At a regularly scheduled board meeting in June 2006, the WMU of Virginia board of trustees received and prayerfully reviewed stated concerns from a group of women in a local church regarding personnel issues and organizational structure. While the board…
WMUV trustees form panel to look at personnel issues
Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia has named an “independent, ad hoc” committee to address concerns raised by some Virginia Baptists about WMUV's personnel policies and organizational structure. WMUV's board of trustees approved the committee at its regular meeting June 3,…
EDITORIAL: I wish you could have been there
Editorial for July 13, 2006 By Jim White Editor I wish you could have been in Mexico City for the General Council of the Baptist World Alliance. Actually, some of you were! I found the week-long annual gathering of the…
Fifty years and counting
Fifty years ago this month a boy walked down the aisle at a church in his hometown. It was a long walk which continues to the present. It was the walk which winds through the Kingdom of God. The boy…
Optimistic about SBC
Here I am reading Jim White's editorial regarding the SBC meeting in Greensboro and reflecting on my own experience at the convention. I am one of those people Jim mentioned in his opening paragraph who thinks the 2006 convention is…
ANOTHER VIEW: Best plans are useless without God’s creativity
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet, Act 1, Scene V Shakespeare should have been a missiologist. Hamlet's cautionary words apply to most human endeavors, particularly mission outreach. Cross-cultural…
Rick Warren invited to speak in North Korea
North Korean officials have invited best-selling author and Southern Baptist pastor Rick Warren to preach to at least 15,000 people in the communist country, a spokesperson from Warren's Saddleback Church confirmed July 5. The spokesperson told Associated Baptist Press that…
Church & People News for June 8, 2006
Staff Changes Jim Graham, to Wallers Church, Partlow, as interim pastor. Susan Harvey, to Mount Ararat Church, Stafford, as children's minister. Connie Scruggs, to Rivermont Church, Danville, as part-time minister to children. Retirements Frank W. Casper Sr., pastor of Calvary…
Church & People News for June 15, 2006
Staff Changes Jim Booth, to Staples Mill Road Church, Glen Allen, as pastor, effective June 25. Kevin Schrum, to Smithland Church, Heathsville, as full-time pastor. Juan Garcia, to First Church, Newport News, as Hispanic pastor. Mike Jones, to Enon Church,…