Going green

 
The CBF Resource Center in Atlanta is going green. Recently, CBF employees implemented several practices to conserve energy, recycle and be good stewards of the earth’s resources. In addition to paper recycling containers at each work station, the employee break room now features bins for recycling aluminum, glass, cardboard and several forms of plastic.
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CBF & US Religious Landscape Survey 2008

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s just released US Religious Landscape Survey 2008 is the most comprehensive (35,556 adult telephone interviews) I’ve encountered. It sub-classifies Protestant churches into three groups:
Evangelical
Mainline
Historically black
While not listed specifically in many places in the 140 page report, on page 105 the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is listed under [...]

Are You A Young Advocate?
Bread for the World, a Fellowship partner organization, is looking for the best and brightest advocates between the ages of 18 and 35 to become leaders in the fight against hunger on your campuses and in your communities. We’ll start with an all-expense paid trip to Washington, June 14-17, for training.
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Ministering in Haiti

The James’s are field personnel jointly appointed by CBF and American Baptist IM.  They share the following stories of the ministry in which they are involved.   
Dear friends,           
We send love and greetings to you and thought we would share some of the stories of people we meet in the clinics and in our local community, which [...]

Baptists and Mission, Acting out a Value we hold dear in the Twenty-First Century.

As Baptists, we value mission action in this world.  Our heritage is ripe with mission activities, mission education, and mission offerings.  The turn of the century has not changed this value.  However, globalization, the decline of the western church, and the shift of the majority of Christians to the southern hemisphere must force us to [...]