BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. — A businesswoman’s contribution of more than $1 million to Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, N.C., will allow students of the university’s
FORT WORTH, Texas — When Dwight McKissic, a Southern Baptist pastor and trustee at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, spoke in a chapel on the Fort
OXFORD, N.C. — A Baptist teenager from North Carolina died Sept. 9 in an apparent accident at a church youth retreat. Ozzie Vargas Jr., 17,
NASHVILLE — Contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Cooperative Program (CP) for August 2006 were $15,521,035.75. This is 1.65 percent, or $260,632.53, below the
Although the war in Iraq may have intensified some hostilities between Muslims and Christians in the region, God has been able to work in that
FLINT, Mich. — On Aug. 29, Woodside Church in Flint, Mich., became the first American Baptist congregation in that state to be disaffiliated by its
Fedha Mohamed Elyas has visited her children in Texas before and returned home to Africa with no problems. But this time, she’s afraid to go
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Bobby Welch’s 32-year pastorate at First Baptist Church, Daytona Beach, Fla., came to an end Aug. 27, focusing attention on the
