by Carrie Cheatham | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Mark Snipes
This May, along with eleven other pilgrims from Virginia, I traveled to the Holy Land. This pilgrimage was my sixth time in the Land of the Bible. During a conversation one of my companions asked why I keep coming back. As I reflected on this question, I thought I...
by Carrie Cheatham | Feb 28, 2018 | Mark Snipes
“Let us be one.” In the Gospel of John, Jesus prayed that those who follow him be one like God and Christ are one. Yet we know that human nature eventually creeps into the equation and inherently flawed human beings, with incomplete views and understandings of God,...
by admin | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog, Mark Snipes
By Mark Snipes, CBFVA Missions Coordinator “Bearing Witness to Jesus Christ” was CBFVA’s theme for this past year. While there are many stories about how this theme was embodied in the last twelve months, there is one in particular that I would like to highlight. In...
by admin | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog, Mark Snipes
By Mark Snipes, CBFVA Missions Coordinator In Part 1 of this blog I talked about giving dignity and choice back to those we serve. You can find it on the CBFVA Blog. Today I want to think through the next step in missional faithfulness in light of understand the need...
by admin | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog, Mark Snipes
By Mark Snipes, CBFVA Missions Coordinator In reconsidering CBFVA’s 2018 missions focus, we came up with three statements that help us wrestle with new ways of talking about missions: 1) changing the scorecard for evaluating success, 2) reconsidering the equation, and...
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