By Diane Smith ‘We've been coming to Family Missions Week for six years. My son, who is 14, chose not to play All-Stars baseball this summer because he did not want to miss Family Missions Week. I came here because…
FIRST PERSON: Ukrainian children come to Tidewater
By Roy Smith Just 21 miles from the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, the world's worst civilian atomic disaster in history, children play in the little village of Kovpyta in rural Ukraine. From the looks of things, they…
Humor in the pew
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Church & People News for August 11, 2005
Staff Changes David Donahue, to Beale Memorial Church in Tappahannock, as pastor. Todd Estes, to Friendship Church, Chesterfield, as pastor. Jeff Rose, to Second Church, Martinsburg, W.Va., as pastor. Frank G. Schwall Jr. resigning as pastor of Corrottoman Church, Lancaster….
Part of the family: Virginia is elected new BWA member
By Robert Dilday and Marv Knox Virginia Baptists will continue their century of ministry with the Baptist World Alliance but in a new way-as full-fledged members of the world organization. At its meeting July 27, the BWA's General Council added…
ISSUES: The mission field goes to college
By Greg Alexander You have probably heard it said that “we are living in unique times.” Everyone's generation can lay claim to that phrase to some extent. But with respect to the youth and college culture of our day the…
CBF to revisit language in purpose statement
By Greg Warner The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will reconsider a recent change to its purpose statement that deleted language about Jesus Christ and evangelism. The revised statement was part of several amendments to the Fellowship's constitution and bylaws that were…
A church for people on the grow
Cover Story for July 21, 2005 In an unprecedented and historic act of generosity, on Sunday, June 12, the congregation of Weatherford Memorial Baptist Church voted to give its buildings located at 700 East Belt Boulevard to Saint Paul's Baptist…
Birmingham bound: 12,000 Baptists are heading to England for world congress
By Greg Warner At least 12,000 Baptists worldwide will make their way to Birmingham, England, for the Baptist World Congress July 27-31, apparently undeterred by recent terror attacks in London. Registration for the congress climbed above the 12,000 mark July…
FIRST PERSON: Community visits offer results
By Roy Smith Challenging the commonly-held belief that people who live in apartment communities are inaccessible, Chris McNairy, a missionary with the Southern Baptist Convention's North American Mission Board, recently led a group of pastors from the Portsmouth and Norfolk…
A place called hope
Cover Story for July 28, 2005 Helena, Arkansas, sits in one of the poorest counties in the United States. But thanks to two former Virginia Baptists motivated by their commitment to Christ, residents of this depressed community are finding hope…