TEASER: Passport, Inc. will delay its annual Nov. 1 registration start date by one week due to massive power outages along the eastern seaboard. Registration for next summer’s camps is now scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 7. Bob Allen BIRMINGHAM,…
Looking for an undecided voter? Check the pulpit
(RNS) — Pollsters and politicians hunting for the rare and elusive undecided voter might want to train their sights on the pulpit. A whopping 22 percent of Protestant pastors haven’t settled on a presidential candidate, according to a survey released…
Power outages in Mid-Atlantic, Northeast delay Passport camp bookings for 2013 summer sessions
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — A youth ministry aligned with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has postponed the normal Nov. 1 registration for its popular Passport camps by one week in light of power outages in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast caused by…
Churches in Mid-Atlantic lashed as Sandy makes landfall, leaving millions flooded, without power
Churches joined thousands of other organizations across the Mid-Atlantic Monday in closing facilities and cancelling activities as Hurricane Sandy made landfall, leaving millions without power and flooding most coastal areas. Much of Ocean City, Md., was underwater as Hurricane Sandy…
OPINION: We’ve got skills
Church planter and consultant Doug Murren spoke at the NorthStar Church Network annual meeting last week. Doug’s the type of guy who tells it like it is in a warm, funny and extremely down to earth kind of way. You…
OPINION: A call for unity, love and prayer
Journal entries in response to our Virginia Baptist division Romans 13: 8-10 (NIRV) says, “Pay everything you owe. But you can never pay back all the love you owe each other. Those who love others have done everything the…
Churches in Mid-Atlantic lashed as Sandy makes landfall, leaving millions flooded, without power
Churches joined thousands of other organizations across the Mid-Atlantic Monday in closing facilities and cancelling activities as Hurricane Sandy made landfall, leaving millions without power and flooding most coastal areas. Much of Ocean City, Md., was underwater as Hurricane Sandy…
Minister’s move from six-figure fundraising position to community gardening was ‘tectonic’ shi
Minister’s move from six-figure fundraising position to community gardening was ‘tectonic’ shift Linda Brinson DENTON, N.C. — When Don Durham speaks of the “shift” in of his ministry, he’s talking more along the lines of a shift in tectonic plates…
D.C., N.Y. churches and pastors hunker down for storm
(ABP) — Baptist churches and ministries in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast were hunkered down and anxious Oct. 29 to see what happens when Hurricane Sandy arrives. “There’s been a heightened sense of anxiety because we are sitting here waiting,” said Amy…
Minister’s move from lucrative fundraising post to community gardening was ‘tectonic’ shift
DENTON, N.C. — When Don Durham speaks of the “shift” in his ministry, he’s talking more along the lines of a shift in tectonic plates that leads to an earthquake than of a routine change in jobs. In June 2010,…
D.C. convention cancels annual meeting, Baptist relief groups ramp up preparations as storm nears
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Sandy maintained its relentless path toward the East Coast, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention postponed its annual meeting and Baptist relief groups across the Mid-Atlantic ramped up preparations for recovery operations in the wake of…
D.C. convention cancels annual meeting, Baptist relief groups ramp up preparations as storm nears
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Sandy maintained its relentless path toward the East Coast, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention postponed its annual meeting and Baptist relief groups across the Mid-Atlantic ramped up preparations for recovery operations in the wake of…