The tagline on the CBF website is one that we can all celebrate and, at the same time, be challenged by: Partner in Renewing God’s World By Katherine Smith The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is a Christian network of individuals and churches working together to spread the hope of Christ. Our diverse community includes partners all … Continue reading
Author Archives: Lauren Lamb
CBF to commission new Global Missions personnel at General Assembly in Atlanta
May 18, 2023 By Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Ga. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will commission five new Global Missions personnel on June 30 as part of the closing Friday worship service of the 2023 General Assembly in Atlanta. Jana Lee is being commissioned as a career CBF field personnel to work closely with a local … Continue reading
CBF Communications awarded “Best in Class” for campaign by Religion Communicators
By Lauren Lamb Cooperative Baptist Fellowship staff members were recognized for excellence in faith-based communications at the 2023 annual meeting of the Religion Communications Council (RCC) in Chicago. The communications staff received five awards, including the top honor “Best in Class” for the Offering for Global Missions Campaign. The awards are given annually to members … Continue reading
CBF nombra a Laure FitzSimons y Antonio Vargas como Vestal Scholars 2023
Publicado el mayo 1, 2023 por AARON WEAVER deja un comentario DECATUR, Ga. — El Compañerismo Bautista Cooperativo ha seleccionado a los estudiantes de primer año Antonio Vargas de Yale Divinity School y Laure FitzSimons de Candler School of Theology en la Universidad de Emory como los beneficiarios de la Beca Daniel y Earlene Vestal … Continue reading
BWIM, CBF team up to produce 4-session curriculum resource
Baptist Women in Ministry and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship are producing a four-session curriculum for adults, youth and children to help close that gap between what Cooperative Baptists profess about women’s leadership in the church and the actual practice in their churches. “Equally Called: Celebrating Women’s Leadership in the Church” will be launched at CBF’s General Assembly, in Atlanta, June 28-30. Continue reading
BWIM y CBF se unen para producir un recurso curricular de 4 sesiones
COMUNICADO DE PRENSA 27 de abril de 2023 Baptist Women in Ministry y el Compañerismo Bautista Cooperativo están produciendo un plan de estudios de cuatro sesiones para adultos, jóvenes y niños para ayudar a cerrar la brecha entre lo que los bautistas cooperativos profesan sobre el liderazgo de las mujeres en la iglesia y la … Continue reading
Faith leaders release research on American Christians’ views on payday loans
Christians Expect Both Government Regulations and Church Involvement to Address The Issue of Payday Lending WASHINGTON, D.C. — Faith for Just Lending (FJL), a diverse coalition of faith-based organizations, announced April 13 the results of new polling from Lifeway Research on payday lending, which details congregations’ and borrowers’ experiences with payday loans. The Lifeway survey data of 1,000 Christians … Continue reading
Rejoice in suffering
By Kelly Rhodes Adams Two days before Palm Sunday in rural Northeastern North Carolina, I passed a church sign that said, “Jesus is Risen! Let us celebrate the resurrected Christ.” Holy week hadn’t even begun yet. Where does our compulsion to skip the suffering come from? As a society we have become detrimentally averse to … Continue reading
A place at the table
By Nell Green He said also to the one who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers and sisters or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, … Continue reading
“Do You Not Yet Understand?” — A Holy Week Reflection
By Rickey Letson The book Sons & Soldiers by Bruce Henderson tells the story of several Jewish young men who immigrated to the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s. These sons of Germany ultimately became United States soldiers fighting against their homeland in World War II. In the military, they all served … Continue reading