Posted at: 10 May 2013 | By: DBA Staff | 0 Comments

Today's guest blogger is Laurie Connell, regional ministry director of One by One, a leading Christian family and early childhood ministry. Does your church love babies, families, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Consider joining One by One to help families families during the mom's pregnancy and through the first year of the baby's life. [...]

Posted at: 22 March 2013 | By: DBA Staff | 0 Comments

   Follow @dallascuphosp    This week's guest blogger is Stephen Young, a journalism student at the University of North Texas.  Stephen is volunteering as the social media manager for DBA's Dallas Cup hospitality center. Each spring, soccer players from all over the world descend on the Metroplex for the Dr. Pepper Dallas Cup, the United States’ oldest [...]

Posted at: 22 February 2013 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

Chelsie Kelley joined the DBA staff in February as a consultant in the family and community ministries department. Though Chelsie serves our churches in a variety of ways, her areas of focus include sports evangelism, the Lifechangers internship program, and school-age ministry. She's already hard at work preparing for DBA's Dallas Cup Hospitality Center ministry [...]

Posted at: 08 February 2013 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

According to the North Texas Food Bank, nearly 1 in 4 children in North Texas live in "food insecure" households.  A family that is "food insecure" does not know if it will be able to obtain healthy or safe food for their next meal without resorting to going to a food pantry or trying to [...]

Posted at: 11 January 2013 | By: DBA Staff | 0 Comments

My guest blogger this week is Kelsey Prenger, Reading Partners staff member and volunteer.  The DBA staff happily volunteers with Reading Partners at George W. Truett Elementary. How could we not volunteer at a school with that name? Racing to the Reading Center at Sudie L. Williams Elementary School, my energetic student stops suddenly in [...]

Posted at: 18 December 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar.  He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.  The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand (Revelation [...]

Posted at: 30 November 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

Recently, a friend called me in great distress because a mutual friend of ours was in her apartment, experiencing some kind of psychotic episode. Our friend was threatening to jump off the 14th floor balcony. I told her to hang up and call 911 immediately. The paramedics arrived within minutes, and our friend was soon [...]

Posted at: 16 November 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

Norma Story recently retired as DBA's hunger relief consultant. As a NAMB Mission Service Corps volunteer, she served DBA churches for 17 years. Considering that the average tenure of church pastors (according to Lifeway research) is only 3.6 years, Norma's time of service with DBA is extradordinary.  Even more important than her longevity, though, is [...]

Posted at: 02 November 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

For the past several years, members of The Crossing Baptist Church in Mesquite have mentored students through the Kids Hope USA program at Thompson Elementary School.  This past summer, the school's assistant principal, Jennifer Hammett, spoke at the church regarding the value of the Kids Hope mentors.  She shared that The Crossing's 18 Kids Hope [...]

Posted at: 19 October 2012 | By: DBA Staff | 1 Comment

We had a drive-by shooting in our neighborhood a few years ago, on our street, right in front of our home. My family and I were watching television in the living room early one evening. I looked out the window at the very moment the car drove by. A man leaned out of the window, [...]