HBU affiliates with both Texas Baptist conventions

HOUSTON — The Houston Baptist University trustee board voted Sept. 23 to affirm a “fraternal relationship” with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC), marking the first time a school affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas officially has related to the five-year-old SBTC. Jim Richards, executive director of the SBTC, which includes 1,361 congregations, welcomed the new relationship.

Meanwhile, trustees of the liberal arts school also reaffirmed the university’s unique affiliation and relationship with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, from which it receives budgeted funds.