About 350 Baptist Student Ministry volunteers from Texas college campuses are spending their spring break at Beach Reach, providing free rides, free breakfasts and sharing the gospel on South Padre Island, March 7-13 and March 14-20.
Wendell GriffenHardin-Simmons University’s 15th annual T.B. Maston Lectures in Christian Ethics will be held March 23 and 24. Wendell Griffen, who is both pastor of New Millennium Church in Little Rock and an Arkansas circuit judge, will present “Repentance, Reconciliation and Baptists” in a two-part lecture series. The first lecture will be at 7 p.m. Monday at Logsdon Chapel. The concluding speech will be Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. at Behrens Auditorium.
East Texas Baptist University’s annual Sam B. Hall Jr. Lecture and banquet has been rescheduled for March 23 at 6:30 p.m. in the Phillips Great Room. The event was postponed due to inclement weather. Phillip Meyer, Houston businessman and ETBU trustee, will speak on his life experiences and growth in faith as a business leader. The program also will include announcement of the Sam B. Hall Jr. Civic Service Award recipient. Tickets are $50 per person and can be obtained by clicking here.
Buckner International’s Wynnewood Family Hope Center in South Dallas will hold a community health awareness day March 27 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free services to the community will include mammograms, blood pressure checks, HIV testing, dental screens, cholesterol and diabetes checks, immunizations and asthma screenings. Representatives from community service agencies also will be on hand with educational materials about the services they offer. The Wynnewood Family Hope Center cares for more than 120 vulnerable children in Dallas through after-school and summer day camp services. It is located at 2006 Didsbury Circle in Dallas.
Howard Payne University’s speech and debate team competed at the Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association spring championship and won third place overall debate sweepstakes and fifth place overall sweepstakes. HPU senior Marcos Corley of Corpus Christi was named to the Texas All-State Forensics Squad.
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Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Whitehouse will hold a wild game dinner April 18 at 6 p.m. John Rickenbach, president of Centershot Ministries in Minnesota, will be the guest speaker. For more information, click here.
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Don Bays and Lenton Ray Moore as deacons at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Cumby.
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