You are not alone.
Cost: $15/individuals and $25/couples
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Special Guests:
Dr. Doug Carver, Chaplain (Major General), US Army, Retired
Rev. Keith McMinn, Pastor of Worship at Bethel Baptist Church, Yorktown
Doors to the museum open at 6 PM and exhibits will be available to guests throughout the evening. Appetizers will be available at 6 PM. Dinner will be served at 7 PM.
If you came to last year’s dinner, this will be even better! We’re adding the simulator (for those who want to go for a ride) and some other additions that will make for a great evening!
I hope you and your team will be joining us this year for our regional Christmas banquet dinner. We’ve rented out the Air and Space Museum and are excited to take an evening to fellowship together in this unique venue.
Hampton Roads has been the launchpad for numerous space-related endeavors. At this venue, we’ll be surrounded by aviation exhibits and historic aircraft from the Bell P-39Q “Airacobra” to the Apollo 12 Command Module!
While the world has watched and celebrated these scientific achievements, we come together for an even greater purpose: a Gospel partnership! This Christmas season, the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be proclaimed in churches throughout our region. You and your church are an important part of that.
So invite your team, and let’s gather for this special meal at the Hampton Air and Space Museum as we celebrate the birth of Christ.
Dr. Doug CarverExecutive Director of Chaplaincy • North American Mission Board
Chaplain (Major General) Doug Carver, US Army, retired, is the executive director of chaplaincy for the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board. An advocate for the religious liberty of service members, veterans, and their families, he oversees the professional and pastoral support to 3,700 Southern Baptist chaplains who minister in various institutional settings in the United States and around the world.
Prior to joining the North American Mission Board, he was the Army’s 22nd Chief of Chaplains (2007-2011), leading and serving over 2,900 chaplains supporting the religious and pastoral needs of our 1.2 million soldiers and families. Chaplain Carver served at every level of the Army, from platoon to the Department of the Army Staff. At the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, he served as the senior military chaplain in the combat theater of operations. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in religion from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, a Master of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Master of Science in strategic studies from the United States Army War College in Carlisle, PA. He also holds honorary doctoral degrees from Shorter University in Rome, GA and Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO. In 2016, he was inducted into the University of Tennessee’s Inaugural Army ROTC Hall of Fame.
An ordained Southern Baptist minister, Chaplain Carver has pastored churches in Colorado, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia. A native of Rome, GA, he and his wife, Sunny, celebrate 49 years of marriage and reside in Charlotte, NC near their two daughters and four grandchildren.
