Sep 17, 2021 | Executive Coordinator, Latest News
CBFGA Coordinating Council Nominations Accepted through September 30, 2021. September 1 marks the opening of nominations for persons to serve on the CBFGA Coordinating Council. Our Coordinating Council conducts the business of CBFGA between sessions of our...
Sep 17, 2021 | Executive Coordinator
John Smyth. Thomas Helwys. Roger Williams. William Carey. Luther Rice. Billy Graham. Martin Luther King, Jr. All these names are deeply embedded in our Baptist consciousness. But what about Catherine Scott? Sarah Wright? Mary Webb? M.A. Brannen? The small Baptist...
May 20, 2021 | Executive Coordinator, Latest News
I began learning about the peculiar tribe of Christians called Baptists in the late 1990s as a recent transfer student to Mercer University. Dr. Walter B. Shurden was my professor, and I had no idea of the extent of his influence and presence in the life of Baptists....
Feb 15, 2021 | Executive Coordinator, Latest News
In May 1991, I was a 13-year-old seventh grader at Ballard-Hudson Middle School in Macon and had zero knowledge of or interest in Baptist denominational politics. The small, semi-rural, super conservative Baptist church of my growing up years certainly did not talk...
Dec 16, 2020 | Executive Coordinator, Missions
In the spring of 1792, a thirty one-year-old cobbler who also toiled away as a not-particularly-good preacher, convinced a gathering of Baptists in Nottingham, England, to form “a Baptist society for propagating the gospel among the heathen.” As the society began its...
Sep 27, 2020 | Executive Coordinator
In 1965, Burt Bacharach penned a song, set to a lilting waltz tempo, that would become emblematic of the longings of the decade: “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” Originally sung by Jackie DeShannon, the song’s introduction in the turbulent 1960s was no accident....
