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  City Reach 2009 offers hope to Houston

  Houston churches are partnering with the Texas Baptist Convention for City Reach, a series of evangelistic events geared toward sharing the hope of Christ with the people of Houston through prayer, care and share efforts in preparation for the BGCT anual meeting there in November.

  10/09/2009 - By admin

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  Intercultural Christians in Texas have passion to reach people in homelands

  Many intercultural Christians in Texas have a passion to reach their own people back in their native lands. The BGCT Intercultural Ministries is helping to make that possible through a new Intercultural Strategic Partners initiative.

  10/09/2009 - By admin

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  Linked by breast cancer battle, Wayland employees forge bond

  If you ask Wayland Baptist University employees Beverly Steed or Debbie Parker who has been one of their biggest help during their ongoing struggles with breast cancer and they would likely name each other.

  10/09/2009 - By admin

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  Venezuelan spends three months in church-planting effort in Laredo

  Since Venezuelan Baptist Patrick Weller began serving as a missionary eight years ago, he’s taught at a mission school in Venezuela, ministered in Germany and planted churches in Argentina. But he never thought the next step in his journey would take him to South Texas.

  10/09/2009 - By admin

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  Texans plant one-of-a-kind church in Pacific Northwest

  Leaders of Resonate Church in Pullman, Wash., believe church planters should never underestimate the power of genuine relationships, prayer, creativity—and good coffee.

  10/09/2009 - By admin

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  Camp introduces at-risk youth to a world of opportunity

  Opportunity Camp, a weeklong camp Golden Triangle Baptist Association has sponsored more than four decades for at-risk youth, drew 21 boys and 16 girls.

  10/09/2009 - By admin

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  One woman’s enthusiasm for shoebox project becomes contagious

  Nettie Hyde of First Baptist Church in Rosebud, has inspired her town to donate 2,098 Operation Christmas Child boxes –more than its population of about 1,500.

  10/09/2009 - By admin

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  Churches show love to poor children through shoebox gifts

  Glinda Harbison of Immanuel Baptist Church in Temple has been passionate about Operation Christmas Child since she first heard about it, and that passion has only grown stronger over the years.

  10/09/2009 - By admin

• Juarez violence points to continuing need for prayer by Texas Baptists

  Unabated violence in the border city of Juarez underscores the continuing need for prayer by Texas Baptists, said a Tyler physician who is seeking to mobilize a statewide response. He reports nine young people from three Juarez Baptist churches were killed in recent days.

  10/08/2009 - By Administrator

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  Supreme Court gets technical in arguments on Mojave cross

  Although the case of a lonely cross on federal land in California’s Mojave Desert ultimately could have wide-ranging implications for the separation of church and state, justices on the Supreme Court spent much of the Oct. 7 oral arguments asking attorneys about highly technical and procedural issues.

  10/07/2009 - By Administrator

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  Wayland pair make discovery in cancer research

  Early findings indicate a pair of Wayland Baptist University summer researchers may have isolated an herbal compound that appears to kill cancer cells.

  10/06/2009 - By admin

• Texas Baptist Men sending relief team to the Philippines

  Texas Baptist Men will deploy 10 men to the Philippines Oct. 7 to spend 10 days helping with relief work and teaching local people how to clean up the area in the aftermath of the flooding and landslides that took place in the last week.

  10/06/2009 - By Administrator