• Evolution foes score split decision in State Board of Education

  After a 7-7 vote allowed expiration of a requirement that Texas high school students evaluate the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution, the State Board of Education passed new standards calling on biology students to “analyze, evaluate and critique” scientific theories.

  03/30/2009 - By Administrator

• Howard Payne University names presidential search committee

  Howard Payne University has appointed a committee that includes trustees, along with faculty, staff, student body and alumni representatives to search for the school’s next president.

  03/30/2009 - By Administrator

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  Avoid Juarez, but most border missions safe, officials advise

  Thinking about a mission trip to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico?  Don’t. That’s the advice River Ministry and Border Missions leaders of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and Buckner International are offering volunteers, in light of violence related to drug cartels.

  03/27/2009 - By Administrator

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  Wayland student finds calling as military chaplain

  Wayland student Erick Kirby's desire to be a chaplain got a jump start when his Army Reserve unit was sent to Iraq. 

  03/27/2009 - By admin

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  UMHB students offer helping hands to Helping Hands

  More than 200 students from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor recently pitched in to collectively offer more than 600 hours of community service at the Helping Hands community ministry center.

  03/27/2009 - By admin

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  Sense of calling characterizes church’s commitment to Boy Scouts

  Adult leaders of the Scouting program at First Baptist Church in Texarkana view it as a ministry.

  03/27/2009 - By admin

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  UMHB alum fulfills calling by making friends for Christ in China

  Last fall, UMHB alum Brittany Phillips went back to college. This time, it’s in another language and in China—a country whose people grabbed her heart years ago and wouldn’t let go until she returned to stay longer and make a difference.

  03/27/2009 - By admin

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  Students get international experience close to home

  Sixteen Howard Payne University students spent spring break in Fort Worth, working with refugees from Bhutan, Burma, Iraq and Somalia.

  03/27/2009 - By admin

• Arizona high court declares state’s voucher program unconstitutional

  The Arizona Supreme Court March 25 delivered the latest in a string of blows to the movement to provide tax funding for tuition at private and religious schools.

  03/26/2009 - By Administrator

• Alabama Baptists headed to court over property dispute

  Alabama Baptists are going to court to resolve a dispute with Montgomery, Ala., homeowners that Baptist leaders claim are unreasonably hindering development of land the state convention is trying to sell.

  03/25/2009 - By Administrator

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  Southern Baptist activist organizes confab on church and environment

  An upcoming national conference on churches and the environment features several well-known evangelical speakers, including some prominent Southern Baptist leaders who will be speaking for first time on the increasingly high-profile theological issue known as "creation care."

  03/24/2009 - By Administrator

• Arabic church helps refugees start over in a new land

  Pastor Jalil Dawood has been here before—no clothes, nowhere to live, no way to get around and no friends to help. Starting life in another country can be like living on a deserted island—lonely, isolated and helpless. If he can help it, no one else will have to fight through that alone.

  03/24/2009 - By Administrator