TAMPA, Fla. — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia will spend the next year focusing on the Latino concept of familia as a way to broaden the scope of the CBF state affiliate’s ministries. “We want to talk about what…
CBF of North Carolina presents $100k to Global Missions Offering
TAMPA, Fla. — After its assembly in March the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina challenged members to support the national CBF Global Mission Offering. As an incentive and in appreciation for church support of its own budget, CBFNC offered…
Passport hires staff member to help children, youth discover God’s calling
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) – An international student ministry that partners with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has hired a staff member to spearhead a new initiative to help theologically moderate churches discover God’s calling for both clergy and laity. Jennifer Herron…
Cuban prison chaplains graduate
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (ABP) – A total of 87 pastors and lay leaders made up the first graduating class of prison chaplains in Cuba June 16. Co-sponsored by the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Cuba and the Ecumenical Seminary in Matanzas,…
Southern Baptist Convention wrestles with elaborate gay hoax
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Officials of the Southern Baptist Convention say they were the victims of a hoax in which a group claiming to be the denomination’s Executive Committee announced it had started to support gay marriage. A website of the…
Passport hires staff member to help children, youth discover God’s calling
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) — An international student ministry that partners with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has hired a staff member to spearhead a new initiative to help theologically moderate churches discover God’s calling for both clergy and laity. Jennifer Herron,…
Progressive Christians flock to Wild Goose festival
PITTSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — From Ontario, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta and dozens of towns and cities between people pulled into the dusty pasture in rural central North Carolina to see if four days chasing the wild goose in community with others…
CBF pastor says tell stories of why moderates left, not who
TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) – A Florida pastor said June 24 that the 20-year-old Cooperative Baptist Fellowship must recast its message for a rising generation. In order to interpret the movement’s history for younger Fellowship Baptists, Kyle Reese, pastor of Hendricks…
Blind artist Ken Medema articulates his art form
TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Ken Medema — singer, composer, pianist, artist and for four decades a softly prodding social conscience of the church — worked his art through the two days of the 2011 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly June…
Progressive Christians flock to Wild Goose festival in North Carolina
PITTSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — From Ontario, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta and dozens of towns and cities between people pulled into the dusty pasture in rural central North Carolina to see if four days chasing the wild goose in community with others…
Florida pastor says tell stories of ‘why’ moderates left, not ‘who’
TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) – A Florida pastor said June 25 that the 20-year-old Cooperative Baptist Fellowship must recast its message for a rising generation. In order to interpret the movement’s history for younger Fellowship Baptists, Kyle Reese, pastor of Hendricks…
Blind musical artist Ken Medema articulates his art form
TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Ken Medema — singer, composer, pianist, artist and for four decades a softly prodding social conscience of the church — worked his art through the two days of the 2011 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly June…