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  • West Virginia elects Eric Ramsey executive director
    by WVSBC Staff, posted Monday, February 10, 2020 (4 years ago)

    SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. (BP) -- Eric Ramsey was elected executive director-treasurer of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists by the WVCSB Executive Board during a special called meeting Feb. 1 at the state office in Scott Depot.

    "West Virginia Southern Baptists are a Gospel-passionate people whom God has utilized for half of a century to declare His glory among our neighbors and the nations," Ramsey said. "[My wife] Gaye and I are humbled and grateful to be joining our hearts and our hands with West Virginia Southern Baptists to run to the darkness with the light of the Gospel." Read More

  • West Virginia Baptists elect youngest-ever president
    by WVCSB Staff, posted Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Messengers at the 49th annual meeting of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists (WVCSB) elected 26-year-old Mason Ballard, pastor/planter of Resurrection Church in Charleston as 30th convention president.

    "Your Cooperative Program investment in Mason Ballard is something you all should be proud of because he is reaping great fruit through the power of the Lord," Ed Goodman, director of missions for the Upper Ohio Valley Baptist Association, told messengers during his nomination speech. Read More

  • Henard to transition from W.Va. executive director

    by By Staff, posted Wednesday, July 17, 2019 (5 years ago)

    SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. (BP) -- William D. "Bill" Henard, executive director-treasurer of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists since 2015, has accepted a call to pastor First Baptist Church in Athens, Tenn., the convention reported in a July 17 news release.

    In a letter to the administrative committee of the convention's Executive Board, Henard stated, "I have made the decision that it is time for me to return to the pastorate. It has not been an easy decision but one to which I believe God has led me." Read More

  • 'Jesus is worth it,' Greear tells W.Va. Baptists
    by Cleve Persinger, posted Monday, November 12, 2018 (5 years ago)

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    PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (BP) -- Obeying Jesus' command to spread the Gospel is worth the changes His mission often entails in our lives, Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear told West Virginia Baptists at the group's 2018 annual meeting.

    "If you're really serious about following Jesus, obedience to him is going to take you 180 degrees opposite of the direction you want to go," Greear said, "and in that moment the only thing that will compel you forward is the belief that Jesus is worth it!"

    Greear, a West Virginia native and current pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., focused on four convictions of people who transform the world during the meeting, ... Read More

  • Opioid crisis emerges as key W.Va. Baptist ministry
    by Ken Walker, posted Thursday, October 25, 2018 (5 years ago)

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    SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. (BP) -- Soon after West Virginia Baptists passed a resolution last November urging churches to get involved in addressing the opioid crisis, the state's Upper Ohio Valley Baptist Association started preliminary planning for a Celebrate Recovery group.

    After five months of leader training, an interdenominational group of churches in the Moundsville area hosted their first Celebrate Recovery meeting in early September. Read More

  • W.Va. Baptists 'all in,' tackle opioid crisis
    by Cleve Persinger, posted Wednesday, November 15, 2017 (6 years ago)

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    FAIRLEA, W.Va. (BP) -- During their annual meeting, West Virginia Baptists were urged to be "all in" through seeking to grow as a convention united in generosity in response to the Gospel. Messengers also pledged to battle the state's drug epidemic during the convention's 47th annual meeting.

    During the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists (WVCSB) annual meeting -- held Nov. 2-3 at First Baptist Church of Fairlea, W.Va. -- 173 messengers and 41 guests marked a continued increase in total attendance over previous WVCSB annual meetings. Read More

  • W.Va. state convention pres. Ron McCoy dies
    by David Roach, posted Monday, December 12, 2016 (7 years ago)

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    WHEELING, W.Va. (BP) -- Ron McCoy, the second-term president of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists who urged his state's Baptists last month to be catalysts for revival, died Dec. 8 after a battle with cancer. He was 78.

    Associational missionary for the Upper Ohio Valley Baptist Association in Wheeling, W.Va., since 2014, McCoy was elected WVCSB president in 2015 and again last month.

    Addressing attendees at the WVCSB annual meeting Nov. 3-4 in Triadelphia, ... Read More

  • W.Va. Baptists set goals for 2020
    by Cleve Persinger, posted Monday, November 21, 2016 (7 years ago)

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    TRIDELPHIA, W.Va. (BP) -- Gathering around the theme "a new day," West Virginia Southern Baptists were introduced to three new convention strategists and presented with four-year goals for church planting and baptisms.

    Meeting Nov. 3-4 at the Fairfield Inn and Suites Wheeling Triadelphia at The Highlands in Triadelphia, W.Va., 155 messengers and 48 guests marked a 120 percent increase in total attendance over last year's West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists annual meeting. Read More

  • W.Va. increases CP, decries Planned Parenthood
    by Staff/Baptist Press & West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists, posted Tuesday, November 17, 2015 (8 years ago)

    CEREDO, W.Va. (BP) -- Messengers to the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists called for an end to public funding of Planned Parenthood and increased the percentage of Cooperative Program receipts they will forward to Southern Baptist Convention causes. Read More