Here's a quick look midweek to strengthen your faith and connect with your CBF family.

Thriving in Ministry is a CBF initiative funded by the Lilly Foundation to assist pastors by connecting them with mentors and peers serving in similar situations. This Thriving in Ministry cohort, led by Rev. Xiomara Reboyras, provides coaching tailored to the pastoras ministry contexts and encourages them in their personal well being.

Pastor Joe LaGuardia leads this great church family with lots of love for the people and passion for Jesus. Sunday was especially exceptional as the entire day was dedicated to mission engagement. There is just as much going on outside the walls of this church as there is inside.

Registration Closes Friday, April 26,2024

Here's where our Spring Celebration is happening!

First Baptist Church of St Petersburg family

is most welcoming and brimming with hospitality.

Amani Sasa

Together For Hope

Cultivate Abundance

To hear the stories behind these pictures, be sure to register above. Simply click on Register Here.

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.

Mark your calendar...

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.

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.

April 2024 CBF Book Club

Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

By Majora Carter

How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have.

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. 

On the road...

April 28, Bayshore Baptist, Tampa

May 3, RA Meeting, First Baptist St Petersburg

May 4, Spring Celebration, First Baptist St Petersburg

May 26, Circle of Faith, St Petersburg



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Stay connected with a quick click.

• Cooperative Baptist Fellowship   
• Touching Miami With Love
• Cultivate Abundance
• Together for Hope
• Karen Alford(Togo)
• Amani Sasa-Missy Ward Angalla(Uganda)
• Baptist News Global
• Good Faith Media
• Baptist History & Heritage Society
• Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Freedom
• Baptist Seminary of Kentucky
• McAfee School of Theology