For the past nine years, Philip Smith has brought the Bible to life through what he calls “performance Scripture”—dramatic recitations of the Apostle Paul’s epistles.

Texas Baptist Men activated two mass feeding teams to meet needs created by Tropical Depression Imelda across Southeast Texas. They will be joined by mud-out crews when the rain stops and floodwaters recede.

Joe Torrillo, a New York City fireman who survived being buried twice beneath rubble of the World Trade Center Twin Towers during 9/11, addressed chapel services at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Facilitated by more than $45,000 in generous gifts in August, Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler is working with a nonprofit toward paying off about $4 million in medical debt for their East Texas neighbors.

The Tradewind community was a booming area in suburban southeast Amarillo. So in May 2018, South Georgia Baptist Church began planning the new Tradewind Community Church, the first church in the area.

Peg Oppenhuis recently donated 80 handmade blankets for the Texas Baptist Men child care unit to use in the wake of disasters. Volunteers will wrap children in the blankets, providing a sense of warmth and comfort.

Immigrants, asylum-seekers and homeless people who suffer from disabling mental illness or addiction all deserve to be treated with dignity, speakers told the No Need Among You Conference.

Members of Wedgwood Baptist Church testified to God’s faithfulness at a Sept. 15 service, 20 years after Larry Gene Ashbrook killed seven and injured seven others before killing himself at the Fort Worth church.

When ordinary Christians in ordinary places open themselves to the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit, they will see extraordinary transformation in previously neglected neighborhoods, Jonathan Brooks said.

Pastores de Latinoamérica continúan recibiendo el llamado: Mudarse a Estados Unidos para servir en iglesias ministrando a familias migrantes. Pero adquirir visas que permitan a pastores vivir y trabajar en los Estados Unidos puede ser complicado, y muchas veces requiere que los pastores e iglesias hagan el esfuerzo para entender el proceso.

River Ministry missionaries in McAllen, Laredo and El Paso noted a significant decrease in the number of immigrants crossing into Texas, but missionaries on the Mexican side of the border have seen—and responded to—increased needs.

A ministry assistant from an East Texas church became the first student to graduate with an Advanced Certificate of Ministry in Children’s Ministry, a program jointly sponsored by Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.