Texas Tidbits: The Gathering will return to McLane Stadium

A scene from the previous Gathering at Baylor in March 2015. (Baylor Photo)

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A national grass-roots movement to cut across racial, socioeconomic and denominational divides with a worship and prayer service will return to Baylor University’s McLane Stadium on Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017. Baylor Regent Emeritus Drayton McLane Jr. and Ramiro Peña, executive director of The Gathering and pastor of Christ the King Church in Waco, made the announcement Nov 16. They emphasized the momentum built by the inaugural “The Gathering on the Brazos,” which drew more than 35,000 people from across the country and other nations on Palm Sunday this year. Thousands more viewed the service via live television and live streaming nationally and internationally.

Wayland and West Texas A&M enter agreement. The School of Mathematics and Sciences at Wayland Baptist University and the School of Engineering at West Texas A&M University entered into an official agreement to offer a program that will allow students to earn dual degrees from the universities. The program is designed for students to take the core curriculum and math courses at Wayland in Plainview, and then transfer to West Texas A&M in Canyon, where they will complete an engineering program in order to graduate with a degree in math from Wayland and a degree in engineering from West Texas A&M. 


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