Books for the Border Brings Smiles, Books to Eagle Pass
Books for the Border is a collaboration of Literacy ConneXus, churches, and community groups who together can make an impact on Texas children and families trapped in generational poverty because of unmet literacy needs. The initiative focuses on families in Dimmit, Hidalgo, Maverick, Presidio, Starr, Zavala, and Willacy counties.
Read On...Immigration Update
Although the outcome of proposed immigration legislation reform is undecided, now is the time for churches to think about how their members can become engaged in the lives of immigrants.
Read On...Literacy Ministries, Where Are You?
The Center for Literacy (CFL) at Baylor University is looking for a few good churches. Actually, Dr. Robin K. Rogers. Ph.D. and director of the CFL, is eager to contact all Texas churches that have literacy ministries (programs). “The survey results are critical to how the Center can encourage and empower local, congregational-based literacy,” explains Rogers.
Read On...ESL Teacher’s Neighborhood Becomes International Mission Field
As both a preacher’s daughter and a preacher’s wife, Judy Hughes of Emmanuel Baptist Church (Waco), had never really found her ministry niche until she discovered the vast “mission field” of literacy ministries. That was fourteen years ago, but her passion to share Christ with others while teaching them English continues to grow.
Read On...It's a New Day and a New Way: Literacy ConneXus and the Baylor Center for Literacy
While Baylor University's Literacy Missions Center has had a long yet sometimes erratic history, the newly re-named and staffed Center for Literacy (CFL) is open for business. Dr. Robin K. Rogers, Director of the Center for Literacy and Associate Professor of Social Work at Baylor, discusses the Center's new direction:
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