March 29, 2017
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Are you ready?
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Larry Hovis, the entire CBFNC Staff, and the planning team are ready! We can't wait to see you at First, Hickory, for this year's CBFNC Annual Gathering.
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Tomorrow
kicks off the 2017 CBFNC Annual Gathering at First, Hickory, and we are so excited to see you there! If you haven't finalized your plans, it's not too late. You can still register and pay for events onsite. Bring a friend and join the crowd coming to Hickory to fellowship, learn, and worship with other church leaders from around our state. We have more opportunities to connect and to engage than ever before. There is something for everyone!
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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. Contact Doug Reedy at First, Lumberton 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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CBFNC
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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
Children's MIssion Days
October 28, 2017 - First, Boone
November 4, 2017 - Oakmont, Greenville
November 11, 2017 - Zebulon, Zebulon
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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.
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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.
"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
Film and Preaching: The Gospel According to Hollywood. May 23-June 29, 2017.
Enlivening Scripture: Proclamation, Rhythm, and Song. July 6-August 11, 2017.
Seven Money Types workshop series. Led by Tommy Brown. March 29, 2017.
more information
Lenten Preaching Series - March 31 and April 7/14 at 12pm. First Highland Avenue, Winston-Salem
more information
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| News from Partners and Friends of CBFNC |
Subscription Service for Youth Ministers
Youth Ministry Conversations includes up to 11-12 resources available for purchase.
more information.
VBS Help
A church near Washington, D.C., needs help with VBS June 26-30, 2017. Contact
Trisha Miller at Mid-Atlantic CBF.
Van or Bus Needed for Refugee Organization
Pastor
Felix Iyoko and his wife Nicole at Raleigh Immigrant Community need a 15-passenger van or small church bus to transport 23 refugees to their first American jobs everyday. Volunteers are able to do any repairs and upkeep that might be needed.
Contact Cris Graebe at (
919) 863-9092.
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
March 27-31, 2017: Women Re-Build 2017, Warsaw
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.
Summerfest 2017
May 29 - June 2
and
August 14-18.
Retreat for retired and semi-retired adults at Fort Caswell. Musical entertainment by Three on a String,
speaking by
Dr. Michael Blackwell, special guest storyteller
DuPre Sanders, and music by
GLAD Trio.
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
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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