A variety of construction mission opportunities are available for Virginia Baptists this year, says the project ministries coordinator for the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. “If your men's group or church mission group is looking for a mission experience in Virginia…
U.N. report blames Sudan government for Darfur crisis, calls for prosecution
WASHINGTON (ABP) — While stopping short of labeling the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan's Darfur region “genocide,” a long-awaited United Nations report lays blame on the Sudanese government for creating the crisis. The report, released Jan. 31 by a five-member…
Paige Peak assumes communication post
A Richmond marketing and communications professional has been named assistant executive of communications for the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. Paige Peak, a member of Gayton Baptist Church in Richmond, has been marketing director at Short Pump Town Center in the…
Black Baptists hold historic meeting, unite on social, political issues
WASHINGTON (ABP) — Leaders of four historically black Baptist denominations closed a landmark joint meeting Jan. 28 by issuing a statement on several social and political issues affecting the African-American community. Meeting in Nashville over a four-day period, officials of…
What is the NABF? Virginia Baptist’s newest affiliation may need an introduction
By Robert Dilday Virginia Baptists' newest affiliation maybe the one with which they are least familiar. At its meeting in Orlando, Fla., Jan. 9-11, the North American Baptist Fellowship elected the Baptist General Assocation of Virginia as its newest member….
Volunteers in Sri Lanka see lasting pain beneath the smiles
DALLAS (ABP) — Sri Lanka looks like the aftermath of a fatal car wreck — the bodies are gone but the devastation remains as a vivid reminder of a series of tsunamis that slammed the island nation — according to…
BGAV leaders ask churches to fast and pray on March 12
Virginia Baptists' annual Co-Missioners Celebration, sponsored by Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia and the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, was cancelled last month and funds allocated for it were contributed to relief efforts in India. Now WMUV and Mission Board leaders…
Notre Dame provost named president of Wake Forest
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Nathan Hatch, provost of the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as the 13th president of Wake Forest University. Hatch, a historian who has spent his entire academic career at Notre Dame, was unanimously approved…
From beauty to ruin-and back again
Virginia Baptists witnessed first-hand the destructive power of December's tsunami as an assessment team visited India to determine how to meet some of the needs created when the disaster struck the subcontinent. As Kristin Fogg rode along a half-eroded road…