Baptist Church: Last News

Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, propelling a once-unknown songwriter from south-central Virginia onto the national stage. But he’s staying close to his roots.He opened his Rock the Block festival appearance by reading a Bible verse to the crowd of about 350 locals then said, “Despite what you’ve been reading on the Internet, this song still rings true,” and launched into his first song, “Ain’t Got a Dollar.”His life has changed since he first sang its lyric “I ain’t gotta dollar, But I don’t need a dime,” with his estimated earnings now as high as $40,000 a day.Then the crowd became his chorus when he sang his viral hit hit “Rich Men North of Richmond,” and when he invited anyone who wanted an autograph or photo after his four-tune set on the “Rock the Block” festival stage on Fourth Street, squeezed between the Railroad Club and First Baptist Church, he was mobbed.It was his second Farmville gig in four days.

‘Vital’ community services – including a food bank – are under threat after a charity announced redundancies after funding ‘dried up’.

Lisa Kennedy One of the more engaging figures in Ondi Timoner’s 2022 documentary, “The Last Flight Home” — about the decision of her 92-year-old father, Eli Timoner, to use California’s end-of-life option — was the director’s sister, Rachel. A rabbi, Rachel Timoner brought a pastoral warmth and spiritual insight to the sorrows and joys, rites and spiritual reckoning of a family honoring their beloved’s departure. Now, with “All God’s Children,” Timoner gives her older sister an affirming but unsentimental close-up.

USA Today that Hanbury’s death “does not appear suspicious at this time.” The investigation remains active and ongoing.J.J. Hanbury later confirmed his brother’s death on Facebook.“We’re all struggling and this is so hard,” he wrote.

Families struggling with the cost of living crisis are being offered some early Christmas help, with a community group set to hand out free bags of food.

Christian pastor Aaron Thompson explained why he enjoys using anti-gay slurs while preaching the Bible in a video posted Sept. 15 on Twitter.Thompson is a pastor at Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Vancouver, Wash.

For the love of God, honey. La Verne Ford Wimberly, 82, is serving the Lord in style.  Shining in the holy trinity of high fashion, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, native meticulously color coordinates her outfits, hats and jewelry to attend Metropolitan Baptist Church’s virtual services via Zoom each week. “In the 20 years I’ve been going to church there, I’ve always had my little routine that I learned from my mother as a girl,” Wimberly told the Washington Post. “I’d pick out a nice outfit and hat and lay it out the night before, so that I could be prepared and look presentable.”She has donned her lavish garments of praise for remote worship every Sunday since the church transitioned to online meetings in March 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus

A Missouri pastor is on leave from his church after getting heat over a seriously sexist sermon in which he criticized married women who “let themselves go.”

A pastor from Missouri has come under fire for his controversial comments about Former First Lady Melania Trump, which many deemed sexist and misogynistic. Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark of the Malden First General Baptist Church said that women should strive to achieve a figure like Melania’s in order to keep their husband’s attention. In a 22-minute video of his February sermon, which went viral on March 7, he deemed Melania an “epic trophy wife” and held her up as an example of what women should aspire to.