My Journey of Revitalization This article is part of our Blue Ridge Baptist Association focus through March. Dan Housam is the pastor of North Valley Church (NVC) in Myersville, a replant of Myersville Baptist Church. According to a 2020 North American Mission Board...
Death Precedes Resurrection By Larry Davis There has been a shift in the overall perspective of Christians in America that is now impacting the life and death cycle of the local church. When the church was in its infancy, death and sacrifice were understood to be a...
Replanting or revitalization By Dr. Randy Millwood Decades ago, Dr. Bob Dale imaged the life cycle of a local church with a bell curve. Many have done so since. And, while the specific stages vary, the paths all look similar. In the very best of circumstances, local...
New Life at Clinton Baptist Church by Sharon Mager Clinton Baptist Church’s (CBC) 900-person worship center sat empty. The 50 classrooms in the church building — a lovely structure situated on 12 acres (including a baseball field!) in Prince George’s County — echoed...
The Year of Revitalization by Mark Dooley I’ve always been curious about the “Year of …” lists that appear — the year of the tiger, the year of the rat, and so forth. Who decides about those things? In my brief research, I’ve been able to determine these things are...