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  Hall announces retirement; Reyes named Buckner CEO

  Ken Hall, chief executive officer of Buckner International since 1994, announced his retirement from the Dallas-based organization during a July 22 meeting of the board of trustees.

   

  07/22/2011 - By Administrator

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  Hanna named interim president at South Texas Children’s Home

  Homer Hanna, a former executive with South Texas Children’s Home Ministries, will serve as interim president and chief executive officer for the Beeville-based agency.

  07/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest

  Evangelical leader Leith Anderson has announced plans to retire as senior pastor of his megachurch in Eden Prairie, Minn. Anderson will end his 35-year pastoral leadership of the 5,000-member Wooddale Church—an interdenominational congregation affiliated with the Baptist General Conference—at the end of the year.

  07/16/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baylor church music students transform African village

  A team of Baylor University church music students in 2007 sought to change the lives of a handful of girls in East Africa, but their return this year found a village transformed.

  07/16/2011 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  After more than 41 years with Baptist Community Services and the related health care entities that preceded it, Tim Holloway will retire Dec. 31 as president and chief executive officer of BCS and the High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  After 59 years, Garland Bible teacher has no plans to stop

  Sylvia Vaughan began teaching a first-grade Sunday school class at First Baptist Church in Garland in 1952, and she’s never looked back.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  Layman’s vision enables church to provide ministerial internship

  Twenty-five years ago, Frank Phillips felt God burdened his heart with desire to make it a little easier for people who felt a call to ministry to see it become reality. Now there's an intern program at First Baptist Church in Mont Belvieu.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  Unsung Heroes

  Tapping passion and giftedness—and an understanding of every job as ministry— may be the best way to find willing workers to fill those unglamorous and least-recognized posts in church life.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  Custodian keeps Paducah church neat and clean for four decades

  If cleanliness is next to godliness, Gilbert Mercado wants First Baptist Church in Paducah to be the most godly church around. He’s been the custodian there more than 40 years.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  Computer system works behind the scenes to help churches meet needs

  Dallas Baptist Association recently improved its online CityServe system to link community needs, church resources and volunteers.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  Acton volunteers aid BUA because they want to ‘be like Jesus’

  Braving sweltering 100-degree summer heat, 56 men, women and children from Acton Baptist Church in Granbury spent a week at Baptist University of the Américas in San Antonio to renovate a 50-year-old building and lead a Vaca-tion Bible School for neighborhood children.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  Texas band encourages youth to reflect on God’s glory

  After meeting in 2000 while working at a coffee shop in Mesquite, The Afters have garnered Dove Awards and their songs have been featured on multiple television shows.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator