Articles from July 2026

KingsCover Insurance Services has officially adopted a new name — Dominion First Insurance Services, LLC. The agency's mission, ownership, leadership and team remain exactly the same as it continues serving as The Agency Partner of Texas Baptists and a Premier partner in the KingsCover Underwriters program.

This week is staff week at the Texas Baptists Rambler offices in Dallas. Our staff gathered to worship, hear ministry updates, interact with each other, be encouraged in the work we are doing together and be reminded of our mission. In a very real way, we are living out our “future-thinking” value.

During the July Staff Week on Monday, July 27, Texas Baptists leadership announced the final round of staff and structure changes to realign and right-size Convention ministries.

As the summer draws to a close, we are grateful for the many events that have ministered to children and students this summer. Churches have held VBS, summer camps and mission trips, which provide for gospel proclamation, disciple-making and spiritual decisions by young people.

On Monday, Texans on Mission (TXM), the disaster recovery arm of Texas Baptists, deployed all of its volunteer disaster response teams who began serving impacted areas upon arrival.

“Sharing Christ at the Cup” Initiative sees 150 churches share Christ with the nations in Texas, over 500 accept Jesus during the FIFA World Cup, through watch parties and outreach events. 

“At our best, BSM works in great partnership with Texas Baptists churches that are involved, and that's what's happened at Baylor.”

The city of Waco has seen increase in church attendance, baptism, community development. Highland Baptist Church Pastor John Durham believes this is a result of prayer. 

Torrential rainfall in South Texas and the Hill Country has caused widespread flooding, which began Wednesday July 15, and continued on Thursday, July 16. 

As I reflect on the third Texas Baptists descriptor, namely historically-rooted, and on the early church’s description in Acts 2, I’m reminded that our faith is rooted around the table of Christ, where he commands us to “remember him.”