
BGAV messengers adopt budget, elect officers for 2026
Messengers to the 2025 Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) annual meeting adopted a budget and elected new officers among other items in a Nov. 12 business session.

Opinion: Baptists need to tell a new missions story
Baptists are “a missionary people,” Elijah Brown, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, told those gathered in Stavanger, Norway, for

More than 80 decisions for Christ at no ‘flash-in-the-pan’ stunt show
Not many people can say they have ridden a motorcycle for Jesus, let alone performed death-defying stunts in front of

Emergency field hospital cares for COVID patients in Mississippi
Samaritan’s Purse opened Mississippi’s second field hospital Aug. 18 in the parking garage at the University of Mississippi Medical Center,

Belarus officials demolish church, no reason given
A Pentecostal church repeatedly targeted by the Minsk regime has now been demolished on order of the city government. Forum

National WMU elects Dixon president, honors others during Missions Celebration
National Woman’s Missionary Union elected Connie Dixon of New Mexico as its new president during the WMU Missions Celebration and

Why your church needs a ‘youth-now mindset’ in ministry
Gen Z students are eager to serve in the church, but often overlooked. Learn why your church needs a “youth-now mindset.”

‘We’re in this together’: Program finds purpose behind bars
Roger Britton still remembers the prayer. One of the inmates working at Whites Creek Baptist Church in Rockwood bowed his head before a surprise steak lunch the congregation had prepared. What followed, Britton said, was “the sweetest prayer I have heard in a long time.”