To provide Hispanic immigrants a one-stop event where they could gain access to the resources they need, La Puerta Waco, the immigration ministry of First Baptist Church in Waco, sponsored the All Immigrant Resource Fair.

Texas Baptist Men and other Baptist disaster relief teams contributed more than 6,100 volunteer hours during the past two weeks, providing assistance to tornado survivors in Connecticut and flooded residents in the lower Rio Grande Valley.

When Pastor John Finley resigned from his Tennessee church, he told the congregation he had been “involved with two females in inappropriate behavior” but insisted they were adults and there was “no sex.” The women who sent a letter that spurred his resignation have a different story to tell about alleged abuse 37 years ago at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth. (via Star-Telegram)

Multiple Texas Baptist Men disaster relief teams responded to the needs of flooded residents in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Two TBM flood-recovery crews and a team from Arkansas went…

Leonid Regheta, director of Project: Start Refugee Resource Center, a Baptist General Convention of Texas-supported ministry, received the Immigrant Advocate Award at the 7th Annual Immigrant Journey Awards.

Cooperative Baptists gathered near the U.S.-Mexico border and declared “not on our watch” to any immigration policy that separates children from their parents who cross the border without proper documentation.

Jesse Fletcher, president emeritus of Hardin-Simmons University and originator of Southern Baptists’ missionary Journeyman program, died June 14.

Joel Gregory assumed new responsibilities at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary June 1 when he became director of the Kyle Lake Center for Effective Preaching.

Because immigration laws change when new officials are elected, the ISAAC Project of the Baptist General Convention of Texas offers the Summer Institute on Basic Immigration Law every year.

Texas Baptist Men will offer a three-day training event in August to equip volunteers both for crisis response in Israel and mission opportunities there.

Two dozen student athletes, coaches and other representatives from East Texas Baptist University led sports camps and learned about biblical history during a recent trip to Israel.

Four years ago, when a Baptist mission congregation in Caldwell was almost ready to close its doors, the congregation called Ruben Burguete as pastor to help bring a new vision. Now the mission plans to constitute as a church soon, and the congregation is involved deeply in ministry to the community.