A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship foster family ministry serving street children has been bombed by the Russian military, according to CBF Executive Coordinator Paul Baxley. Located outside Kyiv, the Village of Hope is a ministry supported by CBF Global Missions and…
Stamey and West named keynote preachers for CBF General Assembly
Two keynote speakers have been announced for the June 28-30 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Dallas. This will be the first in-person General Assembly held since 2019, as both the 2020 and 2021 events were moved to an online-only…
CBF names two search teams for key staff openings
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has named two eight-members teams to search for key staff members. One team will identify needed leadership gifts and structures for the future of CBF Global Missions and serve as a search committee for a coordinator…
CBF Governing Board creates special teams related to Global Missions and congregational ministries positions
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Governing Board voted unanimously Jan. 28 to establish a transition team to conduct a search for the organization’s next Global Missions coordinator to succeed Steven Porter. Porter, who has led the ministry since 2014, on Jan….
Porter stepping down from CBF Global Missions
Steven Porter has announced his resignation as coordinator of Global Missions for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, citing “a stirring toward writing projects and a more direct ministry engagement than the administrative and travel demands of my present role allow.” Porter,…
Upton announces retirement from Virginia Baptist post after 20 transformative years
After two decades of leadership, John Upton has announced he intends to retire as executive director of the Baptist General Association of Virginia July 31, 2022. Since his election to the post in 2001, the landscape of Baptist state conventions…
Baptist-led petition drive urges U.S. Congress to stop stalling on crisis in Myanmar
Former Burmese refugee Van Lian Kio said he has been tormented by the flood of social media reports, news accounts and images of brutal military repression of fellow Baptists and other religious minorities in his native country, now known as…
Immigration advocates furious with Biden administration over Remain in Mexico policy
The Biden administration has created a rift with immigrant advocates by announcing it plans to resume the Trump-era practice of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they await U.S. court hearings. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Oct. 15…
Shed your stereotypes and become an ally in the fight against hunger, CBF panelists urge
Churches must become allies in the fight against hunger by shedding stereotypes around food insecurity and by avoiding pitfalls of toxic charity and scarcity thinking, panelists advised during a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship seminar. The pandemic has made it especially difficult…