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Footprints and Tent Poles by Emily Harbin Glass, CBFGA Moderator, Minister to Students and Young Adults, First Baptist Church, Athens
In our last Coordinating Council meeting, I shared this blurb from Eugene Peterson’s A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (quoting William Faulkner):
Changes in Store for CBFGA by Jody Long
In his book Markings, Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat and second Secretary General of the United Nations, wrote, “For all that has been —Thanks; for all that shall be — Yes!”
Mission Madness and a New Family Missions Weekend by Megan Doud
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.
“Giving Back” as CBFGA Moderator for 2024 by Emily Harbin Glass, Minister to Students and Young Adults, First Baptist Church, Athens
MY LATE GRANDFATHER dreamed of being a Baptist preacher, but he would not give up smoking, and he feared the responsibility of saving people’s souls.
Sing Together by Jody Long
As long as I can remember, music has been a part of what being a Baptist means to me.
CBFGA Institutional Partners – PASSPORT, INC
For more than three decades, our motivated summer teams have invited students to have fresh encounters with God, embrace community around them, and extend God’s grace to the world.
CBFGA Institutional Partners – Youth Ministry Network (CBFYMN)
As an aspiring youth minister, I was invited during my time in Divinity School to attend a retreat called OASIS, the flagship event of the CBF Youth Ministry Network.
CBF Insitutional Partners-Children’s Ministry Network (CMN)
The Children’s Ministry Network is a collection of ministers serving children and their families who see the need for collaboration, safe space, and continued education by way of sharing with one another.
CBFGA Institutional Partners- CBF Foundation
CBF Foundation is the CBF community’s trusted partner in ministry. Our mission is to work alongside individuals, churches, and organizations to cultivate, receive, invest, and steward long-term sustaining assets and legacy gifts to support your mission and ministry causes.
CBFGA Institutional Partners-Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM)
For the past 40 years, Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM) has provided support for women in ministry and has been a voice of advocacy among Baptists, so that women might have equal opportunity in leadership among Baptists.
CBFGA Institutional Partners – Church Benefits Board (CBB)
The Church Benefits Board, Inc. (CBB), is a ministry of CBF, created in 1998 by the General Assembly to provide retirement benefits for ministers and staff members of churches that are affiliated with CBF, along with CBF field personnel serving worldwide.
The Power of Fellowship by Steven Norris
Sometimes it is nice to just be a monk for the weekend. As I visited Mepkin Abbey (near Charleston, SC) this fall, I was reminded of my first visit to a monastery 20 years ago.
Participate in a Ministerial Network! by Megan Turner Doud
Over ten years ago, I joined my first network, CBF Youth Ministry Network, as a first-year minister. Now, I am still heavily involved in this network and have served on the board for 10 years.
Being Called Together by Jody Long
“The togetherness of the Christian community grows from a deep sense of being called together to make God’s compassion visible in the concreteness of everyday living.”—Henri J.N. Nouwen The second creation account in Genesis contains one of the most profound comments...
From Tina Bailey, Relocated to Graz, Austria
My new field personnel assignment is Minister to the Arts Community, Refugees/Immigrants, based in Graz, Austria. My new work has three primary emphases, which draw on my training and background in the arts and in trauma-informed therapy. First, I will train others,...
2023 Mission Madness was AMAZING!
This past April, our youth group participated in CBFGA’s Mission Madness in Columbus. This was my first trip as a new youth director, and I could not have asked for a better experience. The weekend was a well-organized, entertaining, purposeful reflection on our role in the redemptive work of God.
Update from Missy Ward-Angalla, Field Personnel to Uganda
March 2023 marked ten years since I moved to Uganda to begin trauma healing and empowerment programs for the most vulnerable refugees in Kampala. I am deeply grateful for the ways that CBFGA and CBF churches in Georgia have come alongside our family and ministry team...
From Karen _____, North Africa
Karen continues to serve on the pastoral team of the national Protestant church in the country where she serves as field personnel. Her work involved outreach that brings hope, humanitarian relief, and development opportunities to the sub-Saharan migrant and refugee population in her area. She spent this spring and early summer in the States, visiting with family and friends and raising program support funds for her work back overseas.
Being Salt and Light in the Year Ahead by Megan Turner Doud
HAVE YOU EVER sat down to a nice breakfast, taken a big bite of grits, and realized that salt had been left out of the grits? Not pleasant, right? Grits without salt are bland and boring. Just so, our lives as followers of Christ, without the light and seasoning of the gospel — the “good news” — are lackluster, not reflecting God’s love in the world.
From Carson and Laura Foushee, Field Personnel in Japan
Since summer 2022, the Foushees have been back in Kanazawa, Japan, where their Japanese ministry began, serving in partnership with the Japan Baptist Convention there.
Since their commissioning in 2013, Carson and Laura have served alongside a pastoral presence among congregations in the Hokuriku and Kanto areas of Japan, cultivating beloved community among Japanese and internationals.