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  Roach honored as Elder Statesman

  Fred Roach, retired business leader and Baptist layman, received the Texas Baptist Elder Statesman Award during a worship service at historic Independence Baptist Church, near Brenham.

  06/06/2012 - By Administrator

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  258 student missionaries commissioned to serve this summer

  As the 2012 summer Go Now Missions training and commissioning serve came to a close on May 19, each college student came to the altar at the front of the Dallas Baptist University chapel and bent down low to pick up a towel that read "Sent to Serve."

  06/01/2012 - By Administrator

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  Border violence keeps mission teams home

  Steadily declining mission trips to Mexico due to drug violence has left many Mexicans feeling abandoned just when their anxiety levels are peaking, missions experts in Texas say.

  06/01/2012 - By Administrator

• No recommendation yet regarding name change for HBU

  A committee appointed to study whether Houston Baptist University should change its name told the school’s board of trustees it is not ready to make a recommendation yet.

  05/30/2012 - By Administrator

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  Umphreys make gift for Baylor stadium bridge

  Baylor University has announced a major gift from Sheila and Walter Umphrey of Beaumont for Baylor Stadium, the university's proposed on-campus football stadium.

  05/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Kneisel has kept missionaries rolling for more than three decades

  Foreign missionaries feel called to go and tell, but they also need to be able to "go" when they return home on furlough. Retired missionary Harvey Kneisel founded the Macedonian Call Foundation to meet that need.

  05/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Houstonian to be nominated to lead pastors’ conference

  Gregg Matte, pastor of First Baptist Church in Houston, will be nominated as president of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference during the June 17-18 gathering in New Orleans.

  05/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Dallas churches reach people from 49 countries

  The world is moving to metropolitan areas, and Dallas-area churches are seeking to reach unevangelized people with the gospel, pastors and laypeople learned on a recent mission tour of Dallas Baptist Association.

  05/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Simple shelter fits cowboy church just fine

  Seventeen men from six Heart of Texas Baptist Network churches helped put the roof on a building for Heart of Texas Cowboy Church in Brookesmith. They've been meeting in a tent since last year.

  05/25/2012 - By Administrator

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  Students earn top awards in BGCT Bible Drill & Speakers’ contests

  Students from First Baptist Church in Carrollton, First Baptist Church in Winnsboro and First Baptist Church in Seguin took top honors in Texas Baptists' Bible Drill and Speakers tournaments recently.

  05/25/2012 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  Brent Anderson has resigned as pastor of Seth Ward Church in Plainview.

  05/24/2012 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  Texas Baptist layman Fred Roach will receive the Texas Baptist Elder Statesman Award at a June 3 presentation at Independence Baptist Church in Independence.

   

  05/24/2012 - By Administrator