The Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies will sponsor the Key Film Festival, designed to allow Baptists an opportunity to share the Baptist story through video. The Festival is in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Baptists as an expression…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
STAFF CHANGES • John Snow, to Zoar Church, Deltaville, as pastor, effective March 1. • Gregory W. Wissinger, to Beaver Dam Church, Troy, as pastor, effective March 1. • Thomas S. Larson, to Fox Hill Road Church, Hampton, as pastor….
Top 100 churches in gifts to Virginia Cooperative Missions in 2008 listed
First Baptist Church in Alexandria led churches affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia last year in contributions to Virginia Cooperative Missions. Rounding out the top 10 churches in total Virginia CM gifts were Bon Air Baptist Church in…
VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Call it what God calls it
Recent issues of the Religious Herald have reported on abortion, homosexuals, evolution, Muslims, Obama and church/state walls and the controversies that surround them. Consider: Abortion: God calls it murder; we call it “choice.” Homosexuality: God calls it an abomination; we…
Top 100 churches in total Cooperative Missions giving in 2008 listed
First Baptist Church in Alexandria led churches affiliated with the Baptist General Association of Virginia last year in total contributions to Cooperative Missions. Rounding out the top 10 churches in total CM gifts were Bon Air Baptist Church in Richmond,…
New Poverty Forum aims to keep focus on the poor
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A bipartisan group of 18 Christian leaders has developed a host of policy recommendations on poverty reduction that they hope will shape the actions of the Obama administration and Congress. The effort, co-chaired by evangelical activist Jim…
National Baptists to choose between two candidates for convention president
(RNS) — Henry J. Lyons, the former president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, who was imprisoned on charges of fraud a decade ago, is one of two candidates running to be the convention’s next president this September. The other…
Anti-gay pastor told not to come to United Kingdom
LONDON (RNS) — Britain has barred an American anti-gay Christian preacher and his daughter from entering the country, to stop them from spreading what the government described as “extremism and hatred.” Fred Phelps, who has gained notoriety in the United…
Former Baptist deacon charged with attempted robbery of South Carolina bank
TAYLORS, S.C. (ABP) — An active member and former deacon at one of South Carolina's most historic Baptist churches faces charges of kidnapping and attempted robbery of a bank Feb. 26. Bruce Lee Windsor, 43, was held on bond totaling…
Dobson resigns as Focus on the Family chairman
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Focus on the Family's James Dobson has stepped down as board chairman of the ministry he founded 32 years ago, according to a news release on the organization’s Web site (www.focusonthefamily.com). James Dobson Dobson’s wife, Shirley,…
Missouri church committed to be in the city—for good and for God
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—With 12,000 theatre seats, 12 galleries and museums and more than 1,500 cultural events each year, St. Louis’ Grand Center is an art-lovers dream. In the heart of the historic downtown neighborhood stands Third Baptist Church, a church…
From the Eastern Shore to Cumberland Gap
Around Virginia for February 12, 2009 STAFF CHANGES • Thomas S. Larson, to Fox Hill Church, Hampton, as pastor. • John Robertson, to Red Bank Church, Nassawadox, as pastor. • Bill Corey, to Antioch Church, Mechanicsville as pastor. He had…