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The first teaching events of the newly-established Southwest Virginia Christian Leadership Network have been announced. The network is a ministry of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, providing leadership training for ministers and laypersons in Southwest Virginia. The scheduled events include:…

Already a strong week of mission projects, worship and Bible study, Family Mission Week takes on a new dimension this year in response to families who want to learn and play together. A “Family Track” has been added to the…

‘One Great Fellowship of Love” is the theme for the annual meeting of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, to be held at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 10, in the chapel of the First Baptist Church of Richmond. Denton Lotz, general…

The Virginia Baptist Children's Home and Family Services is sponsoring a golf tournament on Friday, May 6, at the Brookwoods Golf Club near Quinton. The cost is $60 per individual or $240 per team. Sign-in begins at 11:30 a.m., followed…

Contributions from Virginia Baptists for the Indian relief project through March 31 with the following designations: • Southern Baptist Convention (IMB): $96,197 • Baptist World Alliance (BWAid): $39,261 • Cooperative Baptist Fellowship: $77,444 • Virginia Baptist Mission Board: $226,275 General…

During its meeting last week, the Virginia Baptist Mission Board allocated funds for a variety of church grants and for a number of mission projects around the world. Three churches received grants for start-up expenses: • Beacon Hill Missionary Baptist…

For the fourth year in a row, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has received a multimillion-dollar anonymous gift for global missions-this time $5 million. The majority of the gift will go to field personnel salaries, benefits, equipment and training, with additional…

Having friendship and food at church leads to greater satisfaction among Christians, according to a study by the Gallup Organization. A survey of churchgoers showed people who report having strong friendships at church are 26 percent more likely to describe…

The president of the country's second-largest Lutheran denomination says the larger Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has taken an unbiblical approach in a report that recommends gays be allowed to serve in church leadership. At an annual meeting with ELCA…

Trustees of Southwestern Theological Seminary elected a controversial Muslim convert to Christianity as dean of the seminary's new undergraduate school, the College at Southwestern. Emir Caner, 34, was brought up to be a devout Sunni Muslim. His father, a leader…

Leaders of three major world religions are uniting in Jerusalem against a homosexual pride festival expected to draw thousands of people from around the world in August. Christians, Jews and Muslims are speaking out against the festival, which is set…

By Cecile S. Holmes Tim LaHaye believes it is yet to come. Hank Hanegraaff thinks some of it may have already happened during Christianity's first century. Their ongoing debate over the proper understanding of the fearsome prophecies in the biblical…