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  Arlington church connects with local Muslim community

  Jason Thibeaux said he wasn't really afraid of Muslims. But he definitely didn't love them, either, until he started teching English-as-a-Second-Language classes.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  David Deulofeu to Templo Bautista in South Houston as pastor.

  08/25/2011 - By Administrator

• Faith Digest

  Starting this fall, Pitzer College, a small liberal arts school in Southern California, will offer a bachelor's degree in secular studies.

  08/25/2011 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  Dillon International will hold a free adoption meeting at 6 p.m. Sept. 12 at the Buckner Children's Home campus in Dallas.

  08/25/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baylor faces potential reduction in BGCT funding plan (Updated)

  A recommendation from the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board’s education and finance subcommittees would adjust funding guidelines to “level the playing field” for universities receiving Texas Baptist Cooperative Program funds. If approved, total BGCT financial support for Baylor University will be reduced from about $2.8 million to $1.9 million.

  08/25/2011 - By Administrator

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  Adoptive families celebrate Russian culture at Heritage Day

  Adopted children from Russia played with other dual-culture children and connected with the birth culture during a Heritage Day event in Dallas, sponsored by Buckner and Dillon International.

  08/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Agriculture project fights poverty, makes way for sharing gospel

  In 2012, $8,120 in funds from the Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger will go to support a Baptist World Alliance effort to help Malaysian farmers on the island of Borneo move out of poverty

  08/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Wayland students serve as fishers of men among Alaskan fishermen

  While Texas suffered this summer from the most severe drought since the 1950s, salmon still were running in the streams of Alaska, where Wayland Baptist Student Ministries Director Donnie Brown led a mission team.

  08/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptist volunteers bring hope to storm-battered Tuscaloosa

  More than 117 volunteers from 28 Texas Baptist churches served in various relief efforts in Tuscaloosa, Ala. this summer. An April 27 tornado obliterated much of the city.

   

  08/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  New Bible translation seeks common ground

  About the same time the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution denouncing one new Bible translation, another rolled off the presses that is being billed as “built on common ground.”

  08/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Wichita Falls church takes fine arts festival to St. Kitts

  First Church in Wichita Falls recently orchestrated the first Christian Fine Arts Festival on the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts.

  08/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Teens at ‘Blume’ urged to raise awareness about human trafficking

  The number of slaves worldwide never has been greater than today, a Houston-area missionary told participants at Blume, a missions event for teenaged girls sponsored by national Woman's Missionary Union.

  08/17/2011 - By Administrator