Dear Jimmy, As you know, it's been a while since you got a letter from your dear old auntie, so I thought I'd bring you up to date. I can't do much else anyway because our lights are out. I…
BTSR offers course in HIV/AIDS
The School of Christian Ministry at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond will offer a six-week online course on ministering to individuals with HIV/AIDS. The course, scheduled from Feb. 5 to Mar. 19, will address questions such as, “Who are the…
The full story?
I seem to remember taking a short journalism course in college where we were told to consider, “Who, What, Where, When, Why and sometimes How,” when writing a story. What's wrong with this story [“Panel reports ‘no breach'; WMU executive…
Foundation ends 2006 with record
Assets under management of the Virginia Baptist Foundation reached a record high of $86.3 million on Dec. 31, 2006, reported Todd Fuller, the foundation's vice president and chief financial officer. The mark eclipses the previous record close of $79.9 million…
Spreading love
In 1942 Alma Cree finished business school in Henderson, N.C, and did the unthinkable. She had grown up hearing about the Foreign Mission Board and imagined that it would be “a good place to work.” She wrote a blind letter…
Mission Board to expand Capital Stewardship Services
The Virginia Baptist Mission Board's executive committee voted Jan. 16 to reorganize and expand its program of Capital Stewardship Services and has enlisted Reggie McDonough, former executive director of the board, to lead it. Mission Board executive director John Upton…
News about Virginia Baptists and their ministries
Staff Changes Lewis McElfresh, to Summit Point Church, Summit Point, W.Va., as pastor. Virginia Swaim White, to Arlington Church, Arlington, as permanent part-time pastor. Jonathan Wolf, to Dundas Church, Dundas, as pastor. Mark T. Holland, to Boulevard Church, Richmond, as…
Virginia Baptist from Georgia serves on panel
When the Baptist General Association of Virginia's religious liberty committee met at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center in Richmond on Jan. 18, one committee member had traveled more than 600 miles to get there. Paula Batts is a member of…
Henry to speak at evangelism conference
Jim Henry, former pastor of First Baptist in Orlando, Fla., and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will be the keynote speaker at the Southwest Evangelism Conference on Feb. 19 at First Baptist Church in Galax. The conference will…
FIRST HAND: What is the future of liturgical worship?
In a recent academic publication by InterVarsity Press, Liturgical Theology, Simon Chan presents an intriguing case for the use of liturgy. With the center of the church shifting from Western Europe and North America to the southern hemisphere, perhaps it…
Episcopal Church left historic Christianity, conservatives say
Two leaders of The Falls Church, one of the largest Episcopal parishes in Virginia that voted to sever ties with the Episcopal Church, said they left the denomination because the American Episcopal Church “no longer believes in the historic, orthodox…
Chaplain: Grounds for his ouster were overturned by Congress
While the U.S. Navy has rescinded a regulation that restricted chaplains from conducting public worship outside of Sunday chapels, an evangelical claims the military branch is firing him for violating that guideline. A chaplain at the Naval Air Station in…