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  Books challenge consumer-driven church model

  Two new books challenge Christians to restore their faith to its true mission and forsake a consumerist mentality some churches adapt in a bid to meet members’ needs.

  09/10/2010 - By admin

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  BCFS, Laredo hospital offer young colonia residents a ‘healthy start’

  As part of its “Healthy Start” initiative in colonias along the Rio Grande, Baptist Child & Family Services has entered into a partnership with Doctors Hospital of Laredo to provide medical services through the agency’s comprehensive mobile medical unit.

  09/10/2010 - By admin

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  Grant’s musical journey focuses on joy within the struggles

  Amy Grant's latest album, Somewhere Down the Road, chronicles life’s most heart-wrenching moments, as well as the unexpected joys.

  09/10/2010 - By admin

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  La. Baptist Convention exec challenges Ezell pick at NAMB

  In an unprecedented open letter to trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, the head of an SBC-affiliated state convention called Sept. 9 for NAMB trustees not to endorse a search committee’s recommendation for the board’s new president.

  09/09/2010 - By Administrator

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  Texas Baptists helping to plant churches in rocky mountain soil

  Some residents of Fort Collins, Colo., feel they have been “burned” by the church in the past, and consequently reject organized religion. Others have crafted their own belief system. Texas Baptists are helping church planters take an organic approach to church starting there—gradually building relationships and earning trust.

  09/09/2010 - By admin

• Texas Tidbits

  Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler exceeded its goal of finding “forever families” for at least 100 orphans through adoption and foster care.

  09/09/2010 - By admin

• On the Move

  Robert Burkhart to Southview Church in Manvel as associate pastor.

  09/09/2010 - By admin

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  Faith Digest: Happiness found in church

  Protestant and Catholic women in the United States have grown unhappier since stores have stayed open on Sundays, according to a study by economists from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Chicago’s DePaul University.

  09/09/2010 - By admin

• Around the State

  Houston Baptist University will hold an organ concert by Crista Miller in the Belin Chapel Sept. 24 at 8 p.m. to mark the first anniversary of the dedication of its Sherry and Jim Smith Organ.

  09/09/2010 - By admin

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  Baptist leaders meet with Holder, denounce Baptists trashing Islam

  As the national debate over Islam continues to ratchet up in advance of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Baptists joined a group of religious leaders Sept. 7 in denouncing Islamophobia, urged the nation’s top law-enforcement official to crack down on anti-Muslim bigotry and chastened their fellow Baptists for contributing to the problem.

  09/08/2010 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Army chaplain first slain in combat since Vietnam

  A Baptist who died in an Aug. 30 roadside bombing in Afghanistan is the first U.S. Army chaplain to be killed in the line of duty since the Vietnam conflict, according to Army officials.

  09/07/2010 - By Administrator

• National Baptist leader says lawsuit by former leader settled

  The National Baptist Convention USA has settled one lawsuit with a disgraced former president who sued after losing a re-election bid in 2009, the convention's parliamentarian and general counsel told state convention presidents attending an annual convention in Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 6.

  09/07/2010 - By Administrator