• Texas Tidbits

  A best-selling college guide for college-bound students and their parents has named Baylor University a “Best Buy” for the fifth consecutive year.

  07/14/2010 - By admin

• On the Move

  Javier Alamanza to Flatonia Church in Flatonia as student minister.

  07/14/2010 - By admin

• Around the State

  East Texas Baptist University will be a host site for the Global Leadership Summit 2010 Aug. 5-6.

  07/14/2010 - By admin

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  Pastors more like webslinger than Man of Steel

  Pastors are more like Spider-Man than Superman, Kevin Cosby told participants at the 2010 African American Fellowship Conference July 13 in Houston.

  07/14/2010 - By Administrator

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  ‘Good News Bible’ translator Bob Bratcher dies

  Robert Bratcher, the New Testament translator for the Good News Bible, died July 10 at the Carol Woods retirement community in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 90.

  07/13/2010 - By Administrator

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  Harvest Baptist Association building a total loss after fire

  An overnight fire July 11 destroyed Harvest Baptist Association’s mission center.

  07/13/2010 - By Administrator

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  Plano pastor to be BGCT first VP nominee

  Jerry Carlisle, pastor of First Baptist Church in Plano, will be a candidate for first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas this fall.

  07/12/2010 - By Administrator

• BJC files brief opposing sectarian prayer at government meetings

  The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty filed legal papers July 6 arguing that inviting religious leaders to invoke sectarian prayers a North Carolina county's board of commissioners meetings is unconstitutional.

  07/09/2010 - By Administrator

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  Experiencing God transformed TBM over last two decades

  Principles from Experiencing God published 20 years ago transformed Texas Baptist Men from a missions program to a broad-based ministry with global outreach.

  07/09/2010 - By admin

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  Barefoot School full of happy souls, thanks to new computer lab

  Gerald Davis, director of community development for the BGCT, helped set up a summer computer lab at the TLC Barefoot School  in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, as part of a continuing Texas Baptist disaster response effort.

  07/09/2010 - By admin

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  Baptists still helping Haitians

  Michael Akinboro of African Evangelical Baptist Church in Grand Prairie treated hundeds of patients at a clinic sponsored by Siloé Baptist Church in Grand-Goave, Haiti.  The congregation's building was ruined by an earthquake, but its ministry continues.

  07/09/2010 - By admin

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  Half a year after an earthquake, Haiti has a long way to go

  A mission team coordinated by Texas Baptists helping reconstruction in Haiti found the effects of the January earthquake still evident. Scenes of vibrant life and color give way to piles of dust-covered concrete and tangled rebar in a country of conspicuous contrasts.

  07/09/2010 - By admin