My favorite time of year! I am just like a little kid when more than 800 daffodils and tulips poke their heads up in my yard each spring. Every fall my wife says “Jim, don’t you plant any more bulbs this…
At JMU, emptying trash becomes sacrifical act for Baptist students
HARRISONBURG, Va. — Campus outreach events for Baptist collegiate ministries at James Madison University include a variety of different activities, and this year is no exception. To add to the variety and uniqueness of our organization, however, we have tried…
Richmond church marks 25 years of ties to nearby retirement center
Pictured are (left to right) Pastor Paul Lee, Rose Spradlin, Nellie Walters, Anna Lee, Anne Potts, Evelyn Wolcson, Brittany Csaky, Amy Kennedy and Martha Alvis. RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Boyles Group at Lyndale Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., and…
Youth at Smithfield church package 30,000 meals for Haitian relief
Students with some of the meals packaged. SMITHFIELD, Va. — Smithfield Baptist Church in Smithfield, Va., hosted a Stop Hunger Now event March 12-14 in conjunction with a youth missions emphasis, Youth Missions Coming Alive. Students and adults from churches…
OUT LOUD
“The church in the United States can offer a message of hope and reconciliation to a nation that is deeply divided by politlcal and cultural differences. Too often, however, we have reflected the political divisions of our culture rather than…
Caribbean Baptist Fellowship installs new leaders
MONTEGA BAY, Jamaica — The Caribbean Baptist Fellowship, one of Virginia Baptists’ international mission partners, installed William Thompson as its new president and Everton Jackson as executive secretary/treasurer during the organization’s General Assembly March 18-21 in Jamaica. The assembly of…
HERITAGE: Miss Eliza comes to Virginia
The telephone caller was a trust officer in an Atlanta bank. She was administering an estate and was attempting to find the proper home for a physical object, an old portrait which had special meaning to its deceased owner. After…
Church, retirement center celebrate bond
Pictured are (left to right) Pastor Paul Lee, Rose Spradlin, Nellie Walters, Anna Lee, Anne Potts, Evelyn Wolcson, Brittany Csaky, Amy Kennedy and Martha Alvis. RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Boyles Group at Lyndale Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., and…
Smithfield youth work to stop hunger
Students with some of the meals packaged. SMITHFIELD, Va. — Smithfield Baptist Church in Smithfield, Va., hosted a Stop Hunger Now event March 12-14 in conjunction with a youth missions emphasis, Youth Missions Coming Alive. Students and adults from churches…
Conservative Baptist activist Nancy Schaefer dead in apparent murder
CLARKESVILLE, Ga. (ABP) — Nancy Schaefer, a conservative Christian activist and former two-term state senator in Georgia, was found dead with her husband March 26 in their north Georgia home in what is being described as a murder-suicide. Nancy Schaefer…
Virginia Woman’s Missionary Union helps launch the first WMU of India
RICHMOND, Va. — Since its beginning in 1872, Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia has had a heart for those who needed to hear the gospel of Christ. But last month WMUV attained a new level of global partnership when it…
Expert: Churches might come out of recession with clearer fiscal focus
WINCHESTER, Va. (ABP) — Tough economic times may actually result in stronger, healthier and smarter churches and Christian ministries, according to Dan Busby, president of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. In times of economic stress, contributors prioritize giving. So,…