WASHINGTON — Since 2006, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel Brandon and Tirzah Turner have been serving in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., ministering among the poor and encouraging local CBF partner churches to do the same. On Nov. 3, the…
Virginia church partners to restore lives
ATLANTA — It had been two years, and Beth and Joe Weedo still slept on air mattresses on the floor of their Pensacola, Fla., home. Hurricane Ivan had ripped through their community and dropped a tree on the Weedo house…
Virginia church boosts Slavic ministry in western North Carolina
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The sound sent chills. The youthful sound of American and Ukrainian teenagers voicing a worship song together — it brought tears, too. “It gave everybody chills because you felt real unity [of] Christians together,” said Mandy Allen,…
Student missions work strives to help D.C. high school students
WASHINGTON — One Wednesday afternoon, a high school student asked Allyson Wisdom to pray for her — that is if it wasn't too much trouble. “I've seen kids who don't think they're worth me praying about,” Wisdom said. “There's just…
Missions education resource inspires church’s art show
BALTIMORE — Photographs documenting an immigrant's journey, masquerade masks and paintings stretching the edge of imagination—all are part of supporting the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's HIV/AIDS ministry in Africa and reaching out to a transitioning Baltimore community. Hosted by University Baptist…