HUNTSVILLE – The two young men had spent the day listening to music and weaving beaded bracelets. Laughing and talking, they were rather nonchalant about the whole affair. [ More ]
WORCESTER, Mass. – When Josh Brownfield’s son was born, he told plenty of people about it. [ More ]
NEW YORK – On the corner of Avenue D and 7th, a woman is pulling soda cans out of the trash and putting them into a grocery bag to sell later for a few cents. [ More ]
WASHINGTON – A Texas Baptist student won the grand prize in this year’s Religious Liberty Essay Scholarship Contest, sponsored by the Religious Liberty Council of the Baptist Joint Committee. [ More ]
CLIFTON – For more than 10 months of the year, local children from lower income homes know they can turn to their local school for a minimum of one nutritious meal a day. [ More ]
DALLAS – The Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas Board of Directors unanimously elected Sandy Wisdom-Martin Aug. 14 to be the organization’s next executive director treasurer. [ More ]
The Southern Baptist Convention North American Mission Board recently honored Texas Baptists for starting more congregations in 2009 than any other state group. [ More ]
HOUSTON – Whether it's a church, institution or organization, leadership will make or break the success and influence of each. [ More ]
This year, each Texas Baptist partnering church will receive the number of messenger cards the church is entitled to-no request card is necessary. [ More ]
SAN ANTONIO – Pamela Sanchez was placed into foster care when she was 14 after reporting to a school counselor that her mother was physically abusing her. [ More ]
DALLAS – To be a “Living Testimony In a Languishing World,” African American Texas Baptists were challenged to commit to sharing the hope of Christ with people who are lost without it, according to preachers at the African American Fellowship Conference July 13-16. [ More ]
FORT WORTH – Anchorless, Danny was drifting. He coasted into a debilitating drug addiction that cost him jobs, his home and ultimately time in jail. Upon his release, he wandered the streets not knowing where he would find his next meal, a safe place to sleep or a solitary member of society who cared about. [ More ]
BELTON – The Texas Baptists Bivocatonal and Smaller Membership Ministers and Spouses Association held their 24th annual meeting at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor July 9 -11 with Randel Everett and Joel Gregory who focused their messages on the importance of Baptist bivocational ministers and ministers of small churches in Texas. [ More ]
SAN MARCOS – When the Texas State University Baptist Student Ministry discovered it was losing $15,000 from the Bluebonnet Baptist Association due to a redirecting of association priorities, Abe Jaquez, the BSM director at the school, knew that God would provide the funding needed for the ministry to continue if that was His will. He did just that. [ More ]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti is a country of conspicuous contrasts – a landscape both monochrome and vivid, and a people standing solidly, yet shaken to pieces. [ More ]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian students whispered excitedly as a small group of foreigners parked in the school driveway and unloaded a stack of black crates that never should have made it into the country. [ More ]
DALLAS – In an age where more than two-thirds of American students who grew up in protestant churches step away from their faith during their college years, Texas Baptists Collegiate Ministry is trying to bridge the spiritual gap. [ More ]
GARLAND – More than a year ago, Texas Baptists youth evangelism staff began to pray for an outpouring of the Lord’s Spirit on the students who would attend the 2010 Youth Evangelism Conference. [ More ]
AUSTIN – A new national report released this week on child nutrition shows Texas has made progress expanding the reach of publicly-funded Summer Food Programs in 2009, but more work is needed to ensure that low-income children have access to nutritious food during the summer... [ More ]