The venerable Dover Baptist Church is located in the countryside of Goochland just off picturesque Highway 6 (which in the City of Richmond is better known as Patterson Avenue) and under the shade trees there has been an abundance of…
BC to open newest residence hall in August
BLUEFIELD — Bluefield College will open the doors of East River Hall, its first new residence hall in more than 30 years, with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house Aug. 7 at 11:30 a.m. For the past 10 months,…
Leesburg couple faces harrowing experience as hostages in their own home
LEESBURG — Looking down the muzzle of a pistol held by a stranger in your own home changes the day’s priorities. It certainly did for Bob and Frances Belote on Friday, July 10. Both in their 80s, they had just…
VIRGINIA BRIEFS
Virginia Baptists log hours in Louisiana. Since October 2007, more than 1,300 Virginia Baptist volunteers have helped with rebuilding efforts in and around Port Sulphur, La., which was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Assuming an average eight hours of work over…
Looking for leaders: What’s a church to do?
When the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship held its general assembly recently in Houston, leaders documented a quiet shift that went almost unnoticed among the 2,000 people attending the annual meeting. For the first time, graduates of the theological schools that partner…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • Melvin Bradshaw, to New Hope Church, Skipwith, as interim pastor. • Nabeel Qureshi, to Jackson Memorial Church, Chesapeake, as minister of students and singles. • Daniel Vanover, resigning as youth director at First Church, Appalachia. ORDINATION •…
Pastor: National Guard, hospitals were prepared for church-bus crash
SHREVEPORT, La. (ABP) — Both a National Guard unit that responded at the scene of a July 12 church-bus accident and the hospital where most of the victims were taken had recently received training for situations similar to what actually…
Leland Center moves into Baptist World Alliance building
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) — A Baptist seminary serving students in the region of the nation’s capital has moved in with an organization that serves as Baptists’ international umbrella group. The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has moved its…
Anti-gay church says God hates the world
TOPEKA, Kan. (ABP) — An independent Baptist church best known for picketing military funerals with placards proclaiming “God hates fags” and “God hates America” is going global. Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. — whose 75-member congregation is composed almost…
Researcher says hypocrisy not biggest obstacle to evangelism
A former seminary professor, Thom Rainer has led LifeWay Christian Resources since 2006. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) — People who don’t attend church are not too bothered by what they view as hypocrisy in the church, but there are some…
Leland Center moves into Baptist World Alliance building
FALLS CHURCH — Baptists’ presence in this Northern Virginia suburb just got bigger. The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has moved its main campus from Arlington to Falls Church, where it is leasing two floors in the Baptist World…
Longtime denominational worker Ernest Mosley dies
GASTONIA, N.C. (ABP) — Ernest Mosley, a longtime denominational worker who served the Southern Baptist Convention during a tumultuous period when two factions vied for control of nation’s second-largest faith group, died July 8 after a nearly year-long battle with…