The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia clarified its identity and function March 11 by adopting a “Re-visioning” document which will guide the organization in the future.
The CBFV “is a network of churches and inviduals being the presence of Christ as we advance CBF, advocate volunteer missions, facilitate placement of ministers in churches and cultivate fellowship,” the new identity statement says.
The document was unanimously approved in Vinton during the March 10-11 annual general assembly of the state affiliate of the national CBF.
The Re-visioning document commits the CBFV to:
• Promote volunteer missions and create high-profile volunteer mission opportunities with “visible CBFV connections.”
• Expand its “reference and referral” service to assist churches in finding staff and ministers in finding employment.
• Cooperate with “like-minded Baptist entitites” in Virginia.
• Advance the cause of the national CBF in Virginia.
• Develop an expanded communcations network.
Recommenadations concerning stewardship and leadership are still to be developed.
In other action, the CBFV honored Greg and Sue Smith, who have coordinated the organization’s Hispanic ministry. Support for that ministry is being taken on by the national CBF, the Baptist General Association of Virginia and Fredericksburg Baptist Church.
Also approved was a $225,585 budget for 2006-2007, which will fund the group’s ministries.
Staff report