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Sep 26, 20192 min read

SGI Next Steps

On Sunday, the Strategic Growth Initiative launched with a church-wide Gathering. The event focused on exploring the concept of spiritual...

Aug 26, 20192 min read

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Diverse Worship Experience Focus

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Diverse Worship Experience Focus Starting in our days at the BSU and through the tenure of Dr. Harlan,...

Aug 20, 20192 min read

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Connect Groups Focus

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Connect Group and Spiritual Formation Focus One of the primary focuses of the Strategic Growth Initiative...

Aug 12, 20192 min read

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Enhancement of Our Care System for Guests

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Enhancement of Our Care System for Guests UBC has a formal and informal system of caring for guests. The...

Aug 5, 20192 min read

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Expansion of Caring for Young Families

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Expansion of Caring for Young Families The Mother’s Day Out program is one of the marquee ministries of...

Aug 1, 20192 min read

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Age-Specific Recruiting

Strategic Growth Initiative’s Age-Specific Recruiting The phrase “Age-Specific Recruiting” could cause an awkward pause upon reading for...

Jul 23, 20193 min read

Expanding Our (Yours and Mine) Youth and College Students Initiatives

Jake Riggsbee, Craig and Amy Andrews, Billy and Vicky Booth, Mark Pressley, Maria Olds, the Stricklands, Fran and Steve Hunter, Ed...

Jul 18, 20193 min read

Strategic Growth Initiative

Why Strategic Growth Initiative God’s dream for University Baptist Church has expressed itself in many iterations in the last 72 years....

Jul 11, 20191 min read

Ecuador Mission Immersion

On Thursday, July 11th, a seventeen member team departed for Quito, Ecuador. Eleven members of the team are from UBC with six joining...

Jul 3, 20192 min read

Fall Soccer Academy, an Opportunity for Our Authentic Community to be Missional

After a successful preview in the spring, the UBC Soccer Academy will embark on a 6-week experience in September. Before we get to the...

Jun 24, 20193 min read

The Fellowship

Growing up as a Baptist in the South typically meant one of two things, either you were Southern Baptist or Independent Baptist. I knew...

May 14, 20192 min read

Celebrating Dr. Benjamin Harlan

In his novel, Radiance of Tomorrow, Ishmael Beah wrote, “We must live in the radiance of tomorrow…For what is yet to come tomorrow has...

May 6, 20191 min read

CBF Louisiana Coordinator to Lead Spiritual Formation and Preach on May 26

For over 25 years, University Baptist Church has been a partner with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. CBF is a unique network. Unlike...

Apr 23, 20192 min read

Pathfinder, A New Conversation Series

In Aleandre Dumas’ classic, The Three Musketeers, he wrote, “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.” I have always loved a...

Apr 8, 20193 min read

One Year Since Your Vote

As of today, April 11 at 12:40 pm-ish, it has been 368 days and 40 minutes since you unanimously voted me as your next Senior Pastor. We...

Apr 2, 20192 min read

Sharing Our Best Selves with UBC

Sometimes you just have to smile, chuckle a little, and take joy in what brings us together. Do you think we would have had the same...

Feb 21, 20192 min read

You Are Something…Don’t Let That Go Too Much to Your Head

It’s true that we live in a me-centric world. That statement is not intended to be cynical or judgmental, but an observation of reality....

Jan 29, 20191 min read

Season of Lent

The great fourth century archbishop John Chrysostom writes, “No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others....

Jan 29, 20192 min read

Into the Community

We are six weeks into our series on the Book of Nehemiah. We are discovering how one insignificant man can make a tremendous difference...

Jan 29, 20192 min read

UBC Soccer Academy Preview, An Organic Way to Connect with Our Neighbors

UBC is a faith community that desires to think critically, live creatively, and love continually. These desires have led to many...

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