June 10, 2002
___ Hendrick receives $5 million in grants. Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene has received more than $5 million in grants for its trauma center expansion from the Shelton Family Foundation, Dodge Jones Foundation, Mabee Foundation, Dian Graves Owen Foundation, Meadows Foundation, Hendrick medical staff, Children's Miracle Network and Hendrick Medical Center Auxiliary. The expansion will provide 35 exam rooms, five chest-pain rooms, a trauma entrance, a fast-track entrance and two trauma rooms. The 31,000-square-foot addition also will provide a decontamination room and on-site radiation and lab facilities.
___ Summer missionary serves Standard. Gus Cuello, a rising senior at Howard Payne University, is serving the Baptist Standard as a summer missionary, the first time the newspaper has been assigned a student missionary. Cuello, a member of First Mexican Baptist Church of Dallas, was appointed through the Baptist General Convention of Texas student missions program. His primary task will be to aid the Standard and the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas in conducting market research to determine the feasibility of launching a new statewide publication for Hispanic Baptists.
___ Three writing interns named. The pages of the Baptist Standard will carry articles this summer written by three journalism interns participating in a joint program with the Standard, the Baptist General Convention of Texas communications office and Buckner Benevolences. Each intern will spend three weeks at each of the Dallas-based ministries. The interns are John Hall of San Antonio, a May journalism and religion graduate of Baylor University who plans to enter Truett Seminary in the fall; Brandon Kirk of Dallas, a rising senior journalism major at Baylor; and Kyle Armstrong of Dallas, a rising sophomore journalism major at Baylor.
___ Evangelism conference moving. The 2003 Texas Baptist Evangelism Conference will return to the Dallas-Fort Worth area after several years in San Antonio. The conference is slated for Jan. 27-28 at First Baptist Church in Arlington. A format change also will be implemented, according to Rick Davis, director of the BGCT Center for Strategic Evangelism. Each of the evening sessions will include two worship services--one contemporary format and the other a more traditional blended worship style. Special-interest seminars will run concurrently with the evening worship services. Vocational evangelists will lead the Monday afternoon session, and the Tuesday morning session will focus on evangelism in the postmodern world. Tuesday afternoon will be reserved for mission awareness tours of Mission Arlington and for hands-on missions projects in the community.
___ HBU staff honored. Two Houston Baptist University staff members received this year's Mayfield Outstanding Staff Award--Hugh McClung, assistant vice president for treasury operations, and Cynthia Young, assistant vice president for institutional effectiveness.
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