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Cutting socials programs is wrong way to balance budget, religious leaders say

WASHINGTON (ABP) — Religious leaders are calling on the consciences of members of Congress to avoid cutting social-welfare programs and taxes at the same time. “This is the message going out [from Congress]: In response to Hurricane Katrina, we're going…

Thousands of mourners ’embrace beauty’ in life of electrocuted Waco pastor

WACO, Texas (ABP) — For many, it was only appropriate to remember Kyle Lake on All Saints Day, two days after the 33-year-old pastor of University Baptist Church died after being electrocuted while standing in the church's baptistry. “Kyle, in…

Baptist ‘brewhaha’: Leaders deny reports volunteers refused to pass out water

CLEWISTON, Fla. (ABP) — Southern Baptist disaster-relief leaders are denying reports, spread widely across the Internet, that a group of their volunteers in Florida refused to give water to victims of Hurricane Wilma because it came from a beer-brewing company….

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Church & People News for November 3, 2005

Staff Changes David and Melissa Fox, to Marshall Church, Marshall, as co-pastors. Henry Styron, to North Pamunkey Church, Orange, as pastor. James Kopco, to Winn's Creek Church, Halifax, as pastor. Perry Clore, to Sharon Church, Scottsville, as pastor. Jerry Stanley,…

Virginia Baptists to join Baptists in India in carrying out ministry there

Cover Story for November 3, 2005 Virginia Baptists have carried out ministries in India for years-most recently in the aftermath of the devastating tsunami that hit the nation last December. Now those efforts are resulting with a full-blown missions partnership…

Virginia Baptists brave crowds at Martinsville’s NASCAR track to share gospel

Cover Story for November 3, 2005 By Jim White Before dawn on Sunday, Oct. 23, a dozen or so Virginia Baptists representing Henry County Baptist Association were already brewing coffee and stacking hundreds of donuts beneath their tent beside Gate…

Organic leaders, living churches: An interview with Bob Dale

Bob Dale, assistant executive director of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board and director of the Ray and Ann Spence Network for Congregational Leadership, is author of the recently-published Seeds for the Future: Growing Organic Leaders for Living Churches, available at…

Here’s to bus rocking

Editorial for November 3, 2005 By Jim White In 1955, who could ever have imagined that a “colored” lady who refused to give up her seat on a bus would one day lie in state in the rotunda of the…

A little bit of home

Heritage Column for November 3, 2005 By Fred Anderson When the messengers assemble for the annual meeting of the BGAV to be held next week in Woodbridge there should be a prize for the registered messenger from a BGAV member…

Pastor electrocuted in baptism accident

Kyle Lake, pastor of the innovative University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, was killed by electrocution Oct. 30 while performing a baptism during a worship service. Lake, whose age was not immediately known, had been pastor of the church for…

Baylor’s trustee reduction: politics or efficiency?

Baylor University regents approved a charter change to downsize the school's governing board from 36 to 16 members over nine years. Chairman Will Davis of Austin characterized the vote on the reduction in board size as “not unanimous but overwhelming.”…

‘Be careful of Scripture heavy in law but light on grace,’ Wesley warns

‘Show up and do something,’ ACLU leader urges

From the South Side to the South Lawn and back again

Democracy as a moral practice, not just a system