FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABP) — When churches fall on hard economic times, one of the first thoughts is often to reduce the amount they give to missions. A Kentucky Baptist pastor believes they should do the opposite. “I think churches are…
HERITAGE: Salute to Hargrave
On Sept. 15, 1909 — exactly a century ago next week — Hargrave Military Academy opened its doors to receive boys whose parents desired that they be educated in a Christian environment. From 1975-2007, girls were admitted as day students….
OUT LOUD
“It looks like Afghans are created by God to be killed by human machines.” NIAMATULLA The 30-year-old high school teacher from Kandahar, who like many Afghans used only one name, was speaking after a bombing in his city that killed…
Taking ownership of the call
Two years into a three-year strategic partnership with a church in Grenada, Manly Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington noticed a change in its members’ attitudes toward mission. “We took a team of 15 last year and 11 this year to…
‘Keeping light on their feet’ is winning formula for Richmond youth choir
RICHMOND — Staying light on its feet and being ready to sing at a moment’s notice has been a formula for success, says the director of one church’s youth choir, which spent a week this summer in Washington and New…
447 children reached by Klothes 4 Kids in longtime Lynchburg ministry
LYNCHBURG — It’s the time of year when newspapers are heavy with back-to-school sales flyers and parents are found wandering the aisles of stores with school supply lists in hand. Getting children ready for school means finding each item on…
Episcopal bishop defends ‘heresy’ remarks
NEW YORK (ABP) — The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church USA is defending a widely criticized sermon she preached at the group's recent general convention in which she labeled propositional Christianity a heresy. In an Aug. 27 column in…
BTSR graduates — with youth — return to campus to ‘lend a hand’
The BTSR graduates and members of their Charlotte team posed on the steps of a seminary building after a long day working on the grounds. (Photos by Lindsay Marsh) RICHMOND — The grounds at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond underwent…
From the ashes: A new Poplar Springs rises after devastating fire
RICHMOND — The group of beleaguered church members huddled together watching their church burn would never have believed that something good could come from so great a tragedy. But from the ashes of the old has sprung a beautiful new…
BGAV’s second vice president takes pastorate in North Carolina
FRANKLIN — Richard Childress, second vice president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has assumed the pastorate of New Hope Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. Childress Childress, who had been pastor of Franklin Baptist Church in Franklin, assumed his…
Seminary president, two Virginia pastors slated to speak at BGAV
RICHMOND — A Chicago-area seminary president and two Virginia pastors are slated to be keynote speakers this fall at Connect:2009, the annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Alistair Brown The two-day meeting, set for Nov. 17-18 at…
BTSR graduates return to campus to ‘lend a hand’
RICHMOND — The grounds at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond underwent a massive sprucing this summer as six 2005 graduates of the school — with a cadre of youth in tow — returned to campus to “lend a hand to…