White guy with baseball cap is role model for black youth
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–He’s an unusual role model for urban African American youth: a middle-aged white guy with a Yankees baseball cap and a big boyish grin. Yet Jack Dempsey scores big with his basketball team in the Richmond (Va.) Baptist Association’s RA program by being tough on discipline, tough on character and tough on the […]
Baptist ministry leader from Serbia gives refugees food, shelter, hope
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–When Jasmina Tosic first asserted her Christian faith as a teenager in Serbia in the 1980s, her father burned her Bible. But his action only incited her desire to study the Word of God more, lighting a fire within her that has blazed stronger than the bombs around her homeland. In the midst […]