After buying a piece of land in January, Angelina Church of Christ held its first service in the new building August 5, 2012.

For months, nearly a dozen billboards along busy Houston thoroughfares have promoted the Churches of Christ Campaign for Christ. This week, 70 area congregations — black, white and Hispanic — are joining together to share Jesus and worship God in English and Spanish.

A K-12 Christian school in San Antonio has graduated its final class of seniors.

Beyond the hill behind Eastridge Church of Christ in Rockwall, Texas, is a plot of land the church has dedicated to sowing more than the “fruits of the Spirit.”

Michael Bingham, a former inmate, is studying to become a preacher. Bingham is a student at Sunset International Bible Institute. “Mike is not afraid to tell you what he used to be, but he can also tell you why he’s not that anymore,” Sunset President Truitt Adair tells a Lubbock television station.

David Lane, minister for the Marsalis Avenue Church of Christ in Dallas, responds to plans for a billboard touting atheism in an interview with a local television station.

On the Monday that marked the 50th anniversary of the end of Abilene Christian College’s 56 years of segregation, African-American faculty member Jerry Taylor was cheered by audience members after a chapel speech that touched on reconciliation between races.

Over the past four weeks, a Texas congregation has collected teddy bears for wildfire victims.
More than 500 teddy bears from the Bears for Bastrop drive were taken to Bastrop on Oct. 7, a newspaper reported.

An official Texas historical marker was unveiled Friday at the original campus of the school that eventually became Abilene Christian University in Texas. It opened with 25 students on Sept. 11, 1906, as Childers Classical Institute, an elementary and secondary school.

Judge Rusty Ladd, an advocate who worked with homeless people through Carpenter’s Church, a ministry of the Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock, Texas, died in a motorcycle accident Friday.