The 2024 annual meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia closed with a time of remembrance, worship and challenge, as BGAV Executive Director Wayne Faison spoke on the meeting’s theme of “Free Indeed.”
Messengers to the Baptist General Association of Virginia’s annual meeting at FBC Alexandria approved its budget for 2025, elected officers and approved several other items for the upcoming year during the Nov. 13 morning business session.
“Doing a film at the holidays, it can be kind of hard to kind of break through all the noise,” he said. “This is one that I think has the potential to really do it,” says Andy Erwin.
Although the Ford Motor Company is slowing down its production schedule at BlueOval City, there are no plans to pump the brakes on the evangelism efforts in that region.
“What if, for the glory of Jesus, we pray, ‘Lord, what You did 2,000 years ago, would You do it again?’” —Elijah Brown, Baptist World Alliance
Expressing alarm over an increase in false blasphemy accusations in Pakistan, the UN Human Rights Committee last week urged repeal or amending of the country’s harsh blasphemy laws.
Messengers to the Baptist General Association of Virginia kicked off their Tuesday morning session (Nov. 12), which included a proposed budget increase and an update from the task force on women in ministry.
W. Thomas Hammond, Jr., executive director of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board, and Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, announced a new partnership Sunday night with the aim of planting more churches in Georgia.
The first main session of the BGAV 2024 annual meeting took place Nov. 11 with an evening worship service at First Baptist Church Alexandria. This year’s annual meeting is centered around the theme “Free Indeed” based in John 8:36.
“Pastors have a unique, God-given responsibility: faithfully proclaim God’s Word. But with that, it’s helping people see its relevance in their lives. So they’ll listen!” writes church communication expert Mark MacDonald.
