Articles from July 2024

The Texas Baptist Missions Foundation announced Tuesday that the Mabee Foundation has awarded a $1.3 million Challenge Grant toward the construction of the new Baptist Student Ministry Center at Baylor University.

The African American Fellowship Conference took place July 19-20 at Cornerstone Baptist Church of Killeen in Harker Heights, TX. The theme of the conference was “Legacy.”

Sergio Ramos is joining Texas Baptists to develop further and direct the emerging network of Great Commission and Great Commandment, or GC2, churches and ministries in Texas and beyond.

We at Texas Baptists wanted to ensure you were aware of a new Department of Labor overtime rule passed on April 23, 2024, that became effective at the beginning of this month.

Ken Anderson “rode out Beryl” in his Jones Creek home south of Houston. “We got hit harder than anybody, I believe. Lots of damage. Thousands of trees down.”

Jacobson said he is excited about using the strategic mindset he has developed with church planting to create executable plans and share the impact of collaborative missions and ministries with convention churches across the state and beyond. 

A week ago, the BOUNCE week five summer mission team was ready to serve Mora County, New Mexico, assisting with recovery efforts resulting from the 2022 Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire and post-fire floods. But, recent water contamination and flooding steered them to be a different community’s “answered prayer.”

With a heart to connect with families and help meet needs in their community, First Baptist Church in Bryan, TX, hosted two Vacation Bible Schools at the close of June–a daytime VBS in English and a concurrent option for Spanish speakers held in the evenings that same week.

The Apostle Paul noted in 2 Corinthians that “God loves a cheerful giver,” and James “Jim” William Lemuel Adams, Jr., founder and executive director of International Baptist Ministries, or IBM, is as cheerful as they come. 

Dr. Gabriel Cortés has rejoined Texas Baptists as the new director of Hispanic Education within the convention’s Theological Education ministry.