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Another View for Feb. 10, 2005 By Dale Hanson Bourke Americans tend to give like we consume: spontaneously, extravagantly, even capriciously. An image flashes on the television screen and we respond. A celebrity passionately supports a cause and we join…

Another View for Feb. 10, 2005 By Dan Carlton Vacation Bible School has proven to be an effective growth strategy for Spring Hill Baptist Church, in Albemarle County just south of the Greene County line. This area has experienced rapid…

Another View for Feb. 10, 2005 By Becky Johnson I'm flying high. Literally, the plane on which I'm riding as I write this is cruising at an altitude of 33,000 feet. However, in a different sense, I'm flying high with…

S T A F F • C H A N G E S J. D. Harmon, to Kearfoot Memorial Church, Martinsville, as pastor. Chris Musick, to Swords Creek Church, Swords Creek, as pastor. David Hess, resigning as pastor of Buckroe…

Conservative Episcopalians have come out in support of a proposed Virginia law that would allow them to leave the denomination and take their church property with them. The proposed law, if passed, would allow churches in the country's largest Episcopal…

By Trennis Henderson Appalachian Regional Ministry, a ministry partnership involving 10 state conventions, including the Baptist General Association of Virginia, will shift its headquarters from West Virginia to Kentucky, effective April 1. Bill Barker, ARM's director since 2001, will continue…

• An assessment team delivered $4,000 in Virginia Baptist gifts to place 10 children immediately in the Precious Children's Home for one year. • A Crisis Care team is being recruited and will visit the affected areas and provide the…

Virginia Baptists have a variety of opportunities to offer relief to victims of the tsunami in southern Asia, say leaders of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. Many of them are in support of Virginia Baptists' developing relationship with the India…

President Bush praised the relief arm of the Baptist World Alliance and other religious groups as exemplifying a faith-based spirit of generosity during the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 3. Speaking to thousands of influential participants-members of Congress, diplomats, foreign politicians…

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is redeploying some of its missions personnel to address tsunami relief needs. Many missionaries of the Fellowship have relief-related skills to handle water purification and agricultural needs, medical needs, and the logistical needs of organizing volunteers…

At least seven Baptists are among Time magazine's list of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. The magazine devotes the cover of its Feb. 7 issue to the subject of evangelical Protestants in America and their influence over politics…

Baptists in Sweden are offended by the web site of a controversial Baptist Church in Kansas because it claims the deaths of vacationing Swedes in the Asian tsunami disaster is a punishment from God. About 20,000 Swedes were vacationing in…