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  Baptist Briefs

  An immigration judge granted a motion allowing a Baptist church planter facing possible deportation to Mexico to remain in the United States.

  09/07/2011 - By Administrator

• Around the State

  Baptist University of the Américas will hold its fifth annual Eagle Run Oct. 15 to benefit Communities in Schools of San Antonio.

  09/07/2011 - By Administrator

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  As wildfires rage, Texas Baptists minister to hurting neighbors

  UPDATED: As fires rage in Central Texas, Texas Baptists are stepping up to help those affected by the blazes and those who are combating the infernos. Texas Baptist Men Tarrant Baptist Association feeding unit is feeding 5,000 meals a day for roughly 1,000 firefighters serving in the Bastrop area.

  09/07/2011 - By Administrator

• TBM volunteers provide meals for firefighters

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers have been called out to meet the needs of firefighters battling wildfires in the Bastrop area.

  09/06/2011 - By Ken Camp

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  Interfaith understanding remains elusive 10 years after 9/11

  In a post-9/11 bid to better relations with local Muslims, Pastor Bob Roberts invited Muslims to his NorthWood Church in Keller for question-and-answer sessions, a cooking club and to help on a few home remodeling projects. The result: Roberts lost "a bunch of church members," he said.

  09/06/2011 - By Administrator

• TBM sending teams to New England; preparing for Gulf storm

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief has been asked to send two assessment teams to Vermont and four chainsaw teams to North Carolina to serve in the wake of Hurricane Irene, which recently struck the country’s Eastern seaboard.

  09/02/2011 - By Administrator

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  Aledo church seeks to be ‘radical’ in its mission for Christ

  Challenged to be "radical" in their missions efforts, about 190 members of First Baptist Church in Aledo responded,  and in the past year they've seen hundreds come to faith in Christ in Peru, Cambodia, Austria, Hungary, Egypt, Panama, Venezuela, Portugal and Jamaica, as well as Colorado and Vermont.

  09/01/2011 - By Administrator

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  Debate over Adam and Eve continues

  Author Brian McLaren and Southern Baptist Seminary President Al Mohler have entered into an ongoing debate over whether the belief in a literal Adam and Eve is necessary to correctly understand Christ’s saving work.

  08/31/2011 - By Administrator

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  Student adopts 30-days-on-$30 fast to identify with global poor

  Nathan Adair, a Texas Baptist student at London's University of Westminster, is subsisting on $1 a day for a month to focus attention of world hunger needs and raise money to fund a solar micro-enterprise project to benefit an orphanage in India.

  08/31/2011 - By Administrator

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  Fort Bend pastor nominated for BGCT 2nd VP post

  Byron Stevenson, founding pastor of The Fort Bend Church in Sugar Land, one of the fastest-growing churches in the state, will be a candidate for second vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas this fall.

  08/30/2011 - By Administrator

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  New gardening approaches have Mexican group home seeing green

  When Juan Carlos Millán, Buckner International's Mexico program director, and his wife started researching hydroponic gardening—growing plants in water rather than soil—the possibilities bloomed.

  08/30/2011 - By Administrator

• TBM gears up to serve after Hurricane Irene

  Texas Baptist Men received requests to provide disaster relief in North Carolina, and leaders expect to be called on to serve in Vermont, as well.

  08/30/2011 - By Ken Camp