• Obituary: Paula Jeser

  Paula Barry Jeser, who served two decades as executive director of Christian Women’s Job Corps in El Paso, died May 19. She was 72.

  05/21/2020 - By Ken Camp

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  TBM prepares for hurricane season in a pandemic

  Multiple agencies have predicted a particularly active hurricane season in 2020. Dwain Carter with Texas Baptist Men prays the experts are wrong, but TBM is making the necessary preparations.

  05/21/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

• Obituary: Becky Ellison

  Rebecca (Becky) Lynn Ellison of Waco, Christian Women’s Job Corps/Christian Men’s Job Corps consultant for Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas, died May 16. She was 58.

  05/21/2020 - By Ken Camp

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  Truett plans extension campus in San Antonio in 2021

  Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary plans to launch an extension campus for the San Antonio region in 2021, seeking to reach students who cannot pursue traditional, in-residence theological education.

  05/20/2020 - By Terry Goodrich / Baylor University

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  Around the State: DBU holds commencement parade

  More than 600 vehicles participated in a May 15 commencement parade honoring DBU graduates. HPU and ETBU announce tuition discounts.

  05/20/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Cast of cancelled Carousel at UMHB share finale online

  The cast of the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor’s cancelled spring musical, “Carousel,” released an online recording of the show’s finale “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” produced via the Zoom meeting app.

  05/18/2020 - By James Stafford / University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

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  River Ministry missionary adapts during COVID-19 crisis

  Silvia Briones, a missionary with Texas Baptist River Ministry, discovered new ways to serve—locally as a hospital chaplain and globally by offering training and organizing online prayer meetings—when the COVID-19 crisis restricted in-person ministry along the Rio Grande.

  05/15/2020 - By Bonnie Shaw / Texas Baptist Communications

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  Around the State: Buckner launches Going Gold for Senior Living

  To increase awareness of senior living residents and the workers caring for them, Buckner Retirement Services is launching a ribbon campaign titled Going Gold for Senior Living. Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers completed work in response to tornadoes in East Texas after giving more than 4,600 volunteer hours.

  05/13/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  CLC, SBTC and ERLC join in urging Texas Supreme Court action

  A district court ruling against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lubbock succeeded in uniting Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission and a Southern Baptists of Texas Convention committee—as well as the national Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission—in a call for action by the Texas Supreme Court.

  05/08/2020 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  Around the State: DBU issues prayer challenge

  Dallas Baptist University has called on its alumni, supporters and other concerned Christians globally to join in a concerted time of prayer on May 14.

  05/06/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Texas Baptist pastors and churches support other pastors

  Some of the most generous donors to Texas Baptists’ newly created Pastor Relief Fund have been fellow Texas Baptists pastors and churches.

  05/06/2020 - By Bonnie Shaw / Texas Baptist Communications

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  DBU finds innovative way to celebrate graduates

  Zachary Funderburk was disappointed to have his graduation plans interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. But for Funderburk and other spring graduates of Dallas Baptist University, the experience could turn out to be more memorable than expected.

  05/05/2020 - By Tess Schoonhoven / Baptist Press