How To Be a Sheep

You’ve seen it at your local grocery store.  Putting milk in your cereal is weighing a little more heavily on your pocketbook these days, and eggs for your morning omelete are beginning to feel like luxury items.  So it makes you wonder - if I am noticing these subtle but significant food price increases, how are they affecting [...]

Using All The Tools

This past Sunday, we had a representative of Trans World Radio visiting with us in worship.  He took a few minutes to share with us about the ministry of Trans World Radio.  Their mission statement is simple:  to reach the world for Christ by mass media so that lasting fruit is produced.  TWR broadcasts Christian [...]

Where does faith lead?

Baptists have traditionally been a dissenting people. They have come to faith with a hermeneutic of suspicion. This is a hermeneutic where questions are asked, not asked to be cynical, but asked to further ones faith. To quote Anselm “a faith that seeks understanding.” Do we still carry this hermeneutic of suspicion or are we [...]

Prayer Calendars

…the work of Pastoral Care that Chaplains and Pastoral Counselors do is particularly isolating and lonely. One way to assist those in these types of ministry is to remember them in prayer. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship publishes a calendar of all Chaplains and Pastoral Counselors endorsed by them.

Student.Go MDG Special Project Team

This summer, a group of 13 students will be making a once in a lifetime journey.  They will be visiting 6 countries where they will both see and participate in projects with CBF field personnel that directly address the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)  www.endpoverty2015.org .  They will begin their trip in DC where they [...]

In the neighborhood

Below is a reflection by Angel Pittman, who serves with her husband, Jason, as CBF field personnel in Miami. The Pittmans serve at Touching Miami With Love, a ministry center in the Overtown community.
I went to the post office today to double check that our mail was being forwarded to our new address, having recently moved [...]

Meet the Roses

After several months of prayerful discernment and preparation, Chris and Jess Rose and their 7- month old son, Joshua, moved to Collique, Peru on February 5, 2008 to begin their service as field personnel for the Operación San Andrés (OSA) ministry.  
Both have previous experience living in Latin America.  Chris lived in Chile for a [...]

Membership = Commitment ?

I recently read an interesting book, Urban Christianity and Global Order by Andrew Davey. Davey points out that one of the implications of urbanism is the response of “believing without belonging” (p.91). People are willing to participate in social networks (such as the Church) but are unwilling to “put their name down” for membership. He [...]

The Death of Denominations and the Future of CBF

Denominations have defined Protestant Christianity in America for most of its history.  They’ve included Congregationalists, Methodists, Episcopals, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists.  But about 40 years ago, these denominations began a steep decline.  It started with more liberal denominations, but spread rapidly to moderate ones.  For example, the United Methodist Church has lost about three million [...]

Must We Be Silent?

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.  Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.         Proverbs 31:8-9
“People of faith feed hungry people every day through church food pantries, programs for people experiencing homelessness and meal deliveries to the elderly.  The church [...]