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  Churches urged to create a culture of calling

  During a Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting workshop, George Mason, pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, outlined three steps churches and pastors need to take in order to cultivate the next generation of clergy.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Seek and find hope in the Lamb’s agenda

  Samuel Rodriguez, pastor of New Season Christian Worship Center in Sacramento, Calif., urged Texas Baptists to find hope not in the agenda of donkeys or elephants but in the agenda of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

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  Fund helps churches fulfill their mission

  Gonzales Baptist Association agreed last year to move $50,000 from its general fund to a special missions fund. Since April, the association has helped  51 people pursue mission opportunities in Haiti, Ethiopia, China, France, Germany and Vietnam.

  11/02/2012 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  Trey Ainsworth has resigned as minister of students and senior adults at Calvary Church in Lufkin.

  11/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  Raimundo Barreto, director of the division of freedom and justice for the Baptist World Alliance, was the keynote speaker for the T.B. Maston lecture series hosted by Dallas Baptist University. Barreto told participants that about 200 million Christians endure persecution.

  11/01/2012 - By Administrator

• Quiet meeting as BGCT elects officers, approves flat budget

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas elected their top three officers by acclamation and approved a flat budget during remarkably quiet business sessions at Texas Baptists’ annual meeting.

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Kinnaman challenges churches to engage young spiritual exiles

  David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, told the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting that young adult lifestyles today differ starkly from 50 years ago.

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptists called to live out hope, Carlisle insists

  In his presidential message to the BGCT annual meeting, Jerry Carlisle described how a broken, battered and disheartened Apostle Paul arrived in a lost and hopeless Corinth ready to cease preaching, and how hope eventually took root there.

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Churches called to embrace their context, be true to their calling

  God places his followers where he wants them and then calls them to minister there, Dennis Wiles, pastor of First Baptist Church in Arlington, said in the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting sermon.

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  BGCT elects officers, approves constitutional amendments

  Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas elected their top three officers by acclamation during a remarkably quiet opening business session of the group's annual meeting

  10/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Kenneth Hall named to Baylor development post

  Kenneth L. Hall, President Emeritus of Buckner International, will join Baylor University as senior vice president for university development and strategic initiatives, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

  10/29/2012 - By Administrator

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  Baptist churches have women in ministry, panelists insist

  Women minister in most Texas Baptist churches; they just don't always carry the job title, speakers noted in a panel discussion held in conjunction with the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting.

  10/29/2012 - By Administrator