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  Teen campaigns for fresh water in Sudan

  Joshua Guthrie, a 16-year-old high school sophomore dually enrolled at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., has launched an initiative to raise money for a freshwater well in Sudan.

  12/19/2008 - By admin

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  Austin church feeds homeless, 17 years and counting

  Woodlawn Baptist Church in Austin provided Austin’s homeless population a special Christmas season meal for the 17th year Dec. 15.

  12/19/2008 - By admin

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  Wayland campus director living a dream as Civil Air Patrol chaplain

  Ben Craver, executive director of the Wayland Baptist University campus in Albuquerque, N.M., was named Wing Chaplain of the Year recently.

  12/19/2008 - By admin

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  Karen refugees find friends among Baptists in United States

  Duane and Marcia Binkley are linking Karen refugees who are still in the camps on the Thai-Burma border to those who are now in the United States—and helping them find churches and resources in the U.S. for a smoother transition to American life and culture.

  12/19/2008 - By admin

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  Texas WMU receives $10,000 for hurricane relief

  National Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation President David George presented a $10,000 check to Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas Interim Director Nelda Seal, to be used for the continuing relief and recovery effort following Hurricane Ike.

  12/19/2008 - By admin

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  Schmidt, former San Marcos Academy president, dies

  UPDATED: Victor Schmidt, who retired just five months ago as president of San Marcos Baptist Academy, died Dec. 19 in San Antonio. Funeral arrangements at Sunset Memorial Park in San Antonio include a
  visitation Monday, Dec. 22, from 6 to 8 p.m. The funeral service will be Tuesday, Dec. 23, at 8:30 a.m. at Sunset Memorial Park, followed by a graveside service at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

  12/19/2008 - By Administrator

• Christian leaders call for easing travel restrictions to Cuba

  Christian leaders on Dec. 18 called on President-elect Barack Obama to ease travel restrictions to Cuba they say hinder religious work.

  12/18/2008 - By Administrator

• Southwestern Seminary cuts budget

  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has announced plans to cut its budget by about 10 percent—a reduction between $3.5 million and $4 million—to “protect the institution from future financial crisis.”

  12/18/2008 - By Administrator

• Rick Warren to give invocation at Obama inauguration

  Rick Warren, founder of the Southern Baptist Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., will give the invocation at Barack Obama's Jan. 20 presidential inauguration.

  12/17/2008 - By Administrator

• Evangelical leaders seek broad moral agenda in Cizik replacement

  Fifty-nine evangelical leaders signed a letter requesting that whoever is chosen to replace ousted lobbyist Richard Cizik at the National Association of Evangelicals carry on Cizik's commitment to a moral agenda broader than opposition to homosexuality and abortion.

  12/17/2008 - By Administrator

• Southern Seminary facing budget shortfall

  The head of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is predicting layoffs and tuition increases to manage a $3 million budget shortfall.

  12/16/2008 - By Administrator

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  Stockings stuffed by Valley Baptist volunteers bring Christmas joy to children on the border

  For the past 20 years, Edweina Peroni of Christ the King Baptist Church in Mission and volunteers from across the nation put together more than 200,000 Christmas stockings for children in the Rio Grande Valley.

  12/15/2008 - By admin