The following post is from Keith Herron, CBF’s moderator and pastor of Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo. For more information on the 2012 Task Force Report implementation, click here. If you peel away the skin of the 2012 Task Report, with all its heavy structures and charts, and elevated wishes asking, “What if?” … Continue reading
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Time to bloom again
The following post is from Terry Maples, CBF field coordinator for the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. My wife and I were away from our home in Murfreesboro, TN, for three weeks earlier this summer. First, we traveled to Fort Worth, TX, for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly. Then we headed west and north to … Continue reading
Implementing the 2012 Task Force Report: What’s next?
The following post is from CBF moderator Keith Herron. On the eve of entering CBF’s third decade, then-moderator Hal Bass appointed a 14-member task force to move the conversation forward on restructuring the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship movement (which also necessarily affects CBF partnering ministries). No one could have predicted that this 2012 Task Force would … Continue reading
2012 Task Force final report now available
The document 23-months and more than 100-listening sessions in the making is now in its final stages and ready for your review. Please take a moment to download and read this important, historic document. Two years’ worth of work that will change the future course of the Fellowship community cannot be digested in a few … Continue reading
‘Unknowns’ bond around shared work of 2012 Task Force
This post comes from Ruth Perkins Lee, member of the 2012 Task Force and minister of students at First Baptist Church, Auburn, Ala. I have loved working with this group of people. Some of us had actually met in real life. Others had heard the name of a few around the table. For the most part, … Continue reading
Three observations from the 2012 Task Force
This post comes from Tony Hopkins, pastor of First Baptist Church, Greenwood, S.C., and a member of the 2012 Task Force. As I reflect on my experience with the 2012 Task Force, three observations bubble to the top. The first is: people care about CBF! We hosted more than 100 listening sessions, and in every … Continue reading
2012 Task Force brings us closer to fulfilling our dream
This post comes from CBF of North Carolina Coordinator and 2012 Task Force member Larry Hovis. The full report can be accessed and feedback provided at http://www.thefellowship.info/2012taskforce. In April 2010, Daniel Vestal and Babs Baugh convened a gathering at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, of leaders of CBF organizations (state and national) and CBF partner ministries. The … Continue reading
A new thing
This post comes from David Hull, chair of the 2012 Task Force: When the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship gathered for our first General Assembly in May 1991, the theme for that meeting was “Behold, I do a new thing.” These words were taken from Isaiah 43:19, and they spoke of the “new thing” that God was … Continue reading