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A community health screening for Mathews residents was held last Thursday at Antioch Baptist Church, Susan. Screening services offered included body mass index, blood pressure and HbA1c (test for determining diabetes). The clinic, which was held by the Gloucester Mathews Free Clinic, was made possible through a grant from the Mathews Rotary Club. Here, a patient gets her blood sugar level screened by Kelly Moneymaker, RN, GMCC’s director of patient care. Standing behind them, from left, are the Rev. Julia Forrest of Antioch Baptist, and Bill Stearns and Tim Hill of the Mathews Rotary Club. Another GMCC health screening is slated for Saturday, May 8, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Mathews Baptist Church.
J.D. Greear, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor The Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, speaks at the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission s Caring Well Conference in Grapevine, Texas, on Oct. 3, 2019. | ERLC/Karen Race Photography
John Randy Leming Jr., a pastor at Antioch Baptist Church in Sevierville, Tennessee, whose past as a convicted rapist caused the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee to disfellowship his congregation last month, has resigned.
Leming, according to the Baptist and Reflector, announced his resignation on Feb. 28, five days after the SBC Executive Committee announced the church was being expelled for employing the pastor who confessed to two counts of statutory rape.
Human remains from a lost cemetery have been found in Clearwater
St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery was moved in the mid-1950s but the unmarked graves were left behind.
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Archaeologist Ashley Medina, left, and Kelsey Kreiser, with Cardno, collect and journal artifacts on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, while working to confirm ground-penetrating radar results which have indicated 70 âpossible gravesâ from where Clearwater s black St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery was located at the FrankCrum staffing firm property at Missouri Avenue and Pierce Street in Clearwater. The excavation comes after more than a year of research by archaeologists with Cardno, the University of South Florida, the NAACP, and the local community. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD ]
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Pastor Jim Conrad said the Southern Baptist Convention cutting ties with his church will open a new chapter for the Kennesaw congregation. (Image courtesy Towne View Baptist Church)
The Southern Baptist Convention cut ties with a Kennesaw church over its decision to accept LGBTQ members, but the church is sticking by its new policy and receiving acclaim from across the U.S.
“If three to five percent of the population – somehow in God’s wisdom – is not straight or cisgender, then we should celebrate them as they are and invite them to follow Jesus and join us in this journey,” Pastor Jim Conrad of Towne View Baptist Church told Project Q Atlanta.