• Texas Tidbits

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas executive director search committee recently met for the first time.

  02/09/2011 - By admin

• On the Move

  Richard Coe to Lakeside Fellowship in Roanoke as youth minister.

  02/09/2011 - By admin

• Around the State

  East Texas Baptist University will hold Tiger Day, a free preview event, March 5. Participants will tour the campus, meet faculty and current students, receive admissions and financial aid information, and visit academic departments.

  02/09/2011 - By admin

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  Children at Heart president announces retirement date

  Jerry Bradley, president of Children at Heart Ministries, has announced his retirement effective Dec. 31, capping a 40-year career in Baptist child care.

  02/09/2011 - By admin

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  Leaders offer helpful tips for mission trips along the border

  Leaders of mission work along the Texas-Mexico border shared several helpful hints for volunteers who feel called to share the hope of Christ in the region through mission trips

  02/09/2011 - By admin

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  Church-starting opportunities great along the Rio Grande

  When Mario Garciaa surveys Laredo, he sees opportunities to help people living in destitute conditions, to provide a word of encouragement and most importantly to share the gospel.

  02/09/2011 - By admin

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  Border mission trips decline significantly in some areas

  Violence between drug cartels in Mexican border towns has drastically cut into the number of mission trips in the area. And in some cases, it has led church groups—even those who have served in the area for years—to cancel trips to sites on the Texas side of the border as well.

  02/09/2011 - By admin

• Church arsonists receive additional life sentences

  Two men already sentenced to life in prison for setting five East Texas churches on fire in 2010 pleaded guilty to more arsons Feb. 8.

  02/09/2011 - By Administrator

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  Buckner Romania to be self-sustaining organization

  Twelve years after it established a nongovernmental organization in Romania to help that country’s overburdened orphanage system, Buckner International announced it is withdrawing financial support from Fundatia Buckner Romania and setting it on a course of self-sustainability.

  02/08/2011 - By admin

• Initial picks for faith-based panel light on Baptists

  President Obama's first dozen appointees to the next President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships were heavy on mainline Protestants but light on Baptists.

  02/08/2011 - By Administrator

• Court rejects ‘birther’ challenge by former SBC officer

  The California Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Barack Obama's election as president filed by plaintiffs including a former officer of the Southern Baptist Convention.

  02/07/2011 - By Administrator

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  Wayland students promote economic development in Kenya

  A year ago, sophomore Leigh Castillo didn’t know much about business— and certainly not about starting up a new business from scratch. Today, she’s president of Wayland Baptist University’s Students in Free Enterprise team that recently returned from Kenya, where they helped train small-business owners.

  02/04/2011 - By admin