Articles by Meredith Rose

"We want to be that family to them outside their home and give students a place to connect with others and learn about Jesus.”

Today, the first TBM Disaster Relief unit, a mobile freezer full of food, will head to Murray, Kentucky, to serve after the tornado. Volunteers will cook the food, and the freezer will be used by other states to store food that they will prepare.

In the familiar cast of characters from the Christmas story, we find three women. While each has a very different life, their stories are woven together by the common threads of God’s miraculous intervention and their own quiet faithfulness.

“Intentional ministry is about being responsible to reach the one, which makes us available to reach the many,”

More than 1,600 participants in-person and online gathered together for the 2021 Texas Baptists Annual Meeting Nov. 14-16.

“...the moment we’re in does not pause the mission we’re on.”

“We’re enjoying a season of peace and unity.”

Church consultants Thom and Sam Rainer believe that church adoptions will be outpacing church closures in the very near future, thanks to “the next great movement among American congregations.”

Jason Burden, Baptist General Convention of Texas president, urged Texas Baptists to be “wash, rinse, repeat” Christians in his Tuesday morning address at the final worship and business session of the 2021 Texas Baptists Annual Meeting.

“The local church is God’s plan A, and there is no Plan B. When Jesus says, ‘Upon this rock I will build my church,’ we often begin to debate what all that first part means,” said Thom Rainer, CEO and founder of ChurchAnswers.