Digital conservation of Dead Sea Scrolls started. Sixty years after their discovery, Israeli authorities have begun the process of conserving the Dead Sea Scrolls through digital technology. Israeli archaeologists said the project — now in its pilot stage — will…
SECOND OPINION: How do I spell trust? T-I-T-H-E
In the gospel, God has granted to believers many precious and magnificent promises, even that we may become partakers of the divine nature. And in this life he has promised to abundantly supply all our needs. Yet we live most…
Missions in a dangerous world
Imagine being invited to go on a short-term mission trip to a country closed to mission personnel and bordering a closed nation torn by civil war. The trip would facilitate ministry to refugees. Participants cannot disclose the underlying reason to…
Dellanna O’Brien, former WMU head, dies at 75
FRISCO, Texas (ABP) — Dellanna West O'Brien, who led the Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary Union through some of its most trying times, died Sept. 7 at age 75. She suffered what WMU officials described as “a massive cerebral bleed” Sept….
SECOND OPINION: Don’t use the ‘R’ word
Ben Stiller used to be one of my favorite comedians. He's lost my respect with his derogatory abuse of the word “retard” in his newest film, Tropic Thunder, which might better be named Topic Blunder. If you think my grief…
International worker advises: Avoid deception, but don’t show your hand
Deception never is an appropriate stance for mission workers, a former employee of both the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the International Mission Board insisted. But that's not the same as telling everything one knows or does, said Kent Parks, now…
Association’s soccer tournament attracts 200 Lynchburg-area Latinos
LYNCHBURG — Nearly 200 Latinos from the Lynchburg area gathered the Saturday before Labor Day in the city's Peaks View Park for a soccer tournament and picnic sponsored by the Lynchburg Baptist Association. Lynchburg association director of missions Robert Putt…
Work together
As one who once got kicked off a church committee for suggesting that the church maintain a balanced connection between the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Southern Baptist Convention, I read with interest the Aug. 21 letter from Russell H….
Should missionaries always tell the whole truth?
Christian workers who serve in countries closed to traditional missions outreach should tell the truth — but that doesn't necessarily mean full disclosure, some Christian ethicists and missiologists insist. “It is not correct to lie about the reason for being…
International Mission Board appoints 83 missionaries
JONESBORO, Ga. (BP) — Monkeys, rope swings and alligators were all part of Adam Huser's life growing up as a missionary kid in the jungles of Peru. Adam sensed many years ago that being a missionary may be his calling…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for September 18, 2008
STAFF CHANGES • Dennis L. Stamey, to Biltmore Church, Glen Allen, as pastor. • Bland Campbell, to Hull's Memorial Church, Fredericksburg, as pastor. • Bud Goude, to Gloucester Point Church, Gloucester Point, as pastor. • Donald Matheny,concluding his ministry as…
Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia elects Laura McDaniel new executive
LYNCHBURG — Despite weather forecasts predicting that Hurricane Hanna would reach Lynchburg simultaneously with the scheduled election of Laura McDaniel as the eighth executive leader of Virginia's Woman's Missionary Union, by midday the sun was shining brightly. The election and…