It’s 2025: Where’s our witness?

In this our 100th year of the Baptist World Alliance, we give thanks to God for his awesome grace and providence that has guided us from 1905 to 2005. Ebenezer said, “Thus far the Lord has helped us” (I Samuel…

By Krista Carnet Singing, Scripture reading and preaching are all common parts of a Sunday service at Baptist churches in Virginia. What sets the Fil-Am Christian Church in Fredericksburg apart is that all three are done in English and Tagalog….

By Chris Shoemaker Bluefield College and the Virginia Baptist Mission Board are determined to develop today's young Christians into tomorrow's ministry leaders. That's why the college and the emerging leaders team of the VBMB recently joined forces to host a…

By Mark Early The Christmas holiday season traditionally is a time of gathering with family and friends to celebrate the joy and hope found in Christ's birth and to strengthen relationships with one another. But what about children separated from…

Virginia Baptists' disaster relief ministries is sponsoring a trip to Florida Feb. 7-11. Participants will organize into work teams and help rebuild houses damaged in hurricanes last fall. The Virginia Baptist Mission Board is encouraging Virginia Baptist Men organizations to…

Robert S. Bloxom, a longtime Virginia Baptist lay leader, has been named the state's first secretary of agriculture and forestry by Gov. Mark Warner. If confirmed by the General Assembly, Bloxom will be the first to hold the cabinet-level post…

Michelle Myers, who has been the Virginia Baptist Mission Board's campus-based minister for the Ridge and Valley region since 2002, has resigned to move to North Carolina, where her husband has assumed a full-time pastorate. Wellford Tiller has been named…

Nearly half of all Americans would curtail the civil rights of Muslim-Americans in some way, according to a new survey. In the name of combating potential terrorism, 44 percent of respondents to a Cornell University survey said they agreed with…