Category Archives for "Podcast"
Welcome to the Columbia Metro Connection, a podcast where you can go to get valuable, relevant, and quality resources for you and your congregation.
OPP 051: Columbia Coronavirus Vaccine Panel
This week, Dr. George Bullard, Executive Director of the CMBA, and Dr. Andre Rogers, Pastor at Concord Fellowship Baptist Church have a candid conversation with a panel of state & community leaders from the Columbia Metro to address the anxiety that exists in the African-American community surrounding the Coronavirus vaccine. Let’s listen in to this essential conversation.
OPP 050: Special MLK Day Celebration Conversation
This week we’re airing a Special Martin Luther King Day Celebration podcast. Joining us is Dr. David Goatley, Associate Dean for Vocational Formation and Christian Witness, Director of the Office of Black Church Studies, and Research Professor of Christian Theology at Duke University Divinity School.
OPP 049: Pandemic Progress
This week, George Bullard, Executive Director, Julia Bell, Communication Director, and Chris Reinolds, local CMBA pastor, consider the positives we’re seeing in churches as a result of the pandemic.
OPP 048: From South Carolina to New York City
This week, we had the opportunity to talk with George Russ and Kevin Cabe from the Metropolitan New York Baptist Association.
OPP 047: Associational Appreciation
This week, we’re taking some time to appreciate the ongoing work of the supporting ministry of the Columbia Metro Baptist Association.
OPP 046: Spreading the Gospel Through Hunger Ministries
This week, we’re speaking with CMBA’s own Ministry Mobilizer, Cathy Locklear, to explore the growth of hunger-related ministry that’s continued to flourish amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
OPP 045: The Journey Together
This week, we’re sitting down to explore the covenantal relationship that exists with churches and their association.
OPP 044: ReGathering the Church Pt. 2
This week, we’re wrapping up our ReGathering the Church podcast series by speaking with two pastors who are ministering to their church and community in unique ways.
OPP 043: Pastoring in a Pandemic
This week, we had an opportunity to sit down with David Sturgeon, Pastor at Temple Baptist Church, to discuss the perils of pastoring in a pandemic. Pastoral ministry was difficult before March of 2020, but the tensions we’re seeing in pastoral ministry are higher than most have experienced in our lifetime.
OPP 042: ReGathering the Church Pt. 1
This week, we had an opportunity to sit down with a handful of pastors, as part one of a three-part series, to discuss the up’s and down’s and in’s and out’s of their regathering their churches in midst of a pandemic.