Joy Fenner announces retirement from helm of Texas WMU
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___CEDAR HILL--Joy Fenner has announced plans to retire as executive director-treasurer of Texas Woman's Missionary Union Feb. 28, 2001.
___Fenner made the announcement to members of the Texas WMU executive board during their March 22-23 meeting at Mount Lebanon Baptist Encampment.
___Also during that meeting, the executive board approved personnel committee recommendations regarding consultants specializing in language WMU work and in ministries, Women on Mission and Adults on Mission.
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Six baptisms were set, but final total was 10
___By Mark Wingfield
___Managing Editor
___ARLINGTON--Six people were scheduled to be baptized at Impact Fellowship in Arlington March 12. But before the morning worship service concluded, a total of 10 had been symbolically raised to new life from the water.
___It was the maiden voyage for the church's new portable baptistry--built from the shell of a home shower stall bought at Home Depot the weekend before.
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New center for Baptist prison ministry going up in Rusk
___By Orville Scott
___Texas Baptist Communications
___RUSK--Just outside the gates of the Texas Department of Corrections' Skyview-Hodge Unit, members of Texas Baptist Men Builders, who have constructed new facilities for more than 400 needy churches since 1979, are erecting the Skyview-Hodge Family Center with assistance from area volunteers.
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George Dawson, 102, learned to read at age 98, then wrote a book about his life. Speakers at the Senior Adult Summit in Waco urged the elderly to follow his example and "never give up."
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