“Don’t call Shiloh! Shiloh is dead!” With those words there begins a story which is legendary in the annals of Virginia Baptist history. When the Portsmouth Baptist Association met in 1871, the clerk called the roll of the churches. When…
China Christian Council plans Bible exhibition in four U.S. cities
SHANGHAI — The China Christian Council — the country’s official Protestant organization of churches — is hosting a Bible exhibition in four cities across the United States this fall, beginning Sept. 28 at the Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church in…
China’s Christians are thriving, marked by both unity and diversity
SHANGHAI — At the appointed time, they entered: the ministers wearing clerical vestments and the robed choir singing “The Lord is in his holy temple.” As the organist transitioned from the call to worship to “Come, Thou, Almighty King,” the…
Virginia disaster relief agency hopes faith groups will adopt projects
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Department of Emergency Management is asking faith-based organizations and volunteer groups to adopt repair and reconstruction projects in Virginia to help with continued recovery from last spring’s destructive tornadoes. “We want to encourage Virginia Baptist…
Baptist teams renovate, repair facilities at Bluefield College
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Fifty-five members of Baptist churches from across Virginia and Tennessee spent part of their summer on the campus of Bluefield College on a mission to support their Baptist partner. The volunteers from eastern Tennessee and across Virginia…
Womens’ mission dolls project introduce gospel around the world
MONROE, N.C. (ABP) — A single idea to make evangelistic dolls for children in other lands seeded an ecumenical project in North Carolina that has united women of many different churches to touch hearts worldwide. “We asked for an apple…
OPINION: Grabbing the thread of forgiveness
A 1972 photograph of 9-year-old Kim Phuc fleeing her burning village in Vietnam — her clothes incinerated from her body and her skin falling from her back and arms — captured the world’s attention. Some say it fanned the flame…
Baptist World Alliance gives human rights award to peace advocate
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (ABP) — A Baptist leader who helped broker peace among rival factions in the northeast Indian state of Nagaland accepted the 2011 Baptist World Alliance Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award July 9. Wati Aier, principal…
Learn to forgive, girl in iconic war photo tells Baptist Peace Fellowship
HARRISONBURG, Va. (ABP) — You may not know her name, but if you were born before 1970 you have seen Kim Phuc’s picture. She is the 9-year-old girl seen running burned and naked in Nick Ut’s 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo…