Tribute to David W. Adkins

David will be “missed by many who knew him as pastor, colleague, friend and beloved family,” offers Joann Adkins Davis of her brother, David W. Adkins, who died Friday, Sept. 14 in Winchester, Va. of a rare neurological disease, multiple systems atrophy.

Woodside Church gets a new home

Woodside Church in Flint, Mich., an Alliance of Baptists congregational partner, has a new home. 

Barely five months since leaving its mid-century building in the College Cultural Neighborhood, and nearly 150 years after building its first permanent home two blocks away at West First Avenue and Lyon Street, Woodside leaders announce the church's return to Carriage Town and a new era of life for the congregation. 

Fall Programming

Whether your congregation has a full slate lined up, or you are preparing to open your whole children’s department in a single classroom, fall programming is a vestige of 20th-century American Christianity—and I’m not just talking about the bright colored construction paper stapled to a bulletin board.