The Southwest Virginia Christian Leadership Network announces a series of leadership training events for Fall 2006. The Network provides leadership training for ministers and laypersons in Southwest Virginia. Upcoming events include: • August 15: “Overcoming Overload,” Reed Island Springs Church,…
EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida’s garden
Dear Jimmy, I wish you could see our garden! I guess we've had just the right amount of rain because we've got an abundance. This morning I gathered a dishpan full of green beans and enough okra to fry up…
ANOTHER VIEW: Middle East peace: A Kingdom road map
The apostle Paul didn't know anything about Hezbollah or the Israeli defense ministry. But he did know something about hatred and hostility between irreconcilable people groups. And, more importantly, he knew something about the Kingdom of Christ. Everyone watching the…
South of the border
Several Virginia Baptists — including this columnist — found their way south of the border to Mexico City for the recent gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. In a sense, I once again was following in the footsteps of my…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for July 27, 2006
STAFF Carl Burger, to Mount Tabor Church, Keeling, as senior pastor. Roger Eunice, to Laurel Grove Church, Sutherlin, as senior pastor. Gary Tucker, to Shermont Church, Danville, as senior pastor. Michael Wright, resigning as pastor of Covington Church, Covington, to…
ANOTHER VIEW: All noncombatants are equal
The Bush administration's failure to act decisively for peacemaking in the war in Lebanon sadly resembles its failure to act decisively for the poor in Katrina-destroyed Louisiana. Beirut deserves our nation's best efforts at restraining Israel's disproportionate and indiscriminate attacks…
Moving out
Lowell and Eileen Vaught drove their grandson, Jonathan, to Farmville on Tuesday, July 11. They had made the trip from Troy before, but this day held a special excitement. Jonathan would not be returning with his grandparents. He would remain…
Virginia college ministry seeks names of first-year students on campuses
If we suppose, for the sake of argument, that an average person's life span is 77 years, and if we were to look for the most pivotal points in that person's life, what would they be? Some would argue that…
Poplar Spring students can’t get enough of Impact Virginia!
The students of Poplar Springs Baptist Church in Richmond love Impact Virginia! — not only have they attended this mission-minded work camp for the past 10 years, this summer they decided one week at Impact wasn't enough. On Monday, June…
Baptist groups in Europe, U.S. advocate cease-fire in Lebanon
WASHINGTON (ABP) — As American and European Baptist leaders called for an immediate cease-fire of hostilities between Israel and militant wings of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Bush administration dismissed any cease-fire that does not include disarming Hezbollah. Leaders of…
As U.S. missionaries are reported safe, Lebanese Baptists describe suffering
As United States Marines began evacuating Americans in earnest from a besieged Beirut July 19 and U.S. Baptist groups reported their missionaries in the region safe, a Lebanese Baptist leader said his people's suffering would seem “quite saddening and depressing”…
Former California Baptist educator, director dies of cancer
FRESNO, Calif. (ABP) — Valton Prince, who directed what is now the discipleship training ministry for the California Southern Baptist Convention, died of cancer July 22. He was 87. Prince worked for the California convention from 1965 to 1981. He…