Viers Mill Baptist: Five Congregations, Four Languages, One Body SILVER SPRING, Md. — Viers Mill Baptist Church (VMBC) is uniquely multi-ethnic, being home to five congregations with four languages. And they’re not the kind of church where the congregations are ships...
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...
