November 1, 2016 By Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Ga. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will commission new field personnel to serve in China and New York City at the upcoming 2017 General Assembly in Atlanta and seeks applicants for those assignments. This announcement follows a 20-month renewal process of CBF Global Missions and the CBF Missions … Continue reading
By Layne Smith Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is … Continue reading
Each fall, COMISS Network: the Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings, sponsors a week to recognize and affirm Pastoral Care providers. This year’s theme is Spiritual Resilience. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorses over 728 chaplains and pastoral counselors who provide pastoral care in a variety of specialized settings. This week we will hear from six of these … Continue reading
Each fall, COMISS Network: the Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings, sponsors a week to recognize and affirm Pastoral Care providers. This year’s theme is Spiritual Resilience. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorses over 728 chaplains and pastoral counselors who provide pastoral care in a variety of specialized settings. This week we will hear from six of these … Continue reading
Each fall, COMISS Network: the Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings, sponsors a week to recognize and affirm Pastoral Care providers. This year’s theme is Spiritual Resilience. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorses over 728 chaplains and pastoral counselors who provide pastoral care in a variety of specialized settings. This week we will hear from six of these … Continue reading
Each fall, COMISS Network: the Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings, sponsors a week to recognize and affirm Pastoral Care providers. This year’s theme is Spiritual Resilience. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorses over 728 chaplains and pastoral counselors who provide pastoral care in a variety of specialized settings. This week we will hear from six of these … Continue reading
Each fall, COMISS Network: the Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings, sponsors a week to recognize and affirm Pastoral Care providers. This year’s theme is Spiritual Resilience. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorses over 728 chaplains and pastoral counselors who provide pastoral care in a variety of specialized settings. This week we will hear from six of these … Continue reading
Each fall, COMISS Network: the Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings, sponsors a week to recognize and affirm Pastoral Care providers. This year’s theme is Spiritual Resilience. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship endorses over 728 chaplains and pastoral counselors who provide pastoral care in a variety of specialized settings. This week we will hear from six of these … Continue reading
By Doyle Sager Happy 25th birthday, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship! Thank you for providing First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, Mo., a place to be authentically Baptist. Like most congregations, we have endured some challenging times. Our break from the Missouri Baptist/Southern Baptist wasn’t a sudden death; it was more like a slow, agonizing estrangement leading to … Continue reading
The following is an excerpt from “CBF at 25: Stories of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship,” a new book celebrating the 25th anniversary of CBF published by Nurturing Faith. This edited volume featuring more than 80 first-person stories of mission and ministry and was released during the 2016 CBF General Assembly in Greensboro, N.C. Order a copy of … Continue reading