Fred Anderson

Virginia Baptists have been passionate about missions ever since they received visits in the early 1800s from Luther Rice, the pioneer missionary. Staying in homes and speaking in churches, Rice planted a missionary seed and watched it take flower. He…

“We are a small band of Baptists struggling to complete our little church and to build up our Baptist cause in this community. We are now painting our church and giving it the finishing requirements as far as we can….

“I resigned my pastorate yesterday. There is a little ring of influential men in the church here who insist on living lives of sin, and because I opposed the things they were doing, they set to work to block my…

Edgar Guest, the poet laureate of the common folk in the first half of the last century, said it best in his sentimental verse: “It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home, a heap of…

Barbara Dunn Jackson appreciated words and the nuances of their meaning. The walls of her home office were lined with many books on etymology.  Barbara wrote a column called “A Last Word” for Synergy, which went to women in ministry….

Life goes on at Careby Hall, the old house built by William E. Hatcher “upon the brow of a noble hill” overlooking the village of Fork Union, Va., about 35 miles west of Richmond. It was Hatcher’s summer home, which…

Paul Honaker completes 38 years of music ministry at Bon Air Baptist Church in Richmond with a musical extravaganza set for 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26.  It will be a time to celebrate a career devoted to people and…

In 2010 a choir for boys ages 14 to 19 was formed in Wales. This year the choir, dubbed Only Boys Aloud, placed third in Britain’s Got Talent television show. The choir has about 133 boys and their perfect voices…

In its 225 years High Hills Baptist Church at Jarratt, Va., has witnessed many sunrises. Each one brought challenges and opportunities. At the front of the church’s sanctuary there are two tablets memoralizing early pastors: Josiah C. Bailey (1813-1881) and…