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  Baytown-based band stresses care for the poor

  By sharing messages of hurting people at their concerts, the Texas-based band Leeland hopes to encourage Christians to engage actively with a world in need.

  09/18/2009 - By admin

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  Lake Ivie Baptist Association seeks to distribute 10,000 gospel CDs

  Lake Ivie Baptist Association purchased 10,000 multimedia gospel compact discs to help churches move forward with Texas Hope 2010 in a seven-county area.

  09/18/2009 - By admin

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  HPU students make impact on community

  More than 100 Howard Payne University students participated in Impact Weekend mission activities around Brownwood.

  09/18/2009 - By admin

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  Grace House takes women from prisons to missions

  Grace House in San Antonio offers women out of prison a chance to break free from their past and transition into society and a relationship with God.

  09/18/2009 - By admin

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  For Galveston church, disaster prompts showers of blessings

  After Galveston was pounded by Hurricane Ike, First Baptist Church changed its ministry focus to help it's hurting neighors, helped by churches across the state.

  09/18/2009 - By admin

• Baptist has low expectations for White House faith-based panel

  Former Southern Baptist Convention President Frank Page said he doesn’t expect much to result from the work of advisers to the White House’s office dealing with faith-based and community groups.

  09/18/2009 - By admin

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  Volunteers spread hope and gospel CDs throughout El Paso

  Volunteers distributed more than 4,400 Texas Hope multimedia compact disks in El Paso.

  09/18/2009 - By admin

• Event focused on washing cars & cleansing hearts

  Many groups use car washes as fund-raisers. But for members of Garland’s Ethiopian Evangelical Baptist Church, their car wash wasn’t about making money. They wanted to help people have clean cars and clean hearts.

  09/18/2009 - By admin

• Open mission positions may be ‘God moment,’ says SBC task force chair

  ROGERS, Ark. — Impending vacancies in the top leadership positions of the Southern Baptist Convention’s two mission boards offer unique opportunities for the denomination as it considers new ways to engage its mission enterprise, says the chair of a task force examining how the SBC should most effectively structure its missionary and funding mechanisms.

  09/17/2009 - By Marv Knox

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  Texas Tidbits

  The Texas Hunger Initiative—a joint venture of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Baylor Center for Family & Community Ministries—will sponsor a Food Policy Roundtable Nov. 19 at Baylor University.

  09/17/2009 - By admin

• On the Move

  Neal Alexander to Hagerman Church in Sherman as pastor.

  09/17/2009 - By admin

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  Around the State

  Leland Ryken will address “The Bible as a Literary Classic” as the third installment of Houston Baptist University’s Dunham Museum lecture series Oct. 1 at 7 p.m.

  09/17/2009 - By admin