Churches Rally Around Everyone Belongs Camp By Ben McBride, Madison Wells-James and Sharon Mager It was hot, sticky and abundantly joyful at the annual “Everyone Belongs” Camp, July 28-30 at Skycroft Conference Center. The camp, sponsored by the Baptist Convention of...
Kensington Baptist Church: One Hundred Years of Memories One hundred years ago, in the “Roaring Twenties,” while the Jazz Age blossomed and prohibition was in force, a Godly woman named Ida Simms led in enlisting 27 charter members to form a new Baptist church....
FBC Laurel Creates International Legacy The seven believers who started First Baptist Church of Laurel (FBCL) on Dec. 17, 1891, couldn’t have fathomed what God would do with their small step of faith. Chartered in 1892, those saints, as they sang hymns while meeting...
ESL teacher training starts on Jan 25 LAUREL, Md.—Jessie Liang (not her real name) earned a Ph.D. in China, but when her husband’s job moved her to the United States, she found herself starting over from scratch with her studies. She was struggling to get by on a few...