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  McAllen: Una iglesia en dos idiomas

  Unos años después de que ESPN y Fox Sports empezaran canales para audiencias de habla hispana, Rolando Aguirre pensó que algo similar también se podría hacer en la iglesia.

  10/30/2017 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Conservative black clergy back baker who refused gay couple

  Conservative African-American clergy accused LGBT activists of hijacking the civil rights movement and launched a campaign to support a Colorado baker who refused to create a cake for a same-sex wedding.

  10/24/2017 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Baylor receives positive report from accrediting agency

  Baylor University has implemented all recommendations to safeguard student safety, provide administrative control over athletics and respond to sexual violence, an accrediting agency committee reported.

  10/24/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Discipleship is ‘in your hands,’ Hispanic church leaders told

  Church growth depends on discipleship, Hispanic Texas Baptist church leaders learned at an Oct. 20-21 conference at Dallas Baptist University.

  10/24/2017 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Around the State: ETBU students staff fall festivals

  More than 400 East Texas Baptist University students staffed fall festivals for three elementary schools, serving about 1,600 elementary students and their families. A “meet and greet” breakfast with Abe Jaquez, president of Baptist University of the Américas, is scheduled in conjunction with the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in Waco.

  10/24/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  Young Bible readers more likely to be faithful adults

  The biggest factor to predict the spiritual health of children when they grow to become young adults is whether they read the Bible as kids, a LifeWay Research survey revealed.

  10/20/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  Muslims and allies protest travel ban

  After two federal judges ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest travel ban, protesters gathered across the street from the White House to stand in solidarity with Muslims and refugees.

  10/20/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  Incumbent Danny Reeves nominee for BGCT president

  Danny Reeves, pastor of First Baptist Church in Corsicana, will be nominated for a second one-year term as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

  10/20/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  State Department inaction hinders ministry to Korean orphans

  Two months after Texas Baptist Men appealed to the U.S. Department of State to grant a Dallas Korean Baptist minister permission to enter North Korea with food for orphans and hospital patients, Yoo Yoon still has no answer.

  10/20/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  McAllen: One church worshipping in two languages

  A few years after ESPN and Fox Sports launched channels for Spanish-speaking audiences, Rolando Aguirre thought a similar approach could be adapted for use in the church, as well.

  10/19/2017 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  ​Trustees, directors and committee members nominated for BGCT consideration

  Nominations to be considered by messengers to the BGCT annual meeting​, Nov. 12-14, 2017 in Waco, are presented by the Committee on Committees, the Committee to Nominate Executive Board Directors and the Committee on Nominations for Boards of Affiliated Ministries.

  10/19/2017 - By Texas Baptists Communications

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  Around the State: ETBU ministers in Southeast Texas, TBM continues disaster relief along Gulf Coast

  East Texas Baptist University sent more than 40 students, faculty and staff to Southeast Texas to partner with First Baptist Church in Nederland, Texas Baptist Men and Baptist Men of North Carolina in providing disaster relief for survivors of Hurricane Harvey.

  10/18/2017 - By Staff / Baptist Standard