By Gennady Podgaisky, CBF Field Personnel When he and his family came to our home Bible study group 10 years ago, Bogdan was a 16-year-old. It happened that he had the same name and was the same age as my oldest son Bogdan. Often, he was the only child/teenager in our weekly home Bible study … Continue reading
By Kristen Thomason When members of First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., saw the devastation from Hurricane Helene, they knew they needed to act. The Missions Committee, headed by Julie McCormick, decided on a multi-pronged approach to meet the needs of those impacted by the storm. “We wanted to respond in as many ways as we … Continue reading
30 de octubre de 2024 Por Lauren Lamb y Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Georgia – En colaboración con CBF Florida y las Islas del Caribe y el liderazgo de las Iglesias Bautistas de Cuba Oriental, Respuesta a Desastres de CBF ha destinado 20.000 dólares para proporcionar asistencia de emergencia a fin de ayudar a los que … Continue reading
By Kristen Thomason Mars Hill Baptist Church has a designated fund to help those impacted by flooding and natural disasters. In years past, the church sent this money out of state. Now, for the first time, they are distributing the fund locally. Located in western North Carolina directly north of Asheville, Mars Hill was hit … Continue reading
By Aaron Weaver DECATUR, Ga. — CBF Disaster Response has formed a partnership with a local congregation to set up a response and recovery site to receive volunteer teams in a Florida panhandle community devastated by Hurricane Helene. CBF Disaster Response will receive volunteer teams at the Friendship Chapel Church of God in mid-November in … Continue reading
How CBF and CBFGA are lending a hand after Helene and Milton By Jennifer Colosimo You’ve heard (relentlessly) the facts and figures of how Hurricane Helene skirted east of its prepared path, slamming into unexpected and unprepared communities with magnanimous force to leave, in many cases, nothing in its wake. Especially now, in the aftermath … Continue reading
Por Laura Ayala, Coordinadora de Misiones Globales de la CBF Habiendo sido testigos de primera mano del devastador impacto del huracán Helene en el norte y oeste de Florida, es difícil comprender la inminente amenaza que representa el huracán Milton, que se espera que toque tierra esta noche. El peso emocional de estos acontecimientos es … Continue reading
By Paul Baxley and Laura Ayala Less than a week ago Hurricane Helene made landfall and began its devastating path through Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Congregations and individuals across our Cooperative Baptist Fellowship community have responded already by lifting up those impacted in prayer and by beginning to … Continue reading
By Marv Knox A series of earthquakes has reduced one of the most significant cities named in the New Testament to rubble. But ministry and hope remain, the co-pastor of the city’s lone Baptist church insists. The quakes destroyed about 75 percent of the homes in Antakya, Turkey — known in Bible times as Antioch, … Continue reading
By Eddy Ruble CBF field personnel in Penang, Malaysia Psalm 8:3-4, NRSV When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? I have always connected with nature … Continue reading