• Baptist prof fears Haiti arrests will set back adoption movement

  A Southern Baptist seminary professor says the arrests of a group of U.S. Baptists accused of trying to remove children from earthquake-stricken Haiti without proper documentation could give a black eye to a budding movement of evangelicals who view adoption as a means of spreading the gospel.

  02/02/2010 - By Administrator

• One American in eight needs food assistance, study shows

  Food-assistance agencies nationwide serve 1 million more people each week than they did four years ago, according to a national study released Feb. 2. Statewide, the study showed 3 million Texans—including 1.2 million children—received help from a food pantry or soup kitchen.

  02/02/2010 - By Administrator

• BUA accepts role as lead partner on ISAAC Project

  Baptist University of the Americas has stepped forward to become the lead partner with the Baptist General Convention of Texas on the Immigration Service and Aid Center Project, which seeks to equip churches to work within the law to help people with their citizenship issues.

  02/01/2010 - By Administrator

• Baptist group arrested in Haiti denies trafficking charge

  A mission team from two Southern Baptist churches in Idaho arrested for attempting to take 33 children from Haiti to a temporary orphanage in the neighboring Dominican Republic was only trying to help children suffering in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, according to the pastor of one of the churches.

  02/01/2010 - By Administrator

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  Temple church fire ruled arson

  Investigators said Jan. 29 that a fire that gutted the sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Temple on Jan. 19 was set deliberately. The case is now being treated as a criminal investigation.

  01/29/2010 - By Administrator

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  Youth ministers excited about movie’s potential impact on teens, families

  A nationally released feature film, To Save a Life. debuted in Burleson last month, and the youth ministers who worked to make it happen are eager to see its impact.

  01/29/2010 - By admin

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  Georgetown church will reach out with evangelistic cds

  As part of Texas Hope 2010—an initiative to share the gospel with every Texan by Easter 2010—Crestview Baptist Church in Georgetown is distributing 10,000 evangelistic multimedia compact discs in one ZIP code and part of another.

  01/29/2010 - By admin

• Nine East Texas church fires look suspicious to investigators

  Federal investigators are working with state and local authorities in seeking clues to a string of blazes affecting churches in Smith, Van Zandt and Henderson counties.

  01/29/2010 - By admin

• Super Bowl parties OK as long as NFL guidelines followed, experts say

  Despite crackdowns from the National Football League in recent years that frightened many church leaders into abandoning watch parties for America’s biggest sporting event, experts say churches are free to host viewings of Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 as long as they follow a few NFL guidelines.

  01/29/2010 - By Administrator

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  Analysis: Payday lenders profit from cycle of debt

  The number of payday loans in Texas has exploded. In 2008, payday and auto title loans were available in more than 2,800 locations all around Texas, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s list of registered credit service organizations.

  01/29/2010 - By admin

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  Swiss aren’t only ones who resist mosque construction

  When Switzerland recently voted to ban construction of minaret towers at mosques, some observers interpreted it as an expression of European xenophobia that never would find a home in multicultural America. But to say it couldn’t happen here would be wrong—or at least premature.

  01/29/2010 - By admin

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  Howard Payne students shun showers to boost Haiti relief

  Two freshmen coeds at Howard Payne University did not shower for six days in mid-January—not because they were too busy or too lazy, but to raise money for a relief effort for Haiti.

  01/29/2010 - By admin