Annual Meeting
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Texas Baptists messengers elect new officers, raise budget for second consecutive year
Nov 14, 2022
During the first business session of the 137th Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) Annual Meeting, messengers elected new officers, approved the 2023 budget and heard reports from the Executive Director Search Committee and Gen Z/Millennial Task Force.
Worship Celebration speakers encourage messengers to believe God, invest in church planting
Nov 14, 2022
“There is a big difference between believing in God and believing God,” said Tony Canady, pastor of Triumphal Christian Fellowship, a multicultural and multigenerational Texas Baptists church plant in Waxahachie.
Pastor’s Common Rally provides space for collaboration, fellowship for young ministry leaders
Nov 14, 2022
The rally was a time of fellowship and worship for Millenial and Generation Z pastors and ministers and was held at a coffee shop in downtown Waco.
Texas Baptists en Español celebran un llamado común, académicos en la reunión anual
Nov 14, 2022
Los participantes en la celebración de los Texas Baptists en Español fueron desafiados a practicar un "liderazgo inamovible" al celebrar todo lo que Dios está haciendo en las iglesias y escuelas por todo Texas.
Texas Baptists en Español celebrate common calling, scholars at annual rally
Nov 14, 2022
"a church is not just a good place to work but “a community where you can invest your life.”
Texas Baptists African American Rally celebrates 40 years of impact
Nov 14, 2022
“When a Christian is filled with the Holy Spirit, God can bring down strongholds in his heart; when a church is filled with the Holy Spirit, God can turn the world upside down,”
Texas Baptists celebrate fellowship, renewal, unity during 2021 Annual Meeting
Nov 17, 2021
More than 1,600 participants in-person and online gathered together for the 2021 Texas Baptists Annual Meeting Nov. 14-16.
Monday evening session speaks on responding to difficult times, celebrates 10 years of David Hardage
Nov 16, 2021
“...the moment we’re in does not pause the mission we’re on.”
David Hardage highlights Texas Baptist accomplishments in ministry in Executive Director report
Nov 16, 2021
“We’re enjoying a season of peace and unity.”
Fostering, adopting and revitalizing churches
Nov 16, 2021
Church consultants Thom and Sam Rainer believe that church adoptions will be outpacing church closures in the very near future, thanks to “the next great movement among American congregations.”
President Jason Burden calls Texas Baptists to daily faithfulness
Nov 16, 2021
Jason Burden, Baptist General Convention of Texas president, urged Texas Baptists to be “wash, rinse, repeat” Christians in his Tuesday morning address at the final worship and business session of the 2021 Texas Baptists Annual Meeting.
Cultural change and pandemic decisions will impact churches for generations, says Ed Stetzer
Nov 16, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the impact of cultural issues in churches across the country, creating “the hardest time to lead” in the last 50 years.
Worship celebration speakers encourage return to local church emphasis, testimony of God’s greatness
Nov 16, 2021
“The local church is God’s plan A, and there is no Plan B. When Jesus says, ‘Upon this rock I will build my church,’ we often begin to debate what all that first part means,” said Thom Rainer, CEO and founder of ChurchAnswers.
2021 Missions Banquet celebrates a fruitful year of ministry and missions
Nov 16, 2021
On Monday, Nov. 15, at the 2021 Texas Baptists Annual Meeting, a group of over 200 missions-minded individuals gathered to celebrate the work being done through the ministries of the Center for Missional Engagement and give glory to God for the fruit.
Texas Baptists messengers approve $34.59 million budget, elect new second vice president and re-elect other officers
Nov 15, 2021
Two convention officers were re-elected to serve for a second term and a new second vice president was elected during the Monday morning business session at the 136th Annual Meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Monday in Galveston.
Fuller: Racial reconciliation through using the model of the gospel
Nov 15, 2021
Dr. Timothy Fuller urged churches to see the task of racial reconciliation as its problem to solve. The gospel, he said, is at the heart of the model to make that happen.
New Pastor Sabbatical Grant Program announced
Nov 15, 2021
The Pastor Sabbatical Grant Program aims to assist and encourage churches in providing sabbatical for their pastors.
Hardage shares vision for GC2 Movement among Texas Baptists
Nov 15, 2021
“It’s a movement that we’re letting God take over, and [He can] do with that whatever He wants and however He leads. We want to be in a flexible place of obedience.”