Vacant Church: West Hyattsville Baptist Church, Hyattsville, MD (Deadline:...
West Hyattsville Baptist Church is a 57 year old church located in Hyattsville, Maryland within a 30 minute drive from downtown Washington, DC with a membership of approximately 100 people. The...
View ArticleVacant Church: Bethesda Baptist Church, Washington, DC (Deadline: August 5,...
Vacancy Announcement Bethesda Baptist Church District of Columbia Opening Date: June 10, 2013/Closing Date: August 5, 2013 Bethesda Baptist Church is seeking a Pastor who meets the requirements set...
View ArticleThe Skittles and Iced Tea Communion
by Robert Earl Houston Recently I was made aware of a “movement” by some ministers following the tragic miscarriage of justice in the George Zimmerman case. Believe me, I am outraged, angered, shocked,...
View ArticleHomegoing of a Saint: Rev. Carl L. (C.L.) Buhl, Waco, Texas
Reverend C.L. Buhl, pastor of the Zion Hill Baptist Church, Waco, TX and former pastor of the Greater Mt. Baker Baptist Church, Seattle, WA, has gone home to be with the Lord. He passed on July 14,...
View ArticleVacant Church: New Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, Highland Park,...
“Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.” Psalm 127:1 New Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church of Highland Park, MI established in 1952, is seeking a spirit filled...
View ArticleHomegoing of a Saint: Rev. Lance Chaney, Boyton Beach, Florida
From the Sun-Sentinel Newspaper: Prominent Boynton pastor dies after battle with cancer Rev. Lance Chaney of St. John Missionary Baptist Church will be missed by the community Reverend Lance Chaney...
View ArticleHomegoing of a Saint: Rev. Marion D. Bennett, Sr., Las Vegas, NV
By TOM RAGAN from the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL The Rev. Marion D. Bennett Sr., former Nevada assemblyman and defender of civil rights who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s and...
View ArticleFruitvale Station
by Robert Earl Houston It is very rare that you sit in a movie theater and hear people – both men and women – openly weep. Tonight we went to see “Fruitvale Station” which struck an extraordinary...
View ArticleWhere Are The Black Pastoral Bloggers?
by Robert Earl Houston Where art thou? . . . (Genesis ) I’ve been “blogging” off and on for several years. Recently, I discovered a way to combine several of my enterprises, namely “Homegoing of the...
View ArticleThe 148th Annual General Association of Baptists in Kentucky
by Robert Earl Houston LOUISVILLE, KY – This week I am a delegate representing First Baptist Church at the oldest and largest assembly of African-American Baptists in our state. Better known as the...
View ArticleThe Cane
by Robert Earl Houston For the last few weeks and most noticeably in Frankfort and now at the General Association of Baptists in Kentucky session in Louisville, I have been walking with the assistance...
View ArticleVacant Church: Trinity Baptist Church, Florence, South Carolina (deadline:...
Trinity Baptist Church of Florence, South Carolina Trinity Baptist Church, located in Florence, South Carolina is currently seeking a full-time experienced pastor who is an energetic visionary...
View ArticleHomegoing of a Saint: Rev. Tim Kirby, Detroit, Michigan
A father and pastor known for his community activism was shot and k!lled because he asked neighbors to keep the noise down, according to local affiliateWDIV in Detroit. Tim Kirby, 46, was a father of...
View ArticleThe Virtue of Knowing When To Let Go
by Robert Earl Houston DETROIT, MI – Today I am at the 52nd Annual Session of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., which has served as my denominational home since I began pastoring the...
View ArticleWhat My Musicians Lack
by Robert Earl Houston DETROIT, MI – I am a blessed pastor. For a multiplicity of reasons. I have the privilege of leading one of the oldest congregations in the nation, the First Baptist Church of...
View ArticleThe Passing of the Torches
by Robert Earl Houston It is customary at the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. that when the Nominating Committee comes forth, they always present the prognosis of elections. ”Next year,...
View ArticleHomegoing of the Saints – Rev. Clarence E. Baity, Gary, Indiana
From the Post-Trib.com: GARY, INDIANA – Reverend Clarence E. Baity was born on May 10th 1934 to William Everett Baity and Roberta Munn Baity, in Poinsett, Arkansas. Pastor Baity traded his earthly...
View ArticleHomegoing of a Saint: Dr. Joseph McDowell, Lexington, Kentucky
by Robert Earl Houston AUGUST 14, 2013 – Kentucky has suffered a tremendous loss in the homegoing of Dr. Joseph McDowell, pastor of the First Baptist Church Utteringtown in Lesington. Dr. McDowell...
View ArticleDear Angry Associate Minister
by Robert Earl Houston I spent the first and formative years of my ministry under the wise counsel of my father in the ministry, the late Dr. Arthur Bernard Devers, I at the New Hope Missionary...
View ArticleVacant Church: New Mission Missionary Baptist Church, Indianapolis, IN...
New Mission Missionary Baptist Church Pastoral Search New Mission Missionary Baptist Church in Indianapolis, IN is seeking a biblically educated candidate with a vision for spiritual and membership...
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