___ DBU gets $500,000. The Hillcrest Foundation has donated $500,000 to Dallas Baptist University for construction of the Tom and Alicia Landry Welcome Center. The foundation has supported DBU over many years. The new welcome center is scheduled for completion this fall.
___ Sammons to HSU. Chris Sammons has been named director of the Baptist Student Ministry program at Hardin-Simmons University. He succeeds Palmer McCown, who retired. Sammons comes to HSU from Trinity Valley Community College in Athens,
___where he was director of the BSM for the past year. He earned the master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2000 and the bachelor of arts degree in speech communication from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1994. He has been a youth minister at First Baptist churches in Mount Enterprise and San Augustine and associate pastor/ youth minister at First Baptist Church of Sanger.
___ McFarland named Baylor regent. Houston attorney Jaclanel Moore McFarland was elected to the Baylor University board of regents during the governing body's summer meeting in Houston. McFarland, who previously served on the board from 1991 to 2000, was elected to fill the unexpired term of Paul Powell, who resigned from the board last February after being appointed dean of Baylor's Truett Theological Seminary. She is a member of South Main Baptist Church in Houston and is a former first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___ Mitford author coming to Baylor. Jan Karon, author of the best-selling Mitford series, will visit the Baylor University campus in October, as the inaugural guest author of the Baylor Libraries Distinguished Author Lecture Series. Tickets for Karon's appearance go on sale Aug. 1. She will talk about her writing and the characters who live in the fictional North Carolina town of Mitford during a lecture and slide show at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in Waco Hall. The event will be followed by a special patron reception with Karon in Armstrong Browning Library. Tickets will be available at the Bill Daniel Student Center ticket office and are $10 for students, $15 for general admission and $50 for patrons. The ticket office phone number is (254) 710-3210.
___ Truett names three faculty. Three new faculty members will join Baylor University's Truett Theological Seminary this summer. Bert Dominy, a longtime professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will become professor of theology at Truett. Ron Cook, pastor of First Baptist Church of Brownwood, has become associate professor of Christian Scriptures and director of Truett's doctor of ministry program. Michael Stroope, a former Southern Baptist foreign missionary and director of the missions group All Peoples, will become associate professor of missions and will develop a missions concentration in Truett's master of divinity program. Truett anticipates a fall enrollment of about 300 students, who will be among the first to attend classes in the new $17 million, 64,000-square-foot seminary complex under construction on the Baylor campus.
___ Wayland students survive crash. Five members of a Wayland Baptist University summer missions team escaped with only minor injuries after their van rolled over July 13 as they were leaving Brady for San Antonio to attend the Baptist General Convention of Texas Youth Evangelism Conference. The students form one of two summer Rec Teams sent out across the state by the university.
___ Usrey to Whitworth. Kyle Usrey, director of global education, international business and strategic alliances at Hardin-Simmons University, has been named dean of the School of Global Commerce at Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash.
___ Blair and Michalos honored at HBU. Joe Blair and Constantina Michalos are the recipients of this year's Opal Goolsby Outstanding Teaching Award at Houston Baptist University. Blair is professor of Christianity and director of the master of arts program in theological studies. Michalos is associate professor of English.
___ Howard Payne launches campaign. Howard Payne University has launched the largest capital campaign in the school's history, a 10-year, $25 million campaign titled "Sharing the Vision." Jim McEachern, a trustee from Midlothian and chairman of the campaign, personally has pledged $2 million toward the effort. The first phase will fund endowments, scholarships and capital improvements, including construction of a central power plant and leadership center, residence hall refurbishment and library upgrades. The second phase will add projects related to student housing, property acquisition and campus development.
___ Clergy training offered. The Auxiliary of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston will offer training for clergy of all faiths Nov. 14-16 on effective ministry to hospitalized children. Participants will learn how a belief system shapes a child's response to adversity, tips for establishing a relationship with newcomers and how to shoulder the stress of ministering to seriously ill children. For registration information, call (832) 824-2260 or visit the website www.texaschildrenshospital.org/clergysymposium.
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