Heart of Danville will sponsor its annual downtown Danville holiday open house Nov. 22-23. Participating businesses will offer sales, promotions and refreshments to get the holiday shopping season started. Participating businesses are: A&L Accessories, A Lasting Impression florist, Carol's Bridal & Gifts, Clothes Horse, Constitution Square Gift Shop, Danville Bike and Footwear, ...
That same year in Gadsden, several black members of the First Baptist Church (organized in 1855) withdrew from the white congregation services to organize the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church. The small group that organized FMBC in 1868 consisted of 14 members whose names remain part of the city’s history — Clark, Keeling, Wiley, White, Kyle and Billingsley. The deacons were Tom ...
K. Marshall Williams, pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church, hosted a My Hope America with Billy Graham outreach at the inner-city Philadelphia church. Submitted ...
Marvin G. Parker, pastor of Broadview Missionary Baptist Church, joins in the worship during a Global Impact Celebration at the Chicago-area church in September. IMB ...
Church planter Rush Witt "continued to hear an echo of a plea for church planting" in Ohio's capital and is leading a team to plant Paramount Church in the Columbus metro ...
DAMASCUS, Syria (BP) -- For Hanna, a Syrian Christian mother living in Damascus, the country's civil war is more than just statistics and news articles. "Every day when I walk to the school I work at I hold my breath; every minute something can happen," she wrote in a first-person account to Open Doors USA, an organization supporting persecuted Christians. "Many streets are ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: 2nd VIEW is a key Baptist Press story that has been posted within the past several days. For a listing of additional key stories in Baptist Press in recent days, always take a look at the ...
January 6, 2009 LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP) -- "I cannot believe that you would do that!"That incredulous assertion is an all too familiar response from parents (including myself) who discover a child has sinned. But for Christian parents, such an assertion speaks as if the Gospel is not true. It represents the response for a parent who desires to rear a religious Pharisee. If a parent's ...
TACLOBAN, Philippines (BP) -- Emily Ortega was swept off her feet when the storm surge from Typhoon Haiyan struck Tacloban, Philippines.The typhoon's sustained winds, peaking at nearly 200 mph, drove waves 20 feet tall into the coastal city. Ortega clung to a post while storm debris hammered her. Hours later, the evacuation center in Tacloban where the pregnant 21-year-old found refuge was ...
LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Officials at Baptist Health on Wednesday announced an agreement with Hot Spring County Medical Center in Malvern.Baptist officials say they will begin a long-term lease agreement with the medical center on Jan. 1, at which time the hospital will be named "Baptist Health Medical Center-Hot Spring County." The agreement will make the facility Baptist's eighth ...
