“Jesus is Still Compelling”

“Jesus is Still Compelling”

Last week I spent the week in Montreat, NC at a Youth Ministry event, Oasis. Oasis is put on by the Cooperative Baptist Youth Ministry Network, of which I am an active member and on the leadership team. I gathered with 70 other mostly CBF Youth Ministers as we spent...
Celebrate 50 & 50 More – Winter 2017

Celebrate 50 & 50 More – Winter 2017

My Church Family My association with River Road Church began when I was a student at Westhampton College. Mr. Cary, a member of the church, drove over in a bus to pick us up. Mr. Hasty was pastor then and we met in what is now the Fellowship Hall. I remember one...
Journey to the Cross

Journey to the Cross

Some of my earliest memories are of long road-trips with my family. One of them was a car ride from our home in Fredericksburg to my father’s hometown of Auburn, Alabama. My parents, two older brothers, and I piled into the station wagon and drove through the night...

Gathering, Celebrating, & Blessing

Celebrating our Congregation What are we celebrating on Celebration Sunday? Because life tends to organize itself around school schedules (even for those of us without children or with grown children!), we recognize that at the beginning of September, a new school...