for those nominees they believed had power to influence the nation’s health care delivery system. Allison also was ranked on last year’s list. Allison’s career includes more than three decades in health care management. He joined Baylor Health Care System in 1993, serving as senior executive vice president and chief operating officer before being named president and CEO in 2000. For the complete list of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare,” visit www.modernhealthcare.com.

Children at Heart expands in Houston. HomeAid Houston, a project of the Greater Houston Builders Association, has agreed to partner with Children at Heart Ministries to build a second home for its Gracewood residential ministry to single mothers and their children in Houston. In addition, Gracewood plans to remodel its existing home to convert office space into more living space and add an additional living unit. When the two projects are complete, Gracewood’s capacity for single mothers and their children will expand from its current five families to 14, plus many others served through after-care and nonresidential ministries. Also, Children At Heart’s STARRY ministry will assume program responsibility for foster care services at Rio Bend, a residential foster care facility located in Richmond, southwest of Houston. Rio Bend, located in Fort Bend County, will be part of STARRY’s child placement program. STARRY operates foster care, emergency shelter and counseling programs in Round Rock.

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TOGETHER: Missions offering touches Texas lives

Posted: 9/14/07

TOGETHER:
Missions offering touches Texas lives

If you could make a difference in the lives of students, would you? If you could help put a church near people who need a church, would you? If you could share the gospel with people who have never heard of Jesus, would you?

Of course you would. Here’s some good news: You can!

Executive Director BGCT Executive Board

Every year at this time, many churches collect money for the Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas Missions and make plans for their giving through the Baptist General Convention of Texas Cooperative Program in the coming year. As you do this, keep the following ministries in mind, because you will be a part of them:

• Camp Exalted. African-American teens pray and sing and make life-changing decisions.

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By Andrew Daugherty

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By Steve Dominy

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By Travis Frampton

Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene

In Matthew’s Gospel, people who are “religious” often misunderstand the life, ministry and teachings of Jesus. The Pharisees have problems with Jesus’ authority. They understand him as a threat to their position of power within the Jewish community. The Sadducees, who did not accept notions of an afterlife, spirits and angels, debate with him over interpretation of the Law and vehemently oppose him on the idea of the resurrection. The chief priests, elders and scribes worked with the Roman government to bring Jesus to trial and considered plans for his execution.

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By Andrew Daugherty

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By Travis Frampton

Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene

When the old generation of Israelites died in the wilderness after wandering 40 years, Moses assembled their descendants, the new generation, east of the Jordan River and told them to “listen to the statutes and laws which I proclaim to you this day. Learn them, and be careful to observe them” (Deuteronomy 5:1). Shortly thereafter, he recited the Ten Commandments.

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