MONTEGA BAY, Jamaica — The Caribbean Baptist Fellowship, one of Virginia Baptists’ international mission partners, installed William Thompson as its new president and Everton Jackson as executive secretary/treasurer during the organization’s General Assembly March 18-21 in Jamaica. The assembly of…
HERITAGE: Miss Eliza comes to Virginia
The telephone caller was a trust officer in an Atlanta bank. She was administering an estate and was attempting to find the proper home for a physical object, an old portrait which had special meaning to its deceased owner. After…
Church, retirement center celebrate bond
Pictured are (left to right) Pastor Paul Lee, Rose Spradlin, Nellie Walters, Anna Lee, Anne Potts, Evelyn Wolcson, Brittany Csaky, Amy Kennedy and Martha Alvis. RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Boyles Group at Lyndale Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., and…
Smithfield youth work to stop hunger
Students with some of the meals packaged. SMITHFIELD, Va. — Smithfield Baptist Church in Smithfield, Va., hosted a Stop Hunger Now event March 12-14 in conjunction with a youth missions emphasis, Youth Missions Coming Alive. Students and adults from churches…
Virginia Woman’s Missionary Union helps launch the first WMU of India
RICHMOND, Va. — Since its beginning in 1872, Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia has had a heart for those who needed to hear the gospel of Christ. But last month WMUV attained a new level of global partnership when it…
Biologist who aims to reconcile religion and science wins Templeton Prize
IRVINE, Calif. (RNS) — A biologist and former Dominican priest who has attempted to reconcile religion and science has won this year's Templeton Prize — an honor awarded to scholars who study how science and religion intersect. Francisco J. Ayala…
Youth make spiritual decisions during Bluefield College’s ‘Winter Blast’
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Dozens of youth from nine different churches and communities across Virginia and West Virginia made spiritual decisions during Bluefield College’s recent ‘Winter Blast,’ an extreme sport and worship weekend that included skiing, concerts by Christian bands and…
Youth make spiritual decisions during Bluefield College’s ‘Winter Blast’
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Dozens of youth from nine different churches and communities across Virginia and West Virginia made spiritual decisions during Bluefield College’s recent ‘Winter Blast,’ an extreme sport and worship weekend that included skiing, concerts by Christian bands and…
Youth make spiritual decisions during Bluefield College’s ‘Winter Blast’
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Dozens of youth from nine different churches and communities across Virginia and West Virginia made spiritual decisions during Bluefield College’s recent ‘Winter Blast,’ an extreme sport and worship weekend that included skiing, concerts by Christian bands and…
Youth make spiritual decisions during Bluefield College’s ‘Winter Blast’
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Dozens of youth from nine different churches and communities across Virginia and West Virginia made spiritual decisions during Bluefield College’s recent ‘Winter Blast,’ an extreme sport and worship weekend that included skiing, concerts by Christian bands and…
Top 100 Virginia Baptist churches in gifts to Cooperative Missions listed
RICHMOND, Va. — First Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., led churches affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia last year in both in total Cooperative Missions giving and in contributions to the Virginia portion of Cooperative Missions gifts, according…
Church health center installs former Virginia Baptist leader as president
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A parade of friends and colleagues from past ministries helped to install Bill Wilson March 18 as second president of the Center for Congregational Health during a service at United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C….