Historical drama Pressure clears the air on speaking truth to power

By Greg Warner Associated Baptist Press Trustees of the North American Mission Board are asking a task force to see if there is any truth to allegations-first reported in the Christian Index-that the NAMB's evangelism and church-planting efforts are lagging…

By Paul and Gerri McDaniel The McDaniels, members of Lynn Haven Baptist Church, Vinton, recently spent two weeks in Gulfport, Mississippi, working with one of Virginia Baptists’ partner churches, Crosspoint. Crosspoint Church, a church only a year and a half…

By Paige Peak Virginia Baptist Mission Board Feeding the multitudes was modeled by Christ. What seemed like such a limited offering resulted in thousands being fed. Virginia Baptist disaster relief volunteers fed hundreds of thousands of people last year alone…

Doctors, nurses, firefighters, paramedics, EMTs and other critical incident responders: If you or if someone you know has emergency response training, international disaster relief efforts are being coordinated by Virginia Baptists that could use your skills to save lives and…

When sisters Sue Roe and Pattie Peace learned that women were meeting at Black Creek Baptist Church in Mechanicsville to make clothing for the poor, they knew they could help. “I’ve been knitting for about 30 years and for the…

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia clarified its identity and function March 11 by adopting a “Re-visioning” document which will guide the organization in the future. The CBFV “is a network of churches and inviduals being the presence of Christ…

Virginia Baptists' on-site liaison with Indian Baptists is a recent graduate of the College of William and Mary with an impressive Virginia Baptist heritage. Robert Brown graduated last May from the Williamsburg school with a degree in economics and, after…

By Robert Dilday Associate Editor From the beginning of Kunjumon Chacko's work with Prison Fellowship, it was the children of inmates that tugged at his heart-and eventually led to his network of children's homes across India. Last year, when thousands…

By Hannah Elliott Associated Baptist Press Law enforcement officials arrested three men March 8 in connection with nine fires at Baptist churches in rural Alabama. Benjamin Nathan Moseley and Russell Lee Debusk, both 19-year-old students at Birmingham-Southern College, said they…

By Steve DeVane Associated Baptist Press The chairman of the International Mission Board is asking the board's personnel committee to take another look at two controversial measures the board passed in November. Chair Tom Hatley, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church…

Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel‚ convicted of murdering three Southern Baptist missionaries in a Yemeni hospital in 2002 died by firing squad Feb. 27, Reuters reported. Authorities already executed Kamel's accomplice, Ali al-Jarallah, Nov. 27 of last year. The Yemeni government…

By Robert Marus and Jim White Denton Lotz, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, began his report to the BWA executive committee meeting in Falls Church by asking his wife, Janice, to join him at the podium. With her…