• Proposed committee will study annual meeting participation

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting in Houston, Nov. 16-17, will be asked to create a committee to study why their numbers have been diminishing in recent years—and what can be done to reverse the trend.

  10/21/2009 - By Administrator

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  City Reach Houston prayer event planned

  Christians across the Houston area will join together at Discovery Green on Nov. 1 to seek the face of God to bring spiritual and physical healing to Houston during the City Reach Houston Prayer Gathering for Transformation.

  10/21/2009 - By Administrator

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  BWA leader highlights priorities at DBU gathering

  In the early years of the 21st century, Baptists worldwide have made significant contributions in areas such as relief and development, missions and evangelism and human rights, but they have far to go in the area of unity, a Baptist World Alliance leader told a group at Dallas Baptist University.

  10/21/2009 - By Administrator

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  Former SBC leader says NAMB is obsolete

  An elder statesman who led three Southern Baptist Convention entities for a total of 40 years says the denomination's North American Mission Board is an obsolete bureaucracy that will likely have a diminished role or disappear altogether in the 21st century.

  10/21/2009 - By Administrator

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  Texas WMU interim leader advises caution, prayer in search for director

  The Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas board of directors must step forward and be guided by prayer in their search for a director, Nelda Seal, interim executive director-treasurer for the WMU of Texas, told the board’s October meeting.

  10/20/2009 - By admin

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  Cuban Baptists released from jail

  Two Cuban Baptist leaders held two weeks while authorities investigated what they regarded suspicious economic activity have reportedly been released from jail.

  10/19/2009 - By Administrator

• Harvest Day puts Tyler church on sound footing

  Harvest Day high attendance and giving emphasis at First Baptist Church in Tyler put the church back in the black financially—and then some.

  10/16/2009 - By admin

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  Texas Hope at Children at Heart Ministries

  Children at Heart Ministries is encouraging those it helps to use Texas-shaped banks to fund care for others in need.

  10/16/2009 - By admin

• Russian Baptists schedule historic rally with Orthodox, Catholics

  MOSCOW (ABP) — An Oct. 15 meeting between high-level representatives of Russia’s Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox communities resulted in the scheduling of a historic multi-confessional Christian rally for early next year, according to a Russian Baptist press release.

  10/16/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs: IMB dips into contingency funds

  International Mission Board Treasurer David Steverson told trustees of the agency the mission board faces a budget shortfall “crisis.”

  10/16/2009 - By admin

• Jailed Cuban Baptists accused of illegal economic activity

  Cuban authorities say two Baptist leaders held in jail for 11 days in a city on the eastern end of the island are accused of illegal economic activities. They reportedly were delivering financial aid to churches.

  10/15/2009 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  Baptist University of the Americas will host a breakfast during the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting to celebrate BGCT’s role in Hispanic education, Nov. 17.

  10/15/2009 - By admin