• Dillon International will hold a free adoption information meeting March 19 at 6 p.m. at Buckner Children's Home in Dallas. A representative will give an overview of adoption from China, Korea, Haiti, India, Hong Kong and Ghana. A domestic adoption program for Texas families and adoption programs in Russia, Ethiopia and Honduras, available through an affiliation with Buckner, also will be discussed. For more information or to make a reservation for the meeting, call (214) 319-3426.
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Sue Jordan was named the Sam B. Hall Jr. Civic Service Award recipient during a banquet held at East Texas Baptist University. The annual Sam B. Hall Jr. Lecture Series commemorates the late U.S. representative and federal judge, who was a Marshall native and an alumnus of the College of Marshall, which now is ETBU.
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• Hardin-Simmons University's first Honors Forum on Faith and Intellect will focus on bioethics. The March 22-23 event will feature Peter Dysert, chief of pathology at Baylor University Medical Center, and Jim Denison, president of the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture, as keynote speakers. The forum includes concurrent sessions on various bioethics themes, a disabilities panel discussion, a physicians panel and a student art show. Registration begins at 2 p.m. Thursday, and the conference concludes at 1 p.m. Friday. Fees are $20 for the conference and meals, with discounts for employees, students and honors alumni. Meal reservations must be made by noon March 20. For meals reservations or more information, call (325) 670-1531.
• Host churches still are needed to assist with volunteers and meals for the Dallas Association's Dallas Cup Hospitality Center April 2-6 in Frisco. The Dallas Cup soccer tournament brings players, coaches and fans from all over the world, and the hospitality center is one means of spreading the gospel through this event. For more information, call Carolyn Alston at (214) 319-1166. Participating congregations need to send a team leader to a volunteer orientation meeting at 10 a.m. March 22 at First Church in Frisco for final preparations and information.
• Tony Martin, professor in the Christian studies department, will speak on "The Abiding Lesson of the Titanic Catastophe" at the April 12 University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Christian Studies Forum at noon. Held in the Shelton Theater of the Mabee Student Center, the event is free and open to the public. Participants are encouraged to bring a lunch.
• Brian Bessent, David Lott and Melanie Ocana have been named the recipients of Hardin-Simmons University's outstanding young alumni awards by HSU's Board of Young Associates. The board is a select group of alumni under age 40 who aspire to assist the university in achieving its mission of providing a quality education in a Christian environment.
• Dallas Baptist University's Women's Auxiliary presented its annual Ruth Awards to Joyce Andres of Irving, Beverly Giltner of Arlington and Betty Rush of Hurst.
• Howard Payne University celebrated Black History Month with a special chapel service. Members of the African-American chapter of HPU's Alumni Association, current students and former students presented poetry, music and stories during the service titled "Pressing on with Precision and Purpose."
Anniveraries
• Mountain Church in Gatesville, 80th, March 25. John Weaver will be the guest speaker. A covered-dish luncheon will follow the morning service. Kurt Fuessel is pastor.
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• Park Robertson, fifth, as pastor of First Church in Noonday, March 30.
• First Church in La Feria, 100th, April 13-15. Call (956) 797-1214 for more information.
Deaths
• Estelle Watson, 93, Jan. 14 in San Angelo. A pastor's wife, she made two missionary trips to Russia and taught Sunday school until the end of her life. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ausie, in 1993. She is survived by sons, Travis and Larry; daughter, Peggy Beeman; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
• David Womack, 57, Feb. 26 in San Angelo. He was pastor of Eola Church in Eola. He is survived by his wife, Julia; daughter, Reanna Choate; son, David; stepsons, Michael and Daniel Farris; and sister, Brenda Young.
Retirement
• Nancy Conlin, as minister of childhood education at First Church in Bryan, March 15. She served the church 19 years.
Event
• First Church in Bryan will hold a two-hour seminar with Nabeel Jabbour on reaching out to Muslims March 25 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the fellowship hall. David Higgs is pastor.
• Roland Hill has been named police chaplain emeritus by the Pasadena Police Department. He served as the department's chaplain more than 36 years. For 31 years, he also was pastor of First Church in Pasadena, where he continues to teach and minister as a retiree.
Revival
• First Church, Poteet; March 4-7; evangelist, Jason Dykes; pastor, Michael Allen Weaver.
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