• Randall Babin: Associations help churches embrace their unique contribution to the Kingdom’s work

  Randall Babin, director of missions for the Soda Lake Baptist Association in Marshall, Texas, shares his background and thoughts on church and ministry.

• Steve Vernon: ‘Faith, to be meaningful, must be deeply lived’

  Steve Vernon, associate executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, shares his background and thoughts on leading Texas Baptists.

• Glenn Ward: ‘We can always do more working together’

  Glenn Ward, director of missions for the Paluxy Baptist Association in Granbury, Texas, shares his background and thoughts on church and ministry.

• Robert Wheat: ‘We must show ourselves doers of the Word’

  Robert Wheat, director of missions for the Bi-Fork Baptist Association in Vernon, Texas, shares his background and thoughts on church and ministry.

• David Hardage: Texas Baptists are doing ‘extensive and exciting’ work

  David Hardage, executive director of Texas Baptists, shares his thoughts on ministry and leading the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

• Lee Floyd: ‘When we reach the campus, we can change the world’

  Lee Floyd, director of the Angelo State University Baptist Student Ministry in San Angelo, Texas, talks about ministering to today’s college students.

• Gene Wilkes: ‘The church must see itself as a mission outpost’

  Gene Wilkes, president of the B. H. Carroll Theological Institute, discusses his calling to serving others in Jesus’ name no matter the mission field he’s in.

• John L. Brackin: Providing ‘the best possible resources to help the local church’

  John L. Brackin, director of missions for the Hill Country Baptist Association, talks about his lifelong calling and how Baptist associations benefit Baptist churches.

• Tom Billings: ‘No one church can reach a city by itself’

  Tom Billings, executive director of Union Baptist Association, discusses his calling and mobilizing Houston-area congregations to “take on lostness.”

• Alan Lefever: Christian history is ‘exciting, poignant and humorous’

  Alan Lefever, director of the Texas Baptist Historical Collection and an adjunct professor at Truett Seminary, shares his thoughts on preserving Texas Baptist history.

• Carolyn Porterfield: ‘Every person on the planet should hear the gospel’

  Carolyn Porterfield, a leader with the Women’s Missionary Union of Texas, discusses the importance of missions and how God called her to a life in service of preaching the gospel to the “nations in our neighborhoods.”

• Tim Randolph: ‘Awed at the privilege of seeing the Father’s hand of redemption’

  Tim Randolph, director of the Waco Regional Baptist Association, discusses the role of local Baptist associations, the challenges they face and his calling to ministry.