STAFF CHANGES
• Ray Farrow, to Mine Road Church, Spotsylvania, as pastor.
• Eric Pelter, to Mount Hermon Church, Mineral, as pastor.
• Paul Beith, to Pioneer Church, Richmond, as pastor.
• Dax Bostic, to Corinth Church, Council, as pastor.
• Thomas Anderson, to Rings Chapel Church, Castlewood, as pastor.
• Michael Smith, to Bethel Church, Lynchburg, as pastor.
• Michael Cox, resigning as senor pastor of West Lynchburg Church, Lynchburg, to accept the pastorat of First Church, Pryor, Oklahoma.
• Tag Kilgore, to First Church, Newport News, as interim preacher, effective July 27.
• Neal Jones, to Sterling Park Church, Sterling, as interim pastor.
• Bill Tatum, to Rosalind Hills Church, Roanoke, as intentional interim pastor.
• Tom Doubt, to Zoar Church, Locust Grove, as intentional interim pastor.
• Louis Beckwith, now serving as interim pastor at Calvary Church, Lynchburg. He had serviced as minister of youth.
• Bill Corey, to Antioch Church, Sandston, as interim pastor.
• John M. Boyes, to Mentow Church, Huddleston, as full-time interim pastor.
• Tim Miller, to New Bridge Church, Sandston, as minister of worship and arts.
• Marty Canady, resigning as minister of Christian formation at Derbyshire Church, Richmond, to become senior associate minister at Bethany United Methodist Church in Summerville, S.C.
• Karn Searson, to Broadus Memorial Church, Mechanicsville, as minister to children.
• Loi Lee, to Webber Memorial Church, Richmond, as associate pastor.
• Jon Greenhill, to Huguenot Road Church, Richmond, as associate pastor for youth and college/career ministries.
• Marty Coleman, to Bon Air Church, Richmond, as interim student minister.
• Drew Collier, to Derbyshire Church, Richmond, as youth minister.
CHURCH NEWS
• James Square Church, Lawrenceville, will observe homecoming July 13 at 11 a.m. and afterward at a fellowship luncheon. Revival services will be July 14-16. Charles A. Moore, pastor of Warfield Church, will be guest evangelist for homecoming and revival.
• Oak Grove Church, Oak Grove, will celebrate homecoming on July 20. Revival services are scheduled for July 20-23. Dale and Gilda Riddel will be guest evangelists for both homecoming and revival.
• West Hampton Church, Hampton, will celebrate its 65th anniversary on July 13. at 10:30 a.m. A potluck dinner on the grounds will follow the service.
ORDINATIONS
• Carson and JoAnna Rich, staff members at Leesburg Community Church, Leesburg, were recently ordained to the gospel ministry.
SEMINARY GRADUATES
• The John Leland Center for Theological Studiesheld its graduation on June 14. Those from Virginia receiving master of divinity degrees were: Joshua Ryan Hayden, J. Kent Holland, Jr., Michael Corey Hollinger, Thomas F. Lynch and Eric Peter Reiser. Virginians receiving a diploma in theological studies were Jack Daniel Grantham, Jr., Elizabeth Hope Lewis, Marcelo David Mangieri and David N. Peppler, Sr.
MISSIONS MOMENT
A team of 13 members of Laurel Hill Baptist Church in Verona traveled to the Nutshell Baptist Conference Center in Duncans in the Trelawny parrish in Jamaica on June 12-19. The conference center holds camps and activities for children, training events for adult groups and churches all over Jamaica. While there the team painted, put up curtains and window screens, dug ditches, installed electrical wire and cleaned the kitchen at the conference center. Some members taught daily Bible lessons at the primary school and sang songs, played games and visited the local infirmary. Team members passed out fliers in the neighborhood for nightly worship services held at Clarks Town Baptist Church. They helped lead worship services with Laurel Hill's pastor Mike Winters and Russell Waldrop preaching. Services were also led at the William Knibb Baptist Church and the Greenwood Mission. The God sightings on the trip were many. There were many relationships formed and opportunities to minister and show God's love in the moment. Photos here are from the mission trip. Pictured are team members Gloria Miller, Wanda Sutton, Russell and Molly Waldrop, Myron and Barbara Cook, Mike, Terry and Katherine Winters, Robert and Marla Knotts, Dot Woodzell and Terry Glass.