• Texas Tidbits

  Homer Hanna, a former executive with South Texas Children's Home Ministries, will serve as interim president for the Beeville-based agency.

  07/27/2011 - By Administrator

• Baptists in Azerbaijan warned not to meet without state approval

  Police in Azerbaijan raided a Baptist church in the port city of Sumgait, and a judge warned the congregation’s leader he would be fined for a second offense of meeting for worship without state permission, according to Forum 18, a news service that tracks abuses of religious freedom.

  07/27/2011 - By Administrator

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  U.S. Baptists provide funds for drought-ravaged East Africa

  Baptist groups in the United States have sent funds to provide food for drought victims in East Africa.

  07/27/2011 - By Administrator

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  Missouri City volunteers seek to “be the face of Jesus” in Philippines

  First Philippine Baptist Church in Missouri City personally delivered a message from their hearts to people living here in their homeland: There is hope—for now and eternity.

  07/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  BGCT’s Rodriguez to nominate Carlisle for president

  Victor Rodriguez has announced he plans to serve only one term as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and he will nominate the convention's first vice president, Jerry Carlisle, as his successor.

  07/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Johnson to be nominated for BGCT first VP

  Jeff Johnson, a Texas Baptist minister who founded a nonprofit Borderlands missions research center, will be nominated for first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

  07/25/2011 - By Administrator

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  Hall announces retirement; Reyes named Buckner CEO

  Ken Hall, chief executive officer of Buckner International since 1994, announced his retirement from the Dallas-based organization during a July 22 meeting of the board of trustees.

   

  07/22/2011 - By Administrator

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  Hanna named interim president at South Texas Children’s Home

  Homer Hanna, a former executive with South Texas Children’s Home Ministries, will serve as interim president and chief executive officer for the Beeville-based agency.

  07/18/2011 - By Administrator

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  Faith Digest

  Evangelical leader Leith Anderson has announced plans to retire as senior pastor of his megachurch in Eden Prairie, Minn. Anderson will end his 35-year pastoral leadership of the 5,000-member Wooddale Church—an interdenominational congregation affiliated with the Baptist General Conference—at the end of the year.

  07/16/2011 - By Administrator

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  Baylor church music students transform African village

  A team of Baylor University church music students in 2007 sought to change the lives of a handful of girls in East Africa, but their return this year found a village transformed.

  07/16/2011 - By Administrator

• Texas Tidbits

  After more than 41 years with Baptist Community Services and the related health care entities that preceded it, Tim Holloway will retire Dec. 31 as president and chief executive officer of BCS and the High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator

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  After 59 years, Garland Bible teacher has no plans to stop

  Sylvia Vaughan began teaching a first-grade Sunday school class at First Baptist Church in Garland in 1952, and she’s never looked back.

  07/15/2011 - By Administrator