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  Bucket project relaunched to provide help for the dying

  Baptist Global Response has re-launched "The Bucket Project: Hospice Kits," formerly called "In-Home Care Kits," with a focus on Texas. The organization's goal is to collect 10,000 hospice kits for distribution by the end of 2013.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Disaster relief workers respond to Hurricane Sandy

  Baptist disaster relief workers throughout the United States mobilized in response to Hurricane Sandy, the killer superstorm that flooded much of the nation's most populous area.

  11/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Land breaks pledge, endorses Romney

  Breaking a longstanding personal pledge, Southern Baptist agency leader Richard Land endorsed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, saying the upcoming election is the most important since Abraham Lincoln's win in 1860.

  11/01/2012 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  Trey Ainsworth has resigned as minister of students and senior adults at Calvary Church in Lufkin.

  11/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council will vote in February on a successor to Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, who retired in June, according to an announcement at the council's October meeting in Decatur, Ga.

  11/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  Raimundo Barreto, director of the division of freedom and justice for the Baptist World Alliance, was the keynote speaker for the T.B. Maston lecture series hosted by Dallas Baptist University. Barreto told participants that about 200 million Christians endure persecution.

  11/01/2012 - By Administrator

• Sometimes it’s hard to give away a campus

  Five weeks after accepting a free, 217-acre campus in western Massachusetts, Grand Canyon University has walked away from the gift.

  10/31/2012 - By Administrator

• Quiet meeting as BGCT elects officers, approves flat budget

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas elected their top three officers by acclamation and approved a flat budget during remarkably quiet business sessions at Texas Baptists’ annual meeting.

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Kinnaman challenges churches to engage young spiritual exiles

  David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, told the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting that young adult lifestyles today differ starkly from 50 years ago.

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptists called to live out hope, Carlisle insists

  In his presidential message to the BGCT annual meeting, Jerry Carlisle described how a broken, battered and disheartened Apostle Paul arrived in a lost and hopeless Corinth ready to cease preaching, and how hope eventually took root there.

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Churches called to embrace their context, be true to their calling

  God places his followers where he wants them and then calls them to minister there, Dennis Wiles, pastor of First Baptist Church in Arlington, said in the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting sermon.

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  BGCT elects officers, approves constitutional amendments

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas elected their top three officers by acclamation during a remarkably quiet opening business session of the group's annual meeting

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator