• Texas Tidbits

  Dennis Myers has been named the Dorothy Barfield Kronzer Professor in Family Studies and Jon Singletary has been named the Diana R. Garland Chair in Children and Family Studies within the Baylor University School of Social Work.

  02/13/2010 - By admin

• Idaho church hopeful that members in Haiti will be released

  Leaders of a Southern Baptist church in Idaho said Feb. 11 they were encouraged by reports that a judge in Haiti has recommended release of 10 mission volunteers being held on child-kidnapping charges but were still awaiting official word.

  02/12/2010 - By Administrator

• Texas Baptists aim to eradicate hunger by 2015

  Cooperating on a policy and practical level, Baptists are gathering with fellow Christians as well as with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Texas Department of Agriculture in an effort to make Texas food secure—with every person getting three healthy meals a day—by 2015, starting with San Antonio by 2012.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

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  Rowlett church found super opportunity to feed the hungry

  The big NFL game was a super time for First Baptist Church to care for the hungry.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

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  Terminally ill pastor, Odessa church on journey together

  The congregation of Caprock Baptist Church in Odessa asked Mike Johnson to become their pastor knowing Johnson suffers from a terminal illness.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

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  Relief groups walk delicate line on spreading gospel, providing aid

  As faith-based relief agencies work to help Haitians manage an epic crisis after the Jan. 12 earthquake, most are taking pains to give aid according to need, not creed, and disavow proselytizing.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

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  Texas Baptists urged to send ‘buckets of hope’ to help Haiti

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas is encouraging churches to collect buckets of food that will be picked up across the state by Texas Baptist Men and shipped through the Florida Baptist Convention to hurting and hungry people in Haiti.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

• Amarillo layman among 10 workers jailed in Haiti

  On Feb. 11, Haitian authorities continued to hold 10 Baptists from the United States charged with child kidnapping, but Reuters news service reported the judge overseeing their case had decided to release them.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

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  Building Green, Being Green

  It’s not easy building green. But churches that take the call to wise environmental stewardship seriously have a wide variety of options.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

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  Faith Digest: Graham tops list

  Evangelist Billy Graham was named by American pastors as the United States’ most influential living preacher, according to a recent survey by LifeWay Research.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

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  Every baptism preaches a sermon to children, researcher insists

  While parents remain the primary influences in bringing children to faith, a new Dallas Baptist University study found pastors have a larger impact than previously believed.

  02/11/2010 - By admin

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  At church cafe, eat what you want, pay what you can

  At A Better World Cafe in Highland Park, N.J., it’s not exactly “all you can eat.” It’s more like whatever you can pay.

  02/11/2010 - By admin