When my automobile rested under the oak trees at Antioch Baptist Church in Charlotte County, Va., it was pelted with giant acorns. They rained like bullets and a person had to run fast to avoid a crack on the head….
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • Bill Gohmert, to Red Lane Church, Powhatan, as pastor. • Jeffrey Wright, resigning as pastor of Moffett Memorial Church, Danville. SUMMER CAMP: A group of youth from Calvary Baptist Church, Lovingston, attended the Master’s Inn summer camp…
Virginia Baptist budget proposal for 2011 reflects a 4.6 percent cut
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Baptists will be asked next month to adopt a budget for 2011 that is $650,000 lower than current budget allocations, bringing the spending plan closer to anticipated receipts next year. The proposed 2011 budget of $13,350,000,…
Affinity document could guide Virginia Baptists’ future relationships
RICHMOND, Va. — A document to be considered at next month’s annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia could provide a guide for Virginia Baptists’ future, if adopted by messengers. A proposal from an affinity study committee, appointed…
Va. Baptist board approves document to counter ‘revisionist’ view of history
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Baptist Mission Board has approved a “2010 History Project” to publish a document to correct “certain influential versions of American history [which] … mistakenly minimize or deny the grounding in this nation’s history of the…
Seminary celebrates 100 years on campus
FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary celebrated a milestone of 100 years at its current location with a chapel service Oct. 19 focusing on its founder, B.H. Carroll, and his successor L. R. Scarborough, who led the…
ABP honors founders
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A founder of Associated Baptist Press recounted the organization’s history Oct. 21 as an effort to maintain a free press in Baptist life. Events in North Carolina earlier in the same day served as a reminder that freedom in…
ABP honors journalist Charles Overby, other founders of group
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A founder of Associated Baptist Press recounted the organization’s history Oct. 21 as an effort to maintain a free press in Baptist life. Events in North Carolina earlier in the same day served as a reminder that freedom in…
ABP honors founders
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — A founder of Associated Baptist Press recounted the organization’s history Oct. 21 as an effort to maintain a free press in Baptist life. Events in North Carolina earlier in the same day served as a reminder that freedom in…
Baptist newspaper editor resigns
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – The editor of North Carolina Baptists' newspaper has agreed to resign his post to prevent a threatened motion to defund the publication from being made at the upcoming Baptist State Convention of North Carolina annual meeting. Norman Jameson…
N.C. Baptist newspaper editor resigns amid defunding threat
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — The editor of North Carolina Baptists' newspaper has agreed to resign his post to prevent a threatened motion to defund the publication from being made at the upcoming Baptist State Convention of North Carolina annual meeting. Norman…
Who’s in Charge? Wide diversity in church governance among Baptists
(ABP) — Baptist churches across the board agree — Jesus Christ is the head of the church. But when it comes to ways Christians discern Christ’s will for their particular congregation, handle its day-to-day administrative chores and make decisions about…