By Mary Elizabeth Hanchey April is Infertility Awareness Month. One in every eight couples faces infertility. Sometimes the cause lies with the woman’s body. Sometimes the cause lies with the man’s body. Sometimes the cause is a complicated combination of problems. Sometimes the cause is unknown. But, one out of every eight couples who … Continue reading
By Jaime Fitzgerald This year I was not feeling Holy Week. When I thought about sitting in a congregation celebrating the coming into town of Jesus it made me nauseous. I absolutely adore children, but Palm Sunday this year filled my stomach with butterflies of anxiety as I imagined beautifully dressed boys and girls carrying … Continue reading
By Mary Van Rheenen One Christmas, God used the African English Bible study of a Dutch Baptist church to reach a Polish woman and a Moroccan man. This is partly how: My husband Keith Holmes and I are actually in Europe to serve as resource coordinators for the Romany community. One of the main resources Keith coordinates … Continue reading
April 25, 2016 By Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Ga. — “Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.” This was the oft-repeated message of Martin Luther King, Jr., throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King’s vision — rooted in the belief that God is love and love is of … Continue reading
By Aaron Weaver April 22, 1970 was an important day in the history of our nation. It marked the first-ever celebration of Earth Day — an event that put environmentalism front-and-center in American society in a very visible way. With more than 20 million participants across the United States, Earth Day demonstrated the popular grassroots … Continue reading
By Lita and Rick Sample The San Francisco Bay Area is a beautiful area – in more ways than one. It is a pocket of mountains, ocean and most beautifully, diverse people. There are around 150 languages spoken in the Bay Area, and with the many languages come many religions. These great number of people … Continue reading
By Shane and Dianne McNary Support from the CBF Offering for Global Missions enables us to concentrate on nurturing long-term relationships in local communities. These relationships are not built on promises of long-term funding. We receive no ministry funds from the Offering. What we do receive is funding for our presence – which includes not … Continue reading
CBF field personnel share Christ’s great love through literacy ministry in South Florida By Blake Tommey Brian was 10 years old when he first enrolled at Touching Miami with Love, an organization sharing Christ’s great love through literacy and educational ministries. Yet, Brian couldn’t read. Although he had struggled with dyslexia for most of his … Continue reading
April 14, 2016 By Carrie McGuffin and Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Ga. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has released a new resource for congregations, challenging Christians to connect pilgrimage and mission. PilgriMission: Transform by Being Transformed aims to create space to connect these means of transformation before, during and after engaging in short-term mission experiences. Based … Continue reading
April 13, 2016 CONTACT: Katie Thompson, katie.thompson@cpjustice.org (Center for Public Justice) Faith leaders release research on ‘harmful’ and ‘predatory’ payday loans WASHINGTON, D.C.— Faith for Just Lending (FJL), a diverse coalition of faith-based organizations, announced today the results of new polling from LifeWay Research on payday lending along with a new report titled The Collateral … Continue reading