‘We just pray about everything,’ Texas pastor says
EL PASO, Texas – Cielo Vista Church is in the middle of a summer season that is recognizable to most large Southern Baptist churches. The summer will include an evangelistic vacation Bible school, student camps and mission trips to Cambodia and the Philippines. The church’s weekly calendar is full of ministries including men’s and women’s Bible studies in Spanish and English, Celebrate Recovery and collegiate gatherings.
Parents find purpose, ministry opportunity through young son’s health struggles
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (BP) -- When Grant Falls was born in 2022, his parents, Laura and Seth, had a traumatic start to life with their son. His condition was far worse than they expected when the doctors noticed he had a heart problem in utero.
Emphasis on prayer, evangelism, discipleship revitalizes rural Texas church
PARADISE, Texas – When Shawn Brewer came in view of a call to pastor First Baptist Church in Paradise, about 40 miles northwest of Fort Worth, he preached to about 60 people that Sunday morning.
The Cooperative Program: A brief history
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Southern Baptists have been missionary minded since their first day and their first action. When 293 delegates gathered in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, for the inaugural meeting of the convention, their first resolution expressed the desire to “organize a convention for the propagation of the gospel.”
Texas pastor helps build community bridge with local police
KELLER, Texas (BP) -- A couple of years after Kason Branch planted Creekstone Church in Keller, he had an idea that he believed would improve his community.
SBTC search team recommends Lorick as executive director
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) – A committee formed to seek the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention’s next executive director has unanimously agreed on a candidate. Nathan Lorick, current executive director of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, will be considered during a called board meeting Feb. 21 in Grapevine. Lorick, 39, has served the Colorado convention since 2017 and was evangelism director for the SBTC, from 2012 to 2017, after pastoring two churches in Texas.
Richards anuncia planes para dejar el puesto en el 2021
AUSTIN, Texas (BP) - Jim Richards, director ejecutivo de la Convención de los Bautistas del Sur en Texas (SBTC), anunció su intención de hacer la transición del liderazgo a partir del 31 de diciembre del 2021.
FIRST-PERSON: Hope in things we’ll never see
GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) – What gives you hope? Our ultimate hope is eternal life in Christ, and that is the best answer to that question. But there are human analogs for ultimate hope – light in the darkness, the protection of a hen for her chicks, a land of milk and honey, the bosom of Abraham, and so on. What in this life, a pure thing, encourages you to put up with the frustrations of the day?
FIRST-PERSON: God bless America
Though America doesn't always live up to its ideals, those who founded it and kept it through very difficult days have delivered to us a nation that has blessed the world, Gary Ledbetter says.
FIRST-PERSON: Try a little boredom
A productive use of boredom, Gary Ledbetter writes, can alleviate social media restlessness, yielding moments "when you can hear the still, small voice in your head."
