By Felicia Fox Associate Pastor for Youth, Children and Discipleship at FBC Gastonia At the beginning of the pandemic I started doing a lot of on-line shopping. Not only did I end up with a lot of new random things, I also ended up with a lot of cardboard boxes. My cat loved this new…
As school has resumed for many across our state in the last two weeks, we offer this prayer. CBFNC is in prayer for each student, parent, teacher, principal, school staff, superintendent, and school board. This has indeed been a weird start to the new school year and we pray for a year full of learning…
The CBF of North Carolina (CBFNC) Coordinating Council is excited to announce its unanimous approval to adopt Welcome House Community Network (WHCN) as a new missions program of CBFNC. WHCN is a newly formed collaborative ministry between CBFNC, CBF Field Personnel Marc and Kim Wyatt, local individuals and partner congregations to provide hospitality ministry to vulnerable neighbors in…
By Scott Hudgins Director of CBFNC’s Helping Pastors Thrive Ministry A few Sundays ago, I took the opportunity this pandemic provided to drop in on worship in each of the congregations where I have belonged over the course of my life. Given that they are all online, it was really a remarkable experience and…
By Amy Shortt Minister of Music, Lakeside Baptist-Rocky Mount Started in 2013, NOTEBUSTERS, an annual community children’s music camp hosted by Lakeside Baptist in Rocky Mount, NC, meets the first week in August and is open to all children entering grades 2-7 who love to sing. Each year, music and activities are centered around a…
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. “ – Frederick Buechner Frederick Buechner’s well know quote on calling has resonated with me over the past seven or eight months. I can honestly say that it has taken me 46+ years to come to…
It is with bittersweet gladness that CBFNC announces Andy Jung, associate executive coordinator, has accepted a full-time position with Fuller Youth Institute (FYI). At the end of August, Andy will begin his new role as FYI’s Director of Church Engagement. As a branch of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, FYI turns academic research into practical resources…
By Andy Jung CBFNC Associate Executive Coordinator The world seems to be upside down, inside out. There is a level of collective anxiety that is unsettling. Everyone is on edge and it seems like one more thing will tip us over. Whether it is the world battling a global pandemic or our nation wrestling…
By Ed Beddingfield Pastor at Memorial Baptist Church, Buies Creek, NC One problem with slogans is that they rarely tell the whole story. Consider the title Pilate attached to the cross when Jesus was crucified: “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” It was written in Hebrew, Latin and Greek, so that all who…
By Jim Hylton CBFNC Business Administration Coordinator “When I was young and they packed me off to school, and taught me how NOT to play the game; I didn’t mind if they groomed me for success, hah, or if they said that I was just a fool. So I left there in the morning with…