___ DBU honors Blackaby. Henry Blackaby, co-author of the best-selling "Experiencing God" books, received an honorary doctor
___of divinity degree from Dallas Baptist University March 20 during spring convocation. In his keynote address to DBU students, Blackaby urged them to surrender their lives to God. "When I wrote Experiencing God, I had no idea what God would do with it," he said. "The more you know God, the more you know that he can penetrate anywhere."
___ UMHB offers revival. Jeff Mangum and the David Crowder Band will lead revival at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor April 1-3. Services will begin at 7 p.m. each evening and will be held in a large tent in the campus quadrangle. Mangum is founder of Envision Ministries in Spring. Crowder and the band lead worship at University Baptist Church in Waco.
___ UMHB receives $500,000 gift. The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor recently received a $500,000 gift to be used for construction of a student activities center, a capital project in the university's capital and endowment
___campaign, Challenge Beyond 2000. The donor wishes to remain anonymous. The student activities center is the next facility slated for construction.
___ Gifts listed at HBU. Houston Baptist University reports a number of major donations this winter, including a gift of $250,000 from the Andersen Foundation, a donation of $101,000 from the John S. Dunn Research Foundation and establishment of an endowed scholarship by Faye Dunwoody.
___ Slaughter scholarship established. The Earl and Eletha May Slaughter Memorial Scholarship has been established at Hardin-Simmons University to assist ministerial students or those preparing for Christian vocations. The donor is Eletha May Slaughter of San Angelo.
___ Baylor holds campus renewal. Baylor University sponsored a campus renewal week March 18-20, with Duane Brooks, pastor of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, as keynote speaker. The popular praise and worship band Mercy Me led in worship.
___ Texas Baptists respond to tornadoes. Disaster relief volunteers from Bluebonnet Baptist Association and Top O' Texas Baptist Area set up emergency food service at two South Texas locations less than 48 hours after the area was hit by tornadoes and 100-mph straight-line winds. The National Weather Service reported five tornadoes touched down southwest of San Antonio March 19, and baseball-size hail hammered the area, destroying or seriously damaging 500 to 750 homes. At noon March 21, the regional Texas Baptist Men disaster relief unit from Bluebonnet Baptist Association began cooking meals at First Baptist Church in Hondo, a community also hit by a tornado just five months ago. The Top O' Texas disaster relief unit from First Baptist Church in Plains arrived in South Texas at 3 a.m. March 21. Volunteers began serving meals by noon that day at the community center in Lytle.
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