___ Child care offered for BGCT. Free child care will provided as a service for out-of-town messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual session Oct. 29-30 in Dallas. Care for young children--infants through pre-kindergarten--will be offered at First Baptist Church, 1707 San Jacinto in Dallas, about a 10-minute drive from the Dallas Convention Center. The service will be offered from 11:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. Oct. 29 and 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. Oct. 30. Vickie Godsey, children's ministry assistant at Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church of Dallas, will coordinate child care services. There is no cost for child care, but advance registration is required by Oct. 15. Contact Godsey at (972) 857-9707.
___ DBU enrollment grows again. Dallas Baptist University's fall enrollment is 4,222, marking the 14th consecutive year of enrollment growth. This fall's enrollment is an increase of 190 students (4.7 percent) over last fall. Even with the addition of a new dormitory in 1999, DBU still has a housing need. "We simply have more students who want to live on campus than we can house," said Blair Blackburn, senior vice president. "Recognizing this need, we are beginning another new construction project on campus this fall, new university apartments."
___ DBU students report on missions work. Seventy Dallas Baptist University students served in 33 locations across the world this summer as short-term missionaries. Places of service included North Carolina; Texas; Washington, D.C.; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Jamaica; Mexico; Mongolia; Southeast Asia; and Taiwan. "The most memorable part of the trip was when Dietrich came up to me after one of our services and said to me in his broken English, 'I never believe before like I do after listen to you,'" recalled Kevin Caffey, a fourth-year student who worked in Germany. "Afterward, I found out he accepted Christ as his personal Savior that evening."
___ UMHB students go to work. Three hundred University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students fanned out into the Temple-Belton community before the start of classes to volunteer their time and energy in ministry. The students delivered meals for Meals on Wheels, cleaned wheelchairs at nursing facilities, organized toys and baked brownies at the Ronald McDonald House, worked with children in Belton Independent School District, and assisted with paperwork and filing at local churches. The activities were designed to help new incoming freshmen get acquainted with the Bell County service organizations.
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