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This is the first week of our GC2 Press 13-week Bible Study “GC2 Strong: A Great Commandment Great Commission Awakening.” 

During an address to Texas Baptists ministry staff on Monday, June 1, Executive Director Julio Guarneri shared updates on the convention’s ongoing organizational realignment.

Over 500 BSMers have answered the call this year to serve through Texas Baptists Go Now Missions. Some have done so as semester missionaries. Others served during the Christmas break. Approximately 300 are doing it as summer missionaries. 

170 students commissioned for summer missions; Baylor BSM sophomore to return to Seattle to serve with Go Now missions following January trip, encouraged by college students’ openness.

It is good to be united as churches and as the executive board around the Great Commandment and the Great Commission. It is good to have a vision of our Lord on his throne, high and exalted, calling us to join him in his mission. It is good to be people who have said to Him, “Here we are, send us!”

The May meeting of the Texas Baptists Executive Board was held on May 18-19 at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, TX. Board directors heard ministry reports, giving and GC2 Strong process updates and approved three unique recommendations. 

During his address to the Executive Board on Monday, May 18, at Wayland Baptist University, Executive Director Julio Guarneri shared updates on the GC2 Strong strategy, upcoming staff realignment and relationship with Baylor University.

As I continue to reflect on the 140th anniversary of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, I am filled with gratitude. The legacy of cooperation has been deep and wide. One of the gifts from God in our history is the formation of the Cooperative Program.

As we begin the month of May, we find ourselves between Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday. We rejoice in the hope of Christ’s resurrection. Like the apostles in the first-century church, we continue to proclaim the Easter message beyond Easter Sunday.

Whether you are a soccer fan or not, the reality is that the nations are coming to Texas and North America in an unprecedented manner, with a focus on the sport most played and watched globally. There will be a soccer fervor among young people and many others.