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  University offers model for transforming a neighborhood

  Hardin-Simmons University's Friendship House in Abilene’s Northpark neighborhood offers a place where children can play safely and where the door almost always is open.

  12/04/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs: Virginia Baptists increase budget

  Virginia Baptists increase budget. Bucking a national trend, Virginia Baptists in their recent annual meeting adopted a 2010 budget of $14 million—about 1.4 percent larger than 2009’s budget, which is expected to see a shortfall.

  12/04/2009 - By admin

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  Texas Tidbits: Baylor entrepreneurs receive grant

  Entrepreneurs from Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business and School of Engineering and Computer Science won a $200,000 grant that will accelerate their work in bringing electricity to rural villages in the developing world.

  12/03/2009 - By admin

• On the Move

  Barry Donham to College Heights Church in Plainview as minister of youth.

  12/03/2009 - By admin

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  Around the State

  The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor winter commencement will be held Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. at the Mayborn Campus Center.

  12/03/2009 - By admin

• Grand jury to review police shooting of Georgia minister

  A north Georgia prosecutor says he will let a grand jury decide whether to bring criminal charges against undercover police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a Baptist minister during a botched drug sting.

  12/02/2009 - By Administrator

• Baptist state conventions feeling effects of economy

  Feeling the effects of a bad economy, several Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated state and regional conventions reduced budgets in annual meetings held in recent weeks across the nation.

  11/30/2009 - By Administrator

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  Holidays hurt, but grieving Christians can find solace in God

  Loss of a loved one through death creates trauma, but emotions surrounding that loss can be particularly close to the surface during the holidays.

  11/25/2009 - By admin

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  Chaplains lead service for parents whose children died in infancy

  Each fall, chaplains in Baylor’s pastoral care and counseling department lead a memorial service for the benefit of parents whose children died in infancy.

  11/25/2009 - By admin

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  Wayland student perseveres after accident to pursue degree

  After a devastating car crash followed by years of relearning all the basic functions of self-sufficiency, Beau Bishop is a senior at Wayland Baptist University and on track for a degree.

  11/25/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist agency offers training for Moldova’s foster parents

  Foster parents in Moldova recently received parenting training, thanks to Children’s Emergency Relief International, the overseas division of Baptist Child & Family Services.

  11/25/2009 - By admin

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  Leaders seek to end Texas hunger by 2015

  Federal, state and local leaders in the fight against hunger gathered for a hunger summit at Baylor University to begin a discussion they hope will spark actions to end food insecurity in Texas by 2015.

  11/25/2009 - By admin