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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.
From Anna Anderson, in Conetoe, NC
The Andersons have been busy in 2023! We began to catch a vision in Ahoskie, North Carolina, where we work with an encourager church, First Baptist Ahoskie, to reimagine the space that had once been the First Presbyterian Church. The church could no longer sustain...
Making Music for the Glory of God by Steven Norris
THE TRIP WAS A YEAR in the making. As our family wrapped up our time in Uganda in the summer of 2022, Francis Angalla and I started scheming. Music is an integral part of the healing work that Francis and Missy Ward-Angalla (CBF Field Personnel), are doing with refugees in Kampala, Uganda. Therefore, for the past year, we have been laying the foundation to co-lead a music camp, bringing together musicians from the Unites States and across East Africa for a transformative week.
Our Name Tells the Story by Jody Long
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s annual General Assembly has come and gone. Georgia was honored to host again, welcoming multitudes of friends and Baptist family from across our Fellowship to our great state.
2022 State Gathering Report
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 facilitated by Dr. Dave Odom, we looked hard at some of the difficulties our churches and ministers have faced through the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on what it means to be a neighbor in these times.
BWIM of Georgia Announces Scholarship Recipient
BWIM of Georgia Announces Scholarship Recipient Baptist Women in Ministry of Georgia’s Sarah Owen Ethridge Scholarship recipient for this year is Maggie Parker Andrews. Maggie began to feel her call to ministry when she joined a youth choir called Jubilate. A combined...
CBFGA: 30 Years Strong and Moving Forward-Norma Rushing, CBFGA Past Moderator
During the 1980s, the fundamentalists took over the Southern Baptist Convention. At the Dallas convention in 1985, moderates knew they no longer had a home in the Southern Baptist Convention. I was not present, but my 16-year-old son, a leader of the youth in our church, attended with his youth minister, our pastor, and others from Scott Boulevard Baptist Church. He came home talking about how the moderates were mistreated and about the hatred and ugliness of the convention. I am sad to say that this experience caused him to never want to attend a Baptist church in his adult life.
The Power of Listening and Sharing Stories-Megan Turner Doud, CBFGA Coordinator for Young Baptist Ministries
When Jody and I began having conversations about a year-long theme for CBFGA for 2023, “Story” was the first idea that came to my mind. From my time working in the local congregations, serving on the Ministries Council and Discovery Team for CBF, and being a part of...