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  Executive director highlights new ministries and expanding work

  Texas Baptists are engaging in new outreach opportunities with people groups in Texas and beyond, Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Director David Hardage reported to the convention’s annual meeting.

  11/16/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Service essential in following Jesus, Todd Still says

  The last will be first and the first will be last in Jesus’ topsy-turvy kingdom, Todd Still, dean of Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, told a workshop at the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting.

  11/16/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  BGCT recognizes nine churches for Cooperative Program giving

  At the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in Waco, Texas Baptists recognized nine churches for their giving to the Cooperative Program unified budget.

  11/16/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  BGCT approves decreased budget

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting approved a decreased 2017 budget.

  11/16/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Faith is vital to Christian higher education, BGCT university leaders say

  Faith is a crucial factor in Christian higher education, both for students and for the leaders who guide them, presidents of Texas Baptist universities insisted.

  11/16/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  BGCT sets view of marriage as criteria for cooperation

  Texas Baptists established affirmation of same-sex marriage as grounds for declaring a church outside the bounds of cooperation with the BGCT.

  11/16/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Texas Baptists consider when and how to exclude congregations

  Texas Baptists will consider whether a church’s affirmation of same-sex marriage is grounds to declare the congregation outside the bounds of cooperation with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

  11/15/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Texas Baptists elect officers

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting elected Danny Reeves, pastor of First Baptist Church in Corsicana, as president.

  11/15/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  African-American Fellowship emphasizes foundations of faith

  Churches that forget the importance of discipleship have committed “the great omission,” Delvin Atchison, director of Texas Baptists’ Great Commission Team, told an African-American Fellowship rally.

  11/15/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Presence of Christ sustained WWII POW from East Texas

  Seated in the rear of a B-24 aircraft, 19-year-old Puett Willcox should have been afraid of what was ahead, but the assurance of Christ’s presence brought him peace in the midst of war.

  11/11/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  Texas Baptists endorse first chaplain to Native Americans

  Texas Baptists have endorsed Joe Donnell as the first Baptist General Convention of Texas tribal chaplain, with responsibility to serve the indigenous people of North America.

  11/11/2016 - By Ken Camp

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  McDaniel de facto POW chaplain at Hanoi Hilton

  Navy Capt. Eugene “Red” McDaniel spent six years imprisoned in North Vietnam as a POW—and was de facto chaplain at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” prison among American detainees.

  11/10/2016 - By Ken Camp