By Daphne Almarode Collegiate Minister, James Madison University “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 This verse…
Camp Alkulana receives grant
Camp Alkulana, a ministry of the Richmond Baptist Association, has been awarded a $25,000 matching grant by the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, a Richmond family foundation. The grant was offered as a challenge to alumni and friends of Camp Alkulana…
IMB trustees tried power of press to silence dissent, Burleson says
By Greg Warner Associated Baptist Press A new staff policy, which gives trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board power to censor news stories about their work, reportedly was used Jan. 11 to try to persuade a trustee…
Jim Vaught named to Mission Board post
By Dee Whitten Jim Vaught has been selected as the new church-minister matching specialist and a field strategist for the Virginia Baptist Mission Board’s empowering leaders team. Vaught has been co-pastor of Manassas Baptist Church in Manassas since 2003. In…
N.C. agency to elect its own trustees
The Baptist Retirement Homes of North Carolina has adopted bylaw amendments that allow the corporation's trustees to elect their own successors. Previously the bylaws called for trustees to be elected by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, which also…
Bluefield students respond to victims of hurricanes
"The devastation is unbelievable, but the opportunity to help is even greater,” says Bluefield College sophomore Myra Bankert, one of four BC students who recently returned from a mission trip to the Gulf Coast to help the victims of Hurricane…
N.C. panel taps consensus candidate
Leaders of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina have nominated a candidate with support from both moderates and conservatives to the fractious statewide body's executive post. The convention's board of directors voted, without opposition, Jan. 24 to recommend Milton…
Church & People News for February 9, 2006
Staff Changes Robert Lee Bowers Jr., to Dogwood Church, Gum Spring, as pastor. Wayne Collis, to Gordonsville Church, Gordonsville, as pastor. Dennis Knight, to First Church, Mar-tinsville, as pastor. Thomas Parker, to Oak Grove Church, Cana, as pastor. Bill Collins,…
FIRST PERSON: I’m unqualified to be a pastor in 2006
First Person for February 9, 2006 By Brooks R. Faulkner LifeWay Christian Resources It's a line by Jack Nicholson in the movie, A Few Good Men, and it goes like this: “You can't handle the truth.” It's an effort to…
EDITORIAL: A pair of kings
Editorial for February 9, 2006 By Jim White Like millions of other Americans, I watched as a mule-drawn funeral coach bore the body of Coretta Scott King to the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta. As state troopers, a mix of…
Having it his way
Heritage Column for February 9, 2006 By Fred Anderson It has been said that when an old person dies, a library burns. If this is so, Virginia Baptists lost an extensive library last week in the death at age 87…
Letters for February 9, 2006
Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Thanks for including the interesting BP article about ultra-Darwinian Daniel C. Dennett by Albert Mohler (Jan. 12). Although Dennett would surely appreciate the compliment, Mohler is too generous in his reference to Dennett as “one of…