TOGETHER: Keeping pace with a changing state_62804
Posted: 6/25/04
TOGETHER:
Keeping pace with a changing state
Two years sooner than predicted, Anglos no longer will comprise the majority of Texans, according to State Demographer Steve Murdoch. By next April, the Anglo population will drop below 50 percent. African-Americans will continue to make up 11 percent to 12 percent; Asian and others, about 3 percent; and Hispanics, 36 percent. Within 25 years, Hispanics will make up more than 50 percent of our state's population.
For more than 20 years, Texas Baptists have emphasized starting churches. The majority of these churches have been Spanish-speaking, as the reality of the growing Hispanic presence has been appreciated by our leadership.
The Hispanic Baptist Convencion met June 24-26 on South Padre Island. Since the early 1960s, Convencion and the BGCT have sought to be full partners. Convencion also is working to help Anglo churches outside of Texas start Hispanic congregations. They work with Mexican churches in our Texas/Mexico partnership. And in the first six months of this year, they have given 15 percent more money through the BGCT than last year.
