By Marv Knox Three issues — two on the agenda and one not — will occupy the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s attention during its General Assembly in Fort Worth, Texas, June 21-22. First will be the retirement of CBF’s longtime executive…
Group builds home, hope in 10 days
By Bob Allen Butch and Mary Ann Brown were nearly at a loss for words walking for the first time through their new home built by volunteers with the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship. “Beautiful,” Butch, terminally ill and confined to a…
CBF promotes peer learning
By Jeff Brumley As a CBF-trained minister working at a Southern Baptist church in Hawaii, Eric Hasha says he could be the poster child for ministerial isolation. “I’m literally and figuratively on an island when it comes to moderate Baptist…
CBF assembly sessions to be webcast
By Bob Allen Five main sessions of the upcoming June 20-23 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Fort Worth, Texas, will be broadcast live online. Sessions can be viewed live or accessed later from archives at www.thefellowship.info/fortworth. The first webcast…
Baptists launch 10-day building blitz
By Bob Allen What can 120 volunteers do in about 10 days? For one thing they can build a house for a low-income family in rural Kentucky. This weekend volunteers from 20 churches across the Bluegrass State will descend on…
NC network has eyes to see region’s poor
By Jeff Brumley The demographics of Halifax County, N.C., are appalling. Unemployment is above 13 percent and one resident in four earns income below the poverty line. The county is part of the fourth poorest congressional district in the nation….
Border violence keeps mission teams home
By Jeff Brumley Steadily declining mission trips to Mexico due to drug violence has left many Mexicans feeling abandoned just when their anxiety levels are peaking, missions experts in Texas say. “It’s unprecedented,” said E. Daniel Rangel, director of River Ministry…
Haitians push church out of comfort zone
Jeff Brumley Nobody in Mount Olive, N.C., was quite prepared for an influx of Haitian immigrants seeking low-paying jobs in area poultry processing plants, but the community’s First Baptist Church viewed the challenge as an opportunity. Dennis Atwood knew that…
As Vestal retires, CBF ponders future
By Lance Wallace The 22nd annual Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly June 20-23 in Fort Worth, Texas, features a key vote on the 2012 Task Force report and the final sermon from Daniel Vestal as executive coordinator. More than 1,500…