Cultural Engagement

“It was an intentional focus, not just to change the name, but to have an intentional strategy. 

“Keep being a bold witness. Keep telling people about the goodness of Christ,”

“Our congregations need to be on the frontlines, because we see passages [like Micah 6:8] that say ‘do justice, love mercy.’”

Learn about Texas Baptists en Español, a new ministry focused on uniting and mobilizing Hispanic churches around the state.

Read about how First Baptist Church of Mineral Wells is rallying around foster families in their community and why they believe this ministry is so important.

Learn more about David Ummel, the leader of the new Faith Fosters Texas initiative, and how he believes Texas Baptists can make a big impact on the foster care crisis.

Representatives from a variety of Texas Baptists institutions are joining together and encouraging churches to get involved with foster care and foster family ministry. 

Brenda Bermudez and her family are just a few of many who have experienced the Lord’s redemption in their lives in the modest colonia of Mi Sueno in the Rio Grande Valley.

In 2013, when the Grayson Chin Baptist Church began as a church plant in Sherman, they had 25 members, representing about five Chin families.

Dr. Mang Tiak of Houston could not eat or sleep for days when she heard news that flooding in late July wrecked her Myanmar hometown.

Now is a time, like no other, to be prepared to minister with refugees, Mark Heavener, specialist for Texas Baptists' intercultural ministry, told guests at the Feb 27-28 Love in Deed: Refugee Ministry Summit held at Chinese Baptist Church in Houston.

A packed room of messengers gathered to hear about ministry among refugees at the annual meeting of Texas Baptists.