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  Around the State

  Houston Baptist University’s Dunham Bible Museum will host a premeire showing of KJV: The Making of the King James Bible in the Dunham Theater Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.

  08/11/2010 - By admin

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  Band bridges generation gap with a unique mix of musical styles

  With their mix of Southern Gospel, country, bluegrass, traditional hymns and contemporary worship songs, Jason Baird and Justin Rivers—better known as the Dove Award-winning duo Austins Bridge—seek to bridge generations and connect people to Christ.

  08/11/2010 - By admin

• BGCT eliminates 13 staff positions, reduces some to part-time

  Six Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board employees are losing their jobs, seven unfilled posts are being eliminated and a dozen positions are being reduced from full-time to part-time due to the state convention’s current financial situation and the 2011 forecast.

  08/11/2010 - By Administrator

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  Houston VBS teaches Haitian orphans, ‘Jesus loves you’

  Westbury Baptist Church in Houston used its Vacation Bible School this year to partner with Baptist Global Response, the Southern Baptist international relief and development organization, in a project to raise funds and assemble about 100 school-supply kits.

  08/04/2010 - By admin

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  Tour opens students’ eyes to hunger needs in Texas

  When five students signed up for a road trip across Texas, they had no idea they’d be beheading roosters on a Waco farm or standing in as last-minute chefs for an absent kitchen crew before a crowd of hungry people.

  08/04/2010 - By admin

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  Texans ford the fjords on Sweden mission trip

  A five-person team from Cowboy Church of Mineral Wells and Cowboy Gatherin’ in Bunger, participated in a mission trip to Sweden, where they rode, roped and wrangled, all in the name of God’s kingdom.

  08/04/2010 - By admin

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  Ministry offers a place of stability for people left adrift

  After a debilitating drug addiction cost him jobs, his home and ultimately time in jail, Danny Evans found himself at the front door of Union Gospel Mission, a Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger-supported ministry that serves roughly 75 percent of the city’s homeless through a variety of aid programs.

  07/28/2010 - By admin

• On the Move

  Doug Beck to First Church in Dorchester as pastor.

  07/27/2010 - By admin

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  Around the State

  Moises Rodriguez has been named the first full-time director of Baptist University of the Américas’ Baptist Bible Institute.

  07/27/2010 - By admin

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  Plainview church, family part of miracle for Kenyan

  A Kenyan track athlete at Wayland Baptist University was crushed when doctors found a heart problem that could have kept him out of competition. But with help from a Plainview couple and their church, he’s been able to take it all in stride—literally.

  07/24/2010 - By admin

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  DBU tennis teams share gospel in England

  The Dallas Baptist University Men and Women’s Patriot tennis teams taught tennis lessons, volunteered in church-sponsored ministries and shared their faith during an international mission trip to the Tees Valley of northern England.

  07/23/2010 - By admin

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  Columbaria bring members of church family home for final rest

  Historically, cemeteries often were adjacent to the church. But because land now is expensive and in short supply, churches are turning to columbaria—places to inurn the remains of those who have died and had their bodies cremated.

  07/22/2010 - By admin