Music into manna: symphony concert benefits church’s hunger ministry
FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) -- A free concert at a Texas Baptist church turned into a blessing for the city's hungry and homeless.
North Carolina mega-church pastor retiring
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) -- The senior pastor of North Carolina's largest Southern Baptist church announced Nov. 21 he is retiring after 26 years.
County, church settle lawsuit over Christian school
BALTIMORE (ABP) -- A Maryland county will pay a Baptist church $3.25 million and allow construction of a Christian school that government officials have opposed for eight years under terms of a settlement reached Nov. 18 in federal court.
Baptist church in Burma ordered to halt worship services
SANTA ANA, Calif. (ABP) -- A local government in Myanmar ordered a Baptist church to cease worship services after the pastor refused to wear an election campaign T-shirt supporting the country's ruling military junta, Compass Direct News reported Nov. 18.
Pastor calls for church unity following arrest of associate pastor
GREENWOOD, S.C. (ABP) -- A Southern Baptist pastor in South Carolina urged his congregation not to rush to judgment following the Oct. 26 arrest of its associate pastor/minister of music on charges of committing a lewd act upon a 13-year-old girl.
Fire destroys church, but concert goes on
A Ukrainian church where the Singing Men of North Central Texas group was scheduled to perform a concert burned to the ground, but the Texas Baptist church musicians rented a concert hall for two performances.
Can a church be congregational in polity and have elders?
The concept of the priesthood of the believer gave rise to the congregational form of church governance—each member having a say in the decisions the church makes, from calling a pastor to determining the color of the nursery walls. But that can often be unwieldy
Okla. church latest in effor to test boundaries of tax law, politics
WASHINGTON (ABP) -- A church-state watchdog group has called on the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a church in Oklahoma for violating a law that prohibits tax-exempt charities from endorsing political candidates.
Members can use technological advances to keep church safer
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Corticelli church combines faith with 3-D bowshoot
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