March 1, 2017
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Something for everyone
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We all love choices, right? Well, at the CBFNC Annual Gathering in Hickory on March 30-April 1, you will have a choice between nearly 50 informative, fun, and challenging workshops. Our leaders will share their expertise by exploring issues related to poverty, race relations, sex trafficking, religious liberty, social justice, church history, and more.
We will have some fun too! Enjoy other topics related to calling, personality types, life-work balance, creative writing, innovative worship, and age-related ministry. There is something for everyone!
We hope you will join us for all of Friday's activities, not only the workshops. Hear from others in our state about what they are excited about for Friday, including the meaningful worship, keynote speaker Susan Sparks, and
fellowship opportunities
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CBFNC's Annual Gathering will be a time to connect with old friends, learn something new, and experience God's movement among other Cooperative Baptists. Come and join the crowd!
Don't miss out - register today!
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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.
Interested in a mission trip to Lumberton, NC, to help with Hurricane Matthew flood relief? In addition to NC Baptist Men, two CBFNC churches are able to provide housing for teams. Call Doug Reedy at First, Lumberton (910) 739-4336 or Dave Hawes at Godwin Heights Baptist Church, Lumberton, (704) 473-2875. Week-long or weekend, all help is needed and valued.
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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 Choir Festival
March 3-4, 2017
Knollwood, Winston-Salem
WNCBF Ministers' Retreat
March 9, 2017
First, Asheville
Children's Choir Festival
March 11, 2017
First, Southern Pines
Foundations of Christian Coaching (501)
March 13-14, 2017
Christmount Conference Center, Black Mountain
2017 Congregational Coach Training
March 20-21, 2017
Christmount Conference Center, Black Mountain
2017 CBFNC Gathering "As You Go" in Hickory
"Stronger Together" International Student and Scholar Conference
April 7-9, 2017
Fort Caswell
Establishing a Dynamic Coaching Relationship (502)
June 8-9, 2017
Christmount Conference Center, Black Mountain
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CBF Global
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Lenten Resources
Lent is a season of reflection - a time to consider our human fragility and mortality. It begins darkly with the imposition of ashes placed on our foreheads, reminding us that from dust we came and to dust we shall return. Yet the darkness moves to light at the end of the forty days when we gather at the empty burial plot of Jesus who defeated death on Easter Sunday. We walk toward the cross with Jesus in Lent so that we can receive the fullness of life that is offered on Easter. May these resources help your congregation share the Lenten journey this year.
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.
Overture Music and Worship Conference: March 19, 2017
March 27-28, 2017 - The Buddy Shurden Lectures
Doctor of Ministry Open House: March 24, 2017
Master-Level Visitation Day: April 11, 2017
Pastors' Health Summit: June 1, 2017
Campbell Youth Theological Institute: July 16-19, 2017
For more information about School of Divinity events, call (704) 406-3205.
C.O. and Eliza Greene Lectures, "Loving/Embracing Our Neighbor" - Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim on March 7, 2017.
more information
"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
Seven Money Types workshop series. Led by Tommy Brown. March 29, 2017.
more information
Faithful Organizing for Community Empowerment - March 17-18, 2017.
more information
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| News from Partners and Friends of CBFNC |
Children's dresses, shorts, dolls, knitted hats for mission teams
First, Smithfield, has a team of women who make dresses, shorts, knitted hats, dolls, and other items. This group would like to give these items to mission teams to distribute.
Contact Lee Colbert
if you are interested.
WMU NC
April 26-28, 2017. First, Knoxville, TN.
Preachers for the event are Carol McEntrye and Meredith Stone.
Key speakers include Kasey Jones, Molly Marshall, and Suzii Paynter.
more information
NC Baptist Aging Ministry's
AAIM Spring Roundup will take place May 2, 2017, at
Rich Fork in Thomasville. AAIM events (Aging Adults Innovating Ministry) provide information and encouragement to senior adult leaders.
Week-long opportunities for volunteer teams to assist with accredited year-round grade school enrichment childcare program. June 19-23 and June 26-30, 2017, at the West Homestead site. July 24-28, 2017, at the Overtown site.
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
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
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 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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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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