CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be forced to recall missionaries from the field if donations to its annual Offering for Global Missions do not increase next year, CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal told the CBF Coordinating…
Latino Network focuses on Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Virginians
RICHMOND, Va. — In the spring of 2004, Latino pastors and church leaders in Virginia gathered at Sandston Baptist Church in Richmond’s eastern suburbs for the first Encuentro de Pastores y Lideres de las Iglesias Bautistas de Virginia. The event…
Westover children get creative for Pentecost
Children painting the paraments. For thousands of years people of faith have used special fabrics to decorate sanctuaries and outfit ministers. These dressings, known as paraments, can be functional, ceremonial and celebratory. They often enrich the worship of God by…
Westover children get creative for Pentecost Sunday
Children painting the paraments. For thousands of years people of faith have used special fabrics to decorate sanctuaries and outfit ministers. These dressings, known as paraments, can be functional, ceremonial and celebratory. They often enrich the worship of God by…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • Rand Forder, to Main Street Church, Emporia, as interim pastor. • Geoffrey H. Fuller, to First Church, Hopewell, as minister to students and families. • Glen Stinnett, to Trinity Church, Martinsville, as minister to youth, children and…
OPINION: The Great Commission Resurgence of the SBC and Virginia Baptists
This is an interesting time in denominational life in North America and even Southern Baptists are feeling the affect of huge changes. In Orlando, at the Southern Baptist Convention, the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force reported that baptism rates among…
VIRAL SIGNS: It goes without saying
Have you learned that nothing “goes without saying” anymore? That sobering truth runs counter to our tendency to think there are some universally shared assumptions that all of us agree upon. We may think that everyone agrees with us about…
OUT LOUD
“God is my assignment editor.” Unnamed obituary editor The quote was included at Overheardinthenewsroom.com, a web site about funny sayings overheard in newsrooms. (RNS) “I prayed multiple times a day, sang hymns with emotion and tears, felt each time that…
Texas church fighting hunger in its area one child at a time
DECATUR, Texas (ABP) — When Ken May and Candy Burden learned that one child in 10 in their area goes to bed hungry every night, they decided to do something about it. Every Wednesday this summer, volunteers from First Baptist…
VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Need for a name change
I was overjoyed to read your editorial in the May 27 issue concerning our Baptist name [Herald, May 27]. I have been playing that same tune for many years and it is nice to hear it from someone else. The…
VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Grateful for support
I would like to respond to the article “Death in a minister’s family (Herald, June 10). After over 41 years of marriage my wife Judy passed away March 22, 2010. Since I was called to vocational ministry after our marriage…
VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: No amnesty for illegal immigrants
It was disappointing to read Bob Allen’s article titled “Conservative evangelicals call for immigration reform” in the May 27 Religious Herald. The article recommended immigration reform and those quoted recommended providing illegals presently in the U.S. what they call “an…