A network of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi expressed grief and solidarity with a Jewish congregation targeted by an arsonist earlier this month. “An attack on a place of worship is an assault on one of…
Great Rivers Fellowship empowers churches with community engagement grants
Great Rivers Fellowship, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship regional organization made up of communities in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, has awarded eight Community Engagement grants to local communities. These grants totaled $7,750 and support diverse local initiatives. Local churches and communities…
Sudden personnel change raises concerns in Great Rivers Fellowship
A personnel change said to have been necessitated by financial strains has caused a rift in a relatively new regional body of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. At least two churches affiliated with Great Rivers Fellowship have written formal letters of…
Great Rivers Fellowship names Caldwell, McNary as first staff leaders
Great Rivers Fellowship, a new Cooperative Baptist Fellowship regional organization formed by the merger of CBF units in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, has elected its first staff leaders. Mississippi native Brittany Caldwell, a program coordinator and pastor who most recently…