Abbott said he wants the Pastor Strong South Asia cohort to be an encouragement to Texas Baptists pastors that the work being done in Jesus’ name around the world “[is] not dead.”
“We want to make Jesus nonignorable to the community around us,” Ridgway said.
“You must be out of your mind.” No one said it. But it had to be what most reasonable people were thinking when they heard what Christian and Laura Rowland had decided to do.
“You can go pretty much an hour in any direction from where I live and you’ll see absolutely nothing — no gas stations, no subdivisions, no shopping centers—nothing,” Tyler Martin says.
“This is a beautiful community,” says David Gaskins. “Our nickname is Happy Valley. Every lawn is perfect. Every home is immaculate. But that’s the wild thing — Happy Valley is a sarcastic nickname because almost nobody is happy here.”
The Northwest Baptist Convention has elected Lance Caddel as its new executive director-treasurer during a special called meeting on Feb. 24.
Texas Baptists’ Executive Board adopted a new agreement with the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board regarding church-starting in Texas.
“When Hurricane Helene came through, we got hit with three feet of water … we lost about 90% of everything we owned,” said Ronnie Rentz. “I couldn’t even get into the house at first because all the water had picked up our furniture.”
