Greetings from
Florida and the Caribbean
March 27, 2024
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Here's a quick look midweek to strengthen your faith and connect with your CBF family. | |
Psalm 70 (v.5)
A Wednesday of Holy Week Reflection
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But I am poor and needy;
hasten to me, O God!
You are my help and my deliverer;
O Lord, do not delay!
The world is a painful and treacherous place. Its needs are urgent and overwhelming. Yet God has not given us Psalm 70 so that we can adopt it hastily and force deliverance from our own trials. We have it to remember the trials and the vindication of the ONE broken for us. We pray Psalm 70 rightly as participants in Christ's sacrificial body and blood. When our own humiliations and sufferings find their place in his atoning death, when we are willing to acknowledge that we might be among the very enemies we are praying against, when we seek him in his beatific poverty and are glad in his great victory, and when our most urgent request is that he come quickly to judge the living and the dead, then we are its true psalmists.
Teleford Work from Daily Feast
Prayer: I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay! Amen.
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Would you join me in praying for our Cuban family and friends as they deal with uncertainty and struggles?
God, please provide for our Cuban neighbors an abundance of peace and provisions. We ask that you allow our prayers to find their way into the hearts of our friends and family so they may feel and sense our love and support. Amen.
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Worshiping with Beacon Hill Fellowship. | |
Beacon Hill Fellowship is a true community. This church family consists of both CBF Baptists AND PC USA Presbyterians. They've been together so long they don't even refer to their denominations. Led by Tim Sizemore for the past 17 years, BHF is known for speaking through their hands and feet across Polk County. Tim's message from Mark 11:1-11 this past Sunday confirmed their commitment to making other peoples lives better. Tim reminded us of this. "The greatest of all is the servant of all. Jesus' life clearly shows us that true greatness is not to be in charge but to be in service to others. Amen! | |
Join us for your 2024 CBF Florida and Caribbean
Spring Celebration
Lunch is $15
FREE Exhibit Space Available.
May 4, 2024 at First Baptist
St Petersburg
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Here's where our Spring Celebration is happening!
First Baptist Church of St Petersburg family
is most welcoming and brimming with hospitality.
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Under Executive Director,Trina Harris' guidance, TML offers holistic youth and family development programs, instilling hope, providing opportunities, and equipping them with essential resources. Trina's innate ability to connect with and motivate others has been instrumental in shaping the organization’s success and positive impact. | Francis & Missy Ward-Angalla | In 2019, Amani Sasa opened it’s doors to provide holistic, wrap-around services for refugees in Kampala. Over the years, the mission has grown and expanded. Refugees who have come to Amani Sasa for assistance, have become staff! Today, Amani Sasa serves over 450 families per year. God has transformed thousands of lives through Missy and Francis' vision. | |
In 2017, Rick and Ellen Burnette founded Cultivate Abundance to address the needs of low income migrant farm workers in Immokalee, FL. Despite growing a significant amount of America's winter tomatoes and other produce, these workers experience food insecurity at a disproportionate rate. Immokalee is considered a food desert, which makes it difficult for these hardworking individuals to access nutritious and affordable food. | |
As president, Jason leads Together for Hope, CBF’s rural development coalition which focuses on the 301 counties of persistent rural poverty in the United States and has four priorities of hope: education, health & nutrition, housing & environment, and social enterprise. |  |  | |
As a church partner, individual partner, or both with CBF Fl/CI you are a part of something much greater! Join us as we celebrate our collaboration with 4 very special mission partners. Hear their life-giving stories, encounter their journeys, and find out how you can literally experience and impact their God-given communities.
We hope you will make plans to join us for the entire day as we grow through learning and worshiping together. The morning will be spent with Trina Harris – Touching Miami with Love, Rick and Ellen Burnette – Cultivate Abundance, Jason Coker – Together For Hope and Missy Ward Angalla – Amani Sasa, followed by lunch. We will end our day with a beautiful worship service featuring Francis Angalla as our worship leader and Rev Xiomara Reboyras as our proclaimer. We look forward to seeing you.
Registration Ends April 26, 2024. Cost is $15 for lunch. You may still register on-site the day of, but lunch may not be available.
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CBF FL /CI will host a dinner and other opportunities for you to meet your CBF FL/CI family who are present. These events will be shared here as they are planned.
Join us for dinner Wednesday evening. Register for our regional barbecue dinner below.
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Pathlight curriculum
Pathlight is a (free) weekly resource helping children to explore the Good News of Jesus through stories, scripture and activities. This new curriculum presents stories of CBF field personnel, chaplains, churches and pastors, and invites children to grow in their relationships with Jesus and their neighbors.
Each Pathlight download offers an easy-preparation teaching guide with a story, discussion questions and learning activities as well as a take-home sheet for students. Pathlight is also available in Spanish.
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CBF FL/CI Spring Missions Offering | |
As Easter draws near, CBF FL/CI is hosting a special offering campaign to support our 9 designated mission partners (listed below), who play a crucial role in transforming lives. This initiative goes above and beyond our regular giving and aims to provide additional money for these selfless partners. Together we can make Easter 2024 a truly transformative time for our partners and the communities they serve. Click on visit our website and go to the GIVE tab. | |
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The Season of Lent continues...
How will you empty yourself in order to make room for
self-reflection and examination during this season?
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2024 Emmanuel McCall Lenten Devotional series
The 2024 Emmanuel McCall Lenten Devotional series has been prepared by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship family and friends. It is a project of love that is designed to be read during the season of Lent.
Available in both English and Spanish.
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Submit Emmanuel McCall Racial Justice Trailblazer Award nominees
The CBF Pan African Koinonia Steering Committee seeks nominations for the 2024 Dr. Emmanuel McCall Racial Justice Trailblazer Award, which provides recognition to individuals and ministries that have trailblazed in the area of racial justice. The deadline for nominations is April 8. 2024.
Learn more and submit a nomination here.
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Summer Opportunity in Uganda
8-9 volunteers are needed to assist with music camp for the refugee community in Kampala, Uganda, part of the work of CBF Field Personnel Missy Ward-Angalla. Volunteers needed include skilled musicians, worship leaders, photographers, and visual artists to teach alongside the Amani Sasa staff during the camp. Dates of the camp are July 8-19 (volunteers would need to arrive in Uganda by July 5). Cost is $2400 plus airfare.
| BSK is now accepting applications for the Master of Arts in Ministry Studies program, launching in Fall 2024! The program, completed online through live Zoom sessions, is designed for people who want to grow in their calling while remaining in their full-time ministry or professional positions. The 36 hour degree program is centered around the selection of a specialty area by the student in consultation with faculty. Students may select from traditional fields of study or choose an area that is interdisciplinary. The program concludes with a Capstone project or thesis relating to the student’s area of specialization. | |
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"As you explore this report, do so with gratitude for the collective impact we've made and with anticipation of the transformative possibilities that lie ahead." Paul Baxley | |
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CBF March Book Club
Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin Curtice, 2023
In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold us all together.
Curtice shows that we can learn to practice embodied ways of belonging and connection to ourselves and one another through everyday practices, such as getting more in touch with our bodies, resting, and remembering our ancestors. She explores four "realms of resistance"--the personal, the communal, the ancestral, and the integral--and shows how these realms overlap and why all are needed for our liberation. Readers will be empowered to seek wholeness in whatever spheres of influence they inhabit.
Learn more about CBF Book Club.
Find the study guide here.
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This year’s theme, “Equipping With Every Good Thing,” is based on Hebrews 13:20-21: "Now may the God of peace … equip you with every good thing to do his will, by developing in us what pleases him through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory forever and always.” The Offering for Global Missions equips the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship with the gifts and passions of 46 Field Personnel in 17 different countries and the United States, spreading the hope of Jesus Christ. When you give to the Offering for Global Missions, you also participate in this mission of Jesus Christ around the world.
This year we have a goal of $4 million. Every gift helps us reach this goal to support the presence of Field Personnel.
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Get your copy of the
OGM Prayer Guide below
| " Writers were invited to share about someone who has made a significant impact on their lives, a spiritual guide so to speak - one who has shaped their faith, their theology or their prayer life." Thanks Meg Lacy Vega for compiling these beautiful Spiritual Guides. | |
On the road...
April 14, First Baptist Church, Vero Beach
April 28, Bayshore Baptist, Tampa
May 3, RA Meeting, First Baptist St Petersburg
May 4, Spring Celebration, First Baptist St Petersburg
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Stay connected with a quick click. | |
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