News & Updates
Proposed Bylaws Amendment for Leadership Structure
Enhancing Leadership Capacity for a Growing CBF Virginia In accordance with our bylaws, all proposed amendments must be submitted and shared 30 days before our voting meeting. At our General Assembly meeting on Tuesday, September 16 at First Baptist in Newport News,...
CBFVA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Hybrid Church!
LIMIT OF 20 CHURCHES, HOWEVER MULTIPLE PEOPLE FROM THE CHURCH CAN ATTEND!
Summit 2022!
Location: Williamsburg Baptist Church Date: March 25-27 Cost: 120 per person Theme: This year, our theme is "Dwell." Our speaker, Meg Lacy Vega, will be helping us to consider how to "dwell" in a world where everyone seems so divided. How do we live in community...
Finding the Good, Finding God
As I walked into the kitchen, I saw some familiar faces. One family has been at the shelter for nearly four months trying to get an appointment to cross the border. So, I had gotten to know them fairly well. However, as I pulled out a chair to sit down, nobody seemed...
Welcome to General Assembly 2023
Click below to access this year's program: CBFVA GA 2023 Program Book
Student.Church
Student.Church is CBF's model for congregational internships to students who are interested in a deeper experience of church life or pursuing a call to ministry. Interns spend the summer exploring the breadth of congregational ministry through a variety of learning...
CBF Virginia Coordinating Council Recap by Mark Snipes, Coordinator CBF Virginia
In late January 2023, CBF Virginia’s Coordinating Council met in Charlottesville for an overnight retreat. As we met, prayed, and visioned together, one message came through loud and clear: CBFVA wants to connect and collaborate with your congregation.CBF Virginia...
Pastor’s School Reflection by Carlisle Davidhizar
In the interest of honesty, I’m willing to admit that I’m nervous in conversations about race and racial justice. I was a kid in the 1990s at the height of the idea that “not seeing race” at all was the best and kindest way for me, as a White person, to relate to my...
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 “Why” for CBFVA
On October 1st, I celebrated my nine-year anniversary with CBFVA. It was also the day I took the reins as Coordinator for this amazing organization. I am so grateful for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and for all the people who make this space so special. CBFVA...
CBFVA General Assembly Retrospective and Thank YOU!
Tuesday, September 20, 2022, was a good and historic day for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia. We gathered at First Baptist Church in Waynesboro to celebrate CBFVA’s 30 years of ministry, to mark the closure of my tenure as Coordinator, and to install...
A Culture of Connection
On Tuesday, CBFVA celebrated its 30th anniversary at First Baptist Waynesboro. This meeting was full of hope, laughter, challenge, incredible music, and fierce friendships. During our morning worship, we celebrated the successful tenure of Terry Maples and installed...
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...
Summer of Listening
An Invitation: Summer of Listening The first rule for understanding another person is paying attention, and an important aspect of paying attention is active listening. How can you hope to better understand someone without taking the time to listen without...
Housing as Advocacy Study
Imagine………by Mark Snipes
Imagine if Churches were as invested in housing people as they are in feeding people. We are not just talking about the homeless population. In these times, there are always people in our communities that are in need of transitional housing: College students,...
CBFVA Coordinator Terry Maples Announces Retirement
At today’s Coordinating Council meeting, Terry Maples announced his intention to retire from his role as Coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia. In a letter shared with the council, Maples says, “Effective September 30, 2022 I will retire from...
Pastors’ School
CBFVA’s Pastors’ School Thursday, January 27, 2022 Theme: Cultivating Hopeful Imagination Leaders: Mike Queen & Jayne Davis ***In person AND online*** The world has experienced more change in the last two years than most of us can remember happening in our lifetimes....
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...
Not Your Typical Pastor Appreciation Month by Terry Maples, CBFVA Coordinator
I confess, I haven’t given too much thought to Pastor Appreciation Month in years past. Most of my career was spent as part of vocational ministerial teams in local congregations. Asking for “appreciation” for oneself is certainly not apropos. Truth is, pastors enjoy...
CBFVA Bible Studies!
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Advocating for Broadband in Bluefield
by Kris Aaron Pastor of First Baptist Bristol, VA It happened suddenly. I got a call that morning from Keith Stillwell informing me that a long-awaited meeting with an aide for Senator Mark Warner had finally been confirmed. The meeting was scheduled for later that...
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...
Back2School devotions return to d365.org
Back2School, the August devotional series, returns to d365.org this week. The series features scripture, prayer, and meditative thoughts accompanied by gentle music. For the first time, seven young people in High School or starting college are writers for the final...
CBFVA General Assembly!
“Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine.” (Eph. 3:20) CBFVA hopes you’ll participate in the first IN-PERSON gathering since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. We are eager to connect at...
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...