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  Volunteers help bring new look to San Antonio church

  Volunteers ripped out paneling and combined their handiwork skills to assist a San Antonio church during the Texas Baptist Family Gathering.

  07/19/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  African-American Fellowship envisions future

  African-American Baptists accepted the challenge to look into the future with a new set of lenses as they gathered at this year’s James Culp Banquet during the Texas Baptist Family Gathering.

  07/19/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Family Gathering draws on diversity, strengthens unity

  Business took a backseat to worship and fellowship when more than 4,000 Texas Baptists assembled in San Antonio for their first Family Gathering to celebrate their diversity, recommit to their mission and strengthen their sense of unity.

  07/18/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Conservatives say religious freedom under attack in military

  Republican lawmakers and conservative activists who believe religious expression in the military is “under attack” are rallying behind a measure to provide greater protection for religious actions and speech in the armed forces.

  07/18/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Baylor gift helps West church with debris removal

  Baylor University will contribute more than $290,000 from its Baylor West Relief Fund to First Baptist Church in West to help with the congregation’s debris-removal project for West residents who still are seeking to put their lives back together after a devastating fertilizer plant explosion.

  07/18/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Paynter: Immigrants boost churches

  Faith communities in the United States both serve and benefit from immigrants, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter told a conference at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

  07/18/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Unified, Texas Baptists seek to carry out Great Commission

  Fulfilling Jesus’ Great Commission requires Texas Baptists to unite for the cause of Christ, speakers told the final worship service of the Texas Baptist Family Gathering.

  07/18/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Speakers agree: Texas Baptists called to a mission

  God has called Texas Baptists to share their faith with their communities, their state and beyond, speakers stressed at the second evening worship service during the three-day Family Gathering.

  07/16/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Hispanic Baptists elect first woman president

  The Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas elected Bea Mesquias, a member of United Baptist Church in Harlingen, as president. She became the first woman to hold the office in the convention’s 103-year history.

  07/16/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Hardage: Texas Baptist reach is deep and wide

  In his report to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting, BGCT Executive Director David Hardage emphasized the wide breadth of Texas Baptists’ ministry and the depth of their commitment to sharing the gospel.

  07/16/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Messengers grant board authority to consider building sale

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting elected officers and granted the BGCT Executive Board and an ad hoc committee authority to consider sale of the Baptist Building in Dallas.

  07/15/2013 - By John Rutledge

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  Julio Guarneri: Bible calls Christians to embrace diversity

  The Bible calls Christians to embrace diversity, not just tolerate it, Julio Guarneri told the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting.

  07/15/2013 - By John Rutledge