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Baylor regents approve reduced operating budget

Baylor University regents adopted a $679.9 million annual operating budget for 2020-21, down $14.2 million from the most recent academic year’s budget and $70 million below the pre-pandemic projected budget for next year.

05/15/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

River Ministry missionary adapts during COVID-19 crisis

Silvia Briones, a missionary with Texas Baptist River Ministry, discovered new ways to serve—locally as a hospital chaplain and globally by offering training and organizing online prayer meetings—when the COVID-19 crisis restricted in-person ministry along the Rio Grande.

05/15/2020 - By Bonnie Shaw / Texas Baptist Communications

Churches won’t face challenge regarding PPP loans

Churches that received small loans as part of a COVID-19 relief program learned May 13 they will not face the risk of a federal government challenge to their certification of the loans’ necessity.

05/15/2020 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

Small church and its partners provide mobile food pantry

On a typical pre-pandemic Sunday, First Baptist Church in Lake Worth attracted about 40 worshippers, most of them senior adults. But by working with community partners, the church is helping to feed hundreds of Northwest Tarrant County families.

05/15/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

TBM doubles number of meals to unemployed Texans

Less than two weeks after committing to provide 50,000 meals to unemployed Texans, Texas Baptist Men announced May 14 the ministry will provide 100,000 meals.

05/14/2020 - By John Hall / Texas Baptist Men

Around the State: Buckner launches Going Gold for Senior Living

To increase awareness of senior living residents and the workers caring for them, Buckner Retirement Services is launching a ribbon campaign titled Going Gold for Senior Living. Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers completed work in response to tornadoes in East Texas after giving more than 4,600 volunteer hours.

05/13/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

Pastors and churchgoers differ on sermon length estimates

“How long, oh Lord?” As pastors begin to welcome back their congregations to in-person services, they may want to consider offering them a shorter sermon.

05/13/2020 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

ERLC urges support for nonprofits and vulnerable

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission called on Congress to support nonprofit organizations and particular categories of vulnerable Americans in the next COVID-19 relief package.

05/13/2020 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

Nursing home chaplains find ways to minister during pandemic

Across North America, chaplains are walking through heart-wrenching ministry situations with nursing home residents, their families and the staff. The susceptibility of the elderly to COVID-19 has affected those who seek to serve the nursing home population.

05/13/2020 - By Brandon Elrod / Baptist Press

Singing Women provide masks for New York neighborhood

Texas Baptist musicians who had prayed for New York City and prepared to perform concerts in churches there have spent recent weeks sewing protective masks for a congregation in Queens to distribute to its ethnically diverse neighborhood.

05/12/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

CLC deplores violent death of Ahmaud Arbery

The Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission staff issued a statement May 8 calling the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and lack of legal action by prosecutors for two months “appalling and disheartening.”

05/11/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

CLC, SBTC and ERLC join in urging Texas Supreme Court action

A district court ruling against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lubbock succeeded in uniting Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission and a Southern Baptists of Texas Convention committee—as well as the national Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission—in a call for action by the Texas Supreme Court.

05/08/2020 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press