January 4, 2017
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What's ahead for CBFNC from Executive Coordinator Larry Hovis
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 How can a church or a fellowship of churches remain faithful to its founding principles yet adapt to its rapidly changing context? CBFNC is seeking to address that challenge through the implementation of an eighteen-month discernment process that yielded new ministry priorities and a refined staffing structure.
Moving forward, CBFNC will focus on three ministry initiatives: engaging students and young adults; equipping churches and laity; and embracing our neighbors. We will also continue to grow and enhance our Annual Gathering as a time of fellowship, worship, and instruction.
CBFNC has been and continues to be one of the strongest organizations in the CBF community, if not the Baptist world. That strength has been and continues to be exhibited in our efforts to be nimble, flexible, and adaptable to changing circumstances. We have always strived not simply to reproduce yesterday's ministry models and structures, but to anticipate and address tomorrow's ministry needs.
This new plan, with its four ministry priorities and a staffing structure to support those priorities, is based on that strength.
I'm grateful to the Coordinating Council for the foresight to point CBFNC toward a new and exciting future, rooted in the past but not stuck in it.
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Collegiate Mid-Winter Retreat
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Why should you attend CBFNC's Collegiate Mid-Winter Retreat?
Take a look!
January 28-29, 2017
Camp Mundo Vista in Sophia
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Hurricane Matthew Response
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Grant Application
The Hurricane Matthew Response Grant program seeks to assist CBFNC churches by providing help for rebuilding projects for the flood victims of Hurricane Matthew. These projects should focus on "necessities."
Click here to download
the grant application.
First, Lumberton, is willing and able to host (including a shower trailer) mission teams to come and work on homes affected by Hurricane Matthew. Call First, Lumberton at (910) 739-4336 to discuss and schedule a week/weekend/day.
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Youth Ski Retreat
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Winterplace Ski Resort
Ghent, West Virginia
Option 1:
This package is $184 per person based on max. occupancy
(4 per room or 6 per suite)
Option 2:
This package is $168 per person based on max. occupancy
(4 per room).
Non-skiers can deduct $78 from their cost and those with their own equipment can deduct $26 from the cost. CTI can make arrangements for clothing, tubing, and other items you might need while on site.
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| Quick Links |
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336-759-3456
888-822-1944 (toll free)
336-759-3459 (fax)
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Connect with CBFNC and others across the state!
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CBFNC is looking for guest writers for our blog.
Do you have thoughts or stories you'd like to share? We want to hear stories from you about the way you've seen God in ordinary moments.
Send those in
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check out our blog
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CBFNC
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Youth Ski Retreat
January 20-22, 2017
Winterplace, WV
Mid-Winter Collegiate Retreat
January 28-29, 2017
Camp Mundo Vista, Sophia
Coaching Exploration Conference Call - free
February 7, 2017
(641) 715-0635
access code: 973776#
Youth Choir Festival
March 3-4, 2017
Knollwood, Winston-Salem
Children's Choir Festival
March 11, 2017
First, Southern Pines
Foundations of Christian Coaching (501)
March 13-14, 2017
CBFNC offices, Winston-Salem
2017 Congregational Coach Training
March 20-21, 2017
Christmount Conference Center, Black Mountain
2017 CBFNC Gathering "As You Go" in Hickory
Establishing a Dynamic Coaching Relationship (502)
June 8-9, 2017
CBFNC offices, Winston-Salem
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CBF Global
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Transformation through simple reminders: a Pivot reflection
There's no shortage of research that suggests short-term mission trips are not as impactful on trip participants or those they intend to serve as perhaps we once believed, especially if they are executed poorly. Pivot intends to be a part of the solution in helping congregations re-imagine their involvement in the mission of God, both near and far.
There are three phases to Pivot; preparation, on-site engagement and pivoting back home. This process takes about a year to fully complete, a much different approach than a normal one week to ten-day mission trip, with the real crux of transformation resting in the pivoting back home phase.
read more
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News from Our Higher Education Partners
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Be sure to check out the Keesee Foundation's theological education grant information. Read more.
For more information about School of Divinity events, call (704) 406-3205.
"Islam, ISIS, and Other Enquiries" - Dr. Don Berry
Thursday nights, February 2-23, 2017, 6:30-8:30pm. Boiling Springs Baptist Church
"Reading the Bible for Personal and Communal Renewal" - Dr. Sophia Steibel
Thursday nights, March 9-30, 2017, 6:30-8:30pm. Classroom - Lindsay 214
more information
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| News from Partners and Friends of CBFNC |
The Baptist Joint Committee is now accepting applications for its 2017 BJC Fellows program, offering young professionals the chance to deepen their legal, historical, and theological understanding of religious liberty. It includes a seminar in Colonial Williamsburg, and most cost are covered.
The deadline for applications is February 17, 2017.
more information
Vital Worship Grants Program
The Vital Worship Grants Program at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
encourages grant proposals developed through a collaborative process from emerging and established churches; seminaries, colleges, and schools; hospitals, nursing homes and other organizations.
This program is made possible with funds provided by Lilly Endowment Inc. more information
Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching
Since 2007, Baptist Women in Ministry has invited Baptist churches to participate in Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching by having a woman preach during the month of February. This is an opportunity for you to publicly voice your support of women in ministry, to be counted with other Baptist churches in celebrating the calling and gifts of women, and to remind your congregation that God does indeed call women to the work of the kingdom. But most importantly, this is an opportunity for your church to invite into your pulpit a woman who has never had the opportunity to preach. more information
Volunteers for China
July 7 - August 7: Amity Foundation Summer English Program; $ 1,700 plus international airline fare. Teaching Chinese English teachers. One week orientation and three weeks teaching, M-F. Arrival and departure Shanghai.
July 6-24: 6 teaching programs in the Changzhi, Shanxi, area. $1,400 plus international airline fare. Teaching Chinese English teachers, university students, and some senior high school students. Two weeks, M-F in the classroom. Arrival and departure Beijing.
For more information, e-mail
cen29529@centurytel.net or call (
865) 983-9852.
CBF Global Presents ChurchWorks 2017
ChurchWorks is a three-day event for all practitioners of education and spiritual formation in the congregational setting. February 20-22, 2017, at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville, FL.
more information
2017 Religious Liberty Essay Scholarship Contest
The Baptist Joint Committee is providing an opportunity for high school juniors and seniors to win scholarship money ranging from $500 to $2,000, including a trip to Washington, D.C. Deadline is March 10, 2017. more information
25 Young Baptists to Know
CBF Global is celebrating its 25th anniversary all throughout this year through General Assembly 2017. The new celebratory initiative is a focus on those young laity (ages 21-35) who are making a difference in and through CBF congregations. We need YOU to nominate a young Baptist lay person that folks around the Fellowship should pay attention to. What fabulous ministries are they initiating and leading? How are they making a difference in their community through their job or their service in the name of Jesus?
more information
Young Adult Caribbean Mission Immersion
Pivot Bahamas is a learning immersion experience for young adults (age 21-44) that includes six studies exploring God's mission in the world ahead of 4.5 days of Caribbean cultural acquisition and reflection on Abaco Island. February 16-20, 2017. $350 plus air travel.
More information.
New Film on Missionaries in a Time of Genocide
EthicsDaily.com is releasing a new feature-length film on what missionaries did in Nigeria in 1966 during a time of tribal genocide. Visit
this website for more information.
Are you a New Church Planter?
The CBF Church Start Discernment Cohorts is a free 8-week online experience is for those discerning and living out a call into church starting. It is a creative space for folk who are already in the process of starting a church to explore and work through the vision and mission. This is a safe space for all participants who engage in the secure and private site.
Participants will work through the basics of contextual church starting, introspective writing, and group conversation. Over the 8-weeks, the candidate will be accumulating his or her writings in a church start profile, which serves as a tool for the starter and evaluation tool for CBF.
Future cohorts will be January 15-March 10, 2017; April 23-June 16, 2017; July 9-September 1, 2017: and October 8-December 1, 2017. To join the cohort, candidates must complete this form.
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Public Policy Update
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Federal Judge Stops December 1 Implementation of Overtime Rule
A judge from a federal court in Texas issued a temporary injunction that will delay the December 1 effective date for the new overtime rules from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). For now, this court ruling means that your nonprofit does not need to make immediate changes to comply with the overtime rules. The NC Center for Nonprofits developed a guide to the overtime rules and will keep you posted on the status of future court action on the rules. For more information, contact Jim Hylton, CBFNC Business Administration Coordinator.
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Personnel Requests
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Frequently CBFNC receives requests from churches about placing an ad for filling church positions or staff. While we do not have a place for these ads in our newsletter,
The Gathering, we are willing to publish positions on our
Ministry Job Board. We also offer a Reference and Referral service with our Ministerial Transitions Coordinators for staff positions. Please visit
our website to learn more about staff placement through CBFNC.
Looking for a Place in Ministry? Learn more about the Ministerial Transitions Facilitators.
List your ministry position on CBFNC's new job board!
Take a look!
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CBFNC's headquarters are not in an office suite in Winston-Salem, but in congregations from the Atlantic in the east to the Appalachians in the west. Thank you for your partnership!
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