• TBM sending teams to New England; preparing for Gulf storm

  Texas Baptist Men disaster relief has been asked to send two assessment teams to Vermont and four chainsaw teams to North Carolina to serve in the wake of Hurricane Irene, which recently struck the country’s Eastern seaboard.

  09/02/2011 - By Administrator

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  Aledo church seeks to be ‘radical’ in its mission for Christ

  Challenged to be "radical" in their missions efforts, about 190 members of First Baptist Church in Aledo responded,  and in the past year they've seen hundreds come to faith in Christ in Peru, Cambodia, Austria, Hungary, Egypt, Panama, Venezuela, Portugal and Jamaica, as well as Colorado and Vermont.

  09/01/2011 - By Administrator

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  Student adopts 30-days-on-$30 fast to identify with global poor

  Nathan Adair, a Texas Baptist student at London's University of Westminster, is subsisting on $1 a day for a month to focus attention of world hunger needs and raise money to fund a solar micro-enterprise project to benefit an orphanage in India.

  08/31/2011 - By Administrator

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  Fort Bend pastor nominated for BGCT 2nd VP post

  Byron Stevenson, founding pastor of The Fort Bend Church in Sugar Land, one of the fastest-growing churches in the state, will be a candidate for second vice president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas this fall.

  08/30/2011 - By Administrator

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  New gardening approaches have Mexican group home seeing green

  When Juan Carlos Millán, Buckner International's Mexico program director, and his wife started researching hydroponic gardening—growing plants in water rather than soil—the possibilities bloomed.

  08/30/2011 - By Administrator

• TBM gears up to serve after Hurricane Irene

  Texas Baptist Men received requests to provide disaster relief in North Carolina, and leaders expect to be called on to serve in Vermont, as well.

  08/30/2011 - By Ken Camp

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  TBM team serves in North Dakota

  Baptist "mud-out" disaster relief volunteers continue to serve in the wake of floods in Minot, N.D. Billy Gilmore (second from right) of Paramount Baptist Church in Amarillo led a 14-member team sent by Texas Baptist Men.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Students wind up summer awed by God’s power

  Even expecting the unexpected didn't stop Texas Baptist student summer missionaries from being awed by seeing God work in surprising ways. More than 380 served as missionaries in 25 Texas cities, 14 states and 30 countries, spreading the gospel.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Ralls youth group collects 1,300-plus pairs of shoes for orphans

  First Baptist Church in Ralls unloaded 1,305 pairs of new shoes for orphans at Rock the Desert, winning an award for collecting the most shoes at the Christian music festival.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Invincibles came to the rescue in isolated, rural churches

  They were known as the Invincibles—a name befitting a troop of superheroes. To boys and girls in rural areas across Texas from 1940 to 1983, that's exactly how they seemed.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Katrina survivor serves up hope at BUA cafe

  At Bernard's Creole Kitchen on the Baptist University of the Américas campus, food is for sale, but second chances are plentiful and free of charge.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator

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  Arlington church connects with local Muslim community

  Jason Thibeaux said he wasn't really afraid of Muslims. But he definitely didn't love them, either, until he started teching English-as-a-Second-Language classes.

  08/26/2011 - By Administrator