News about "service"

MARSHALL, Texas (4/25/16) – “I felt like God had called me to spend my time serving over spring break,” is what Taylor Turley said about why he went to serve.  Stevi Slaughter said the reason why she gave up her time to serve was, “I wanted to give someone something that they deserved and could not do for themselves.” 

MARSHALL, Texas (2/26/16) – Have you ever thought about “what is it like to walk where Jesus walked?”  The East Texas Baptist University School of Humanities is providing this “once in a life time opportunity” for the Marshall community to travel to Israel this May and experience the wonders of the Holy Land in person. The Holy Land trip is scheduled for May 19-30.  

MARSHALL, Texas (2/24/16) – East Texas Baptist University students in the The Worship of God class in the School of Communication and Performance Arts recently organized a public reading of the entire Bible on campus. Students, faculty, and staff volunteered 20 minutes at a time to read the Bible continuously for 24 hours a day. This public reading of the Scriptures started on Thursday, February 11, and concluded on Tuesday, February 16.

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (2/21/16) - East Texas Baptist University sophomore Austin Damron joined staff and his fellow university students on Saturday to help build a home for a Marshall single mother and her two children as part of Tigers Serve Day.

“I’ve worked at this Habitat for Humanity house twice, once a couple of weeks ago,” he said on Saturday. “It’s so cool to see how the house has developed during that time.”

Damron is a member of the university’s Student Foundation Organization which selects different areas around the community to serve each month.

MARSHALL, Texas (2/1/16) - The 2016 Meyer Lecture Series went on as planned on Monday, Jan 25 at East Texas Baptist University even though the keynote speaker, Peter Greer, President of Hope International, could not attend. Meyer was unable to travel to Texas due to the northeastern snowstorm.