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On Sept. 9, Dallas Baptist University hosted a convocation chapel service to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Pilgrim Chapel.
East Texas Baptist University hosted its 14th annual Great East Texas Hymn Sing on Sept. 20.
Buckner International celebrated the 25th anniversary of its largest humanitarian aid project, Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls, Sept. 21.
Hardin-Simmons University's total enrollment for the 2024-2025 academic year has increased to 1,665 students.
This summer, Dallas Baptist University sent two groups to Denia, Spain, to sightsee and serve with Alfa y Omega.
HCU’s bachelor’s degree programs in Cyber and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science receive ABET accreditation.
The East Texas Baptist University bass fishing team traveled to Soldotna, Alaska, as part of ETBU’s Tiger Athletic Mission Experience.
As part of this year’s Welcome Week, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students participated in Love CTX on Aug. 10.
Over the summer, Howard Payne University student Hannah Hinshaw served in Bobbio Pellice, Italy, with Go Now Missions.
Stark College & Seminary will launch a new Bachelor of Arts in Ministry Counseling Track to meet growing demand.
Hardin-Simmons University is thrilled to announce the Texas Board of Nursing has approved unanimously HSU’s School of Nursing.
Sixteen students in Howard Payne University’s Spanish department participated in a five-week immersive experience in Seville,
The Baptist World Alliance General Council approved Buckner International and Baylor University as new institutional members of BWA.
Wayland Baptist University entered a new chapter July 1 with the arrival of Donna Hedgepath, as the university’s 14th president.
Houston Christian University’s school of nursing joined forces with Memorial Hermann Southwest to host a camp for future health care leaders.
Student athletes from ETBU led sports camps, served and competed against a local team during a recent mission trip to Honduras.
Texas Baptists celebrated Legacy Day June 2 at Independence Baptist Church in Brenham—the oldest continually operating Baptist church in Texas.
A group of Baptist Student Ministry students gathered on the Howard Payne University campus to pray every Thursday for the past year.
Baptist University of the Américas received a grant of almost $2 million from Lilly Endowment to help establish Proclama.
Howard Payne University recently received $25,000 in scholarship funds from TexasBank through the James and Dorothy Doss Foundation.
At its May 4 commencement, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor awarded Wallace E. Davis an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree.
The Dallas Baptist University women’s soccer and volleyball teams served local schools in Costa Rica and ran sports clinics for the students.
Houston Christian University and Houston Theological Seminary announce Scot McKnight will join the Doctor of Ministry faculty.
B.H. Carroll Theological Seminary marked its 20th anniversary at a gala in Frisco April 21, recounting God’s promise and provision.
Artwork created by seven Wayland Baptist University seniors will be on display April 19 to May 17 at Abraham Art Gallery.
More than 50 Wayland Baptist University students, faculty and staff, assisted a dozen nonprofit organizations during Serve Plainview.
Thousands of people viewed the reenactment of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ at Mary Hardin-Baylor’s 85th Easter Pageant.
High school students can apply now for Howard Payne University’s second annual Health Science Enrichment Workshop, scheduled June 19-21.
“This Old House at 415: Letters from the Family” will be the topic April 10 when Wayland Baptist University hosts the 2024 Pinson Lectures, featuring Karen Bullock.
Texas Baptist institutions announce events, awards and acquisitions; a pastor retirement and a pastor anniversary.
Four former Baptist General Convention of Texas executive directors and their spouses—Bill and Bobbie Pinson (1983–1999), Charles and Rosemary Wade (1999–2008), Randel and Sheila Everett (2008–2011), and David and Kathleen...
News briefs about churches, schools and other organizations affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
The building campaign to raise the initial $3 million toward a new Baptist Student Ministry center on the Baylor University campus has passed the halfway mark, Texas Baptist Missions Foundation...
Worship leaders from Texas Baptist churches and several others participated in a listening session with three executives from Lifeway regarding the future of the lifewayworship.com website.
Philip E. Dearborn, president of the Association for Biblical Higher Education, delivered the official charge to students at the East Texas Baptist University convocation chapel service.
Representatives from more than 30 Marshall-area churches participated in the annual Church Day at East Texas Baptist University. As a part of Student Welcome and Transition (SWAT) week at Dallas Baptist University, 520 students spread throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area for a day of service.
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor marked the beginning of the school year and welcomed about 800 new freshmen to campus during its 178th fall convocation.
More than 350 University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students participated in a Love CTX community service project as part of Welcome Week.
Thirty 9th grade and 10th grade students from local schools recently participated in the CompassRN Student Nurse Summer Camp, hosted by Baylor University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing.
Seven University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Global Outreach teams served domestically and abroad this summer to spread the gospel and provide vital services to populations in need. More than 50 students...
Dallas Baptist University recognized Beautiful Feet Ministries in Dallas at its Community Partnership Luncheon. Beautiful Feet has served more than 135,000 meals to the homeless, and its facility is open 359 days a year
Dallas Baptist University students spent a month of travel and study in Germany and France, engaging in academic learning, ministry and cultural immersion. Stark College and Seminary named Ellis Orozco as the public theologian in residence, effective July 1.
Royal Ambassadors Leadership Training Camp drew teenaged young men who will serve on staff at various camps around the state this summer and adult RA and Challengers leaders to Latham Springs Camp and Retreat Center in June.
For the second year in a row, Baylor University has been named among the nation’s Top 10 Most Trusted Universities
Hardin-Simmons University’s “World Famous” Cowboy Band marked its centennial with a weekend reunion in Abilene during the spring semester.
About 200 senior adults participated in Hilltop University at East Texas Baptist University, an annual conference featuring worship, Bible teaching, fellowship and entertainment.
Baylor University’s board of regents approved a $902.4 million university operating budget for 2023-24, an increase of $39.2 million (4.5 percent) from last year.
Dallas Baptist University presented the DBU-Oak Cliff Good Samaritan Award to Scott Coleman and Leigh Gettman-Allen for their Christian leadership and service to the Oak Cliff community in Dallas.
Ethiopian Evangelical Baptist Church in Garland hosted a Children’s Ministry Experience Conference that drew more than two dozen participants from Ethiopian churches in nine states and from Edmonton, Canada.
ETBU celebrated the opening of its newly constructed Great Commission Center on April 28. TBM is seeking to help benevolence ministries and crisis pregnancy centers around the state provide diapers.
Hardin-Simmons University expects about 3,000 students from schools throughout the Big Country region for its annual Western Heritage Day. Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas elected Jackie Evans Faughn of First Baptist Church in McKinney to a one-year term as president .
More than 110 University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students unveiled their undergraduate and graduate research projects during the 2023 Watson Scholars’ Day.
When First Baptist Church in Nacogdoches invited the entire community to its Easter Sunday morning worship service at Stephen F. Austin State University’s William R. Johnson Coliseum, the event drew about 1,700 worshippers, including more than 900 guests.
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor presented its annual Easter Pageant on April 5. Baylor University unveiled and dedicated statues honoring the university’s first Black graduates, Robert L. Gilbert and Barbara A. Walker.
The East Texas Baptist University symphonic band and concert choir traveled to Israel as part of the Global Study and Serve program. The Soundings Project at Baylor University has received a two-year grant extension from the Lilly Endowment.
East Texas Baptist University and Marshall ISD signed an agreement to create a pathway allowing selected paraprofessionals to gain classroom experience while completing college credits at ETBU.
Buckner Children and Family Services marked the opening of its Buckner Family Hope Center in Midland with a Feb. 28 ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception.
Three University of Mary-Hardin Baylor alumni—a surgeon, an attorney and a physical therapist—discussed their career journeys as part of the university’s Vocaré Week.
Baylor University released a detailed rendering of an addition to Founders Mall called the “Monument to the Unknown Enslaved.”
The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor announced the largest planned gift in the university’s history. The future estate gift will be unrestricted and currently is valued at $50 million.
Texas Baptist Men has named David Hardage, who recently retired as executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, to lead the missions organization’s efforts to engage churches in TBM ministries.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who also served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, spoke at Dallas Baptist University Jan. 26 as part of the Leadership Lecture Series.
Buckner International announced two leadership promotions with Buckner Children and Family Services. Effective Jan. 1, Henry Jackson was named president, and Samela Macon was promoted to vice president of operations....
Students from several institutions participated in a Young Maston Scholar retreat sponsored by the T.B. Maston Foundation for Christian Ethics.
East Texas Baptist University’s Tiger softball team traveled to Australia in December for the university’s 14th Tiger Athletic Mission Experience trip.
At its winter commencement, Dallas Baptist University awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree to Shirley V. Hoogstra, president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.
Christian James Vaughn is the first Wayland Baptist University student to graduate with the accelerated bachelor’s to master’s degree. He graduated with a dual degree—a Bachelor of Christian Ministry and a Master of Divinity.
Wayland Baptist University’s Mabee Regional Heritage Center offers an exhibition of 50 of the more than 900 Nativity scenes from around the world Carolyn Cunningham of Lockney has collected.
Waco Today magazine—a publication of the Waco Tribune-Herald—named Jeremy Everett, founding executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, as its Person of the Year.
East Texas Baptist University honored 87 graduating seniors with the presentation of their official class ring during the ETBU Ring Blessing ceremony Nov. 16.
The 2022 Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting drew 1,262 messengers from churches and 536 guests to Waco.
The Stinger Spectacular at Howard Payne University, Oct. 14-15, combined homecoming festivities, a family weekend and Yellow Jacket Preview.
East Texas Baptist University hosted its eighth annual Calling Conference on Oct. 26 . Truett Theological Seminary’s National Preaching Conference will be held in Waco Nov. 15-17.
Carl Trueman, author and professor at Grove City College, was the featured speaker at the Dallas Baptist University Institute for Global Engagement lecture.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded Wayland Baptist University a $2.99 million grant over the next five years to ensure the academic success of Hispanic and low-income, first-generation students.
Baylor University announced a gift from Jarred and Kay Nan Sloan of Houston supporting Baylor Athletics and resourcing Athletics Mental Health Services, which ensures access for Baylor’s student-athletes to mental health services.
Texas Baptist Men helped Peter Dyson of Waco and Travis Caywood of China Spring collect much-needed supplies as part of First Baptist Church of Woodway’s ongoing ministry in Cuba.
Katie Frugé, director of Texas Baptists’ Center for Cultural Engagement and the Christian Life Commission, challenged students at Dallas Baptist University.
Texas Baptist Men disaster relief workers donated more than 3,000 hours of volunteer labor in the aftermath of flooding in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Dallas Baptist University welcomed a record number of international students from more than 50 countries this fall and helped ease their arrival to a new country with a special event Aug. 25.
A graduate of Bangs High School and a senior at Brownwood High School participated in a four-week Summer Research Symposium at Howard Payne University.The strength and conditioning education program at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is the first in the country to receive accreditation from the Council of Accreditation of Strength and Conditioning.
South Main Baptist Church in Houston collected more than 7,000 shoes for Buckner International and its Shoes for Orphan Souls initiative.
Members of The Heights Baptist Church in Richardson lined neighborhood streets and cheered when former Ironman triathlete Phil Hollen returned home after nearly 10 months in the hospital following a life-threatening bout of COVID.
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students participated in Love CTX on Aug. 6 as part of Welcome Week. Baylor University ranked among the nation’s Top 10 Most Trusted Universities, according to research firm Morning Consult as part of its Most Trusted Brands project.
Baylor University President Linda A. Livingstone was elected chair of the NCAA Board of Governors. The State Board of Education Certification commended Howard Payne University for exemplary performance in preparing and supporting teachers employed in rural schools.