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BTSR graduates — with youth — return to campus to ‘lend a hand’

The BTSR graduates and members of their Charlotte team posed on the steps of a seminary building after a long day working on the grounds. (Photos by Lindsay Marsh) RICHMOND — The grounds at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond underwent…

From the ashes: A new Poplar Springs rises after devastating fire

RICHMOND — The group of beleaguered church members huddled together watching their church burn would never have believed that something good could come from so great a tragedy. But from the ashes of the old has sprung a beautiful new…

BGAV’s second vice president takes pastorate in North Carolina

FRANKLIN — Richard Childress, second vice president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has assumed the pastorate of New Hope Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C. Childress Childress, who had been pastor of Franklin Baptist Church in Franklin, assumed his…

Seminary president, two Virginia pastors slated to speak at BGAV

RICHMOND — A Chicago-area seminary president and two Virginia pastors are slated to be keynote speakers this fall at Connect:2009, the annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia. Alistair Brown The two-day meeting, set for Nov. 17-18 at…

BTSR graduates return to campus to ‘lend a hand’

RICHMOND — The grounds at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond underwent a massive sprucing this summer as six 2005 graduates of the school — with a cadre of youth in tow — returned to campus to “lend a hand to…

From the ashes: A new Poplar Springs rises after fire

Plano church giving hope to children through children

PLANO—First Baptist Church aims to give hope to children and through children. With its current campaign, it’s doing both. Children of the church filled Texas-sized banks with coins for the Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger to feed hungry children…

Shoes for Orphan Souls collects 2 millionth pair of shoes

DALLAS (ABP) — Buckner International’s Shoes for Orphan Souls ministry has collected its 2 millionth pair of shoes for needy children and families in the United States and around the world. The long-anticipated milestone came during the 10th anniversary of…

Church delivers gospel with a side order of pie

SHALLOWATER—A warm apple pie opens doors and hearts to the gospel, as members at First Baptist Church of Shallowater discovered. Church members are seeking to visit homes in their small town 10 miles northwest of Lubbock and put into practice…

Gaddy trades barbs with Jindal over taxpayer-funded flights to churches

MONROE, La. (ABP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is trading barbs with a prominent Baptist pastor over the governor’s use of a state helicopter and travel detail to attend churches in far-flung — but politically strategic — parts of the…

Georgia Baptist pastor killed in botched drug sting

LAVONIA, Ga. (ABP) — Members of a Southern Baptist church in Northeast Georgia want answers about the police-shooting death of their 29-year-old pastor in a drug-sting operation gone wrong. Jonathan Ayers, pastor of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia, Ga.,…

Historic church finds new energy in missions commitment

FRANKFORT, Ky. (ABP)—When churches fall on hard economic times, some congregations reduce the amount they give to missions. A Kentucky Baptist pastor believes they should do the opposite. “I think churches are in a survival mentality right now, and it…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war