Texan Digital – Issue #38

COVER STORY:
Marketplace Ministries sees workplace as mission field

As the first and only Marketplace Ministries chaplain in 1984, Gil Stricklin started the fledgling ministry with $25 and a 1974 Datsun as his office. Thirty years later, Marketplace Ministries staffs nearly 3,000 chaplains around the world who care for 145,000 employees in 600 companies ranging from banks to manufacturing companies to food industries to law firms. They are thought to be the largest and oldest workplace chaplain organization in the world outside of the U.S. military.

Also in this issue:

• Court of Appeals upholds HB 2, enforces abortion clinic regulations
• Churches must break mental illness stigma, survey suggests
• ‘Third way’ church disfellowshipped from SBC
• Frances Richardson, wife of SBTC DR director, dies
• North Texas teen leaves Islam to follow Christ