Texas Tidbits

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Posted: 10/12/07

Texas Tidbits

Childcare offered for BGCT annual meeting. Free childcare will be provided for messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting Oct. 29-30 in Amarillo. Care for children ages 2 months through 10 years will be offered at the north entrance of First Baptist Church at 1208 S. Tyler Street. First Baptist Church childcare providers are licensed by the state of Texas. All workers have been processed through background checks and received formal training in caring for children. The service will be offered Oct. 29 from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Oct. 30 from 6:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Advance reservations are required by calling Elaine Clark at (806) 373-2891, ext. 255 or via e-mail at [email protected]. Children will receive breakfast on Monday and Tuesday and lunch and dinner on Monday, with snacks and beverages available at all times.


CityReach West Texas scheduled. CityReach West Texas, scheduled immediately before and after the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting, Oct. 29-30 in Amarillo, provides Texas Baptists opportunities for hands-on involvement in missions. Projects include constructing a house with Habitat for Humanity, servant evangelism, prayerwalking and block parties. For more information on CityReach, call (888) 944-2400.


Canned food drive slated for BGCT. Baptist General Convention of Texas leaders are encouraging Texas Baptists to collect canned goods and bring them to the BGCT annual meeting in Amarillo. Items collected during the annual meeting will benefit church-based food ministries in West Texas. Monetary donations also will be accepted to support the hunger ministries. More than 62,000 people in the Amarillo area live near or below poverty level.


Texas religion reporters honored. Several Texas journalists were among the reporters who recently received recognition from their peers in the Religion Newswriters Association. Jeff Weiss of the Dallas Morning News received third-place honors in the Supple Writer of the Year category, Terri Jo Ryan of the Waco Tribune-Herald received second place Cassels Award honors for a newspaper with 50,000 circulation or less and Maria Arita of CBS Channel 11 in Dallas/Fort Worth was recognized in the short-form news broadcast category.


Baylor names university chaplain. Burt Burleson, pastor of DaySpring Baptist Church in Waco, has been named university chaplain at Baylor University. Burleson succeeds Byron Weathersbee, interim chaplain from August 2005 to May 2007, and Todd Lake, who served as Baylor’s chaplain from 1999 to 2005 before becoming vice president for spiritual development at Belmont University. Burleson earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology and business from Baylor in 1980, a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1985 and his doctor of ministry degree from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1992. His previous experience includes church staff positions at Pioneer Drive Baptist Church in Abilene, Willow Meadows Baptist Church and Garden Oaks Baptist Church in Houston, and Lake Highlands Baptist Church in Dallas. He and his wife, Julie, have two children—Abby and Brandt.


 


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