Church Staff: Full-time or Part-time?

Article by Courtney Krueger, Senior Minister, FBC Pendleton, SC
I read an article several years ago about a church in Waynesville, VA that created a unique staff structure that was working very well for them.  Their pastor was Bill Wilson who is now the pastor of FBC, Dalton, GA.  I called Bill to ask about their [...]

Finding Common Denominators

Milton Hollifield, Executive Director-Treasurer, of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention recently wrote, in part:
((…..”With “exploding” growth, Hollifield said North Carolina is “an educated population” with more research and development jobs than New Jersey or Washington, and is the sixth fastest growing state. Church growth planners realize “we are not the Old South - we [...]

I LOVE Facebook!

Okay, I’ll admit it…I’m loving this Facebook thing!  There are friends and family here that I might not ever otherwise be able to visit with.  It’s fun and it’s ever growing!
Did you know that Facebook grants permission to its users to expand the realm of the current reality?  That means if you develop an “I [...]

Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) Resources

In October the CBF National Coordinating Council endorsed the United Nations Millenium Development Goals.  You can read the news release by clicking here.  This endorsement helped bring attention to the goals among CBF partnering congregations and I’ve received several requests asking for resources for educating and promoting the goals among church memberships.  Here are a few resources [...]

Revolutionary Parenting

I just finished George Barna’s new book titled, Revolutionary Parenting. While you may not like Barna or his research outcomes, he does have some pretty good statistics regarding parents and parenting that you may want to take a look at.This book came as an outgrowth of a previous work (Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions) he [...]

Leadership Next–A Proactive Reading

CITATION OF REFERENCE
Gibbs, Eddie. 2005. Leadership Next. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press.
INTRODUCTION
            In this book, Eddie Gibbs presents a picture of the new type of church leader needed in world experiencing major paradigm shifts.  Gibbs analyzes the new cultural reality that we now face in this world and in the Church. He explains why new [...]

A confession and an apology…

Have you ever stood in line at the grocery and been frustrated because the person in front of you doesn’t speak English well.  Perhaps you are in a hurry and they are struggling to make the transaction.  Or maybe, the growing number of signs in multiple languages just really causes your blood to boil.  If [...]

Advent Resources

Advent has always been, after Lent, my favorite season in the Christian calendar.  As a Christian educator in the local church, I loved teaching about Advent and observing spiritual formation in the lives of people as they journeyed through this counter-cultural Season of preparation.  Often a church member would remark about how much more meaningful their Christmas [...]

Who is my neighbor ? A Global Service Corp Reflection

It has been a little over two years since my husband, Matt, and I completed our 2 year term of service as Global Service Corp representatives with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. It seems odd to me that we have been in Atlanta longer than we served in Toronto with International Students. It seems odd because [...]