Pewboy’s perpetually glad countenance, characterized by a wide and happy smile, had given way to a more somber and pensive visage. With brow furrowed and chin resting on clasped hands he gave the appearance of a chess player methodically searching…
HERITAGE: New beginnings
Lacy Milton Ritter was painfully young in June 1906 when he began his pastorate of Blackstone Baptist Church in Southside Virginia. The young bachelor came with limited pastoral experience; and within a week of the new beginnings between pastor and…
Long-time Virginia Baptist leader funds ministry preparation
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Students studying for a career in Christian ministry now have access to even more financial aid to help fulfill their calling, thanks to a scholarship established at Bluefield College by alumnus Danny Agee and his wife, Carolyn….
Chowan University’s SeniorFest 2011 to feature cartoonist
MURFREESBORO, N.C. — Marcus Hamilton, award-winning cartoonist of Dennis the Menace, and Christian humorist pastor Roger Hensley, will be featured guests at this year’s SeniorFest on Thursday, March 31, at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, N.C. The event will include lunch,…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • John Boyles, to Colonial Avenue Church, Roanoke, as pastor. • Bill Wheeler, to First Church, Lynchburg, as worship pastor. • Ed Haynes, to New Hope Church, Mine Run, as pastor. • Randy Mathis, concluding his ministry as…
OPINION: Not on our watch
We all know that the church in North America is struggling. Every day we read about denominational staff cut backs and budget woes. Religious schools and institutions are suffering. And yet we in the church believe God is not through with…
ASK THE ARCHITECT: Master planning — Looking at a church’s site
Today we turn a corner in the series of articles that I have contributed thus far. Previous writings have focused on the start-up activities of a building program — the formation of a building committee, an overview of the process,…
OUT LOUD
“If we were to absolutely be honest with ourselves, how much time do we actually spend — even in the lives and programming of many of our churches — in teaching anyone … anything substantial about and from the Word…
BTSR considering merger with Chowan University
MURFREESBORO, N.C. (ABP) – Cash-strapped Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is considering a merger with Chowan University, a 162-year-old North Carolina Baptist school 99 miles south of the seminary’s Richmond, Va., campus, in hopes of solving lingering financial problems made…
BTSR considering merger with North Carolina’s Chowan University
MURFREESBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is considering a merger with Chowan University, a 162-year-old North Carolina Baptist school 99 miles south of the seminary’s Richmond, Va., campus, in hopes of solving lingering financial problems made worse…
Oeita Bottorff, SBC moderate leader, dies
DALLAS (ABP) – A key leader in the moderate response to the Southern Baptist Convention inerrancy controversy in the 1980s died Feb. 25 after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. Oeita Theunissen, 87, known professionally and in church leadership as…
HBU trustees plan to reconsider non-Baptists on board
HOUSTON (ABP) — Houston Baptist University trustees plan to revisit the matter of allowing non-Baptist Christians on the school’s governing board. In a Feb. 27 e-mail to directors of the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board, Associate Executive Director…