News - 2015

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (8/1/15) - East Texas Baptist University's four-year criminal justice /law enforcement program is the only of its kind in the state, and several of its students and instructors are headed to the mountains of Colorado this weekend to strengthen their skills.

The university's Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Forensic Science, and Law Enforcement William Griffith is accompanying 11 criminal justice students and two other professors for a nine-day rendezvous in the mountains, beginning today.

MARSHALL, Texas (7/30/15) - East Texas Baptist University announces its summer hours for administrative offices.

For the summer months, June 1st  through July 31st  , ETBU offices will be open Monday through Thursday, from 7:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. All administrative offices will be closed on Friday.

ETBU will resume regular office hours on Monday, August 3, which are 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (7/28/15) - With most East Texas students returning to school in less than a month, athletics and extra curricular teams are jumping back into the swing of things with two-a-day practices, rehearsals and camps.

The same is true for nearby districts Harleton, Beckville and Ore City ISDs this week as they bunk down at East Texas Baptist University for band camp.

"We'll be here until Friday," Harleton ISD band director Hunter Barrett said Monday. "This is our first time meeting as a full band this year."

MARSHALL, Texas (7/27/15) - A former East Texas Baptist University English professor Henry Hood, Jr., (63), passed away at his home on Friday, July 24, 2015. Hood taught at ETBU from 1980 2000. Funeral service will be held at at Meadowbrook Funeral Home on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.

He was born in Catlettsburg, Kentucky on November 4, 1951, to Henry Hood, Sr. and Fern McGlone Hood. 

He is preceded in death by his parents; his sister, Donna Hood; and his brothers-in-law, Larry Overman, Thomas Allemang, Richard Osborne and Ronnie Lawhorn. 

BGCT BLOG (7/21/15) - Growing up in the South meant everyone had heard of God and Christianity. That was just the way life was. Even if someone didn't believe, they were well aware of the faith. I hadn't met someone who had never heard of God. No matter where I had served on mission trips, the people I shared the Gospel with knew something about God and the Bible. That all changed on July 13, 2015.