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Welcome Ride 2025 Has Concluded.

 

CBF of North Carolina’s Welcome Ride Raises Awareness and Funds for the Welcome Network.

For six days (October 5-11, 2025), CBFNC Executive Coordinator Larry Hovis and his team cycled over 396 miles across the state as part of the  2025 Cycle North Carolina Mountains to Coast bike ride. The purpose of Welcome Ride is to raise awareness and money for CBFNC’s Welcome Network. Welcome Network is a collaborative ministry that provides a tangible expression of every disciple’s call to love the stranger and to invite them into God’s beloved community as neighbor (Matt.25: 35-36). The Welcome Network empowers, connects and inspires local congregations to engage in ministries of welcome in their communities. The money raised during Welcome Ride will be used by CBFNC to grow our ability to support and empower congregations across our state to engage in ministries of welcome in their communities.

Congratulations and THANK YOU to “Team Hovis!” 

 

 

There is Still Time to Give!

  1. Make a donation to support Larry’s team and Welcome Ride. Give online HERE or mail a check to CBFNC, 2640 Reynolda Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106.
  2. See updates from Larry and his Welcome Ride team on CBFNC’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

Thank you to everyone who has given to support this year’s Welcome Ride and this ministry of Christian Hospitality.

 

Welcome Ride Route

Oct. 5: Day 1 – Lake Lure to Lincolnton

Oct. 6: Day 2 – Lincolnton to Kannapolis

Oct. 7: Day 3 – Kannapolis to Asheboro

Oct. 8: Day 4 – Asheboro to Fuquay-Varina

Oct. 9: Day 5 – Fuquay-Varina to Goldsboro

Oct. 10: Day 6 – Goldsboro to Wallace

Oct. 11: Day 7 – Wallace to Fort Fisher (canceled due to weather)

 

Click HERE to read about the Welcome Network.

Stories of Welcome


Greenville Churches Collaborate to Establish New Welcome House

In the two years since the CBFNC Welcome Ride made a stop at the apartment complex owned by Oakmont Baptist Church in Greenville, the newest and easternmost Welcome House is just opening there. The dream that began then is now a reality.

Read more.

 

 

 

Welcome Network is About More Than Housing

The CBFNC Welcome House Community Network is about more than providing housing. It’s about prioritizing relational ministry that invites people to face challenges together, to work in ways that allow neighbors to form lasting relationships and to provide support to vulnerable neighbors that does not dismiss material needs but moves beyond them. One of the ways the network supports new neighbors is through English as a Second Language classes (ESL).

Read more.

 

 

Church Hopes to Welcome Neighbors Through Affordable Housing

As Welcome Ride 2023 concludes, the hope and vision for expanding the Welcome House Community Network (WHCN) grows. The funds raised during the Welcome Ride campaign will be used by CBFNC to grow our ability to support and empower congregations across our state to engage in ministries of welcome in their communities. Gifts to the campaign will enable CBFNC to help churches like First Baptist Church, Mount Olive that has a bold vision to convert abandoned homes near the church into affordable housing. The task is large but the impact it would make is greater.

Read more.

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