Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Director David Hardage expressed his belief “the best days of cooperative ministry” between the convention and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary “are still ahead.”

09/27/2021 - By Katie Coleman / Southwestern Seminary

The ministry City Church in Del Rio provided last month to hundreds of migrants camped beneath a bridge prepared the congregation for a much more extensive response to a surge of Haitians at the border.

09/17/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The parking lot at Ascension Baptist Church in Gonzales, La., gets noisy early each morning, but it’s music to the ears of local residents. It means Texas Baptist Men volunteers are cooking meals for people in the hurricane-ravaged area.

09/15/2021 - By John Hall / Texas Baptist Men

Food insecurity spiked during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting one in four Texas households, according to a recently released analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture data by Northwestern University.

09/14/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Chronic hunger has decreased globally in recent years, but armed conflict has increased the prevalence of acute hunger, the chief of the United Nations’ food-assistance and humanitarian agency said.

09/13/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of a Texas inmate who had asked the state to allow his pastor to lay hands on him and pray for him at the moment of his death—a request the state denied.

09/09/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Northwood Church in Keller has trained 150 members to help resettle Afghan refugees when they arrive in North Texas.

09/09/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

TBM disaster relief teams are working in multiple sites across more than 30 miles from Baton Rouge to LaPlace, where many neighborhoods have been severely affected by Hurricane Ida.

09/08/2021 - By John Hall / Texas Baptist Men

Every day for more than a month, Toby Castleberry has stood behind the pulpit at Calvary Baptist Church to deliver the greatest message he says has been missed in a time of seemingly nothing but bad news and division.

09/08/2021 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

Julio Guarneri, incumbent first vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and lead pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in McAllen, will be nominated for reelection.

09/01/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The first wave of Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers left Dallas early on Aug. 30 en route to South Louisiana, where Hurricane Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph.

08/30/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The decision to demolish the sanctuary where a mass gunman killed 26 people in 2017, including an unborn child, was so painful, members of First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs couldn’t unravel the details of how to proceed.

08/26/2021 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press