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Fredericksburg Church gets grant for missional ministry

With a history of doing missions work both in its hometown and around the world, Fredericksburg Baptist had a commitment to helping others. But Jeanne Anderson, minister with adults and missions, said when the congregation conducted the “It's Time” study,…

Editors invited to tour Jordan

Offering to bear the full expense of the trip and arranging every detail of the 10-day event, the Tourism Board hopes to encourage American Christian tourists to consider Jordan a travel destination. To the surprise of the editors who had…

Mission Board’s Bob Dale announces plans to retire

He made the announcement Sept. 12 at a meeting of the Mission Board's executive committee. Dale will continue to serve quarter-time as special assistant to the executive director for leadership development. “I've been blessed to serve the Virginia Baptist family,”…

Virginia chaplain reprimanded by Navy for disobeying commander’s order

A military jury in Norfolk recommended Sept. 14 that Lt. Gordon Klingenschmitt be docked $250 a month in pay for the next year and sent a letter of reprimand. The day before, they convicted him of violating a superior officer's…

Tutu says apartheid, sin shattered when humans gather together with God

Speaking to an overflow crowd at a Dallas Episcopal church Sept. 13, Desmond Tutu, the Nobel laureate and former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, said his nation's victory over the “ghastliness of apartheid” would not have happened without support from…

All Church Challenge

I attend Derbyshire Baptist Church, my fiancée attends Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh N.C., and I worked on the pool house. I wish I could start getting Richmond churches involved. The kids camp is incredible. Children in Helena need…

Thanks to Graves

President Graves offered strength and determination to the dream of creating a free and faithful theological institution during troubled times in Baptist life, and, thanks to his courage and devotion to that cause, led the Baptist Theological Seminary from conception…

Not talking about it

Was it simply serendipity that the facing age of your editorial contained Fred's Heritage column entitled “Now it can be told”—or editorial irony? Allow me to share a few anecdotes from my experience with “the dilemma of reporting the facts.”…

God’s plan

If anyone knows why God made a plan to take the lives of so many people or his reason, please let me know. I just lost a grandson on Aug. 26. Let me know why and the reason so I…

Saving the General Association!

“You are acquainted with how its missionaries are suffering and its wants disregarded. [The General Association] must be more liberally supported than it has been for a year or two past. For it to go down would seriously injure our…

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News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for September 21, 2006

Staff changes Ben Laird, to Trinity Church, Martinsville, as pastor. Chris and Karen Harbin, to Central Church, Lowesville, as co-pastors. Ronnie Campbell, to Bethany Church, Baskersville, as pastor. Gregory Todd Randall, to Clarksville Church, Clarksville, as senior pastor. Richard L….

Except for white evangelicals, Americans have soured on Trump’s leadership

CBF approves $16 million budget, leaders challenge more mission

The Black Church was not meant to save America

Caner sues Truett-McConnell for wrongful firing