(ABP) — After a decade of steady decline, attendance at the Southern Baptist Convention is expected to jump this year, amid ripples of unrest with the current leadership and perhaps the first openly contested presidential election since 1994. Several estimates…
Virginia Baptist detective killed in line of duty
Vicky Armel made a life-changing decision about two years ago, and she wanted everyone to know it. “She kept a picture of her baptism on her desk. She was excited about her faith,” reports her pastor, Mark Jenkins, pastor of…
Volunteer reception offers chance to say ‘thank you’
The Virginia Baptist Mission Board together with Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia held a reception May 4 to thank and honor volunteers who donate hundreds of hours at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center. The event was hosted by volunteer coordinator…
Sanders named minister at UVA
Leanne Sanders has been named full-time Baptist collegiate minister at the University of Virginia. Since January, Sanders has been serving in the position as a contract worker. “We are delighted that her position is now permanent,” said Susan McBride, team…
Leland Center gets $50,000 grant from Foundation
The John Leland Center for Theological Studies in Falls Church has a received a $50,000 grant from the Virginia Baptist Foundation. “Since its inception in 1923, discerning Virginia Baptists, often as their final act of Christian stewardship, have made outright,…
Conference inspires pastors, deacons
The inspirational preaching of Roger Roller and the musical skills of Drexel Rayford and Mark Andrist blended beautifully to produce a delightful yet thoroughly challenging call to share Christ at the Pastor, Deacon and Church Leader Conference held at Eagle…
EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida sees a movie
Dear Jimmy, I hope you're asittin' down 'cause you just won't believe what I'm afixin' to tell ya. Wonder of wonders, Uncle Orley actually took me to the movie house in town to see a picture show. If memory serves,…
ANOTHER VIEW: CP or not CP?
The Cooperative Program, started in 1925 as a cooperative fund-raising venture between the Baptist state conventions and the Southern Baptist Convention, appears to be in a state of flux. The report of an ad hoc committee appointed to study and…
A vision to fulfill
There is a grainy old photograph which pictures the very first assembly at Eagle Eyrie, the Virginia Baptist assembly and conference center near Lynchburg. The photograph shows a stark contrast between architecture and people. It was taken inside English Hall,…
Church & People News for April 27, 2006
Staff Change Robert “Bob” Bunn, to Holland Church, Suffolk, as full-time pastor. Quentin T. Madden, resigning as pastor of North Riverside Church, Newport News, to accept the pastorate of First Church, St. Simons Island, Georgia. Albert A. Peverall, to Fox…
IMB trustees elect former employee as chair, wrangle with Burleson again
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (ABP) –Trustees of the International Mission Board elected John Floyd, a former top administrator of the Southern Baptist agency, as trustee chairman — raising questions about a possible conflict of interest. Meanwhile, outgoing chairman Tom Hatley leveled additional…
Church & People News for May 4, 2006
Staff Changes Rodney Jenkins, to Pine Grove Church, Petersburg, as pastor. Tom Collins, resigning as pastor of Central Church, Church Road. Brad Steele, to West Side Church, Harrisonburg, as worship pastor. Ray P. Goude Sr., to Corrottoman Church, Lancaster, as…