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  Video shows how the Texas Lottery was rigged

  Video evidence sheds new light on how some individuals inside the Texas Lottery Commission allegedly enabled a syndicate with international connections to rig the system and claim a $95 million Texas Lottery jackpot.

  04/22/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  ETBU prayer tent brings students together

  East Texas Baptist University’s Baptist Student Ministry recently hosted a prayer tent event, offering students 24 consecutive hours of prayer, reflection, confession and thanksgiving.

  04/21/2025 - By Faith Pratt / Intern

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  Texas House approves education savings account program

  After hours of debate, the Texas House of Representatives approved for the first time in the state’s history a plan to send public funds to private schools, including religious schools.

  04/17/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Bill on temperature control in Texas prisons gets hearing

  The Texas House of Representatives Committee on Corrections heard public testimony April 16 on a bill to buy and install air-conditioning and heating systems in Texas prisons.

  04/17/2025 - By Calli Keener / Baptist Standard

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  Texans on Mission flood recovery teams help families

  Consuelo Oliva’s home was one of many that flooded in the Rio Grande Valley after excessive rain at the end of March. Texans on Mission team spent all day at Oliva’s home, tearing out ruined sheetrock and insulation, treating surfaces to remediate mold and moving furniture.

  04/15/2025 - By Aimee Freston / Texans on Mission

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  ETBU students participate in 2025 Serve Day

  In spite of cold, rainy weather, more than 250 East Texas Baptist University students spent a recent Saturday serving churches, outreach centers and nonprofit organizations throughout Harrison County.

  04/15/2025 - By Faith Pratt

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  Campaign for a Hunger-Free Texas announced

  The prevalence and severity of hunger is a “litmus test” revealing the health or sickness of a society, said Jeremy Everett, founding executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.

  04/11/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Texas House nullifies NDAs in sexual abuse cases

  The Texas House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill banning nondisclosure clauses in sexual abuse settlement agreements April 8.

  04/11/2025 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Deportation threat impacts Texas Baptist ministries

  Hispanic Texas Baptist churches and ministries that serve immigrants are feeling the effects of the suspension of Temporary Protected Status and humanitarian parole programs, along with the overarching threat of mass deportations.

  04/10/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Texans on Mission provide tornado relief in East Texas

  Barbara Humphrey had one thing on her mind as she and her husband Terry watched members of the Texans on Mission Rolling Timbers disaster response team remove a gigantic oak tree from the couple’s yard and atop her nephew’s demolished travel trailer—gratitude.

  04/10/2025 - By Russ Dilday / Texans on Misssion

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  Greed fuels sports gambling industry, ethicist says

  Sports gambling feeds on greed and thrives on the exploitation of the vulnerable, Baptist minister and former college football coach RaShan Frost said.

  04/07/2025 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Texans on Mission seeking volunteers after Valley flooding

  Lead elements of Texans on Mission disaster relief departed Dallas on April 1 to coordinate flood relief in the Rio Grande Valley after about 20 inches of rain in the region.

  04/02/2025 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission