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  Fostering isn’t for everyone, but everyone can play a part

  Foster families have opportunities to make a huge impact on a child's life—an eternal impact, even. But like any other ministry, foster care is a calling, and families must be mindful of that before diving in.

  07/30/2011 - By Administrator

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  Children’s home summer reading program going to the dogs

  The "dog days of summer" has taken on a new meaning for children at Texas Baptist Children's Home, thanks to a new partnership with the Austin Dog Alliance.

  07/30/2011 - By Administrator

• HSU, Baylor named as great workplaces

  Two Texas Baptist universities are among the best college workplaces in the nation, according to a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

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  Sugar Land church preaches sermon through service on Mars Hill in Athens

  Just as the Apostle Paul perched atop Mars Hill in Athens to tell the people of Greece about the "Unknown God," so a team from Sugar Land Baptist Church in Sugar Land spoke through their actions of another unknown idea—volunteerism.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

• Texas Baptist Men seeks volunteers for building & water projects in Haiti

  Texas Baptist Men is recruiting teams for construction and water purification projects in Haiti. Volunteers will build classrooms and put a new roof on the facilities of Croix Hillaire Baptist Church and School near Petit Goave, as well as provide water purification systems for orphanages and schools.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

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  Single father sees adoption, foster care as part of God’s master plan

  As a single adoptive father of five boys, Robert Ewing has encounted a stressed schedule and reduced career options, deep tragedy and great joy.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

• Not called to foster? Here are other ways to help

  Here are some small ways to help a foster-care family that can have a big impact.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

• Common myths about foster care

  Buckner International foster-care professionals David Chandler and Samela Macon dispell some common myths about foster care.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

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  Early into children’s services, Baptists trying to keep pace with changes

  In the first decades following the Civil War when poverty shadowed widows and children of fallen soldiers in a dramatically disrupted South, Baptists and other Christian denominations started orphanages to care for them. Today, the South is dotted with campuses created to meet the needs of orphans—a need that barely exists now.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

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  Advocates seek foster parents in churches

  Hundreds of thousands of families are needed to provide foster care for nearly a half-million children and teenagers who for their own safety cannot continue to live at home.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

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  Dallas-area Baptists help with food bank’s Full on Faith initiative

  When Texas Baptists joined more than 30 other faith-based groups in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the fight against hunger, the results were "outstanding and inspirational," said Karla Dechavez, development coordinator at the North Texas Food Bank.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator

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  Singer/songwriter connects students to gospel through songs of hope

  Whether Howard Payne University graduate Roger Cullins is performing on stage in front of thousands or leading worship for a small-group Bible study, his goal remains the same—to share the gospel through music.

  07/29/2011 - By Administrator