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· The coffee is a medium-bodied, artisan blend of Latin American accented with vanilla, cinnamon and a hint of cocoa! Specially made for BUA!
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The coffee is a medium-bodied, artisan blend of Latin American beans accented with vanilla, cinnamon and a hint of cocoa! Specially made for BUA!

Selection:
-Whole Bean Caffeinated
-Whole Bean Decaf
-Ground Caffeinated
-Ground Decaf

-We can accept credit cards over the phone
-Coffee is $20 an 8oz bag

Sale only lasts from now until Dec. 19th!
Hurry and order your BUA coffee as a stocking stuffer today!

Place orders by sending a Facebook message to BUA or email Jennifer or Maegan at Jennifer.moczygemba@bua.edu or maegan.gatlin@bua.edu. Please tell how many bags of coffee you would like, the type of coffee and leave your contact information; name, phone etc. We will call for payment and shipping detailsThe coffee is a medium-bodied, artisan blend of Latin American beans accented with vanilla, cinnamon and a hint of cocoa! Specially made for BUA!

SAN ANTONIO–Braving the sweltering 100 degree heat of a Texas summer and the dust of a historic drought, 56 men, women and children from Acton Baptist Church in Granbury, Tx came to the Baptist University of the Américas in San Antonio the last week of June to renovate a 50-year-old building and host a Vacation Bible School for neighborhood children.

“One of the greatest things we can do is to try to be like Jesus and try to help others,” explained Glenn Ward, pastor since 1974. “We’ve been doing this since 1979 and it’s always the highlight of the year. I love to give my talent and skills to contribute to ministry work. We know the University has to be a careful steward of its budget and this was one way we could help.”

The team repaired air conditioning units, moved walls, pulled out old plumbing fixtures, installed bathroom/plumbing fixtures in the chapel and painted, along with sponsoring a Vacation Bible School for children in the neighborhood as well as for the children of the students and staff.“Wherever there’s a need, we go,” according to Amy Briggs, the head of the VBS team:  “In recent years in Juarez, Mexico we built a school house, a clinic and a tortilla factory.   A few weeks ago we went to Joplin, Missouri to help clean up tornado wreckage. We always think we’re going to be a blessing wherever we go, but we always end up being more blessed—and that happened at BUA too.”

BUA President René Maciel begs to differ.

“Even though the Acton folks could, in many ways, see how they were blessing us—by the electrical wiring run and the walls moved in the construction project and by the ear-to-ear smiles and thoughtful questions of the children at the VBS, their gifts went far beyond that,” he said.

“They brought a spirit of encouragement, ears willing to hear the story of how this school is changing lives to change our world, heart eager to learn how to pray for us. They left with ‘good words’ to share with others about what God is doing here. We were the ones most blessed.”
Team members Bill Stone and James Mitchell agreed they could not have found a better way to spend a summer week.

“If I could do things over I would have started doing these missions trips 10 years earlier,” Stone said. “From the outside this may look like too much work, but from the inside the experience is very rewarding. You won’t know until you’ve done it.”

Added Mitchell, “There is real satisfaction in helping someone do something by providing free labor—and maybe seeing people give their lives to Christ as a result of what we are doing.”

“The spirit of the mission team was great – they worked hard and were a phenomenal example of what it means to be on mission for Christ,” said Michael McCarthy, the university’s chief financial officer. “They were an encouragement to our entire body of students and staff.”

The upstairs apartments in Building 8, which was built in the 1960s, “were in dire need of restoration as well as the student and fitness centers on the first floor,” said McCarthy. “We’re extremely grateful for the labor and materials that First Baptist Church Acton provided for BUA. We could not have attempted this project without their help.

“We are very excited for the new look that the students will see in the student center. It will be a place where they can relax, study or fellowship with other students.”

The VBS concluded with a well-attended family night on Thursday night with a great turnout.

Acton Baptist Church has a long-term interest in BUA, because they ordained David Maltsberger to the ministry long before he was Associate Professor for Biblical Studies and Archaeology at the university.

Then, in 2007, Ward and his wife attended a conference on The Persecuted Church at BUA and came away from their first extended contact with students and faculty deeply impressed. Additional interaction last September, when Ward spoke at a BUA chapel service, led him to suggest that the church’s annual construction/evangelism project target the university this summer. “I know what great things BUA does. A lot of people don’t know about it so I thought it would be nice to come here,” he said.

Mary Ranjel Day at BUA celebrates 35 years of ministry and mentoring (BUA Communications, 08.24.11)

Serving up some hope (Texas Baptist Standard, 09.26.11)

Mission work=working mission for Acton Baptist group at BUA (BUA Communications, 07.11.11)

Living into a new vision (Faith and Leadership, an offering of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, 05.24.11)

Alcides Guajardo receives Doctor of Divinity from BUA (BUA Communications, 05.20.11)

‘Alabama’ finds a sweet college home at BUA (BUA Communications, 05.20.11)

Schertz city councilman Jim Fowler graduates magna cum laude (BUA Communications, 05.17.11)

Texas A&M-San Antonio, BUA sign articulation agreement (BUA Communications, 04.25.11)

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