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  BUA names provost, vice president

  Javier Elizondo has been named executive vice president and provost of Baptist University of the Americas, and Craig Bird has been named vice president for university relations.

  08/20/2008 - By Administrator

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  CERI gives relief from Moldovan flood with the help of Kerrville volunteers

  Volunteers from Trinity Baptist Church in Kerrville worked with Children’s Emergency Relief International to provide relief for families displaced by flooding in Moldova.

  08/20/2008 - By Administrator

• Missions leader Ophelia Humphrey dies at age 85

  Ophelia Humphrey, president of Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas from 1964 until 1968, died Aug. 16 at age 85.

  08/20/2008 - By Administrator

• BGCT still offers psychological services

  In spite of staff cutbacks, the Baptist General Convention of Texas continues to offer counseling and psychological services to ministers and their families through a network of counselors across the state.

  08/14/2008 - By admin

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  What would Jesus do? In Brownsville, he’d serve spaghetti

  Baptist Child & Family Services and Texas Baptist Men were set up for mass feedings after Hurricane Dolly. But they were also quick to meet small, personal needs.

  08/14/2008 - By admin

• Church gives away more than $1 million in food, continues meeting needs after Dolly

  After Hurricane Dolly hit the Rio Grand Valley, Primera Iglesia Bautista in Santa Maria distributed more than $1 million in food donated from groups such Texas Baptist Men, the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Red Cross.

  08/14/2008 - By admin

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  C.W. Brister, longtime Southwestern pastoral-care professor, dies at 82

  C.W. Brister Jr., who taught pastoral counseling and theology to generations of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary students, died Aug. 9, reportedly of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 82. 

  08/14/2008 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits: Cortes named BGCT Hispanic ministries associate

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas has named Gabriel Cortes as Hispanic ministries strategist. Cortes, who will assume his new role Aug. 25, has been Baptist University of the Americas’ director of church and alumni relations.

  08/14/2008 - By admin

• Around the State: Banquet will honor Dilday

  The John Newport Foundation banquet, to be held Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. at Broadway Church in Fort Worth, will honor Russell Dilday. Dilday, chancellor of the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute.

  08/14/2008 - By admin

• Mimicking trends could turn musician into worship ‘barista,’ leader warns

  Trying to adapt to every trend in worship can become disruptive and distracting to a church, said Tim Studstill, director of music and worship for the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

  08/14/2008 - By admin

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  Super Summer super for all involved, participants insist

  More than 4,000 young people who attended Super Summer camps learned how share their faith naturally through relationships with other people.

  08/14/2008 - By admin

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  Dallas church forms partnership with Baptist associations in New England

  Members of Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church recently signed a partnership agreement with the Greater Boston Baptist Association and the Southeastern New England Baptist Association, committing to provide financial and ministerial assistance to the churches in these two associations.

  08/14/2008 - By admin