CBFVA recognizes healthy leadership is key to thriving faith communities. By investing in the ongoing education and formation of pastors, CBFVA seeks to support efforts of congregations to build beloved community, engage in God’s redemptive justice in the world, and...
Terry Maples has written and designed a six-session series exploring the nature of faith and faithfulness. Each lesson addresses current critical congregational needs. Click the button below to explore what Christ-followers must unlearn or re-frame before embracing...
Many churches designate autumn as the best season to do staff evaluations. How is this important task even possible during a pandemic? I believe unprecedented times demand a different process. As a vocational minister for three churches over a period of 27 years, I’ve...
God has blessed us with a metaphorical bookshelf, full of diversity, wisdom, and grace. Each book reveals something about us and something about God. Think of each sensitive issue, the ones we tend to ignore, as books that God deliberately placed on the shelf, right...
Jesus’s teaching to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s is particularly relevant in this election season like no other. How do we maintain our dual citizenship in God’s kingdom and the United States of America without...
Hypothetically speaking, have you experienced loss lately?! Well, of course we all have! Melissa Fallen, pastor of Glen Allen Baptist Church, relates her own experience of loss to the current days the Church is facing. She helps us name some of the losses we’ve...
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