“A Family Story”: One of the goals of CMBA is to tell the stories of our congregations and their leaders regarding their missional engagement. Within this goal is the desire to inspire others to similar action as God is calling them into areas of missional engagement. Earlier this year Ralphetta Davis, moderator of CMBA and […]
“A Call to Prayer”: Pray for the open doors God has given CMBA this week. Would you join me in praying this week about various conversations that will take place that include the following: 1. Prayer for the future use of an historic church building where the congregation has ceased to gather for worship, discipleship, […]
“A Call to Action”: What happens when congregations wait too late to consider radical transformation? Many things. Here are a few. 1. They drop below a critical mass of gifted leaders who can lead a radical transformation. 2. They also have too few workers who can carry out new and innovative strategies, partially because they […]
“A Family Story”: Today St. Andrews Baptist Church will ordain Lisa Dempsey as a Baptist minister serving in a role as a chaplain – currently with PRISMA Health. The ordination council was held on Saturday with ten people serving on the ordination council. Lisa expressed a wonderful spirit of Christ, an obvious spiritual call to […]
“A Family Story”: Last Sunday more than 100 leaders of Spring Valley Baptist Church gathered to hear a report entitled God’s Empowering Vision for Spring Valley Baptist Church: A Foundation. It is not a new strategy. It is not a new vision. It is the public beginning of a new spiritual and strategic journey for […]
“A Call to Action”: Casey Williams, senior pastor, North Trenholm Baptist Church in Columbia presented some of the research this week from his doctoral on multi-ethnic mega churches in the USA South. His research shows that 86 percent of churches in the USA are mono-ethnic, and only 14 percent are multi-ethnic. “If your dinner table […]