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  Around the State: DBU and UMHB students serve communities

  Students from Dallas Baptist University and the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor began the school year with community service.

  08/29/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  CommonCall: God gave the vision

  Talk to James Bell even for a few minutes, and the subject of “vision” will arise.

  08/28/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

• Obituary: J.B. Fowler

  J.B. Fowler, retired Texas Baptist pastor and New Mexico Baptist newspaper editor, died Aug. 21 in San Antonio. He was 88.

  08/28/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: UMHB art faculty featured in exhibition

  The Baugh Center for the Visual Arts gallery at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor features an exhibit of works by faculty. Michael Evans, president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, will speak at the Hardin-Simmons University convocation.

  08/22/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  ETBU women’s basketball team serves in Jamaica 

  The East Texas Baptist University women’s basketball team journeyed to Jamaica recently to “share the joy of the Lord with the people of the island,” a leader of the mission trip said.

  08/21/2018 - By Kristin Williams / East Texas Baptist University

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  Around the State: HPU completes summer projects; new Buckner Family Hope Center director named

  Buckner International named Diego Silva director of the Buckner Family Hope Center in Peñitas. The Texas School Public Relations Association named Charles Foster Johnson, founding executive director of Pastors for Texas Children, as its 2018 Key Communicator.

  08/15/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Betty Dilday

  Betty Dilday, former first lady of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died Aug. 9 of complications from pulmonary fibrosis. She was 87.

  08/14/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: John Bisagno

  John Bisagno, longtime pastor of First Baptist Church in Houston, died Aug. 5 in Nashville, Tenn., after a battle with cancer.

  08/14/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Political involvement a matter of Christian stewardship

  Since United States citizens have the right to participate in the nation’s political process, American Christians should be good stewards of that privilege, said Kathryn Freeman, director of public policy of Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission.

  08/08/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Around the State: UMHB doctoral students visit BJC; new degree programs approved at HBU

  Students in the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor’s Doctor of Education degree program recently visited the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty offices in Washington, D.C. The regional accrediting agency granted Houston Baptist University approval to begin three new undergraduate programs and a master’s degree program.

  08/08/2018 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  CommonCall: Feed my sheep

  Pastor Kenneth Jackson of New Light Baptist Church in Lubbock prayed 10 years ago, asking God to give him a vision for community outreach. He found it in John’s Gospel, when he read a conversation between Jesus and Simon Peter.

  08/07/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Karen Morrow welcomes refugees by loving their children

  Late Monday mornings, the foyer of Kingdom Manifesters International Ministries sounds like the United Nations. Children from all over—all over the world, not just all over their neighborhood—stream into the building.

  08/06/2018 - By Marv Knox / Fellowship Southwest