Baylor named a “Best Buy” by college guide. A best-selling college guide for college-bound students and their parents has named Baylor University a “Best Buy” for the fifth consecutive year. Baylor is one of only 45 public and private colleges and universities in the United States, Canada and Great Britain—and the only Texas Big 12 institution—to earn the designation from The Fiske Guide to Colleges. Baylor was designated a “Best Buy” based on ratings of the quality of the university’s academic programs and campus experience in relation to the cost of attendance.
Chaplaincy program offered at DBU. Dallas Baptist University added a chaplaincy ministry concentration to its Master of Arts in Christian Ministry degree program. The concentration is designed to address all of the basic theological and biblical requirements for chaplaincy endorsement and provide chaplaincy-specific courses in order to further prepare students for specialized chaplaincy ministry. When chaplaincy candidates complete the program, they will be equipped to serve in a variety of ministry areas, including institutional, marketplace and military settings. Jim Lemons, program director of the Master of Arts in Christian Ministry, in consultation with Bobby Smith, director of chaplaincy relations with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, worked to develop the 72-hour program. Tom Vann, a retired army chaplain colonel, will join the Gary Cook Graduate School of Leadership faculty at DBU to help coordinate the program, as well as teach several of the new chaplaincy courses. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or call (214) 333-5375.
Christian books desired for prisons. Christian Library International is collecting donated Christian literature and Bibles for prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers. The ministry distributes about 100,000 books annually to 1,000 criminal justice centers nationally, and it supports 76 Texas facilities. For more information, visit www.cli-nc.org or the CLI blog at http://cli-nc.blogspot.com/.
Multicultural Mesquite church receives grant. The Crossing Baptist Church in Mesquite has received a grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in Grand Rapids, Mich., to study multicultural and intergenerational worship and develop an ensemble that will support the growing cultural diversity of its congregation. The grant also includes plans for the team to offer a seminar on multicultural, intergenerational worship to interested churches in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The institute’s Worship Renewal Grants program is supported by the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment.
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