June 24, 2002
___ Baylor honors Davis. Baylor University's School of Social Work recently honored Anne Davis for her lifetime of service to Christian education. The award was presented by Dean Diana Garland. Both Garland and Davis are former deans of the Carver School of Church Social Work at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Davis was instrumental in founding the social-work school at Southern, which later was closed by an administration that found social work education "incongruent" with Christian theology. "The Baylor University School of Social Work is testimony that they were wrong," Garland said in honoring Davis. "Baylor University has signaled to the social work profession and to the church that social work and Christian faith are not only congruent with one another, but that social work is a profession that, at its best, expresses the heart of the church's mission."
___ ETBU hosts Super Summer. About 1,600 youth have descended on East Texas Baptist University this summer for Super Summer camps, the largest camp enrollment in the school's history.
___ Teen wins Speak Out. A Texas teenager won second place in the Challengers National Mission Speak Out contest. John Travis Smith of Fellowship Baptist Church in Brenham won a $300 college scholarship and $200 to be used for mission trip funding. His speech, "Me, a Missionary?" described the missionary duty of every Christian to share the gospel. The contest was open to sophomore through senior Challengers in high school and sponsored by the North American Mission Board. Challengers is a youth missions-education program.
___ Staff compensation data available. A 2002 compensation study, designed to help churches more objectively offer staff payment packages, is available on the Baptist General Convention of Texas website, www.bgct.org. The study surveyed more than 7,500 Southern Baptist Convention-related churches in 35 state conventions, including the BGCT, on a voluntary basis. The website allows the user to find the average salaries of various church positions across the convention. The user can limit the spectrum of the search to specific conventions and base packages according to church attendance, education or experience.
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