By Ken Camp Baptist Standard Publishing’s board of directors voted to cease operation of FaithVillage, a social media network and resources website for young Christians, effective Aug. 31. Although the site attracted about 40,000 unique visitors each month, it failed…
Baylor Alumni Association files counterclaim in dispute with university
By Ken Camp After failing to reach a settlement with Baylor University, which has filed a lawsuit against it, the Baylor Alumni Association has filed a counterclaim asserting the school breached its license and recognition agreements and its promise to…
Texas shelter plans cancelled, but needs continue along border
By Ken Camp A federal agency has cancelled plans to provide shelters in Dallas for unaccompanied children who entered the United States from Central America, but family ministries to immigrants continue in Laredo and McAllen on the Texas border. Judge…
Baylor student, graduate die in car wreck
By Ken Camp A Baylor University student and a recent graduate were killed in a one-car accident about 30 miles southeast of Waco. Another Baylor student and an incoming freshman also sustained serious injuries in the wreck. The four musicians…
Minister on death row surprised by only one thing: fellow Baptists’ support for capital punishment
By Ken Camp In the six years Dorothy Ruelas has visited death-row inmates at the Allan B. Polunsky Unit in West Livingston, Texas, only one thing shocked her. “I was surprised and shocked to find out most Baptists support the…
Lay callings confirmed through Stephen Ministry
By Ken Camp Tiffany Wright believes the priesthood of believers involves equipping the laity to bear one another’s burdens and give Christ-like care to hurting people. That’s why Wright leads the Stephen Ministry at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, a program…
Baptist finds ‘heart’s desire’ in preaching gospel to detained immigrant children
By Ken Camp Since Palm Sunday, Dan Trevino has preached to more than 10,000 immigrant young people from Central America, delivering a message of hope in Christ. Trevino, associate pastor of Baptist Temple in San Antonio, Texas, leads multiple worship services…
How you can help: Baptists in Texas seek funds, volunteers to aid immigrants
By Ken Camp Texas Baptists are collecting funds for Spanish-language Bibles, Buckner International is seeking children’s shoes, and Baptists in South Texas are gathering emergency items and soliciting volunteer nurses to help minister to unaccompanied minors and mothers with young…
BWA resolution calls surge of child immigrants a ‘humanitarian crisis’
By Ken Camp The surge of unaccompanied children from Central America into the United States “is not primarily an issue of unprotected borders but a humanitarian crisis,” according to a resolution the Baptist World Alliance General Council approved in Izmir,…