• Vermont is first state to approve gay marriage legislatively

  On April 7, Vermont became the first jurisdiction in the United States to successfully legalize same-sex marriage through legislative means.

  04/07/2009 - By Administrator

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  Students experience church planting in Canada

  Bell Baptist Association’s Mission Director Tom Henderson, an adjunct instructor at UMHB, organized a class field trip to the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary. There, UMHB students shadowed church planters and received insight about Christianity in the region.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

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  Texas Hope: Port Lavaca Baptists will prayerwalk their city

  The congregations of Port Lavaca are coming together to prayerwalk their entire city following Easter.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

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  Volunteers help storm victims rebuild lives out of the rubble

  During spring break, hundreds of volunteers from across the state and around the country descended on southeast Texas to continue clean-up efforts left over from Hurricane Ike.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

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  Mission Jackson County provides extreme makeover for more than 50 homes

  First Baptist Church in Edna tackled 53 missions projects in 10 days during its Mission Jackson County emphasis.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

• SBC ethics head lobbies in favor of coal, against cap and trade

  Coal-fired power plants have received the blessing of the Southern Baptist Convention’s top lobbyist for social and moral concerns, who is urging opposition to a market-based attempt to limit greenhouse-gas emissions.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

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  KidsHeart volunteers build homes, share Christ along Rio Grande

  Texas churches joined forces from El Paso to the Lower Rio Grande Valley during spring break to build homes and share Christ through KidsHeart, a combined effort of Buckner International and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Texas.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

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  HBU students offer clean water, Living Water

  HBU students helped drill a water well for the city of Telica, near Leon, Nicaragua, in cooperation with Living Water International.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

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  ETBU students make impact from upper Midwest to South Texas

  Two teams of East Texas Baptist University students spent spring break at sites 1,400 miles apart—building with a Habitat for Humanity project in Laredo and ministering in inner-city Chicago.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

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  DBU team joins Habitat for Humanity collegiate challenge

  Eighteen Dallas Baptist University students joined groups from 13 other universities to build nine houses as a part of one of the annual collegiate challenge weeks Habitat for Humanity holds in Columbus, Ga.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

• Two Texas tribes seek to reopen illegal casinos

  American Indian tribes in El Paso and East Texas want a “get out of jail free card” to reopen casinos closed by a Texas attorney general’s action and backed up by a federal court order, Suzii Paynter, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission maintains.

  04/03/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs: Baptists minister in aftermath of Alabama shooting

  Baptists reached out in Samson, Ala., a normally sleepy town marred by violence recently when 28-year-old Michael McLendon allegedly went on a 10-victim killing spree before turning a gun on himself.

  04/03/2009 - By admin