Planting the Seeds of Love

Today’s guest post comes from Kathi and Steve Genett, HRBC members and organizers of the Wren’s Nest Community Garden and free pantry. Greetings! We absolutely love and cherish our faith family at Huguenot Road Baptist Church. We are passionately engaged...

A Faithful Journey

Today’s guest post is from Rod Hale, former pastor, state missionary for the Baptist General Association of Virginia, and member of HRBC. Recently, I spent several days in the hospital, the one I was born in 83 years ago. Much has changed in that time; it cost...

Step Out of the Traffic

The psalmist wrote, “Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)  This is one of my favorite passages in all of scripture. I especially appreciate the way that Eugene Peterson translated it in his contemporary paraphrase,  “Step out of the traffic! Take a...

How to Tell Your Story

Everyone has a story to be told.  I have heard it said, “There’s a book inside every person just waiting to be written.”  As Christians, we can think of saying it this way: “Every Christian has a personal testimony waiting to be shared.”  On Sunday June 25, the theme...

Women In The Church

What is the position of HRBC on the role of women in the church? (Recently, the Southern Baptist Convention amended its constitution to include a permanent ban on female pastors. This was over and above the Baptist Faith and Message which was revised in 2000 toward...

25 Years In Ministry

Twenty-five years ago today, on June 14, 1998, I was ordained to the Gospel Ministry by our home church, First Baptist Church (FBC), Orangeburg, South Carolina.  That May, I graduated from the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR) and that July I began...