• Fort Worth church declines to send messengers to BGCT

  Rather than face a challenge from the floor, Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth chose not to send messengers to the state convention, saying it was “in the best interests of both our church and the BGCT.”

  11/15/2009 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs: IMB to cut missionary force by 600

  Southern Baptists will be forced to draw down their overseas missions force in 2010 by as many as 600 missionaries, International Mission Board trustees were told Nov. 10.

  11/15/2009 - By admin

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  Who are Texas Baptists?

  A statistical profile developed offers a revealing look at how the composition of the BGCT has changed.

  11/13/2009 - By admin

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  ETBU basketball teams take game on the road, leading clinics for youth

  Members of the East Texas Baptist University men’s and women’s basketball teams held simultaneous basketball clinics at four apartment complexes where they helped more than 120 children improve their basketball skills—and presented a low-key Christian witness.

  11/13/2009 - By admin

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  Moldovan orphans give back as expressions of thanks

  Eight Moldovan children and youth in the care of Children’s Emergency Relief International recently set out to give back to others in need through partnership with a church that helps people with disabilities.

  11/13/2009 - By admin

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  Pastor deals with two mass murders that affect same Central Texas town

  Randy Wallace, pastor of First Baptist Church in Killeen, Texas, recalls that a man in his church survived the Luby’s cafeteria shooting in 1991, when 23 people were killed and 20 were wounded in Killeen. Coupled with the recent Fort Hood shooting, Wallace noted how mathematically improbable it is for one relatively small town to be directly affected by two mass murders within 20 years.

  11/13/2009 - By admin

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  Chaplain aids grief-stricken at Fort Hood following massacre

  Nothing prepared Army Chaplain Jason Palmer for his initial tour of the yellow-taped crime scene at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center, where he saw trails of blood still on the floor, bloody handprints on the walls and the telephone pole outside where the alleged shooter collapsed to the ground after being shot four times in the abdomen.

  11/13/2009 - By admin

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  Wilshire team ministers to incarcerated girls in North Africa

  A team from Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas traveled to a predominantly Muslim country in North Africa to investigate future ministry possibilities—and show Christ’s love to a group of incarcerated young girls whose primary crime was a desire to eat.

  11/12/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist Community Services to deliver 1,400 Texas Hope 2010 CDs

  Baptist Community Services in Amarillo is sharing the hope of Christ with its residents and employees one compact disc at a time.

  11/12/2009 - By admin

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  Mesquite congregation does a ‘180’

  Jesus moved through crowds of people, building relationships and changing lives. Two millennia later, Grand View Baptist Church in Mesquite continues following that model.

  11/12/2009 - By admin

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  Volunteer finds healing in helping others

  After suffering a neck injury, Marion Thomas thought she had nothing left to give.  Two years later and pain-free as the congregation’s administrator, Thomas coordinates one of the largest hunger ministries in South Central Texas, providing food for more than 35,000 people this year.

  11/12/2009 - By admin

• E-mail prayer network brings hope, support to border churches

  Christians who minister along the Texas/Mexico border acknowledge life can seem harsh and hopeless at times. But a bilingual e-mail prayer network brings hope and support to the pastors and churches striving to share the hope of Christ.

  11/12/2009 - By admin