Dear Jimmy, Since you know all about Bluebell Baptist and some of the tricks we’ve pulled through the years, you won’t be surprised by this letter except in how it ends. It all started when Brother Bobby announced this mornin’…
SECOND OPINION: Don’t fiddle with Jefferson’s statute
Stephen Strehle is way off base in his Dec. 18 Religious Herald essay calling for the repeal of Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and substituting a new one. The U. S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights were…
Columbia Church challenges members to ‘Spend Yourself’
Jim Baucom Although many pastors would be content if their churches met in three different congregations with 14 separate services using seven different languages, Jim Baucom, pastor of Columbia Baptist Church in Falls Church, challenged the church leaders to “take…
FIRST PERSON: The price of coffee
Cindy Fisher FALLS CHURCH—“$2.19,” the cashier says after I place my order for a small iced coffee. I’m tempted to order an iced latte instead, but that would bump up the price by a dollar. I choose to stick with…
$10.1 million gift accelerates barracks building at FUMA
FORK UNION—Fork Union Military Academy has received a gift of $10.1 million, allowing the Virginia Baptist-affiliated school to begin construction on a new barracks facility—a project initiated three years ago. The donors are Jerry and Laura Jacobson of Sugarcreek, Ohio,…
Virginia Baptist Foundation awards grants to six ministries
RICHMOND—The Virginia Baptist Foundation has awarded grants totaling $40,000 to six Virginia Baptist ministry partners according to Ronald C. Hall, president and CEO of the foundation. “We are able to award these dollars due to the Christian stewardship of others,”…
EDITORIAL: The fires of persecution
I received the following email late last night. Dear Brothers, I have cancelled my program because of Orissa Crises! Please pray for Orissa Believers because they are now under bad situations and many are killed by VHP (Viswa…
12-year-old Virginia Baptist girl starts web site for ‘girls like her’
MECHANICSVILLE — Not many business owners can boast about being featured in a cable television show on CNBC with Donny Deutsch. But 12-year-old Taylor Ramirez can. At least she could if she were inclined to boast. On Aug. 21,…
Baptist youth from Virginia, Hungary travel together to Leipzig conference
What began as a cost-saving effort — a shared 15-hour, two-day bus trip — for two groups trying to get to Leipzig, Germany, for the Baptist World Alliance youth conference resulted in a unique time of fellowship for youth from…