By Kristy Bay When Emily Niehoff, a New Jersey native, started her undergraduate education at Virginia Tech, vocational ministry was not on her radar. She majored in Creative Technologies with a double minor in art history and communications, hoping to pursue a graphic design career in New York City. But God had other plans. Through … Continue reading
“What if the ambitious way of thinking and feeling and acting that we see emanating from the heart of God took root in us?”
CBF Executive Coordinator Paul Baxley posed this question to Cooperative Baptist leaders during the opening plenary session of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s winter governance meetings in Decatur, Ga., where members of the CBF Governing Board, Nominating Committee, Missions Council, Ministries Council and Foundation Board gathered January 26-27. Continue reading
enero 27, 2023 Por Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Ga. – “¿Qué pasaría si la ambiciosa forma de pensar, sentir y actuar que vemos emanar del corazón de Dios se arraigara en nosotros?” El Coordinador Ejecutivo de la CBF, Paul Baxley, planteó esta pregunta a los líderes de las diferentes juntas de gobierno Bautistas Cooperativas durante la … Continue reading
By Laura Ellis The life of any church is affirmed on the faith-filled hope that came from those who paved the way, and that others will follow to carry the torch. The congregation at First Baptist Church on Fifth in Winston-Salem, NC, recently celebrated its 150th anniversary, believing that they are participating in part of … Continue reading
By Brooke, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel My family has had the wonderful honor of helping with ministry on a remote island in our country for the past several years. Many of the villages on this island do not have electricity, and we get to watch as light is finally brought to their churches by … Continue reading
By Grayson Hester In marginalized communities at home and abroad, the church isn’t simply the center of spiritual life, it’s the center of life, period. Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel Brooke and Mike’s ministry in Southeast Asia bears witness to this reality, when a well-lit church (as covered in our story on pp. 22-24 about … Continue reading
DATE January 25, 2023 By Lauren Lamb Lee esta página en español aquí. DECATUR, Ga. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Ministries Council invites you to submit a proposal for funding a project to support the efforts of your church in building bridges within your church and in your community. The Ministries Grant Team will consider applications … Continue reading
Exhaustion affects us all differently. For me, it is a building effect, usually displaying itself in an inability to fall asleep at night because my mind is racing with all the worst possible scenarios of how the incidents leading to my stress will play out. What about you? What about when everyone is experiencing a … Continue reading
By Hannah Turner CBF Global Service Corps Personnel “All you people: Trust in God at all times! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our refuge!” Psalm 62:8 Sometimes the biggest obstacle that keeps me from dwelling with God is myself. Clouds of thought often wrap my mind and heart. The opaqueness and thickness … Continue reading
By Grayson Hester “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden…In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:14-16) When God created the heavens and the earth and proclaimed “let there … Continue reading
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