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By Herald Staff
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Nine locations across Virginia will host this year’s Service in September mission projects, coordinated in the state by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia.
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By Robert Dilday, Managing Editor
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- A Virginia Baptist congregation has closed its doors after 80 years, but the result will be about $1 million available over time to Christian ministries in Washington’s Northern Virginia suburbs. Trinity Baptist Church in Arlington held its last service Aug. 29, bringing to an end a congregation established in 1930.
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By Herald Staff
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Baptist men from across the state will meet for prayer, worship and round table discussions at the one-day Virginia Baptist Men’s Gathering, set for Saturday, Sept. 25.
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By Bob Allen, Associated Baptist Press
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) -- Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina solicited urgent prayer Aug. 27 for a Hispanic pastor facing possible deportation for a 15-year-old crime he committed before accepting Christ.
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By Jim White, Editor
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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Aunt Ida enters the information age with an e-mail account but takes issue with what some people are sending her. She brings her typical homespun wisdom to online gossip. In the old days, gossips could only spread their juicy morsels to a few folks at a time, she says.
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By Bill WIlson
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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So what do we make of the rising tide of conflict in local congregations? First of all, is there actually an increase in conflict? Anecdotally, the number of calls and conversations we are having around conflict seem to indicate that local church conflict is becoming more frequent and widespread.
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By Fred Anderson
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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Virginia Baptists early established relationships with Indians. John Leland, arguably the most prominent of the 18th-century Virginia Baptist itinerant preachers, wrote that in the 1780s he preached in the “royal pavilion” of an Indian chief, John Tohan. A Baptist presence has continued to the present.
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By Jim DePasquale
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Monday, August 30, 2010 |
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At this stage of your church’s building program you are still gathering general information about your mission, who you are as a church, future programs and ministry needs, etc. Yet there is one more information gathering exercise that the church can conduct. It entails performing surveys.
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By Jim White, Editor
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Friday, August 27, 2010 |
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RUCKERSVILLE, Va. -- For more than a century, the sanctuary of Ruckersville Baptist Church, about 20 miles north of Charlottesville, Va., stood as a mute but elegant witness to the presence of Christ. But in the very early hours of Sunday morning, Aug. 22, arsonists apparently set it ablaze.
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By Bob Allen
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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WASHINGTON (ABP) -- More than 70 Christian leaders signed a letter Aug. 25 calling on "public officials, faith leaders, and the media to offer no further support or airtime to those who misrepresent and call into question" whether or not President Obama is a Christian.
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By Bob Allen
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- A Southern Baptist seminary president says evolution and Christianity are not compatible. "The theory of evolution is incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ even as it is in direct conflict with any faithful reading of the Scriptures," said. Albert Mohler.
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By Mark Ross
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Monday, August 23, 2010 |
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Throughout the worship service, the man fiddled with his cell phone. I tried not to stare at him, but as his activity became increasingly obvious, his insensitivity became increasingly annoying. While the congregation followed Scripture readings and litanies, he played with his iPhone or Blackberry.
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Baptists from around the globe gathered in Honolulu July 28-Aug. 1 for the Baptist World Alliance's once-every-five-year World Congress and committed themselves to sharing Christ and practicing social justice. Read our complete coverage here.
