TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina’s meeting at the national CBF General Assembly June 23 was highlighted by a presentation of a $100,000 check to CBF missions coordinator Rob Nash and the announcement that North Carolina CBF members and churches had contributed $239,235 to qualify for the match.
Accepting the check, Nash said it is “sometimes very discouraging” to wrestle with limited and even declining budgets in the face of so much need.
“I cannot tell you how encouraging, how meaningful it is to us” to have North Carolina Baptists respond so positively, Nash said.
Larry Hovis, CBFNC coordinator, said the challenge elicited many exciting responses, and named two in particular. He said First Baptist Church in Raleigh, N.C., had decided not to receive a Global Mission Offering in the spring, because it had done so earlier. But when they learned of the challenge, they raised $15,000 toward it.
And Hovis said the children of First Baptist Church in Elizabeth City, N.C., raised a “Mile of Pennies,” which is at least $844.
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Norman Jameson is a free-lance writer in North Carolina.