On the last Sunday of May, Bill Tuck was extended warm farewells as he concluded a 20-month interim pastorate at the First Baptist Church of Raleigh, N.C. The congregation formed a long line to give handshakes and hugs to Bill…
Seeking truth in India’s ‘City of Gold’
MUMBAI, India (BP) — Television writer Sankalp Tak steers his late-model compact through the streets of Mumbai, India’s largest city, dodging waves of cars and motorized rickshaws to park behind a nondescript warehouse. Inside — barely controlled chaos, like Mumbai…
Coalition of faith-based groups push for health-care reform as moral issue
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Ads airing on Christian and mainstream radio stations in several states are attempting to frame health care as a moral issue. Sponsored by a broad coalition of faith-based groups, the ads urge members of Congress…
Young evangelicals tend to shun ‘conservative’ label, embrace ‘justice’
DULUTH, Ga. (ABP) — Younger evangelical pastors are less likely to self-identify as conservatives than older generations and more apt to view social justice as a gospel imperative, LifeWay Research director Ed Stetzer told a group of evangelical environmental activists….
Johnny Hunt predicts SBC will approve task force
WOODSTOCK, Ga. (BP) — Greater funding of the Cooperative Program will occur when Southern Baptists have greater confidence their gifts support the priorities of North American church planting, global pioneer missions and theological education, declared Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny…
Charlottesville church provides assistance to pregnant women in developing countries
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Every minute in the world 380 women become pregnant, 110 women experience a pregnancy-related complication and one woman dies from a pregnancy-related cause. In the developing world, the leading cause of death for girls ages 15-19 is pregnancy….
Sewing skills are key for Portsmouth congregation’s ministry
PORTSMOUTH — It started with a sewing pattern and a mission conference. Bruce Powers, pastor of Westhaven Baptist Church in Portsmouth, attended the MC2 conference sponsored by the VBMB last summer at Eagle Eyrie. Staffers of the Woman’s Missionary Union…
Virginia Baptists responds to W. Va. flash floods
GILBERT, W.Va. (BP) — In the wake of flash floods that washed away rural roads and even mountainsides over six southern West Virginia counties on Mother’s Day weekend, Virginia Baptists joined other Baptist disaster relief feeding units and mud-out crews…
Virginia Baptist Foundation awards $101,000 to 53 scholarship recipients
RICHMOND — Ann F. Brown, chair of the scholarship committee of the Virginia Baptist Foundation, announced 53 scholarship recipients totaling $101,000 during the second annual Scholarship Recognition Service held May 31, at the Virginia Baptist Resource Center. Scholarship recipients gathered…
The Yoked Team updated May 27, 2009
Operation Inasmuch impacts Sandston community
SANDSTON — The members of Sandston Baptist Church in Sandston spent Saturday, April 18, serving their community through Operation Inasmuch. This was the third year the congregation has sponsored this hands-on experience, motivated by Matthew 25, in which Jesus says the…
5-year-old Iraqi Christian boy kidnapped, then killed
WASHINGTON (BP) — The body of a kidnapped 5-year-old Iraqi Christian boy was discovered riddled with gunshots May 11, according to a report issued May 13 by International Christian Concern, a Washington-based human rights organization. The youth, Tony Adwar Shaweel,…