What do you think of our new Web site?

CBF quietly — very quietly — launched a new Web site on Nov. 9, 2007. We purposely didn’t launch it with much fanfare because we have come to believe that the Web site is not something we create and walk away from. If our experience during the past three years with our current site has [...]

Virginia Butler’s Together for Hope story

Virginia Butler writes about her experience with Together for Hope, the Fellowship’s rural poverty initiative 
 
CBF field personnel Leonora Newell shared the dream at the 2003 CBF General Assembly. In Phillips and Lee Counties, Ark., designated among the twenty poorest counties in the United States, she had a vision of Stories on Wheels. Those who grew [...]

My Most Meaningful Christmas

When I think of the Christmases I have experienced, the one that is perhaps the most meaningful and memorable was the first Christmas Matt, Cayden and I spent in Toronto as CBF field personnel.  That Christmas had all that one might expect at a traditional Christmas.  My parents had come to visit and on Christmas [...]

Loving the World Around Us

For the past year my wife Mickie and I have served as a host family for an International Student studying at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.  So far our experiences have been varied and wonderful.  We have hosted two students during this period and both have come from the Osaka , Japan area. 
This past week our young student, [...]

When Would You Need A “Spiritual Director”?

A spiritual director joins personal experience with intentional fellowship and reflective study of the life and thought of Jesus. It is an ancient expectation of ministry, and at the same time a very modern term. It is contemporary because most Christians now worship outside a designated church building and have no denominational affiliation. Their allegiance [...]

Missions Coordination

A friend of mine might be interested in pursuing the Kentucky Baptist Fellowship Missions Coordinator job/position/calling. To help with the discernment process, the friend asked me to share about my role with CBF/GA. Here was my response…Sorry for the delayed response. The rhythm of my new job is probably the most awkward transition from church [...]