RICHMOND — The executive committee of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board has unanimously approved Wayne Faison to be the new team leader for the VBMB's courageous churches team, effective immediately. Wayne Faison Since 2001, Faison has served as the team's…
Holy Spirit conference decries lack of unity
ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP)—Pentecost and coming of the Holy Spirit are largely overlooked in Baptist churches, Pastor Dwight McKissic said at his Baptist Conference on the Holy Spirit. That lack of awareness is Baptists' loss, said McKissic and many of the…
Virginia Baptist Foundation awards grants totaling $185,000 to ministry partners
RICHMOND — The Virginia Baptist Foundation Inc. has awarded grants totaling $185,000 to eight Virginia Baptist ministry partners, according to Ronald C. Hall, president and CEO of the Foundation. The following recipients were awarded grants by the Foundation's board of…
Bible Society building bombed in Gaza incident
GAZA CITY, Palestine (ABP) — In the latest violence among warring Palestinian factions, a bomb severely damaged the Palestinian Bible Society building April 15 in Gaza City. The building, located in the city center, housed the Teacher's Bookshop, Gaza's only…
Baptist chaplain works in Iraq, ministers to those of all faiths
ATLANTA (ABP) — Alan Rogers has baptized soldiers in an Iraqi river under armed Marine protection. Needless to say, it was a quick job. “He courageously made a public proclamation of his faith in front of his squad as they…
CBF, ABC to co-sponsor two couples in unique commission
ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and American Baptist Churches USA have agreed to co-sponsor two missions couples in mission fields in the United States and Haiti. The missionaries are Marcia and Duane Binkley, who will be commissioned in…
Maciel named seventh president of Baptist University of the Americas
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (ABP) — René Maciel will become the seventh president of Baptist University of the Américas in San Antonio, Texas. Maciel, 48, currently serves as assistant dean of George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. He joined…
Analysis: For polarizing figure, Falwell leaves complex legacy
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Few other figures in the second half of the 20th century have proved as polarizing in American popular and political culture as Jerry Falwell, who died May 15 at the age of 73. But the outspoken preacher…
European conservatives say acceptance of gay marriage renders it meaningless
Yolanda King, oldest child of Martin Luther King Jr., dies
NEW YORK (ABP) — Yolanda King, the oldest child of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., died in Santa Monica, Calif., May 15. She was 51. Spokesmen have said the family thinks the cause of death was a heart…
Networks: New label or new way for Baptist churches to relate?
DALLAS (ABP) — Some associations of churches now call themselves “networks.” And their directors of missions insist it's more than just a trendy change in terminology. As missions director for a West Texas area that included both the Midland and…
Women caught in the crosshairs of global debate over families
WARSAW (ABP) — Critics of the World Congress on Families have called it homophobic and unrealistic. Fans, meanwhile, saluted the recent congress — the fourth such global gathering, which played to a sympathetic audience in conservative Poland — for proclaiming…