“We are excited! This is the first for time we've offered a children's ministry tour for our churches!” says Diane Smith, children's ministry strategist with Virginia Baptist Mission Board. “We're headed north to Minneapolis, Minnesota.” “We're planning a variety of…
FIRST PERSON: Church teams with community for service
I did not want to do it. I had just gotten off the phone with my 40 Days of Community coordinator, Cynthia May. Our church, Hatcher Memorial Baptist in Richmond, was in the beginning stages of planning this campaign, and…
Don’t miss the power of God
First of two parts With a twinkle in his eyes, Sandor Szenczy (pronounced Shandor Senchy) asks, “Can anything good come out of Hungary?” The ministry he founded 10 years ago is proof than it can and does. Starting with a…
Virginia Baptists ‘return to the mountain’ to celebrate Eagle Eyrie’s 50th anniv
Several hundred Virginia Baptists made the familiar summertime trek up Locke Mountain to Eagle Eyrie Baptist Conference Center last month — this time to celebrate the camp's 50th anniversary. Music and memories were the focus of a four-hour celebration in…
Press statement from WMUV
At a regularly scheduled board meeting in June 2006, the WMU of Virginia board of trustees received and prayerfully reviewed stated concerns from a group of women in a local church regarding personnel issues and organizational structure. While the board…
WMUV trustees form panel to look at personnel issues
Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia has named an “independent, ad hoc” committee to address concerns raised by some Virginia Baptists about WMUV's personnel policies and organizational structure. WMUV's board of trustees approved the committee at its regular meeting June 3,…
EDITORIAL: I wish you could have been there
Editorial for July 13, 2006 By Jim White Editor I wish you could have been in Mexico City for the General Council of the Baptist World Alliance. Actually, some of you were! I found the week-long annual gathering of the…
Fifty years and counting
Fifty years ago this month a boy walked down the aisle at a church in his hometown. It was a long walk which continues to the present. It was the walk which winds through the Kingdom of God. The boy…
Optimistic about SBC
Here I am reading Jim White's editorial regarding the SBC meeting in Greensboro and reflecting on my own experience at the convention. I am one of those people Jim mentioned in his opening paragraph who thinks the 2006 convention is…
ANOTHER VIEW: Best plans are useless without God’s creativity
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet, Act 1, Scene V Shakespeare should have been a missiologist. Hamlet's cautionary words apply to most human endeavors, particularly mission outreach. Cross-cultural…
Rick Warren invited to speak in North Korea
North Korean officials have invited best-selling author and Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren to preach to at least 15,000 people in the communist country, a spokesperson from Warren's Saddleback Church confirmed July 5. The spokesperson told Associated Baptist Press that…
Endowed gift establishes ABP Puckett Internship
RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) — For decades, R. Gene Puckett was a leader in Baptist journalism — as editor of North Carolina's Biblical Recorder for 16 years and earlier as Baptist state paper editor in Maryland and Ohio and managing editor…