Texas Baptist Men volunteers wrapped up disaster relief work in Erath County after completing 143 chainsaw jobs following an ice storm. Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Elijah Brown will speak at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.

Spiritual Renewal Week at East Texas Baptist University featured a variety of events. First Baptist Church in Plano announced plans to relocate from its downtown location.

Howard Payne University students raise money for local ministry, TBM aids Erath County and Rockport, more news from HPU and Baylor, and anniversaries in this week’s On the Move.

Buckner Children and Family Services is one of eight nonprofit beneficiaries of the 2018 Crystal Charity Ball. The $1.125 million award will go toward construction of the children’s wing of the planned Buckner Family Hope Center at Bachman Lake in Dallas.

Michael Gerson, former White House aide and nationally syndicated columnist, discussed faith and politics at Dallas Baptist University. East Texas Baptist University received major gifts to create endowed scholarships.

ETBU received a grant from the Texas Baptist Missions Foundation for its Neighborhood Renewal Initiative; Elijah Brown of BWA spoke at DBU; and more from Around the State.

Donors gave more than $82 million to the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor’s “Momentum” fund-raising campaign, exceeding the original goal by $22 million. Tim Lancaster, president and chief executive officer of Hendrick Health System in Abilene, received the Earl M. Collier Award for Distinguished Health Care Administration from the Texas Hospital Association.

Texas Baptist Men volunteers continue both disaster relief and rebuilding ministries in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Forty Dallas Baptist University students made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in partnership with Passages, a program that sends Christian college students to Israel to learn firsthand about the roots of their faith.

The East Texas Baptist University Bass Fishing team served recently in Brazil as part of the Tiger Athletic Mission Experience program.

Dallas Baptist University faculty, students and guests participated in the second annual Martin Luther King Day Unity Walk. Steve Massey was named vice president of the Texas Baptist Missions Foundation.

Dallas Baptist University awarded 466 degrees during its December commencement services. The McNeills, a Texas-based musical family, will present a concert at Heart of Texas Baptist Camp in Brownwood.

Students at Howard Payne University raised more than $5,000 for Go Now Missions. A Baylor University professor of choral music received Grammy Award nominations for an album of compositions by a Holocaust victim. Bob Billups was named publisher of BaptistWay Press.