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…
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….