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  Baptist hospital chaplain among first to receive COVID vaccine

  Silvia Briones—a hospital chaplain endorsed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas—was among the first people in Texas to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 16.

  12/16/2020 - By Bonnie Shaw / Texas Baptist Communications

• Obituary: Gloria Bussey McQueen

  Gloria Bussey McQueen, a pioneering leader in Baptist youth ministry, died Dec. 9 in Arlington. She was 92.

  12/16/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: Baylor completes NCAA committee hearing

  Baylor University officials completed a two-day virtual hearing Dec. 15 with a seven-member panel of the NCAA’s committee on infractions.

  12/16/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Around the State: Irving church adapts Thanksgiving ministry

  Teams of volunteers arrived at Oak View Baptist Church in Irving before 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day to assemble more than 600 gift baskets. Michael Evans, immediate past president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, was elected mayor of Mansfield in a Dec. 8 runoff election.

  12/09/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Molly Rogers Houser

  Molly Rogers Houser, former Baptist missionary to Africa, died Nov. 12 in Waco. She was 85.

  12/08/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Joseph “Don” Robertson

  Joseph “Don” Robertson of Lubbock, Baptist pastor in Texas and New Mexico, died Nov. 29, 2020, after a six-year battle with cancer. He was 74.

  12/07/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Sandra R. Brannon

  Sandra R. Brannon, former director of patient care services at Baylor Medical Center in Grapevine and wife of Baptist denominational leader Thomas J. Brannon, died Dec. 1 in a Columbia, S.C., hospital after a lengthy illness. She was 80.

  12/04/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: John Pelham Hereford

  John Pelham Hereford of Spring, pastoral ministry associate at The Woodlands First Baptist Church, died Dec. 1. He was 69.

  12/03/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Attorney general intervenes in Southwestern/Baylor lawsuit

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Baylor University against a charitable foundation, claiming intervention is “necessary … to protect the public interest in charity.”

  12/03/2020 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

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  Around the State: DBU recognizes Dallas couple with award

  C.T. “Sparkey” & Merrie Beckham from Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas received the Russell H. Perry Free Enterprise Award from Dallas Baptist University. Students in Baylor University’s “Philanthropy and the Public Good” class directed $90,000 to seven Waco-area nonprofit organizations.

  12/02/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Baylor student musicians create ‘Countdown to Christmas’

  From Dec. 1 to 24, the Baylor School of Music will offer the “Baylor Family” and others a special daily gift for the holidays—a “Countdown to Christmas” selection of online performances.

  11/30/2020 - By Terry Goodrich / Baylor University

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  Around the State: ETBU students participate in Operation Christmas Child

  East Texas Baptist University participated in its fifth annual Operation Christmas Child. An engineering science professor at Howard Payne University and his students recently unveiled wearable personal protective equipment designed to emit a virus- and bacteria-destroying UV aura believed to be effective against COVID-19.

  11/24/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard