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  Harvey brings Athens and Rockport churches together

  Charles McKnight has seen plenty of highs and lows during his 35 years as pastor of St. Paul Baptist Church in Rockport. One highlight is the relationship First Baptist Church in Athens established with his congregation after Hurricane Harvey.

  04/16/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Minister uses amputation to pour hope into others’ lives

  Shawn Findley was working through a day like any other day at a local fabrication shop. That stopped as quickly as the punch press machine that mangled his hand.

  03/13/2018 - By Ken Camp

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  BUA inaugurates Jaquez as president

  Because of its past accomplishments, Baptist University of the Américas is “poised to do new things,” Abraham Jaquez said at his inauguration and formal installation as the school’s eighth president.

  03/06/2018 - By Isa Torres / Hispanic Beat Reporter

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  Baptist disaster relief in Texas sets new records

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief workers may have wondered this time last year how they ever could top the 12,000-plus volunteers days they gave in 2016. If so, they could not have foreseen surpassing 40,000 volunteer days this year.

  12/06/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Tamiko Jones elected Texas WMU executive director-treasurer

  The WMU of Texas board of directors elected Tamiko Jones, minister of missions and young adults at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Mansfield, as the organization’s executive director-treasurer.

  10/06/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Abraham Jaquez elected BUA president

  Abraham Jaquez—an executive with Buckner International and longtime Baptist Student Ministry director—was named the next president and chief executive officer of Baptist University of the Américas.

  07/31/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  Texas Baptists Committed to cease operations

  Texas Baptists Committed—the moderate organization that for nearly three decades resisted a “fundamentalist takeover” of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and its affiliated churches—will cease operations at the end of July.

  07/10/2017 - By Ken Camp

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  Baylor University elects Linda Livingstone to return as 15th president

  Baylor University has elected Linda Livingtone, dean of George Washington University’s School of Business and a former Baylor faculty member and administrator, as its 15th president.

  04/18/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Texas Baptist professors denounce political sins and confess complicity

  More than two-dozen faculty and staff at six Texas Baptist universities joined 1,100 other Christian scholars who signed a statement of confession and commitment denouncing a political environment “marked by fear, polarization and violence.”

  04/18/2017 - By Ken Camp