February 9, 2024

By Aaron Weaver

DECATUR, Ga. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is excited to announce the release of the 2024 Emmanuel McCall Lenten Devotional series. This new resource, available in English and Spanish, was prepared by CBF family and friends for the season of Lent beginning Feb.14.

The McCall Lenten series features wonderful reflections on God’s Word, thought-provoking questions, prayers, art, noteworthy information, resources for action and a Spotify music playlist. It is desired for use by individuals, small groups and congregations.

Rev. Kasey Jones, CBF Associate Coordinator for Outreach & Growth, shared the impetus for this new Lenten resource.

“We live in a curious time that is fragmented by anger, greed, self-gratification, anxiety and prejudice. The world would be a better place if we learned to love without limit,” said Jones, who leads CBF’s Dr. Emmanuel McCall Racial Justice & Leadership Initiative. “Each of us could benefit from a time of contemplative self-reflection, focusing our attention as the Bible teaches in 1 Cor. 13:4-7.”

With the theme of Love, Justice & Relationships, the 2024 McCall Lenten Devotional series aims to “encourage readers to push beyond the superficial and do the hard work of speaking the truths about love and how real love is the basis of justice for all of God’s people,” Jones said.

Jones invited readers to journey together through Lent reflecting on these devotions and their calls to pursue justice for all of God’s people.

Preview and download the McCall Lenten resource at www.cbf.net/mccall. Sign-up to receive a daily devotional e-mail from this resource in your inbox each morning during Lent.

The Devotional Committee for this resource includes Charles Collins, Sharon Felton, Jeffery Howard, Kasey Jones and Antonio Vargas. The Production Team includes Aaron Weaver, Amy Cook, Lauren Lamb, Jeff Langford and Xiomara Reboyras.

Devotional contributors include:

• Emmanuel McCall, Namesake CBF McCall Racial Justice Initiative, Retired Pastor, Union City, Ga.
• Mark Snipes, Coordinator, CBF Virginia, Richmond, Va.
• James C. Perkins, Pastor Emeritus, Greater Christ Baptist Church, Detroit, Mich.
• T. Devan Franklin III, Senior Pastor, Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Nashville, Tenn.
• Paul Baxley, Executive Coordinator, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Decatur, Ga.
• Benji Suprice, Associate Pastor, Church of the City, New London, Conn.
• Lisa Brownlee, Emmanuel Baptist Fellowship, Columbia, S.C.
• Sharon Felton, CBF Congregational Advocacy Manager, Frankfort, Ky.
• Ivory Thigpen, Sr., Pastor, Rehoboth Baptist Church, Columbia, S.C.
• Esther Pearson, Senior Pastor, Beth Eden Baptist Church, Waltham, Mass.
• Trisha Miller Manarin, Executive Director/Minister of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention, Washington, D.C.
• Charles E. Collins, Jr., CBF Pan African Koinonia Steering Committee, Senior Pastor, Sufficient Grace Ministries, Washington, D.C.
• Brian Harrington, Georgetown Baptist Church, Georgetown, Ky.
• Joy Yee, Senior Pastor, Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church, San Francisco, Calif.
• Tina Boyles Bailey, CBF Field Personnel, Austria
• Fredricc Gerard Brock, CBF Pan African Koinonia Steering Committee, Lead Pastor and Co-Founder, The Message Church, San Antonio, Texas
• James Briggs, CBF Pan African Koinonia Steering Committee, Senior Pastor, Daybreak Metropolitan Church, Dallas, Texas
• Co’Relous C. Bryant, Senior Pastor, United Church, Lincoln, Vermont
• Spencer Law, Andover Newton Seminary, Yale Divinity School, Richmond, Va.
• Charlton L. Johnson I, Together for Hope, Regional Vice President for Delta, Pearl, Miss.
• Genesis Tejada, CBF Student.Go Alumna, New London, Conn.
• Carlos Navarro, Pastor, Iglesia Bautista West Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas
• Jessalyn Brown, George W. Truett Theological Seminary Student, Waco, Texas
• Cheryl Moore Adamson, Pastor, Palmetto Missionary Baptist Church, Conway, S.C.
• Jessica Hill, Church of the City, New London, Conn.
• Sabrina Dent, Director of the BJC Center for Faith, Justice and Reconciliation, Washington, D.C.
• Daniel Sostaita, Pastor, Iglesia Cristiana Sin Fronteras, Winston-Salem, N.C.
• Harold Segura, Director of Faith & Development for World Vision, Latin America & Caribbean
• Kan’Dace L. Brock, Lead Pastor and Co-Founder, The Message Church, San Antonio, Texas
• Ansia Chahoy, CBF-Endorsed Chaplain, New Jersey
• Wayne M. Weathers, Senior Pastor, Vision of Hope Baptist, Professor, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Penn.
• Lane Riley, Associate Coordinator, CBF of South Carolina, Greenwood, S.C.
• Alan Redditt, Senior Pastor, St. Matthews Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky., CBF Governing Board
• Anyra Cano, Programs and Outreach Director, Fellowship Southwest, Fort Worth, Texas
• Selena Webster-Bass, Voices Institute, Jacksonville, Fla.
• Stephen K. Reeves, Executive Director, Fellowship Southwest, Dripping Springs, Texas

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