News - 2016

MARSHALL, Texas (4/21/16) – A team of nine students from East Texas Baptist University spent their spring break in Belize ministering in partnership with Hope Springs Water. The Athens, Texas based ministry has a mission to provide safe water, sanitation, and public health education to developing countries. 

“The purpose of the trip was to fix wells in villages so that people who live there could have clean water,” said sophomore Nycole Renfrow of Nederland. 

CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION: MARSHALL, Texas (4/14/16) - Marshall anchors the eastern entrance to Texas near where Interstate 20 crosses from Louisiana. It is a smaller city that is home to East Texas Baptist University, which sits on a hill in the northwest portion of the city.

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER: MARSHALL, Texas (4/14/16) -  East Texas Baptist University would not be required to offer controversial contraceptive coverage in its self-insured employee insurance plan, according to a March 29 proposal from the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents the university, responded to the court's proposal on Tuesday with a resounding "yes."

MARSHALL, Texas (4/15/16) – East Texas Baptist University’s oldest, most honored tradition returned for its 69th year on Friday, April 15, 2016, naming the 2015-2016 Senior Girl Call-Out. The ceremony was held on the front lawn of Marshall Hall.
 
This year’s Senior Girl Call-Out is Gabrielle Besch of Bonham. ETBU First Lady Michelle Blackburn presented Miss Besch her award which was an engraved crystal vase filled with yellow Texas roses. 

BAPTIST STANDARD: Marshall, Texas (4/14/16) — The church should give the world a glimpse of the kingdom of God, but cultural accommodation and nationalism prevent American congregations from fulfilling their calling, theologian Roger Olson said.

 “The church is not to be a launching pad for Christian empire—American or otherwise—but God’s alternative social order within the fallen world ruled by powers and principalities, challenging them with light dispelling their darkness, not the might of power and force,” he said.