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  Wayland students help build houses in Haiti

  Don't expect to hear one group of Wayland Baptist University students complaining about being "poor college students"—not after they spent time in Haiti.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Single-race churches miss the mark of Christian unity, Indian pastor insists

  Racially homogenous churches fall short of the biblical ideal and leave evangelicals in the United States ill-equipped to deal with the reality of cultural pluralism and racial diversity, an Indian pastor in North Texas believes.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Effective global missions demands multicultural partnerships

  Missions in the 21st century demands multicultural partnership, global missions researcher and author Patrick Johnstone insists. And pastors of some churches filled with first-generation immigrants agree.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist agencies don’t recruit nationals for U.S. missionary service

  Baptist missionary-sending agencies currently do not actively seek missionaries from other countries to minister to unreached or least-reached people groups in the United States, nor are they likely to do so.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Ministry to new immigrants presents challenges, opportunities

  A wave of immigrants entering the United States presents a particular challenge to Christians who seek to minister among them, the director of missions for a metropolitan association of churches noted.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Growing number of evangelical missionaries heading from East to West

  Western Christians often think in terms of West-to-East movement when missionaries go to other countries. But more and more frequently, evangelicals arrive from the East to evangelize the West.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Boston trip helps participants embrace mission opportunities

  Joyce Ridings, Woman's Missionary Union director at Woods Chapel Baptist Church in Arlington, participated in an multicultural outreach dinner in Boston that helped her gain insight into the lives of Hindus and Muslims.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  Report shows global Christianity shifting to Africa

  With 2.18 billion adherents, Christianity has become a truly global religion over the past century, and the faith has grown exponentially in sub-Saharan Africa.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  As missionary movement turns 200, questions for the future

  When America's first ordained missionaries sailed to India 200 years ago, they kicked off a movement to spread the faith and created America's most potent export—Christianity.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

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  SBC leader criticizes Komen reversal

  The head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing house said Feb. 3 that Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s reversal of a decision to disassociate from Planned Parenthood means that pink-bound Holman Christian Standard Bibles taking up warehouse space likely won’t be going anywhere soon.

  02/03/2012 - By Administrator

• Veteran Baptist communicator Lloyd Householder dies

  Lloyd Householder, 82, a veteran Southern Baptist denominational worker and communicator, died Jan. 30.

  02/02/2012 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  The East Texas Baptist University board of trustees approved an addition to the school's graduate program—a master of arts in counseling degree.

  02/02/2012 - By Administrator