Aug 19, 2024 | Adults & Senior Adults, Latest News, Moderator
In our last Coordinating Council meeting, I shared this blurb from Eugene Peterson’s A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (quoting William Faulkner): “Life is not about making monuments, but about making footprints. A monument only says, ‘At least I got this far’...
Apr 27, 2024 | Adults & Senior Adults, College & Young Adults, Coordinator for Young Batist Ministries, Latest News, Missions
Mission Madness took place March 15-17 in Athens, Georgia. It was a wonderful weekend of serving the community of Athens with around 200 middle and high school students and their adult chaperones from across our state. Our theme for the weekend was “being the salt and...
Apr 23, 2024 | Adults & Senior Adults, Executive Coordinator, Latest News
As long as I can remember, music has been a part of what being a Baptist means to me. The small church I grew up in was a “singing” church. We did not have classically trained musicians or even a professional minister of music. We did not have a pipe organ or a grand...
Feb 15, 2023 | Adults & Senior Adults, Latest News
Over 130 CBFGA folks gathered at First Baptist Church, Augusta, November 6-7 to fellowship, worship, and seek a way forward as we considered the theme “God’s Story, Your Story, My Story.” Through compelling sermons by Dr. Chuck Poole, and in engaging conversations...
Mar 9, 2022 | Adults & Senior Adults, Latest News, Moderator
As the new moderator of CBFGA, my hope is that we can return to normalcy in our churches during 2022. Zoom and livestream are wonderful tools, but oh, isn’t it grand when we can meet face to face and give our warm hugs of Christian fellowship! We can see smiles in the...
Mar 9, 2022 | Adults & Senior Adults, Executive Coordinator, Latest News
About thirty years ago, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Georgia began forming. I write “began,” because several seminal dates are mile markers on our journey. First, on November 11, 1991, after the annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention, interested...
