The emerging leaders team of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board recently visited Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Susan McBride, emerging leaders team leader, led a chapel service, where she urged students to “see clearly the ministry to which God is…
Virginia church ranks 2nd in gifts
Clifton Baptist Church in Clifton ranked second among Southern Baptist Convention churches in per capita giving to the 2004 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, collected by the SBC's International Mission Board. Clifton Church recorded 15 members collecting $24,966.87. Their per capita…
New issue out of Heritage Seekers
The Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies announces publication of the fourth issue of Heritage Seekers magazine, which is designed for children in 3rd through 6th grades and their parents. The new issue features the story of Lott Cary and…
BGAV is movement of mission, not institution, says new board chair
The Baptist General Association of Virginia is a “movement of mission and ministry,” not an institution, Bert Browning said last week following his election as chair of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. “Jesus Christ did not found any institutions and…
Updated: Execution deadline nears for Baptist, 3 other Christian hostages in Iraq
WASHINGTON (ABP) — As everyone from Jesse Jackson to a radical Muslim cleric pleaded Dec. 7 for mercy, abductors holding a British Baptist and three Christian peace activists hostage in Iraq reportedly extended the deadline for their demands to be…
Updated: N.C. moderates ponder alternatives to support colleges, agencies
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – Some moderate Baptists in North Carolina are talking seriously about alternative ways to support the state's Baptist colleges and institutions, a move that could divert millions in contributions from the conservative-controlled Baptist State Convention of North…
IMB appoints 89 new missionaries, disqualifies those who use ‘private prayer lan
By Jim White with BP and ABP International Mission Board trustees voted to appoint 89 new missionaries during their Nov. 14-17 meeting in Huntsville, Ala., and learned that Southern Baptists last year took the gospel to 137 previously unengaged people…
Christianity moving rapidly among one people group in India
By Mark Kelly International Mission Board God has moved so dramatically among one Last Frontier people group in South Asia that the Southern Baptist missionaries working among them since 1997 are planning to shift their focus to another people without…
Who was there? A glance at messengers attending the BGAV meeting
Continuing the conversation: An interview with Fred Craddock
Fred Craddock is the Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament Emeritus in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University and one of the most widely-known preachers in America. He currently is a minister of Cherry Log Christian…
Just plain dumb
Editorial for December 8, 2005 By Jim Smith Politicians do some really dumb things. Last week, Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., admitted that he had taken $2.4 million in bribes. Dumb. I hope they throw the book at him! But…
La. Baptists reject officers, motions offered by conservative faction
Messengers to the Louisiana Baptist Convention's annual meeting Nov. 14-15 surprised some observers by rejecting candidates and causes endorsed by the state's conservative political group. Messengers voted to amend a budget-cutting proposal that would have had a disproportionate impact on…