Creating good energy in the community through music

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Daniel Potter • Leave a comment

By Jonathan Bailey When I was a seminary student in the early 1990s, I took a course called Music and Missions. It surveyed and tried to investigate the liturgical function of music in church settings globally. At the time, I was serving as the music director for a first-generation West African church in Arlington, Texas. Working with … Continue reading →

CBF Field Personnel / COVID-19 / Field Personnel / General CBF / Missions / offering for global missions

Thankfulness for vaccine access in NYC

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Daniel Potter • Leave a comment

By Lesley-Ann Hix Tommey At the beginning of February 2021, I was on the phone with the community relations and AmeriCorps Program coordinator at Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Health Center on 10th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen. We were talking through a nutrition workshop she and one of her AmeriCorps staff would be leading for our Living Well … Continue reading →

CBF Field Personnel / Education Ministries / Field Personnel / General CBF / Literacy / Missions

What Does an Educational Advocate Do at an IEP Meeting?

Posted on July 19, 2021 by Carrie Harris • Leave a comment

By Angel Pittman It’s a commonly asked question; but, for me, it’s not the right question. As an educational advocate, I don’t simply attend children’s IEP meetings with their parents. I work with parents in the weeks and months leading up to an IEP meeting. An Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) is a legal document and … Continue reading →

CBF Field Personnel / COVID-19 / Field Personnel / Field Personnel Columns / General CBF / Healthcare Ministries / Missions

Supporting survivors and nurturing self-care

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Carrie Harris • Leave a comment

By Cindy Ruble The women’s advocacy center with whom I partner in Asia has seen a 58 percent increase in their hotline calls regarding domestic violence, adult sexual assault, child sexual abuse and relationship issues since the pandemic began. Hotline calls from outside our region more than doubled as the center’s online presence increased on … Continue reading →

CBF Field Personnel / COVID-19 / Featured / immigration / Internationals Ministries / Missions / refugees

CBF field personnel Eddie and Macarena Aldape share faith & friendship to immigrants in Albacete, Spain

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Carrie Harris • Leave a comment

By Caleb Mynatt For nearly two decades, CBF field personnel Eddie and Macarena Aldape have made a career of showing hospitality and love to the people who need it most. Just ask Isabel Garcia. As a refugee from Latin America, Garcia and her children fled to Spain in search of a better life. Between political … Continue reading →

CBF Field Personnel / Disaster Response / Field Personnel / Field Personnel Columns / General CBF / Haiti Ministries / Healthcare Ministries / Missions

Dream for a clinic becomes reality in Haiti mountains

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Carrie Harris • Leave a comment

By Jenny Jenkins Answering the call to build a clinic in a remote community in the mountains of Haiti has a set of unique challenges. As we prayed about and started this project, it came about only because of a community that was willing to put the sweat equity into this project, to see a … Continue reading →

Missions / CBF Field Personnel / Field Personnel / Feature

More than Tomatoes for More than Groundhogs

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Carrie Harris • Leave a comment

This story was written by Jessica Hearne, CBF field personnel and a Grace and Main leader and founding member. You can support her work either by donating to Grace and Main or directly to her support fund. You might have already guessed it but managing the leadership team of Grace and Main’s Urban Farm has been … Continue reading →

COVID-19 / Student.Go

Touching Miami with Love from a Distance

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Carrie Harris • Leave a comment

By Ben Brown In the fall of 2020, Sara Hallam served as the Social Media and Spiritual Development Intern with Touching Miami with Love (TML) through CBF’s student missions initiative Student.Go. In this role, she created a Creation Care Bible Study curriculum for TML students and served as the social media manager during Give Miami … Continue reading →

Feature / Missions

Hands-on Ministry: Making a Difference in Pendleton, S.C.

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Carrie Harris • 1 Comment

When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, Wayne Patterson wanted to make a difference. Call it what you will—a calling, an obligation, a duty. No matter the term, Patterson felt the need to help. And Patterson wasn’t the only one. An entire team of eight to twelve near-retirees from his home church of … Continue reading →

CBF Field Personnel / Field Personnel / Missions / refugees

Blessed to be Salt and Light

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Carrie Harris • Leave a comment

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 Rick Sample, who serves with internationals in … Continue reading →

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