Articles by Texas Baptists Communications

In his Monday evening address to the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board during its February meeting, Executive Director Julio Guarneri spoke of trust in God, a renewed cross-cultural witness and a rallying of kingdom partnerships.

Ronny Marriott, BGCT president and pastor of First Baptist Church Burleson, delivered a challenge to directors during his Tuesday remarks at the February meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board.

Learning and growing in relationship with Christ can take time, community and resources. But what about those who aren’t in a community where Bible studies or other teaching materials are not readily available? 

Dr. Anderson and his wife, Shirley, with their grandchildren Howard E. Anderson, II, Francesca Von Anderson and William Albert Anderson. On Sunday, Feb. 25, the "Exciting" Singing Hills Baptist Church in Dallas will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the church and honor their founding pastor during the morning worship service.

The Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission (CLC) and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) are partnering through the ERLC’s Psalm 139 Project to provide a new ultrasound machine at the Legacy Pregnancy Resource Center in Hobbs, a southeastern New Mexico city that sits just four miles from the Texas border.

What started as a one-week service emphasis at First Baptist Church in San Marcos evolved into a multi-church ministry with its own nonprofit status and big goals for the future.

The result was a moving two-day conference in which church leaders and laity were urged to share Christ and show love with an intentional focus, as Texas Baptists director of Evangelism Leighton Flowers explained, on “the soul of the person you are with.”

Julio Guarneri, Texas Baptists executive director, kicked off the Statewide Evangelism Conference Sunday evening at Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio with a message on building bridges and bypassing barriers to share the gospel. 

Texas Baptists Interim Church Services and the Intentional Interim Ministry (IIM) network named Dr. H. Lynn Eckeberger the 2023 Interim Pastor of the Year.

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