Join the Virginia Cultivating Generous Congregations cohort!
Cultivating Generous Congregations is offered by CBF in partnership with the Lake Institute which is one of America’s foremost authorities on faith and generosity. Each year, we offer two cohorts – one in the Winter (February/March) and one in the Fall...
Host your own Rise Against Hunger Event!
In 2023, CBFVA is challenging churches to pack over 100,000 meals. Food insecurity is still such a big issue in our world and CBFVA wants to advocate for those who lack reliable food sources. Through Rise Against Hunger and Bread for the World, two of CBFVA’s...
Beholding the Truth of “God with Us” this Advent Season Rev. Lauryn Everic
Advent is in full swing, and although we’re somehow already halfway through, we still have much of December left. Church leaders have been planning for the Advent worship services for weeks, if not, months. Our faith communities have long honored traditions that we...
The “Anatomy of Conflict” Webinar: #3 Part Series
The “Anatomy of Conflict” Webinar September 1, 8, and 15, 2022 10:00 to 11:30 am Zoom Conflict is not necessarily something bad and to be avoided or resolved quickly. This webinar series will frame “conflict” as a state of disagreement or emotional/mental disturbance...
Hold on to Hope by Rachel Jones
This Sunday marks the First Sunday of Advent. The second beginning of an advent season amid the global pandemic and we lean in once again, to light the candle of hope. If you’re like me, you either scoff at the idea of hope --in this economy?-- or you’re overwhelmed...
My Passport Story by Anna Beamer…Age 20
When I was 13, I went on my first mission trip to Passport Missions in Florida. This trip absolutely changed my life. Before this trip, I knew God, but at Passport, it finally felt like God knew me. God spoke to me that summer, telling me that Passport was where I was...
Where it belongs….by Mark Mofield
Almost 20 years ago, Amy and I bought a breakfast table and chairs set for our new home in Gibsonville, NC. It wasn’t fancy or costly, but it survived almost 20 years of meals, card games, school projects, and a couple of moves. There were the accompanying scrapes and...
Dream for a clinic becomes reality in Haiti mountains by Jenny Jenkins
Answering the call to build a clinic in a remote community in the mountains of Haiti has a set of unique challenges. As we prayed about and started this project, it came about only because of a community that was willing to put the sweat equity into this project, to...
Living Faith, Living Word: by Megan Strollo CBFVA Theologian in Residence
Part 1 – Seeking Questions Rather Than Answers* “But HOW is the sky blue, Mama?” She had been asking the question the entire drive to school. Not being a meteorologist, I tried my best to explain. But I was coming up short, for sure, and she was persistent in her...
Blog-Val Fisk. Rev., University Baptist in Charlottesville
I was called by University Baptist Church in August of 2020 with the purpose of diving headfirst into student ministry, both continuing to build upon our existing youth ministry, and beginning to build a kind of college student outreach that UBC is perfectly situated...