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Bluefield College and the Baptist General Association of Virginia are partnering to meet the needs of churches and their congregations. Bluefield and the BGAV are co-sponsoring a Church Music Certificate Program designed to train and better equip volunteer and bivocational…

The chairs of several key Baptist General Association of Virginia committees have been appointed by BGAV president Boyce Brannock of Staunton. The chairs and their committees are: Budget: Tim Madison, pastor of Madison Heights Baptist Church in Madison Heights. Boards…

The Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies is seeking applicants for the 2007-08 class of Heritage Fellows. The Heritage Fellows program provides an opportunity for Baptist sophomores and juniors attending Virginia schools an opportunity to learn about some aspect of…

Rick and Kay Warren, co-founders of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., will be the featured speakers at 21-C, a conference hosted by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board Feb. 2-3 at The St. Paul's Baptist Church in Richmond. Every year,…

Hope Builders/Christian Women Job Corps will offer Level 1 training for site coordinators on March 14-17 at CrossRoads Camp & Conference Center. Hope Builders, a ministry of Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia, seeks to treat women the way Jesus did—with…

Glenn Akins has been named assistant executive director of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, effective Jan. 2. His responsibilities will be to serve as the VBMB's staff coordinator and chief information officer and to provide field services to churches and…

A church building conference is being offered by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board on Feb. 24 at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center. The conference will focus on issues such as the importance of master planning, needs assessment and growth projections,…

Darrell Wise has been named director of missions for the Concord Baptist Association, a fellowship of about 30 congregations in Brunswick, Charlotte, Lunenburg and Mecklenburg counties and in the city of South Hill. Wise had been pastor of Oakland Baptist…

Murphy Terry has been named director of missions for the Augusta Baptist Association, a fellowship of about 21 congregations in the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro and the counties of Augusta and Rockingham. Terry had been director of missions…