The future of CBF’s Member Care and Wellness Program with Lindsi Hines
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The future of CBF’s Member Care and Wellness Program with Lindsi Hines

By Lauren Lamb Lindsi Hines has been CBF’s Director of Member Care and Wellness since August 2022. This program is designed to care for the mental and emotional health and wellbeing of field personnel, Global Service Corps personnel and their families. Hines leads a team of mental health professionals who volunteer their services to the … Continue reading

The Challenges and Opportunities for Pastors in Supervising Staff
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The Challenges and Opportunities for Pastors in Supervising Staff

By Laura Stephens-Reed Over the course of their vocational lives, many pastors find themselves charged with leading a church staff. This is not only true for senior pastors, but associate pastors can also function in the same way within their more specialized ministry areas. The supervisory role is challenging. Most pastors enter ministry expecting to … Continue reading

Pastors are lonely, and this is a big problem
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Pastors are lonely, and this is a big problem

By Laura Stephens-Reed In A Path to Belonging: Overcoming Clergy Loneliness, leadership specialists Mary Kay DuChene and Mark Sundby raise the red flag that loneliness among clergy, a stress response to not having adequate levels of social connection, is epidemic. This was true before the pandemic, but our need to distance ourselves physically during the … Continue reading

CBF to commission new Global Missions personnel at General Assembly in Atlanta
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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

Season of growth: CBF Fellow Kan’Dace Brock challenges clergy to consider their gifts to cultivate their congregation
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Season of growth: CBF Fellow Kan’Dace Brock challenges clergy to consider their gifts to cultivate their congregation

By Brian Foreman CBF Fellows is a two-year ministry program for ministers in their “first-call” in congregational ministry. They meet six times a year to provide support and empower ministers to commit to serving their congregations. At the Chicago cohort, Kan’Dace Brock, pastor of The Message Church in San Antonio, invited fellow clergy to consider … Continue reading

CBF names Laure FitzSimons and Antonio Vargas as 2023 Vestal Scholars
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CBF names Laure FitzSimons and Antonio Vargas as 2023 Vestal Scholars

By Aaron Weaver May 1, 2023 DECATUR, Ga. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has selected first-year students Antonio Vargas of Yale Divinity School and Laure FitzSimons of Candler School of Theology at Emory University as the 2023 recipients of the Daniel and Earlene Vestal Scholarship.  The Fellowship’s most prestigious scholarship, named in honor of former … Continue reading

CBF nombra a Laure FitzSimons y Antonio Vargas como Vestal Scholars 2023
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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