Contributions from Virginia Baptists for the Indian relief project through Feb. 24 with the following designations: • Southern Baptist Convention (IMB): $69,941.82 • Baptist World Alliance (BWAid): $16,549.36 • Cooperative Baptist Fellowship: $49,408.42 • Virginia Baptist Mission Board: $82,148.70 –…
INDIA & VIRGINIA BAPTISTS: Fisherman’s luck
By J. Murphy Terry There is a Midwest saying or idiom: “Fisherman's luck, wet butt and hungry gut.” Many of my friends are sportsmen, hunters and fishermen. They are serious about their interests. In fact, they are not pleasant to…
FIRST HAND: ‘There is so much to be done’
Volunteer describes experience among destroyed homes in Florida. By Alice Banks Our experience with the Virginia Baptist disaster relief team was our first mission trip but not the last. We served on teams that cooked for everyone, shopped for groceries…
Virginia Baptist volunteers return to area hit hard by Hurricane Charlie last Au
Some 130 Virginia Baptist volunteers spent the week of Feb. 7-11 on a disaster relief recovery trip to Punta Gorda, Fla. The group ministered in an area hit hard by Hurricane Charlie last August-and which they had visited just days…
Southern Seminary nixes pioneering curriculum for ‘biblical counseling’
By David Winfrey The Christian counseling department of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, which defined the role of pastoral counseling for generations of ministers and Christian counselors, will make a wholesale change by emphasizing “biblical counseling” over behavioral science. The move…
The closest to heaven
Another View for March 3, 2005 By Karen Anne Vassar In January I was given the opportunity to leave the country for the first time in my life. I traveled with students from the College of William and Mary and…
Georgia churches look to Virginia for affiliation by ‘affinity’
By Robert Dilday First Baptist Church of Rome, Ga., is considering ending its affiliation with the Georgia Baptist Convention and joining the Baptist General Association of Virginia, whose Richmond headquarters are 600 miles away. And two other north Georgia churches…
Supreme Court agrees to hear Oregon assisted-suicide case
WASHINGTON (ABP) — The U. S. Supreme Court agreed Feb. 22 to hear a case involving a state's assisted-suicide law, while turning away two other appeals on controversial topics. The justices announced they would hear the federal Justice Department's appeal…
D.C. event to explore importance of religious liberty, free press
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ABP) — First Amendment freedoms will be the focus of an April 14-15 event in the nation's capital, sponsored by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Associated Baptist Press and Baptists Today news journal. Freedom Forum executive…
Baylor search committee, advisory group named
WACO, Texas (ABP) — W. H. Brian Jr., an attorney in Amarillo, Texas, will chair the 11-member committee to seek a new president of Baylor University, the largest Baptist university in the world. Brian and 10 other regents were named…
Catholics most numerous, but Mormons gaining
NEW YORK (ABP) — The Roman Catholic Church, with 67 million members, remains the largest church in the United States, but the Mormons, the country's fastest-growing church, rose to the No. 4 slot with 5.5 million, according to 2003 church…
Georgia churches look to Virginia for affiliation by ‘affinity’
RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — First Baptist Church of Rome, Ga., is considering ending its affiliation with the Georgia Baptist Convention and joining the Baptist General Association of Virginia, whose Richmond headquarters are 600 miles away. And two other North Georgia…