RICHMOND, Va. — Bob Bass, a Richmond layman long active in Virginia Baptist life, will be nominated in November as first vice president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia — which, if elected, could result in his nomination for…
Cheerleaders’ Bible banners raise community controversy
FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. (ABP) — Hundreds of people gathered Sept. 30 in northern Georgia to support cheerleaders at a public high school ordered to stop using religious messages on banners carried on the field during football games. Cheerleaders at Lakeview-Fort…
BGCT leaders again recommend reduced budget for 2010
DALLAS (ABP) — For the second consecutive year, the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board approved a budget proposal reduced from the previous year. Messengers to the BGCT annual meeting, scheduled for Nov. 16-17 in Houston, will consider a…
Worship praise teams hone musical skills at weekend workshop
John Ivins (right) and the John Ivins Worship Band lead worship in a variety of settings around the world. (Photo by Michael Patch) LYNCHBURG, Va. — Contemporary worship leaders who are selecting praise team members should aim for an “OK”…
Baptists appeal for aid after typhoon hits Southeast Asia
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Baptists in the Philippines are appealing to the global Baptist community for donations as they gear up for relief efforts in the wake of a Sept. 26 typhoon that has killed 300 people there and…
Baptists in Bahamas protest nation’s rising murder rate
NEW PROVIDENCE, Bahamas (ABP) — Bereaved families, government leaders and concerned members of the community gathered Sept. 27 at a Baptist church in the Bahamas to draw attention to rising murder rates there. While regarded by most Americans as a…
Baptists appeal for aid after typhoon hits Southeast Asia, killing 300
Filipinos clamber onto a roof to escape floodwaters dumped by Typhoon Ketsana in the Quezon City suburb of Manila Sept. 26. (BP Photo/Jay Directo/AFP) FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Baptists in the Philippines are appealing to the global Baptist community…
Baptists appeal for aid after typhoon hits Southeast Asia
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — Baptists in the Philippines are appealing to the global Baptist community for donations as they gear up for relief efforts in the wake of a Sept. 26 typhoon that has killed 300 people there and…
Update: Currie resigns as Texas Baptists Committed leader
SAN ANGELO, Texas (ABP) — Texas Baptists Committed, formed as a political organization two decades ago to resist a “fundamentalist takeover” of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, has accepted the resignation of its executive director, David Currie. Currie, a…
North Carolina pastor’s death believed to be self-inflicted
HICKORY, N.C. (ABP) — Baptists in North Carolina reacted with shock to the apparent suicide of a well-liked pastor active in denominational life Sept. 27. Sandy Ridge Baptist Church leaders said Pastor David Treadway, a member of the Baptist State…
Broad coalition of Baptists helps build N.C. immigrant family home
Nicolae Buzulan, right, works with Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity volunteers for a wall-raising in January. Buzulan, his wife, and four children closed on the house in July after 10 Baptist churches provided the other volunteer labor on the home….
Baptist disaster-relief groups assessing response to Georgia floods
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Baptist General Association of Virginia and other Baptist groups are gearing up to respond to catastrophic flooding that has afflicted the Atlanta area and other parts of…