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  Texas Baptist Men build home, faith in Chile

  Volunteers from Texas Baptist Men traveled by truck through foggy mountains for hours to reach Nipas, a small town almost 300 miles south of Santiago. There, they worked more than two weeks to help a local pastor get back on his feet.

  07/07/2010 - By admin

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  Summer camp produces blankets for children in need

  Preteen student campers at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Encampment in Cedar Hill take one hour out of their week at camp to make blankets for children in need this summer.

   

  07/07/2010 - By admin

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  Prayers answered as conference draws more than 5,000 youth

  More than 5,000 students and youth leaders filled the Garland Special Events Center and about 450 made professions of faith in Christ at the 2010 Youth Evangelism Conference.

  07/07/2010 - By admin

• Hunger takes no summer vacation, report says

  A new national report on child nutrition shows Texas has made progress expanding the reach of publicly funded summer food programs in 2009. But more work is needed to ensure that low-income children have access to nutritious food during the summer, according to the Texas Food Policy Roundtable.

  07/03/2010 - By Administrator

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  Liberty & justice for all

  As the United States enters the second decade of the 21st century, some experts in religious freedom predict challenges coming to the fore likely will cluster around a handful of new issues.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  What should churches and ministries know about employment law?

  When it comes to employment law, maintaining church-state separation becomes a delicate balance between preventing the state from interfering in church polity and governance while still protecting workers.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  When church-state separation bumps up against doing justice

  Challenges to maintaining religious liberty come from all directions—including the dilemma of whether Baptist social-service agencies should accept government funds to perform their ministries.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  Teens seek to change the world by improving homes of poor families

  Manual labor in the Texas heat isn’t the typical summer activity many teen-agers would choose. However, 254 Christian students volunteered to minister to low-income North Texas residents by renovating their homes free of charge.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  Faith Digest

  The president of a Christian anti-hunger lobbying group won the premier award for fighting world hunger. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton awarded the World Food Prize to Bread for the World President David Beckmann at the State Department.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

• Texas Tidbits

  Jessica Acklen, a senior at Baylor University, and Lauren Hollon, a Baylor University graduate student, are serving as Texas Baptist communications interns 10 weeks this summer in a cooperative venture involving the Baptist Standard and the Baptist General Convention of Texas communications office.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

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  Around the State

  The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor College of Visual and Performing Arts, Department of Art and the Musick Alumni Center and Museum have joined to present “People and Places in UMHB History,” an exhibition featuring historical paintings and photographs on display in Arla Ray Tyson Art Gallery in the Townsend Memorial Library through Aug. 13.

  07/02/2010 - By admin

• On the Move

  Lucas Biggs to First Church in Canadian as youth minister from Myrtle Springs Church in Hooks, where he was minister of education and youth.

  07/02/2010 - By admin