In The Land Of Mao, A Rising Tide Of Christianity
The church is marking husband-and-wife day, which is an annual celebration of faith and community. A thousand people each week from dozens of nearby villages pack into this church, situated about 300 miles from Shanghai. Official Chinese surveys now show that nearly one in three Chinese describe themselves as religious, an astonishing figure for an... Continue Reading
St. Simon’s Island, Georgia congregation calls native of Scotland as new pastor
The faithful at Golden Isles Presbyterian Church are giving thanks. Their new pastor, the Rev. Alexander Brown, took the pulpit June 6 and was ordained as a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). A native of Scotland, Brown grew up in the coastal town of Carnoustie. During his undergraduate education at the University... Continue Reading
Raleigh, NC area PCA church plant expands space, ministry
After more than four years of wandering in the Garner wilderness, the flock at Sovereign King Church finally has a place to call home. The small faith community, founded in 2006 by the Rev. Gordon Duncan and his wife, Amy, began meeting last Sunday in renovated space in a shopping center in the Raleigh suburb... Continue Reading
Study: Compensation for Pastors Keeping Pace with Inflation
Compensation for full-time Southern Baptist pastors is rising slightly faster than inflation, but the mounting cost of benefits is forcing churches to provide fewer pastors with medical insurance. These and other findings are part of the SBC Church Compensation Study, a survey of 11,674 staff positions in Southern Baptist churches. LifeWay Research conducted the survey... Continue Reading
Battle over historic Episcopal Church property in Savannah heads for Georgia Supreme Court
“The Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, another old, historic downtown church has most graciously offered their facilities for us,” Robertson says. Members of Georgia’s oldest Episcopal church are making one more appeal in their long-running fight to hang on to a church they believe is theirs. Savannah’s 277 year-old Christ Church broke off from its... Continue Reading
Church Congregations struggle in aging, decaying church buildings
Caring for old church facilities is an increasingly acute problem, particularly for mainline Protestant denominations. About halfway through Sunday service at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as worshipers passed around the collection plate, a chorus of screams pierced the air. Chunks of the ceiling in the 52-year-old church near Hickory came crashing down on the crowd... Continue Reading
Southwest Regional Southern Baptist Founders Conference Scheduled for September
“Being a Calvinist in the SBC” – September 23 – 25, 2010 – Mansfield, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth area) What is the Southern Baptist Founders Conference? The purpose of the conference is to glorify God, honor His gospel, and strengthen His churches by providing encouragement to Southern Baptists in historical, Biblical, theological, practical, and ecumenical studies.... Continue Reading
Resignations from Anglican Communion Standing Committee Reveal Break-down of the Communion
In what can only be seen as a clear repudiation of liberalism and Western pan-Anglican revisionism, more resignations from the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion (SCAC) were announced this week. These resignations resulted in further humiliation and embarrassment for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. The committee is made up of 15 members elected... Continue Reading
Complaint of Korean-American PCUSA majority congregation against Synod property decision reaches Judicial Commission
“It is a well-known plot that an administrative commission has been employed to take the ownership and control of the local church property under the auspices of ecclesiastical authority,” says the complaint An administrative commission for the Synod of Lincoln Trails is exceeding its authority by acting as the synod, the presbytery and the local... Continue Reading
EPC Stated Clerk welcomes decision by PCUSA’s GA
Dr. Jeffrey J. Jeremiah, stated clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, welcomed the news that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) had voted to stop accusing the EPC of stealing the PCUSA’s sheep. Those charges first began with former Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick, who denounced the EPC because PCUSA congregations left the mainline... Continue Reading
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