Greetings from
Florida and the Caribbean
March 13, 2024
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Here's a quick look midweek to strengthen your faith and connect with your CBF family. | |
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Catedral de San Carlos Borromeo, Mantanzas, Cuba
prayer from Daily Feast, Meditations from Feasting on the Word
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A beautiful picture of one of the churches we visited in Cuba. The foundation stone of Catedral de San Carlos Borromeo was laid on 12 October, 1693, and the first Catholic Mass was celebrated by the Bishop of Santiago, Diego Evelino Hurtado de Compostela. The original church was a simple structure constructed of fronds of the royal palm. It was soon destroyed in a storm and construction began on the present church. The building was finished in 1735. After years of neglect, the cathedral was restored in 2017. | |
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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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 worshipping 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 beautifull 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 be hosting 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. | |
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During my short visit to be a part of FIBAC's (FRATERNITY OF BAPTIST CHURCHES OF CUBA) annual conference, I was able to experience the colorful streets of Havana and Mantanza, grand and eclectic architecture, but my favorite part was engaging with the beautiful, hospitable and warm people. There's such a strong sense of community in Cuba- even as our close neighbors face some of the worst economic challenges ever! And while their stories were filled with struggles, both, their outlooks and worship are filled with hope.
More Cuba stories coming. TU, Xiomara Reyboras.
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Women from Cuba, Florida, Washington DC, Canada and Puerto Rico serving communion. | |
Serving communion with Jennifer Lau, Executive Director of Canadian Baptist Ministries. | |
Xiomara serving communion with Marsha Scipio, Director of Baptist World Aid. | |
Joy-filled worship in Mantanzas! | |
Soul Care
Cultivating an Awareness of Divine Presence
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Left: Ruben Ortiz, Xiomara Reboyras, Tammy Snyder, Pilar Castrillo, Brenda Cohen and Diane Adams, a CBF Cohort attending a week long session on balancing daily activities to prioritize personal soul care and cultivating the presence of God in others.
Middle: Brenda Cohen leading us in worship
Right: Pilar Castrillo contributing to the session, with Brenda seated on her right.
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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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Hey FL and Caribbean Family...
I know you are a part of ... or know people who ... are transforming lives and communities. Below are 3 opportunities to share your ideas, receive money to help your ministry grow, or spread the word!
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CBF Mission Excellence Award
Are you a member of a church excelling in missions? Is there a church doing wonderful work beyond their walls?
The CBF Missions Council will recognize three congregations with the Mission Excellence Award at the upcoming 2024 General Assembly in Greensboro, N.C., and is seeking nominations for congregations that exemplify one or more of CBF’s mission distinctives.
Learn more and submit your nominations before the March 22 deadline here.
SUBMIT NOMINATIONS
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CBF Ministries Council invites applications for ministry grants on theme of transformation
The CBF Ministries Council invites applications for the 2024 granting year. Proposals are encouraged for ministries that are (or will be) working within the framework of transformation.
The Ministries Council is especially interested in resources that can be developed, shared and/or replicated across the Fellowship. Awards range from $500 to $8,750.
The deadline to submit your application is March 22, 2024.
Learn more and apply now here.
Find the article in Spanish here.
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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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CBF names Lynn Brinkley as Field Ministry Coordinator of Pan African Koinonia
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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...
Mar 17, First Baptist St Petersburg
Mar 24, Visit Pending
April 14, First Baptist Church, Vero Beach
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