The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) was held entirely online on Monday and Tuesday, November 9-10. Nearly 1,100 registrants participated in events ranging from the Pastor's Conference Monday afternoon to 10 breakout sessions on Tuesday.
A highlight of the meeting was Monday evening’s worship celebration, a two-hour video event centered on the theme, “Deep Roots, Green Shoots,” and focused on Isaiah 43:19: “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” The worship celebration was preceded by a 15-minute prelude of music and worship videos submitted by BGAV churches, and it concluded with an postlude with videos from more churches.
Executive Director John Upton led the worship celebration alongside BGAV President Adam Tyler, as they highlighted the ongoing ministries of BGAV and its churches over the past year of challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic response. “Many of us made some changes over the past year that we’ve realized we probably should have made anyway—with or without the pandemic,” Upton commented. “We’ve been summoned to a new way of life—a new way of doing things.”
