CMBA Team Huddle Strives to Fulfill Our One Priority
CMBA Team Huddle Strives to Fulfill Our One Priority Download To best serve Our One Priority which is to Start and Strengthen Congregations to Serve as Vital and Vibrant Missional Communities, CMBA has put together a group of ten people called the CMBA Team Huddle. Additionally, it has divided them into four squads based on […]
Send Me, O Lord, That Your Good News is Received
Send Me, O Lord, That Your Good News is Received Download A key strategic understanding for Christian ministry is whether we are sent or is the Good News of Jesus received. It is the classic push or pull debate. Our desire among the CMBA family of congregations is to advocate for the receiving of the […]
CMBA Offers Mentoring and Coaching Capacity to the Sponsors of New Congregational Expressions
CMBA Offers Mentoring and Coaching Capacity Download Your associational leadership strongly believes that existing congregations plant new congregational expressions. It takes a one to three missionally-driven congregations to effectively launch a new congregational expression. The spiritual and strategic growth that happens out of this sponsorship often has a wonderful and fruitful impact on the sponsoring […]
A Dozen Essential Actions for Leading the Launch or Coming Alongside a New Congregational Expression
Actions for Launching New Congregational Expressions Download It is a foundational commitment of the Columbia Metro Baptist Association that the best approach to starting new congregational expressions is for the congregations to take the lead and do the starting, planting, and/or sponsoring. This is long-term the best method for creating congregations who serve as vital […]
First Haitian Baptist Church Connects with CMBA
A celebration from the CMBA Visionary Leadership Community gathering on Tuesday, June 18th Recognized the First Haitian Baptist Church – now hosted by Columbia Crossroads Church – as a Network Church Connection with the association. As they develop as a congregation they will be considered for full membership in the association. The pastor is Adony […]
The Bullard Journal for May 31, 2019
“A Call to Action”: The best model of congregational multiplication is for churches to start churches rather than church planters to start churches. Why? This seems counterintuitive to the way a lot of church planting is currently done. It is! It was the model most used in denominational systems for many decades. Where it was […]
St. Andrews Pastor Publishes Devotions for Those Struggling with Depression as He Did
In 2008, things began to change for pastor Ronald “Dee” Vaughan. Ministry had become burdensome, and that was a change for a man who loved local church ministry. He also began to feel a disconnection between the person he was felt forced to “create” for the church and the man he was on the inside. […]
The Dinner Church Handbook (A Review)
I just finished reading The Dinner Church Handbook: A Step-by-Step Recipe for Reaching Neighborhoods. As an organic, missional approach to creating a neighborhood experience where gospel conversations can take place, the concept of the book rates a 5 star. As a book that fulfills what is promised in its title it rates a 3 star. […]