• 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

• ‘Bring your umbrella’ when Texans meet at Capitol to pray for rain

  A San Marcos pastor is calling on Christians from around the state to pray for rain.

  03/24/2009 - By Administrator

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  Evangelical baptism center opens in Jordan

  Baptist leaders and other dignitaries — including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair — took part in a ceremony dedicating a new evangelical Christian baptism center at the Jordanian spot traditionally regarded as the site of Jesus' baptism.

  03/23/2009 - By Administrator

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  Calling–not ordination–the crucial question on women in ministry

  Asking whether women should be ordained to the ministry is the wrong question, Baptist professor Curtis Freeman insisted. “The question is, ‘Who is being gifted in the church?’”

  03/20/2009 - By admin

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  WMU board sets Texas missions goal, hears update on personnel issues

  The Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas board approved a $5.167 million giving goal for the Mary Hill Davis Offering for Texas Missions—and a list of allocations that restored some familiar ministries initially left out or dramatically reduced last year.

  03/20/2009 - By admin

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  Vela announces bid for Hispanic Baptist presidency

  Angel Vela, pastor of Iglesia Bautista Westway in El Paso, has announced he will allow his nomination for president of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas.

  03/20/2009 - By admin

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  Texas Hope 2010: Richardson students help homeless

  During a Disciple Now weekend, students at First Baptist Church in Richardson took time to show their community they cared about it.

  03/20/2009 - By admin

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  TBM Builders construct furniture for Bulgarian ministry to youth

  Texas Baptist Men Builders constructed 48 pieces of solid oak furniture recently for a residential program for at-risk teenaged young men in Bulgaria.

  03/20/2009 - By admin

• Money raised, no one voted off the ranch during Survivor weekend

  Participants in Texas State University’s Baptist Student Ministries recently were able to incorporate fun and a bit of Survivor-style derring-do into an effort to raise money for missions.

  03/20/2009 - By admin

• Prayers become reality for collegiate ministry

  Growth at Tyler Junior College Baptist Student Ministries is the result of 20 years of prayer and preparation.

  03/20/2009 - By admin