PANAMA CITY, Panama — To celebrate the theme “Getting outside our churches,” 25 Virginia Baptists travelled to Panama Jan. 26 to attend the annual meeting of the Panama Baptist Convention and to sign documents establishing a five-year partnership between that…
Christine Gregory, missions leader who broke barriers to women, dies
DANVILLE, Va. (ABP) — Christine Gregory, a Virginia missions leader who broke barriers to women in Baptist leadership roles, died Jan. 22 in a Danville, Va., nursing home. She was 89. Gregory was elected first vice president of the Southern…
VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Protests dropping of Herald subscription
I would like to protest. Since 1975 I have been a member of BGAV churches. I am a retired pastor, a member of Story Creek Baptist Church in Franklin County. I protest having to pay for a copy of the…
VITAL SIGNS: A year of ‘gracious uncertainty’
On the threshold of a new decade in our new millennium, there is a pervasive mood among God's people: uncertainty. We hear it weekly from clergy and laity alike, usually around a specific concern regarding employment or finances or conflict…
OUT LOUD
“In hindsight, maybe it wasn’t the smart thing to do, you know. I should have been more careful where I left it, or whatever.” Sgt. Matthew Neu The officer in the Manatee County, Fla., sheriff’s office was quoted in a…
HERITAGE: A Virginia gentleman
Mary Rives Black, a resident of Lakewood Manor, remembers watching young Lawson Pankey, about age 4, padding down the aisle of Elon Baptist Church at Pamplin where her father was pastor. The little boy was headed to the most enticing…
Committee chair seeks 2011 nominees for service within the BGAV
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be a part of something big. Think about our mission as Virginia Baptists. In partnership with the Holy Spirit, we work together to “advance our Redeemer’s Kingdom.” What could be bigger than that? This kind of…
VIRGINIA BRIEFS
Center seeking applicants for Heritage Fellows. Virginia Baptist college students who will be in their sophomore or junior years in 2011-12 are invited to apply for positions as Heritage Fellows, a special recognition offered by the Center for Baptist Heritage…
Group marks 183rd anniversary of Religious Herald’s first edition
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Baptist leaders and Religious Herald staff gathered in downtown Richmond Jan. 11 to mark the day 183 years earlier the Virginia Baptist newsjournal published its first issue. Marking the Herald’s 183rd anniversary were (from left) Jim…
VBS material ‘Finds Hope’ in writers at Newport News, Va., congregation
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — God often works unexpectedly. “Finding Hope: A Field Trip of Faith,” the Vacation Bible School material produced by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, is a prime example. Available March 1, “Finding Hope” is being called “a unique…
CBF leaders join in CCT response to King’s jail letter
ATLANTA — Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal and Moderator-elect Colleen Burroughs have issued a historic letter in response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The statement responding to King’s letter emerged from the annual…
EDITORIAL: 22 years of therapy — for free
The editorial theme we and our New Voice Media partners chose for this issue has to do with the support ministers (and others) can give each other. Although I have mentioned it in previous editorials, I feel compelled be more…