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…
IMB honors retiring missionaries
The International Mission Board honored 39 retiring Southern Baptist missionaries for their ministries July 17 during a special service of recognition at the IMB's Missionary Learning Center in Rockville. The missionaries represented a combined total of 1,215 years of sharing…
IMB trustees update global goals for church starting and baptisms
By Erich Bridges Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board updated the board's strategic goals and objectives during their July 18-20 meeting at the Missionary Learning Center in Rockville. The new strategy plan reflects major commitments the board…
Children’s Bible shapes faith
By Shawn Hendricks With a variety of Bible storybooks scattered around their house, Paul and Madge Vosteen, members of Derbyshire Baptist Church in Richmond, enjoy teaching their three children Scripture whenever they can. They contend it's never too early to…
FIRST PERSON: Why Family Missions Week?
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…
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…
It’s OK to seek help
Another View for July 28, 2005 By Michael Blackwell They looked like the all-American family: Jim, the smiling, smartly-dressed pastor of a loving church, and his wife, a short-order cook and concerned mother. The guidance and care they provided for…
Church & People News for July 28, 2005
Staff Changes Randy Bartley, to Hills Grove Church, Claudville, as pastor. Don McKinney, to Hume Church, Hume, as pastor. Joe Glass, resigning as pastor of Hampton Roads Church, Hampton, to relocate to Kentucky. Parke Deans, to Abingdon Church, Abingdon, as…