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Posted: 4/15/05
Texas Tidbits
Gift enables Baylor to build Student Foundation Center. An $850,000 gift to Baylor University from Ed and Denise Crenshaw of Lakeland, Fla., will enable the school to build a Student Foundation Center, as well as create endowed scholarship funds. Crenshaw, who graduated from Baylor in 1973, served on the steering committee for the Student Foundation and was its president during his senior year. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Ed Crenshaw Student Foundation Center is scheduled April 29.
DBU receives $2 million gift. Dallas Baptist University has received a $2 million gift from the estate of Noble and Jane Hurley of Dallas. The Hurley Family Memorial Endowment Fund was created for the university's general charitable purposes. The Hurleys were longtime members of Gaston Oaks Baptist Church in Dallas and were deeply involved in denominational service in a variety of roles.
ETBU Great Commission Center director named. Allan Thompson, Baptist Student Ministry director at East Texas Baptist University, has been named director of the newly established ETBU Great Commission Center, effective July 1. The center will focus on the areas of student leadership, missions, and church and community ministries. Thompson holds a bachelor's degree from McNeese State University and a master of arts in religious education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He served as a Southern Baptist missionary to West Germany from 1982 to 1988 and is a former youth minister at First Baptist Church of Mabank and Pine Drive Baptist Church in Dickinson. Thompson and his wife, Jana, are members of Central Baptist Church in Marshall and have two sons; Joel and Ryan.
04/15/2005 - By John Rutledge
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TOGETHER: Get something done; share the credit_41805
Posted: 4/15/05
TOGETHER:
Get something done; share the creditFirst Baptist Church in Port Neches is in the midst of remodeling and building, and one part of the new facility is a “Servant's Courtyard.” It honors the men and women of the church who have served faithfully across the years to help their congregation be a great church.
Pastor David Mahfouz is quick to give the people of the church credit for what is being accomplished there. When I preached there recently, he praised members for their efforts in the building project. He gave special credit to three retired members, the “Three Amigos,” who worked to negotiate the best terms and assure quality control.
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It is clear that the people at First Baptist love their pastor and are proud of his many abilities. They honor, appreciate and trust his leadership. There is a spirit both of cooperation and responsibility in the church.
04/15/2005 - By John Rutledge
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