Ken Camp

TYLER, Texas (BP) – Generations of kindergarteners have memorized Bible verses and learned about Jesus’ love for them in Pat and Charles White’s Sunday school class at First Baptist Church in Tyler.

Religious freedom no longer exists in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, where religious leaders have been abducted and sometimes tortured, several Ukrainian journalists said during a recent visit to the United States.

FORT WORTH (BP) -- Pastor Pan Yongguang prayed for his flock throughout their more than three-year ordeal, when he and members of his persecuted church feared deportation back to China.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (BP)--A Texas Baptist chaplain has been named deputy chief of the United States Air Force Chaplain Service.

EL PASO, Texas (BP)–Messengers to the 114th annual meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Texas rejected a move to affirm the 1998 Southern Baptist Convention statement on marriage and family, which includes wives submitting to their husbands in tandem with husbands loving their wives. Meeting in El Paso, Nov. 8-9, about 2,300 messengers affirmed […]

SAN ANTONIO (BP)–In his inaugural address as president of Hispanic Baptist Theological School, Albert Reyes said he envisions the school emerging as a “Bible College for the Americas” training cross-cultural ministry leaders for the new millennium. Reyes presented his vision for Hispanic Baptist Theological School at his formal investiture as the school’s sixth president, Oct. […]

MC CAMEY, Texas (BP)–When it comes to discipleship, Christians in one town all are on the same page –literally. Following a community-wide “Experiencing God Weekend” in McCamey, Texas, in August, 20 small groups representing believers from several denominations now are conducting a simultaneous study of the “Experiencing God” discipleship workbook by Henry Blackaby and Claude […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–From the time Pam Minatrea woke up Sept. 15, she felt an inexplicable need to pray for the safety of the young people around the state who were gathering in schoolyards for “See You At the Pole” prayer meetings. She told her husband, Milfred, about her uneasy feeling. About twelve hours later, […]

SAN ANTONIO (BP)–In what had been a bar, visiting youth groups now lead Bible school for children. In what had been a pool hall, worshipers gather to sing and study Scripture. It’s a typical week at Saddlebrook Community Church, a Baptist apartment ministry in south San Antonio, Texas. Bill Howse is the minister-in-residence and director […]

SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas (BP)–When LaVelle Hendricks arrived as pastor eight years ago, East Caney Baptist Church was a struggling rural African American congregation of nine members. Today, the vibrant multiracial church near Sulphur Springs, Texas, draws about 150 worshipers each week from Hopkins County and neighboring Hunt County in northeast Texas, and its members are […]