If you've never been to a “McDonald's Night,” consider yourself lucky. Now in theory, this is a “win-win” proposition: a fundraiser for my children's school and a night out of the kitchen. It has never been truer, alas, that the…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for November 16, 2006
Staff Changes Frank Duncan, to James Square Church, Lawrenceville, as pastor. Doug Frazier, to Bybee's Road Church, Troy, as pastor, effective Dec. 3. Stephen Byrd, to Glade Spring Church, Glade Spring, as interim pastor. Stephen Farrar, to First Church, Galax,…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries
Staff Changes Frank Duncan, to James Square Church, Lawrenceville, as pastor. Doug Frazier, to Bybee's Road Church, Troy, as pastor, effective Dec. 3. Stephen Byrd, to Glade Spring Church, Glade Spring, as interim pastor. Stephen Farrar, to First Church, Galax,…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries
Staff Changes Frank Duncan, to James Square Church, Lawrenceville, as pastor. Doug Frazier, to Bybee's Road Church, Troy, as pastor, effective Dec. 3. Stephen Byrd, to Glade Spring Church, Glade Spring, as interim pastor. Stephen Farrar, to First Church, Galax,…
Virginia Baptists adopt new budget, elect 2007 officers
Virginia Baptists adopted a $14.2 million budget to fund their ministries in 2007—a $100,000 increase over the current year's budget goal. The 1,053 messengers meeting in Virginia Beach also elected officers for the coming year, adopted four resolutions and commissioned…
Staunton attorney is new president of BGAV
A Staunton attorney is the Baptist General Association of Virginia's new president. Boyce Brannock, a member of First Baptist Church in Waynesboro, was elected Nov. 10 without opposition during the BGAV's annual meeting in Virginia Beach. Also elected were Joe…
S.C. messengers increase budget, elect CP supporter as president
TAYLORS, S.C. (ABP) — Messengers to the 186th annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention increased their budget by $600,000 for 2007 and elected a strong Cooperative Program supporter as president Nov. 15 in Taylors, S.C. For nine of…
Alabama Baptists approve budgets, ask Wal-Mart to reconsider
HOOVER, Ala. (ABP) — Wal-Mart's support of homosexuality, ethics in state government, and the humanitarian crisis in western Sudan surfaced as some of the top issues this year with Alabama Baptists. And Roger Willmore, pastor of Deerfoot Baptist Church in…
Organization at center of scandal in Valley will shut down
DALLAS (ABP) — A church-planting institute founded by Otto Arango — the central figure in a scandal involving misuse and mismanagement of Texas Baptist church-starting funds in the Rio Grande Valley — will cease to exist at the end of…