By Jeff Brumley Baptist disaster-response coordinators from Florida to Virginia are keeping an eye on Sandy as the killer hurricane tracks north, while actively responding to the mayhem she has caused to islands in the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans. In…
D.C. convention cancels annual meeting, Baptist relief groups ramp up preparations as storm nears
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Sandy maintained its relentless path toward the East Coast, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention postponed its annual meeting and Baptist relief groups across the Mid-Atlantic ramped up preparations for recovery operations in the wake of…
D.C. convention cancels annual meeting, Baptist relief groups ramp up preparations as storm nears
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Sandy maintained its relentless path toward the East Coast, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention postponed its annual meeting and Baptist relief groups across the Mid-Atlantic ramped up preparations for recovery operations in the wake of…
D.C. convention cancels annual meeting, Baptist relief groups ramp up preparations as storm nears
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Sandy maintained its relentless path toward the East Coast, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention postponed its annual meeting and Baptist relief groups across the Mid-Atlantic ramped up preparations for recovery operations in the wake of…
D.C. convention cancels annual meeting, Baptist relief groups ramp up preparations as storm nears
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Sandy maintained its relentless path toward the East Coast, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention postponed its annual meeting and Baptist relief groups across the Mid-Atlantic ramped up preparations for recovery operations in the wake of…
CBF kick-starts 2012 Task Force plan
By Bob Allen Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship chose a fast track for implementation of a re-visioning of the 21-year-old movement adopted last summer, approving a timeline Oct. 25 to propose a new constitution and bylaws, nominees for a…
CBF headed to Cuba with eyes on U.S.
By Jeff Brumley Baptist disaster response coordinators from Florida to Virginia are keeping an eye on Sandy as the killer hurricane tracks north, while actively responding to the mayhem she has caused to islands in the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans….
Experts: prayer a top need in tragedy
By Jeff Brumley A deadly, demoralizing bombing in Beirut on Oct. 19 prompted a Lebanese Baptist leader to issue a worldwide call for prayer – and prayer alone. The blast killed eight people, including a high-ranking government official, and wounded…
Vote on CBF head set for February
By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council will vote in February on a successor to Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, who retired in June, according to an announcement at the council’s Oct. 25-26 meeting at First Baptist Church in…
OPINION: A church of sinners or a church of saints
Have we as Virginia Baptists reverted to the early church schismatic movement of Donatism? Perhaps it is not surprising since early Anabaptists were accused of the very same. It was the Donatist schism that emerged in the early fourth century…
LETTER: We could not call ‘unclean’ what God had called ‘clean’
Thank you for your coverage of the Baptist General Association of Virginia executive committee action regarding Ginter Park Baptist Church. As the former pastor of that congregation, I was an early participant in the process of ordaining Scott McGuire to…
HeraldBeat: Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
Accepted a new call? Been ordained? Church celebrating an anniversary? Mission trip or project that you would like highlighted on the HeraldBeat page? Send info to HeraldBeat editor Barbara Francis at [email protected]. Transitions ON THE MOVE Chris Mitchell, to Tabernacle…