Has your church considered partnering with the SBC of Virginia to offer an internship within your children’s ministry? In its 10 years of ministry, Crosslink Community Church in Rockingham, VA had utilized interns in several ministry areas prior to 2019 but…
In some reading, I came across a condition I had never heard of before: “the yips.” Just do an online search of “the yips” and you can read about how traumatic and life-changing it is for those who once mindlessly,…
The word multiplying would not describe the average church during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet Impact Church in Centreville, VA saw that the power of a pandemic is no match for the multiplying power of the Gospel. In January of 2012,…
Donielle Yoder is a mother, grandmother, and pastor’s wife who has a passion to help women in their time of need. That desire took her to the Pregnancy Support Center of Southside Virginia. God used her passion by fueling it…
Being Rooted in Christ Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.”Colossians 3:2 The greatest hindrance to the body of Christ is the failure to have a “set mind” that is being rooted…
Since learning about Bless Every Home at the 2018 SBC of Virginia Annual Homecoming, Larry and Sue Mason, members of Salem Baptist Church in Crozier, have embraced this outreach ministry tool. Residents of a rural community in Goochland County, the…
Making Room for God's Presence by Westly Yoder, Senior Pastor, Maysville Baptist Church We had no way of knowing a pandemic was coming, but the Lord knew, and He was helping us prepare for it.” We would all say that…
Affinity Stateside Associates (ASAs) This spring, the International Mission Board (IMB) did something that may at first seem counterintuitive. Eight missionary families, one from each of eight global affinities (North African and Middle Eastern Peoples; American Peoples; South Asian Peoples;…
Six-and-a-half years ago, on January 31, 2014, three missionaries from The Camp of Faith Church (TCOF) in Stephens City left their homeland to meet an unreached, unengaged Islamic people group in West Africa. Since that time, this church of about…