East Texas Baptist University held a series of events as a part of the annual ETBU Global Missions Week on Monday, March 25 through Thursday, March 28. To highlight both international and local missions, the week consisted of Mission Marketplace, a Mission Interest Lunch, Go Now Missions Run, and special guests for chapel services.

East Texas Baptist University students traveled to Birmingham, Alabama from Sunday, March 10 through Friday, March 15 on a mission trip as a part of the national Habitat for Humanity Collegiate Challenge. Led by ETBU Dean of Spiritual Life Scott Stevens, the ETBU students earned service credit hours while being involved in hands-on mission work through home construction and rehabilitation.

East Texas Baptist University Theatre Arts Associate Professor John Dement united the Marshall community through a production of Michael Elliot Brill’s 1979 play, The Masque of Beauty and the Beast. Serving as the inaugural production of Dement’s Starr Struck Theatre, the performance was held at 8:00 p.m. from March 13-16 at no cost to attendees. A total of 235 patrons from Texarkana, Carthage, Longview, Jefferson, Shreveport, and Marshall experienced the performance.

The East Texas Baptist University Theatre Arts Department went oars up and oars out with a performance of Men on Boats, written by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by ETBU Costume Shop Supervisor Samantha Pettigrew.

East Texas Baptist University sent 18 Baptist Student Ministry (BSM) student leaders to South Padre Island, Texas on Friday, March 8 through Friday, March 15 as a part of Beach Reach, an annual evangelism initiative to share the hope of Jesus by providing free food and transportation to beach visitors.