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  BGCT’s Rodriguez to nominate Carlisle for president

  Victor Rodriguez has announced he plans to serve only one term as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and he will nominate the convention's first vice president, Jerry Carlisle, as his successor.

  07/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Johnson to be nominated for BGCT first VP

  Jeff Johnson, a Texas Baptist minister who founded a nonprofit Borderlands missions research center, will be nominated for first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

  07/25/2011 - By Administrator

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  Hall announces retirement; Reyes named Buckner CEO

  Ken Hall, chief executive officer of Buckner International since 1994, announced his retirement from the Dallas-based organization during a July 22 meeting of the board of trustees.

   

  07/22/2011 - By Administrator

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  Hanna named interim president at South Texas Children’s Home

  Homer Hanna, a former executive with South Texas Children’s Home Ministries, will serve as interim president and chief executive officer for the Beeville-based agency.

  07/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baylor church music students transform African village

  A team of Baylor University church music students in 2007 sought to change the lives of a handful of girls in East Africa, but their return this year found a village transformed.

  07/16/2011 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  After more than 41 years with Baptist Community Services and the related health care entities that preceded it, Tim Holloway will retire Dec. 31 as president and chief executive officer of BCS and the High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  El Paso church reaches children through VBS, sports camp

  Journey of Faith Community Church in El Paso doesn’t have a building of its own, but that doesn’t stop church members from ministering each year to the families through Vacation Bible School and sports camps.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

• Bivocational, small-church pastors challenged to ‘go for the gold’

  Ministers should “go for the gold,” not settle for peanuts, Paul Powell told the annual conference for Texas Baptist bivocational and small-membership-church ministers and their families.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

• On the Move

  Kim Bartel to Herty Church in Lufkin as pastor.

  07/14/2011 - By Administrator

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  Around the State

  The Heart of Texas Literature Center at Howard Payne University distributed 3,500 children’s books among the center’s sponsor organizations recently.

  07/14/2011 - By Administrator

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  Faith needed to navigate troubled waters, preachers emphasize

  Every person will face storms in life—financial, spiritual, relational or personal. Navigating tough times requires faith in the proper Captain, preachers said during the annual meeting of the African-American Fellowship of Texas in Lubbock

  07/12/2011 - By Administrator

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  Church leaders must face change with proper perspective

  Church leaders need to take spiritual inventory of both their lives and leadership styles in order to grow and be most effective, speakers emphasized during plenary sessions of African-American Fellowship annual meeting in Lubbock.

  07/12/2011 - By Administrator