May 31, 2017 By Carrie McGuffin DECATUR, Ga. — Two Cooperative Baptist seminarians from Baylor University and Wake Forest University will be honored June 30 with the Daniel and Earlene Vestal Scholarship at the CBF General Assembly in Atlanta. Christopher Dean, a student at Baylor’s Truett Theological Seminary, and Jenna Sullivan, a student at Wake … Continue reading
By Blake Tommey “More milk, more money,” says Gazmend Muharemi, co-founder of Aya Farm in northwest Macedonia. For Muharemi and his partners, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel Alicia and Jeff Lee, however, money generated by cow banking means renewal – not for their own pocketbooks – but for the community they love. Cow banking begins … Continue reading
May 25, 2017 By Jeff Huett and Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Ga. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will focus on greater church engagement, diversity initiatives and identity-building while right-sizing its budget for fiscal year 2017-2018, CBF Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter announced today. The changes are a strategic investment in the future of God’s work through the … Continue reading
By CBF Foundation Little Sophie Harris was heartbroken when she was not selected to be Mary, mother of Jesus, in her church’s children’s Christmas program. So her dad wrote a story about a little girl who was chosen to be an angel. It was the beginning of sharing stories and life lessons that would lead … Continue reading
By Suzii Paynter My duties take me into many conversations with leaders of other faiths. Below is a comment that I recently received: “I have read your Bible. I was surprised to find it much more interesting than a book of laws and wisdom teachings like I was expecting. It was full of personal stories; … Continue reading
By Chris Hughes It began with a simple question: “If we were to ask people in our community what they thought about Kirkwood Baptist Church, what would they say?” That is the way Daniel Johnson, then associate pastor for students at Kirkwood stands as an annual day of service in Kirkwood, Mo., which draws more than 650 … Continue reading
By Martha Perusek The CBF Offering for Global Missions and missions giving are so much more than a once-a-year passing of the plate. At its finest, the Offering has the power to not only transform lives at home and abroad, but to also connect churches to God’s larger plan for the world. “We have found … Continue reading
By Mike Hutchinson I hold out my missionary hand to help the poor and expect that someone will place another hand, no more. But into my upturned hand someone places a heart and with a pump and a start I feel it’s story, a painful part and it begins to burn a hole in my … Continue reading
By Jeff Huett Years before she would become one, Trudy Pettibone was a bit sheepish about women pastors. In fact, around 1995, she almost stayed in her hotel room rather than attend a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship meeting at University Baptist Church in Bloomington, Ind., where Annette Hill Briggs was pastor. She decided to attend the … Continue reading
By Cynthia Insko During the first week of May I had the joy of participating in a community of a Five Day Academy for Spiritual Formation co-sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and The Upper Room of the United Methodist Church. As part of the planning team, I had spent months anticipating the experience in hopes of … Continue reading