What is Your Congregation’s Future Story of Missional Ministry?
What is Your Congregation’s Future Story of Missional Ministry?Download During the past ten months, CMBA had engaged in two phases of the Denominee process. This is jointly funded by our association, our state convention, and the North American Mission Board. The purpose is to help associations close the value gap between how they function and […]
Disciplemaking is About Moving Your Feet
Disciplemaking is About Moving Your FeetDownload St. Andrews Baptist Church – not unlike many churches in our association – is striving to define and act on the difference between in-depth knowledge about discipleship and proactive efforts to engage in disciplemaking. Sound familiar? It should. It is the number one struggle mentioned by pastors when considering […]
Seven Ways I Am Finishing Strong
Seven Ways I Am Finishing StrongDownload Although my retirement is less than 100 days away and the association has already conducted a retirement celebration for me, I can promise you I am not slowing down. I am as excited about ministry among our 100 congregations as I have ever been. I am working as hard […]
Biblical Encouragement for Congregational Revitalization
Biblical Encouragement for Congregational RevitalizationDownload Does the Bible support congregational revitalization? Yes. Various passages support the need for people, families, tribes, and congregations to engage in renewal of their commitment to God, and to be on a dynamic journey as they seek to follow God’s leading. Here are biblical references I find useful in talking […]
Columbia Metro: Mission Local – February 24th Dispatch
Columbia Metro- Mission Local – February 24 DispatchDownload An exceptional way to engage in Mission Local is to adopt a mission field. Yes, you can adopt a mission field in another part of the world or another part of our country. Doing so may allow your congregation to engage in all three Missional Benchmarks suggested […]
Columbia Metro: Mission Local – February 10th Dispatch
Columbia Metro- Mission Local – February 10th DispatchDownload In the January 26th dispatch (Read HERE), we introduced plans to focus on Columbia Metro: Mission Local. We suggested the need to organize in every congregation for glocal (local and global) missional engagement – particularly if the traditional pathways are no longer working for you, you need […]
Columbia Metro: Mission Local – January 26th Dispatch
Columbia Metro- Mission Local – January 26th DispatchDownload During the first half of 2022, CMBA plans to focus on Columbia Metro: Mission Local. The purpose is to raise awareness of the need for missional engagement by our family of congregations in the Midlands of South Carolina within our local context. This does not suggest missional […]
The Importance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The Importance of Martin Luther King Jr. DayDownload On the evening of April 4, 1968, my college dorm room door swung open. A student stuck his head in my room and with a smile on his face and said, “They got the King!” What a tragedy, I thought. I had no words for him that […]
Reflecting on 2021 in Our Association
Reflecting on 2021 in Our AssociationDownload When we entered the year 2021 great hope existed for mass vaccination that would halt the spread of the pandemic and open the world back up to missional engagement that happens – as the Acts of the Apostles says – with “openness” and “unhindered.” Here we are at the […]
The Numerology of Critical Congregational Capacity
The Numerology of Critical Congregational Capacity Download I believe in smaller membership congregations. Those who have less than 100 in average weekly face-to-face attendance. Not only are they most of the congregations in CMBA, but they are likely – as we emerge out of the toughest times of the pandemic – upwards to two-thirds of […]