A [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant
Take a look at videos from the plenary sessions from "A [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant" -- an honest, compassionate and prayerful dialogue around matters and questions of sexuality.
We hope these resources will be useful to you and your congregation.
Pastor moms juggle ministry, motherhood
By Jeff Brumley (from Religious Herald)
Mothers’ Day 2012 will dawn with more women than ever in Baptist pulpits. But even those who welcome the trend say the corresponding ascension of the minister mom is creating tensions, too, within families, and the hearts of female pastors.
“We as Baptist congregations are struggling,” said Alicia Davis Porterfield, a North Carolina-based Baptist minister and mother of three who’s compiling and editing book on mothers in ministry.
CBF Explores New Ways to Do Church
“Many of our churches are dealing with a world that is changing very fast, and the standard way of doing things isn’t working very well. They are trying to find new ways” to do and be the church. - Larry Hovis, CBFNC Executive Coordinator, on the upcoming Impacting Tomorrow conference at Providence Baptist in Charlotte
Immigration Discussion with EthicsDaily
Laura Barclay, Social Ministries Coordinator for the CBFNC, talks with EthicsDaily.com about "Gospel Without Border" documentary and the state of immigration in NC.
Read it and weep ... or worse
by Tony Cartledge, Baptists Today
If you have a weak stomach, you may not wish to read what lies below. It's hard to be in the same cyberspace with the kind of overweening arrogance that seems designed to provoke a visceral response.
But not the response Sean Harris wanted, except for the faithful few who cheered his anti-gay diatribe this past Sunday as he joined other arch-conservative pastors involved in a statewide effort April 29 to get out the vote for a so-called "Marriage Amendment" to the state's constitution. The amendment purports to protect the institution of marriage, but is clearly designed to prohibit same-sex marriage, and would have the effect of reducing domestic abuse protection to any who don't fit the definition of a "domestic legal union" -- a term that has no legal definition in North Carolina: hence, the potential problems. Here's a website that supports the amendment, and one that opposes it, if you wish to read the opposing views.
New Baptist Covenant Meeting in Atlanta
CBFNC's Laura Barclay with President Jimmy Carter at the New Baptist Covenant Planning Meeting in Atlanta.
Seeking Oneness
by Tony Cartledge, Baptists Today
Trinity Baptist Church in Raleigh hosted a full house of Cooperative Baptists both Friday evening and Saturday morning as about 1,150 supporters gathered March 23-24 for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina's (CBFNC) annual General Assembly.
Enthusiastic participants dug into more than 80 workshops scattered over three sessions and enjoyed fellowship over meals as they perused exhibits, joined in worship, and conducted business.
Baptists, White House officials discuss policy issues
... attended by CBFNC's Executive Coordinator, Larry Hovis
WASHINGTON -- A delegation of 60 Baptist pastors from almost 20 states -- including about two dozen from the Mid-Atlantic -- participated in a White House briefing March 7, joining administration officials in a four-hour dialogue on policy topics ranging from the environment to immigration to predatory lending.
General Assembly Photo Contest Winners!
1st Place – Lesley-Ann Hix of FBC Greensboro & McAfee School of Theology, with the boys at the Catholic orphanage in Columbia ... see photo below
2nd Place – Rev. Craig Janney, Assistant Dean of Admissions at Chowan & member of FBC Ahoskie, with the photo of a break from construction at Titanyen, Haiti
3rd Place – Tammy Stocks, CBF Field Personnel, Gypsy Team and member of Emerywood Baptist, with the Campbell University students at Gandhi High School in Hungary
Congratulations to our winners and thanks to all who sent in photos and voted!
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