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News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries for August 24, 2006

STAFF CHANGES Jason Booth, to Zoan Church, Fredericksburg, as pastor. Rob Tennant, resigning as pastor of Greenbrier Church, Arlington, to accept the pastorate of HillSong Church, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Ryan Snodgrass, to Spring Hill Church, Ruckersville, as site pastor…

Mission team from Roanoke Valley Association returns to Sioux reservations

A mission team from the Roanoke Valley Baptist Association made a return visit to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation July 30-August 4. This team of 103 members representing 19 RVBA churches served in the communities of Cannon Ball, Ft. Yates,…

Bluefield College ranked among top 50 colleges in the South

Bluefield College has been ranked among the Top 50 “Best Comprehensive Undergraduate Colleges in the South” in U.S.News & World Report's celebrated issue “America's Best Colleges: 2007.” The number 49 ranking for Bluefield College marks the fourth consecutive year the…

Virginia Baptist annual meeting to be ‘Voyage to Discovery’

Join with fellow Virginia Baptists at Connect:2006, the annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, on Nov. 9-10 at the brand-new Virginia Beach Convention Center. Participants will set sail on a “Voyage to Discovery” as a course is…

Muslim refugees say goodbye to Lebanese Baptist shelters

Hundreds of Lebanese Muslims who had taken refuge in Lebanese Baptist institutions said good-bye to their hosts Aug. 17. Meanwhile, Lebanese Christian leaders continued to care for refugees still in Beirut. As a cease-fire took hold in the month-long conflict…

On mission at the Gulf: Virginia Baptists make ‘impact’ after Katrina

When something is plumb, it's lined up properly. In the context of a statewide mission endeavor, plumb means “straight for the Lord.” In conjunction with that theme, this year's Impact Gulf Coast had church volunteer workers going on a 19-hour…

EDITORIAL: Altar Ego confesses his sin

Pewboy looked troubled. Gone from his countenance was his usual bland expression by which he defied others to read his thoughts. Now he looked positively pensive. Altar Ego knew he would soon be drawn into dialogue by Pewboy's drivel and…

Missing the facts

Professor David Gushee is entitled to his position, but his passionate argument appears to arise from his view of the unborn rather than the specific legislation that passed Congress by overwhelming majorities [“The stem cell veto,” Aug. 3]. The readers…

Loves YEC

I have loved the Youth Evangelism Conference, sponsored by Virginia Baptists, for 14 years, since my return to Virginia as a youth minister in 1993. I served for 10 years on the advisory team for YEC and was always thrilled…

Finding a home

Shiloh Baptist Church, along the King's Highway in King George County, Va., has been home for many people in the course of its 150 years. It was created to give people a home during one of the great divisions among…

ANOTHER VIEW: Back to the past for a map of the future

During the 1985 Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas, Texas, I woke up before the crack of dawn in order to reserve 20 seats on the floor of the arena for each day of business. I was a young, motivated pastor….

Clarification

In the Aug. 22 article titled “Pastoral perks can be unethical, even illegal, Texas church finds,” please note the following clarification and replace the 8th paragraph with the following two paragraphs: ”According to the Star-Telegram, John Fegan, a member of…

Mohler again claims same-sex marriage harms children

Dan Patrick reiterates: ‘No separation of church and state’

Baptists know better than this

Judge bars Tennessee from revealing immigration status of sick children