ATLANTA (ABP) — As Haiti marked the one-year anniversary Jan. 12 of a devastating earthquake that claimed an estimated 300,000 lives and displaced more than 1 million people, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel and relief workers battled a cholera epidemic…
CBF leaders join in CCT response to King’s jail letter
ATLANTA — Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal and Moderator-elect Colleen Burroughs have issued a historic letter in response to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The statement responding to King’s letter emerged from the annual…
A spiritual home: Richmond church partners to reach Karen refugees
RICHMOND, Va. — They were three fairly typical goals for a high school student — to pass government and geometry in summer school and obtain a driving learner’s permit. But for Say Wah, these goals represented escape from oppression, an…
Fellowship commissions 16 for mission service
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 1,200 people were challenged to be passionate about joining in God’s mission as 16 new field personnel were commissioned for full-time mission service by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship June 22. Pritchard Memorial Baptist Church in…
Cecil Sherman dies after massive heart attack
ATLANTA — Cecil Sherman, longtime moderate Baptist leader and a key figure in the development of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, died from complications of a heart attack April 17 in Richmond, Va. Sherman, the first coordinator of the CBF,…
Cecil Sherman dies of complications following massive heart attack
ATLANTA — Cecil Sherman, longtime moderate Baptist leader and a key figure in the development of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, died from complications of a heart attack April 17 in Richmond, Va. Sherman, the first coordinator of the CBF, suffered…
Huguenot Road awarded grant by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
ATLANTA — Huguenot Road Baptist Church in Richmond has been awarded an “It’s Time” Missional Ministry grant of $25,000 by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The grant will help fund the church’s partnership with the Hyaets ministry in Charlotte, N.C. Hyaets,…
Bebber’s ministry in D.C. challenges visiting churches to take ministry home
WASHINGTON — Many walk the streets of Washington, D.C., with no place to call home. And, for most, it’s something they never planned or a place they’d never thought they’d be. But life threw difficulties their way — a few…
New Virginia church focuses on ministry to community
In the heart of Virginia, at the crossroads of two major highways, Crossroads Community Church has found a place to serve. The new church start is reaching out to the Zion Crossroads community, located just outside of Charlottesville, as the…