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  Texas School Breakfast Report Card shows improvement

  Texas has become a national leader in school breakfast participation, moving up to 10th in the state rankings, thanks in part to the passage in 2013 of Texas Senate Bill 376—the “Universal Breakfast Bill.”

  03/19/2018 - By Kasey Ashenfelter / Texas Hunger Initiative

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  Senior adults serve school across the street from church

  Senior adults at Pioneer Drive Baptist Church in Abilene have established deep relationships a neighboring elementary school.

  03/16/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Attorney general opinion requested on poker houses that charge fees

  Poker houses that charge a fee violate gambling provisions in the Texas Penal Code, a statewide anti-gambling organization argues in a brief submitted to the state attorney general’s office.

  03/15/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Mission teams build houses and futures for families

  Mission teams from across the state spent their spring break in the Rio Grande Valley, building homes for families involved with the local Family Hope Center.

  03/15/2018 - By Aimee Freston / Buckner International

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  Minister uses amputation to pour hope into others’ lives

  Shawn Findley was working through a day like any other day at a local fabrication shop. That stopped as quickly as the punch press machine that mangled his hand.

  03/13/2018 - By Ken Camp

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  Missionary in McAllen ministers to new arrivals seeking asylum

  An influx of asylum-seeking immigrants from Central America who began arriving in McAllen four years ago gained brief national attention. But for one Texas Baptist border-area missionary, it launched an ongoing ministry.

  03/13/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Texas WMU and Buckner shine hope in Bachman Lake

  Volunteers wash, dry and fold loads of clothes for free for those caught in the gas crisis in Northwest Dallas.

  03/13/2018 - By John Hall / Buckner International

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  BSM group touched by tragedy reunites after 30 years

  The collision on U.S. Route 77 happened so quickly, few initially understood its impact. But that car wreck 30 years ago caused reverberations changing lives for decades to come.

  03/12/2018 - By Dave Arden

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  View Bible stories as immigrant tales, scholar urges

  An Old Testament scholar who grew up in a bilingual and bicultural home challenged a Hardin-Simmons University audience to view familiar Bible stories through a new lens—by seeing its characters as immigrants.

  03/12/2018 - By Ken Camp

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  CommonCall: Open home, open hearts

  Mace and Jennifer Perez always knew they wanted children. And for Jennifer, adoption had tugged on her heart even when she was an adolescent.

  03/09/2018 - By Ken Camp

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  CommonCall: Church supports high school robotics team

  Roca Viva Church in Fort Worth supports North Side High School’s robotics and engineering program. The congregation sees the potential this program has for the students in the area.

  03/07/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  BUA inaugurates Jaquez as president

  Because of its past accomplishments, Baptist University of the Américas is “poised to do new things,” Abraham Jaquez said at his inauguration and formal installation as the school’s eighth president.

  03/06/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter