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'Confusing' BGAV budget needs clarifying, say leaders
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By Robert Dilday
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 |
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The Baptist General Association of Virginia’s budget has become an overly complex and unwieldy document that needs to be recast to more clearly articulate the state association’s mission priorities, three top BGAV leaders told Virginia Baptist Mission Board members April 17.
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Youth ministry more than games, new network says
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By Jeff Brumley
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
Dale Tadlock is a 45-year-old youth minister, and he's often asked when he plans "to grow up" and "get a real ministry job." But leaving youth ministry isn't on the radar for Tadlock, the associate pastor/minister to young adults and students at First Baptist Church in Waynesboro, Va.
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Rallies raise awareness of need for more foster parents
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By Barbara Francis
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Friday, April 13, 2012 |
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Virginia Baptists’ HopeTree Family Services and other faith-based organizations in Virginia are seeking to get the word to the Christian community of the growing number of children who have no home or family of their own.
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Pastors’ school to feature Brueggemann, McConnell
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By Herald Staff
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Friday, April 13, 2012 |
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Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann will be the featured speaker at Gardner-Webb University’s Pastors’ School, set for May 28-30 on the Boiling Springs, N.C., campus.
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Longwood’s BCM holds alumni reunion
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By Herald Staff
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Friday, April 13, 2012 |
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More than 70 graduates from every decade since the 1940s participated in the recent third biennial reunion of Longwood University’s Baptist Collegiate Ministries Alumni Association.
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By Barbara Francis, HeraldBeat Editor
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Friday, April 13, 2012 |
Tracking Baptists across the Mid-Atlantic
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Five years later, mother of Va. Tech victim finds peace
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By B. Denise Hawkins
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012 |
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It’s been five years since Celeste Peterson’s only daughter was killed in a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech and she’s finally made peace with God. Which is not to say it’s been easy. The five-year anniversary of the nation’s most deadly shooting spree is still too fresh.
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Anglos, Latinos unite in making, distributing blankets
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By Robert Dilday
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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A collaboration between five Anglo women from suburban Washington and about a dozen Latin American immigrants in Fredericksburg, Va., has resulted in the distribution of nearly 100 blankets to the homeless and other needy groups in the Fredericksburg area.
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BTSR to offer M.Div. concentration in justice, peace
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By Robert Dilday
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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A concentration in justice and peacebuilding will be available to master of divinity degree students at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond beginning this fall, in a collaborative effort a seminary spokesman said would help the school “live out” its core values.
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Prayer event was spiritually compelling, say Virginians
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By Robert Dilday
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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This year’s Easter prayer breakfast at the White House was a spiritually compelling event, say two Virginia Baptists who attended the April 4 breakfast hosted by President Obama, who told about 150 people in the East Room that Jesus’ suffering and sacrifice puts the travails of his own life in perspective. |
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Youth learn what living in the 'image of God' means
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By Robert Dilday
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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Youth in southeastern Virginia explored through worship and community service what it means to be created in the image of God during Youth EnCounter at Smithfield (Va.) Baptist Church last month, one of eight similar events being held this year.
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'Family' is focus of two-weekend Mission Madness
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By Robert Dilday
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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Nearly 500 youth and their sponsors fleshed out an expression of “family” during a two-weekend Mission Madness event at more than 25 mission sites in two Virginia cities, coordinated by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia.
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Church aids homebound in Covington, Va., area
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By Barbara Francis
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 |
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“Help, I’ve fallen … and I can’t get up!” is more than a catchphrase for deacons at Temple Baptist Church in Covington, Va., who have been offering assistance to homebound members of the community for over 15 years.
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