The Latino Network of Virginia Baptists will sponsor up to 10 Latino youth from Virginia to attend the 2008 Baptist Youth World Conference in Leipzig, Germany, to be held July 30-Aug. 3 The conference will involve youth in fellowship, worship,…
Top 100 Virginia churches in per capita CM gifts
First Baptist Church in Gretna led the state last year in per capita contributions to Cooperative Missions. Rounding out the top 10 in per capita giving were First Baptist Church, Gretna; Journey Baptist Church, Roanoke; Leetown Baptist Church, Kearneysville; Atlantic…
A week in the life
Other buildings say that no one will ever read my journal, but I still keep writing because even a pile of bricks has dreams. I know Virginia Baptists care about missions and about stewardship, so my dream is that the…
Longtime Ga. Baptist communicator Diane Reasoner killed in car crash
DULUTH, Ga. (ABP) — A longtime employee of the Georgia Baptist Convention died in a car accident April 1 in Atlanta. Communications specialist Diane Reasoner, 57, had worked with the Georgia convention for 20 years. She and her husband, Richard,…
Growth in a small town
Darrell Henry, senior pastor of Oakwood Baptist Church (www.oakwoodbc.org) in Chickamauga, Ga., will be one of the featured breakout session presenters for the Virginia Baptist Mission Board's upcoming Pastor-Deacon-Church Leadership Retreat at Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center, May 11-12. Recently,…
Former leader Lyons, now paroled, rejected by National Baptist group
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (ABP) — Henry Lyons, the disgraced pastor and convicted felon who campaigned to become president of the Florida General Baptist Convention, was rejected April 4 by delegates at the state convention's annual meeting. Attendees at the meeting…
Meeting to focus on church music
Church muic takes the spotlight on Tuesday, May 22, with two special events to be held at Second Baptist Church in Richmond. In the afternoon, from 3:30-6, a Music Convocation will be sponsored by the Center for Baptist Heritage &…
Pennsylvania county settles lawsuit over faith-based prisoner program
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Pennsylvania county has settled a lawsuit over funding a prisoner-rehabilitation program that allegedly was filled with religious content. Bradford County, Pa., and attorneys representing six county taxpayers agreed to the settlement in federal court April 3,…
Praise in the Park set for July
Members of Linden Heights Baptist Church in Staunton are making plans for the fifth annual Praise in the Park. The kickoff will be Sunday, July 1. Gospel concerts will continue every Tuesday night during July and August. The free concerts…
CBF Air Force chaplain ministers to patients, staff at hospital in Iraq
ATLANTA (ABP) — At the U.S. Air Force Theater Hospital in Iraq, the sounds of Army Blackhawk and Marine Sea Knight helicopters are a call to duty for Air Force chaplain Shane Gaster. Gaster, one of more than 90 military…
Trustees, McKissic make peace
Texas pastor Dwight McKissic and his fellow trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have apparently decided to make peace, despite their previous public disagreements. In a March 27 statement, trustee chairman Van McClain said board leaders and McKissic had “jointly…
Researcher: Faith, family help minorities bridge education gap
WACO, Texas (ABP) — The academic achievement gap between Anglo students and their African-American or Hispanic peers disappears when the students have intact, religious families, a new study says. William Jeynes, a non-resident researcher for the Baylor University Institute for…