Over the next weeks and months, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be sharing reflections from our CBF field personnel serving around the world. These are stories of impact and outreach, Gospel-sharing and relationship building, long-term presence and abundant love. The following is a reflection from CBF field personnel Lita Sample, who serves among internationals in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Field Personnel Columns
COVID Era Church
Over the next weeks and months, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be sharing reflections from our CBF field personnel serving around the world. These are stories of impact and outreach, Gospel-sharing and relationship building, long-term presence and abundant love. The following is a reflection from CBF field personnel David Bass, who serves in Pnomh Penh, … Continue reading
Navigating new situations
Over the next weeks and months, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be sharing reflections from our CBF field personnel serving around the world. These are stories of impact and outreach, Gospel-sharing and relationship building, long-term presence and abundant love. The following is a reflection from CBF field personnel Alicia Lee, who serves in Macedonia alongside … Continue reading
Investment in the lives of others
Over the next weeks and months, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be sharing reflections from our CBF field personnel serving around the world. These are stories of impact and outreach, Gospel-sharing and relationship building, long-term presence and abundant love. The following is a reflection from CBF field personnel Sue Smith, who serves through LUCHA Ministries … Continue reading
What do you need right now?
Over the next weeks and months, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be sharing reflections from our CBF field personnel serving around the world. These are stories of impact and outreach, Gospel-sharing and relationship building, long-term presence and abundant love. The following is a reflection from CBF field personnel Jon Parks, who serves in Kosice, Slovakia, … Continue reading
Receiving Encouragement
Over the next weeks and months, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be sharing reflections from our CBF field personnel serving around the world. These are stories of impact and outreach, Gospel-sharing and relationship building, long-term presence and abundant love. The following is a reflection from CBF field personnel Gennady Podgaisky, who serves in Kyiv, Ukraine, … Continue reading
Asking the Right Question
By Greg Smith Out of the blue I received a call from a true neighbor. “I know that immigrants are losing their jobs from the coronavirus [COVID-19] and many won’t be receiving government help.” Sadly, I had to agree. “So I want to help. I want to send a contribution to your ministry so you … Continue reading
Promised Land
By Marc Wyatt Just days into the reality of the global health crisis, we received word that an Afghan family of seven were 24 hours from arriving at the airport. Our refugee agency partner, Lutheran Services of the Carolinas, had expected the family to be denied entry to the United States as did we. We hurried to prepare their rooms at Welcome House. … Continue reading
Migration in the Americas
By Sue Smith Migration isn’t new to Central America. With a long history of heavy-handed dictators and military presence, of abuses against peasants and indigenous peoples, and the growing influence of drug cartels and gangs, there has been movement of peoples between these small countries for many decades. And in recent years, we’ve begun to … Continue reading
Independence or interdependence
By Keith Holmes As CBF field personnel, I have also considered it my job to work myself out of a job. Rather than depending on me, my partners should eventually become self-sufficient. This is the same goal I have in parenting. My children should, at some point, become fully-functioning, independent adults. Recently, though, I’ve had … Continue reading