FALLS CHURCH – Singapore will be the site of the Baptist Youth World Conference in 2013, organizers of the once-every-five-years event have announced. The ethnically and religiously diverse city-state was selected because of its convenient Southeast Asian location and relatively…
Edward Kennedy’s 1983 speech at Liberty articulated view of faith
RICHMOND — Senator Edward M. Kennedy, whose death at 77 following a battle with brain cancer was announced early Aug. 26, left his mark on wide-ranging legislation, including civil rights, health care, education, voting rights and labor. But the scion…
Initiative seeks to link one church, one school
Scarce funding for public education may offer churches an opportunity to work more closely with public schools in their neighborhood. That’s the assessment of Diane Smith, children’s ministry specialist at the Virginia Baptist Mission Board, who is developing a ministry…
South African Baptists seeking Virginia volunteers as they minister during soccer’s World Cup
PRETORIA, South Africa — Baptists in South Africa are joining other denominations across their nation to offer ministry during one of professional sport’s biggest events next year — soccer’s World Cup, to be hosted by South Africa June 11-July 11, 2010….
Center for Congregational Health elects former Virginia Baptist Bill Wilson as president
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – A former Virginia Baptist pastor has been elected president of the Center for Congregational Health, a non-denominational ministry that provides consultants and trained leaders to help churches become “healthier communities of faith.” William G. “Bill” Wilson Jr.,…
NAMB’s president resigns during called trustee meeting
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Geoff Hammond, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, has resigned, along with three of his top assistants. The resignations came during an all-day special meeting of the NAMB’s board of trustees Aug. 11, called…
Virginia Baptists’ John Upton nominated as BWA president
EDE, Netherlands — John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has been nominated as president of the Baptist World Alliance. If elected at the BWA’s world congress in 2010, Upton will begin a five-year term to…
Faith that sings: Hymns make theology portable
“If you know what hymns a congregation is most addicted to, you will be able to infer what, in Christianity, means most to that church.” When the late hymnist Erik Routley wrote that in 1982, worship wars in the United…
Virginia Baptists’ John Upton nominated as BWA president
EDE, Netherlands — John Upton, executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, has been nominated as president of the Baptist World Alliance. If elected at the BWA’s world congress in 2010, Upton will begin a five-year term to…