A pair of Baptist chaplains were among about 350 participants in a Swim Across America fund-raising event Sept. 14 at Lake Ray Hubbard that raised about $250,000 for the Innovative Clinical Trials Center at Baylor’s Sammons Cancer Center.

Joe Torrillo, a New York City fireman who survived being buried twice beneath rubble of the World Trade Center Twin Towers during 9/11, addressed chapel services at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Immigrants, asylum-seekers and homeless people who suffer from disabling mental illness or addiction all deserve to be treated with dignity, speakers told the No Need Among You Conference.

Members of Wedgwood Baptist Church testified to God’s faithfulness at a Sept. 15 service, 20 years after Larry Gene Ashbrook killed seven and injured seven others before killing himself at the Fort Worth church.

Harvey W. Hoffman Jr. of Farmerville, La., former Texas Baptist pastor, died Aug. 27. He was 85.

River Ministry missionaries in McAllen, Laredo and El Paso noted a significant decrease in the number of immigrants crossing into Texas, but missionaries on the Mexican side of the border have seen—and responded to—increased needs.

Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary named Wally Goodman as director of the Doctor of Ministry degree program and Jeff Johnson as director of the Logsdon Seminary campus in San Antonio.

Staff changes noted for churches in Abilene and Arlington.

A ministry assistant from an East Texas church became the first student to graduate with an Advanced Certificate of Ministry in Children’s Ministry, a program jointly sponsored by Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

Two years after Hurricane Harvey severely damaged the First Baptist Church in Refugio building, church members and community leaders gathered to celebrate the dedication of the remodeled facility.

William C. “Bill” Everett, longtime Texas Baptist pastor, died Sept. 2 in Carthage. He was 86.

Physical therapy doctoral students at Hardin-Simmons University donated and customized more than 200 wheelchairs for disabled individuals in Thailand. President Linda Livingstone officially announced Baylor University’s plans to pursue Research 1/Tier 1 classification.