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  San Antonio church, military volunteers help feed hungry families

  Last year, Pastor Rob Johnson asked two senior adults at Christian Family Baptist Church to pray with him about starting a community action team. Their answered prayers can be seen in 1,485 needy families in northwest San Antonio who received 110,000 pounds of food this year.

  12/16/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas cities counter national trend in food assistance requests

  Mayors in seven out of 10 cities in the United States reported increased requests for food assistance in the past year. But three Texas cities whose mayors participated in the survey bucked the national trend.

  12/11/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas Tidbits: Four Texas Baptist schools honored for community service

  Baylor University, Dallas Baptist University, East Texas Baptist University and Hardin-Simmons University were named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for achieving meaningful, measurable outcomes through service.

  12/11/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  TBM Military Fellowship serves Christmas dinner to soldiers and families

  For a second consecutive year, members of Texas Baptist Men’s Military Fellowship donated time to melt butter, roast turkeys and serve a Christmas dinner to soldiers and their families.

  12/11/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Children At Heart Ministries families get early Christmas present

  One hundred and seventy-five clients and staff from Children at Heart Ministries experienced an early Texas-style Christmas extravaganza at the Santa’s Wonderland holiday park.

  12/10/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas Tidbits: Wayland designated an All-Steinway School

  Wayland Baptist University joined the ranks of 170 institutions around the world designated an All-Steinway School by Steinway & Sons.

  12/05/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Devine couple want to see more than diapers changed

  Johnny and Bonny Davis want to change more than diapers. They hope their diaper-changing station becomes a life-changing encounter for people who need Christ to clean up their lives.

  12/04/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  TBM team offers compassion care to children in lava’s path

  A Texas Baptist Men crisis response team journeyed to Hawaii’s Big Island to provide what they call “compassion care”—what some others term “psychological first aid”—to children and families in the expected path of a lava flow from the Kilauea volcano.

  12/04/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Crowley church expects to rise from ashes

  After First Baptist Church in Crowley’s youth building burned Nov. 16, Pastor Joel McCoy offered a message of hope from Isaiah 61:3. He told the church God will raise a thing of beauty from the ashes.

  12/04/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  God connects donated ambulance to ministry that needed it

  Ask John LaNoue if he wants donated equipment—or nearly anything else—for ministry, and he almost always says “yes.”

  12/04/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  Texas Tidbits: Judge strikes down ‘historical racing’

  A state district judge barred a state agency’s efforts to allow so-called “historical racing” at Texas horseracing tracks. State District Judge Lora Livingston ruled the Texas Racing Commission lacked authority to allow historical racing terminals to be installed at Texas tracks.

  11/28/2014 - By John Rutledge

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  ‘Third-culture kids’ adjust to life at ETBU

  Nine out of 10 students at East Texas Baptist University hail from somewhere in Texas. But a small group of ETBU students—sometimes called “third-culture kids”—find a common bond in a dramatically different life experience.

  11/26/2014 - By John Rutledge