Texas Baptists plan relief for refugees from Kosovo
DALLAS (BP)–The Texas Baptist Men missions organization is sending a dozen relief volunteers to Albania to purify water, distribute food, and provide medical aid for refugees fleeing the conflict in Kosovo. A representative from Campus Crusade who is coordinating refugee response for the Albanian Evangelical Association asked TBM, affiliate of the Baptist General Convention of […]
Bill Pinson to retire Jan. 31, 2000 as Texas Baptist executive director
DALLAS (BP)–William M. “Bill” Pinson Jr. has announced his plans to retire as executive director of the 2.7 million-member Baptist General Convention of Texas Jan. 31, 2000. Pinson announced his retirement plans at the Jan. 28 meeting of the BGCT administrative committee. He was elected executive director of the BGCT executive board in May 1982, […]
Texas Baptists airlift water purifiers, food, medicine for Honduras relief
DALLAS (BP)–Texas Baptists are delivering water purifiers, generators and more than three tons of food and medicine to hurricane victims in Honduras.Flooding and mudslides caused by Hurricane Mitch, the worst storm to hit Central America this century, claimed an estimated 11,000 lives in Honduras and Nicaragua.John LaNoue of Lindale, Texas, and Mel Goodwin of Longview, […]
‘Mud-out’ duty next in Texas for Baptist vols from 3 states
SAN ANTONIO (BP)–After serving more than 100,000 meals to south Texas flood victims, Baptist disaster relief volunteers from three states laid down their ladles and picked up shovels and shop vacs for messy “mud-out” duty. At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Baptists also opened five temporary emergency child-care centers servicing the 25-county […]
Baptists care for victims of south Texas floods
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (BP)–The second time a once-in-a-lifetime flood swamped Dick Davis’ home, he took it in stride. Davis’ house near the Guadalupe River first flooded in 1972, the same year he joined First Baptist Church of Seguin, Texas. Twenty-six years later, he was again standing in knee-deep mud in what had been his living […]
Church leaders nurture relationships to help town heal from arson attacks
GREENVILLE, Texas (BP)–Like broken bones knitting together, a fractured community needs time and caring attention to heal. When the cleavage comes along racial lines, add other necessary elements — faith and fellowship. That’s the conclusion of those who have lived through it. The gruesome, racially motivated murder of a disabled black man in Jasper, Texas, […]
Pastor advises church staff to give priority to priorities
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–Busy church workers can make time for family by setting priorities and then giving priority to those priorities, according to a Texas pastor with young children. Ellis Orozco, pastor of Corpus Christi Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, led a conference on “Making Time for Your Family” during the Texas Baptist Family Reunion, July 4-10 […]
Husband-wife educators relay hope & help for harried parents
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–Sometimes parents are harried because they make bad choices, and sometimes they’re just harried because they are parents, two Fort Worth educators told Texas Baptists at a conference on parenting. “I’m glad Mary and Joseph lost Jesus at the temple. I find that comforting,” said Scott Floyd, assistant professor of psychology and counseling […]
For when technology hits home, family accountability called vital
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–No filter that parents can install will keep all high-tech smut out of their homes as effectively as will a sense of family accountability instilled in their children, two Fort Worth teachers told a Texas Baptist group. Nancy Crossley, a high school English teacher, and her husband, Lyle, a parochial school physics teacher, […]
God & families top priorities, Texas speakers tell conference
GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–Christians should treat their family relationship second only to their relationship with God, speakers told the Texas Baptist Family Reunion at Glorieta (N.M.) Baptist Conference Center. “Aside from your relationship with God through Jesus Christ his Son, there’s only one thing that matters, and that’s intimacy with your family,” said Howard Batson, pastor […]
