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Volume 10, Issue 8 Inside This Issue: Upcoming Events
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Don Horton, Moderator
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Financial Report
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Dinner at Baptist State Convention 3 Common Sense College Ministry
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2005 Advisory Group to Meet
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Prayer Calendar
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Missions Reports
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Larry Hovis, Coordinator
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Attend the CBFNC Fellowship Dinner during the Baptist State Convention Tuesday, Nov. 15 See page 3 for details and reservation form.
AFTER KATRINA The urgent need of those who have survived Hurricane Katrina last month is well-known to all of us. The magnitude of the loss of loved ones and livelihood is on a scale we seldom experience in the United States. CBFNC has the opportunity to embody Christ’s ongoing presence in times like these. After conversation with the Coordinator of CBFNC, Larry Hovis, I agreed to serve as a volunteer coordinator to help mobilize, organize and send CBFNC churches to the Gulf Coast. What this means is that I am trying to help congregations, organizations and individuals travel to the region or participate locally in relief efforts as they feel called. We would love to see a steady stream of CBFNC churches plug in to hurricane relief and rebuilding in the days to come. We have many gifts to share. CBFNC has a part to play alongside many others in our state and our nation. The relief network is diverse and includes the NC Baptist Men, the Baptist Children’s Homes of NC, other state CBF groups and the CBF national office. My goal is to help each person or congregation find the best outlet for his or her gifts.
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- CHRISTOPHER INGRAM Several CBFNC churches and organizations have already made trips to the region, and others prepare to go. Here are some considerations to make as you prepare: Take a Long-Term View: Don’t rush down at the expense of doing what you do best. Many are willing to go but because of work and life constraints cannot reorganize their schedules and go in a few days or weeks. Take enough time to gather your resources so you may feel effective in your work. Our national attention span nowadays tends to be very short term, and the memory of even the most traumatic events can evaporate quickly. The needs in this region will be very long term. Relief and rebuilding efforts will last well into 2006 and beyond. Prepare To Be Self-Sufficient: Do not assume that when you go, your partners on-site will have the capacity to meet even your basic needs. It is not likely that some work sites will have regular electrical, water or fuel services (much less a comfortable bed or air conditioning) available as you work. Too, it is important to safeguard your own health. Consider getting a physical examination or consult your physician. In (continued on page 3)
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UPCOMING EVENTS October 11, 2005, 11:00 - 3:30 Advisory Group First Baptist Church, Mebane Lunch reservations required by October 1, by calling 888-822-1944 or email nparks@cbfnc.org. October 27-28, 2005 Exploring the Missional Church Speaker: Bo Prosser • FULLY BOOKED• November 15, 2005 CBFNC Fellowship Dinner during the Baptist State Convention with speaker, Ruby Fulbright, Executive Director, NC WMU Bridger Field House, Winston-Salem See registration form on page 3. January 20-22, 2006 CBFNC Youth Ski Retreat Boone, NC To register contact Cliff Christian with CTI Group Adventures at 800-285-7273 or cliff@skicti.com. January 28, 2006 CBFNC Children’s Choir Festival Watch for details to come. February 20-23, 2006 Youth Ministers’ Retreat North Myrtle Beach, SC with Retreat Leader: John Hendrix Watch for details to come. March 10-12, 2006 and March 24-26, 2006 Spring Youth Retreats The Vineyard Camp, Westfield, NC For a brochure and registration form, visit www.cbfnc.org/youth.htm March 17-18, 2006 CBFNC General Assembly Ardmore Baptist Church Winston-Salem, NC Watch for details to come. March 31 - April 1, 2006 CBFNC Youth Choir Festival First Baptist Church, Greensboro, NC For information and registration form, call 888-822-1944 or email cbfnc@cbfnc.org. June 21-24, 2006 CBF General Assembly Atlanta, GA. For pre-registration and hotel reservations, see www.thefellowship.info.
SPIRITUAL FORMATION THROUGH BIBLE STUDY, PRAYER AND WORSHIP “Spiritual Formation” is the hot topic of the religious community today. A quick search for the phrase on Google produced 226,000 hits in 0.11 seconds. When you change the search criteria to “spiritual formation through prayer”, the number of hits is reduced to 48. While this exercise would not stand the test for professional surveys, I believe it does produce a statistical result that reflects the nature of society today. In many ways, our travel down the spiritual road of life often reflects the way we travel in the physical world. If we are traveling, we want to get to wherever we are going as quickly as possible. Therefore, we build super highways with no stoplights and speed limits beyond what we would have dreamed a few years ago. To make things even worse, we sometimes travel at those high speeds without knowing where we are going, having never consulted a road map. Spiritual formation is a journey, not a destination. Yet many of us want to take the super highway and travel above the speed limit and somehow immediately be completely formed or transformed into a spiritual creature that reflects the very essence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We look for that one retreat, sermon or the latest book that will be the super highway that will magically make us a new creature without the stoplights and speed limits of life. When we reflect upon the dear saints that have served as our role models in the Christian faith, we realize that they developed their spiritual formation primarily through the information gleaned from one book, the Bible, written through the inspiration of God. The Bible was their reference and road map, interpreted for them by the Holy Spirit. Prayer led them down the slow road of life with all of its stoplights and resulted in a spiritual formation of their lives that made them saints today.
FINANCIAL REPORT AUGUST 2005 CONTRIBUTIONS CBFNC Budget — $54,058 Other — $14,750 2005-2006 MONTHLY BUDGET GOAL: $55,455
- DON HORTON, MODERATOR Life is filled with stoplights. Just when we have had a mountaintop experience through worship, meditation, prayer or other encounters with God, we will inevitably come upon a traffic light of life that has changed to red. Sickness, loss of employment, strife in the home or workplace and many other worldly things can bring our journey of spiritual formation to a screeching halt. However, prayerful study of the Bible and responding to the leadership of the Holy Spirit can change that light from red to green, and we can be on our way again. Our goal as we seek spiritual formation is to be reformed into the image of Jesus here on earth. To be reformed in the image of Jesus, we must understand Him. How would He respond to the world around us? What would His reaction be to the lost, sick, hungry, widow or orphan? Would He gather with others to worship on the Sabbath or yield to the pleasures outside the church? We need to know all that we can about Jesus if we are going to strive to be like Him. Have you ever thought about the fact that without some future divine intervention, every thing we will learn about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit on this Earth is written in the Bible? Other books, seminars and sermons may help us interpret God’s word and help facilitate our travel along the road of spiritual formation, but the book that contains the original information is the Bible. The journey of spiritual formation is a worthwhile and rewarding journey. Be faithful to that journey for your entire life here on this Earth. Do not let the stoplights of life deter you from seeking the fulfillment that the Christian life has to offer. The road of prayer, Bible study and worship is the road of spiritual formation. It is open for all of us.
WE WELCOME THESE NEW (OR RETURNING) CBFNC PARTNERING CHURCHES Boiling Springs ..... Boiling Springs Antioch .................. Mamers First ...................... Marshall
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AFTER KATRINA, continued from page 1 the short term, it recommended that you be current on vaccinations, including Hepatitis A and B, oral Typhoid and Tetanus. Make Room for a Few More: Consider the rule of thumb for covered dish suppers: “Make enough for your family and a few more.� There are individuals around our state who wish to travel with a team to the region but do not have a local congregation with plans to travel. If each group can accommodate a few extras from around the state, this would be a great gift. Report Out: Please be in touch with me or the CBFNC office about your relief plans. We would like to track the
many unique ways our churches around the state are reaching out in this special circumstance. Also, visit the CBFNC website (www.cbfnc.org) in order to have up-to-date information about making preparations, service opportunities, and to see what other churches are doing. For more information about how to be an ongoing part of Hurricane Katrina relief through CBFNC, feel free to contact me at my home base, Ridge Road Baptist Church, at (919) 787-4423 or by e-mail at christopher@rrbch.com. Christopher Ingram is the Minister of Education at Ridge Road Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC.
DURING THE BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION . . . CBFNC Fellowship Dinner with Speaker: Ruby Fulbright, Executive Director, NC WMU Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. Bridger Field House (across from LJVM Coliseum) Winston-Salem, NC $12.00 person Paid reservations are necessary as space is limited. Please complete the form below and return it no later than Thursday, November 3 to: CBFNC, 8025 North Point Blvd., Suite 205, Winston-Salem, NC 27106. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Phone: ________________________________________________________
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COMMON SENSE COLLEGE MINISTRY? Common sense would tell you that to have a successful congregationally-based ministry to college students, you would need 1. a college close by, preferably adjacent to the church, 2. a minister trained to specialize in this age group who works exclusively in this area, 3. lots of money, 4. a program that focuses on entertainment and/or recreation, and 5. an understanding that, hey, these kids are in college, so don’t expect them to really get active in a church away from home. Rhonda Gailes must have forgotten to listen to all that common sense. For twelve years, Rhonda has served First Baptist Church of Blowing Rock, NC, first as a part-time youth minister, then a full-time youth minister, then as youth minister with added responsibilities with children and the Child Development Center. She has her undergraduate degree from Montreat College with a concentration in youth ministries. With that education and with her load of responsibilities, no one could expect her to add college ministry, especially since the closest college, Appalachian State University, is in Boone, a 30-45 minute drive from the church. Still, about eight years ago, Rhonda (pictured) felt a conviction to disciple college students. “We started with our own high school graduates who went to ASU. Eighteen to twenty-five year olds have the highest church drop-out rate. Why is that? I realized that these were Christians, but we hadn’t been training them to be really good church members. In the
children’s ministries, it was all about taking care of them and the same for the youth ministries. It was all focused on what we could give them. So why should we be surprised when they get a year older that they feel no responsibility to give
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RICK JORDAN, CHURCH RESOURCES COORDINATOR to others or to the church? What we were doing was developing really poor adult church members.” Starting with eight students, Rhonda changed her philosophy of ministry. Now the church averages 40-50
students every Sunday morning. “And we give them responsibilities. They’re adults and we treat them that way. Our students are asked to serve and with that service comes fellowship with other members, most of them older, and accountability.” ASU students are serving the church as choir members, ushers, committee members, and leaders in the youth ministry. One served on the most recent pastor search committee. For every worship service, the Scripture reader is a college student. Each summer, many of these students go on mission trips. Though the number of student attendees has quadrupled, Rhonda insists, “I could care less about the numbers. I just want long-term, day-after-day Christians. College students have been taught by society that success is measured by what you can get rather than what you can give. Where will the church be in 15 years with that kind of leadership coming into it? God’s plan is to reach the world through the local church, but most of us are in small churches, so we can’t depend on the mega-churches to do the outreach and discipling. We in the typical-sized churches are responsible for doing that.” In the twelve years of Rhonda’s ministry, five youth from the church and twenty college students have gone into full-time Christian ministry. Rhonda begins each school year with an invitation to the ASU students who mark on their records that they want a Baptist affiliated church. She visits the Baptist Student Union, puts up flyers and takes out an ad in the ASU phone directory. “But mostly, it’s word of mouth,” she says. “It only takes four or five students to get fired up about our Monday night Bible study to bring in a crowd.” Each Monday evening the students have dinner together and then get some “spiritual meat. We focus less on socialization and more on (continued on page 5)
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2005 CBFNC ADVISORY GROUP TO MEET IN MEBANE The purpose of the Advito facilitate our time together. sory Group is “to hear updates We have three goals for our DVISORY ROUP on the work and ministry of meeting: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 CBFNC and to offer advice to the officers, Council and staff of • To experience fellowship, 11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. CBFNC.” Current and former support and belonging First Baptist Church Coordinating and Ministry within the CBF family, Council members and other especially at this critical 301 S. Third Street, Mebane, NC elected or appointed leaders, time in NC Baptist life; plus any interested members of the CBFNC family, are • Hear an update on CBFNC ministries; and invited to participate in this year’s Advisory Group. • Provide feedback regarding the needs of the The Advisory Group has taken various forms since it churches and ministers and how CBFNC is and began in 2001. This fall is a critical time for North Carolina can help to meet at least some of those needs. Baptists, and we in CBFNC want to be ready to serve the individuals and churches who are already involved in our Please pray for this gathering and plan to participate. You fellowship, or who may be looking to CBFNC as a potential may bring a spouse or someone from your church or a partner in missions and ministry. Therefore, we have taken neighboring church, if you wish. So that we can prepare lunch extra care in planning the 2005 Advisory Group. Dave Odom for you, please contact the CBFNC office by October 1 with of the Center for Congregational Health has graciously agreed your reservation (888-822-1944 or nparks@cbfnc.org).
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_______, International Coordinator, Asia _______, unevangelized people group, Middle East Keith Holmes, work with Romany people, Europe _______, International Coordinator, Asia Nomie Derani, work with internationals, Brooklyn, NY Ben Newell, Rural Poverty Initiative, Arkansas Fran Turner, HIV/AIDS/public policy coordinator, sub-Saharan Africa Bob Newell, work with Albanian/Balkan peoples, Greece Claire McAtee, CBF Research Consultant, Center for Study of Global Christianity, Boston, MA _______, scripture translation, Asia Dean Dickens, Associate Coordinator for Mission Teams, Texas Gordon Wood, Envoy, China Mike Hutchinson, work with internationals, Paris, France
Common Sense College Ministry? (continued from page 4) spiritual formation.” There is no Sunday School for college students. Instead, a 10 a.m. worship service designed and led by the students is held. It is a multi-media, experiential, Praise and Worship, testimonial type of service. Called ATT (for Approaching The Throne), Rhonda notes, “This is not a substitute for the 11 a.m. service. They come to that, too. ATT is a supplement. Everyone who comes to ATT comes to the church’s traditional service, too. In my opinion, it’s not worth splitting the church over a doggone song.” A few years ago, the pastor preached a sermon with the message that “the only way to store up treasures is to invest in the people going there.” One member came to the pastor convicted that he should give more money to the church. The pastor suggested a scholarship for interns. Now, $8,000 a year
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NEWS FROM WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY William Louis Poteat Scholarships for students who are active members of a North Carolina Baptist Church and who have the promise of making a significant contribution to church and society. For information and application contact: Poteat Scholarship Office, P.O. Box 7227, Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7227 or call (336)758-5225 or email at poteat@wfu.edu. University Alumni and Friends Dinner prior to the Baptist State Convention with speaker Dr. Nathan O. Hatch, University President. Monday, November 14, 2005, 5:00 p.m., Bridger Field House, Winston-Salem. RSVP by November 8 to (336)758-5225 or parkerlh@wfu.edu. Cost is $10 per person, payable at the door.
is given for the support of four college students who work with Rhonda doing hands-on ministry in the youth and children’s areas during the school year. They visit the children and youth at their schools, build relationships with the parents, plan and take charge of ATT, and even do lock-ins. “I’m in charge over-all, but they each have particular responsibilities.” The interns add a new spark to the youth ministry. “Our students (youth and college) fill the first four rows of the church. There’s an attitude difference. It’s cool to be involved.” [You can hear more from Rhonda Gailes and her philosophy of congregationally based college ministry during breakouts at our next CBFNC General Assembly, March 18-19.]
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NORTH CAROLINIANS ON MISSION Hope Valley Baptist Church, Durham. Hope Valley sent several teams out on mission trips this summer. Two four-person teams went to Haiti on medical missions, and in August a team of eight was sent to the Village of Hope in Morocco to help repair and paint a main building in the orphanage. After a long 28hour trip, the Morocco team arrived at the Village of Hope. They walked a mile each day to work on repairs and shared lunch time with the children. The Hope Valley team brought the missionaries at the village all of the needed items on their “wish list.” It was a rewarding experience to all the team members. First Baptist Church, Hickory. In June, First Baptist held its second annual “City Kids” program, for over 2 dozen children from local public housing. The church’s team interacted with the City Kids as they sang, heard Bible stories, snacked, played fun games, and made projects such as space rockets and “Shake, Rattle, & Roll ice cream.”Dacia Jones, a 5th-grade school teacher who designed the curriculum incorporating science projects, says this “helps kids understand that God is in everything. I think that is what makes the connection for some kids. God is not just inside a box (church); he is real and cares about their lives. Integrating Bible stories into real-life science lessons helps make connections that are relevant, and hopefully they can share this stuff with their friends. Saying that you learned about God while shooting off space rockets and flying hot air balloons makes for better conversations with their buddies. It gives them a conversation piece that is actually allowing them to evangelize their friends. That is what I saw happen with the kids that [came] from my school. [Now that school has started back] I am known as the cool teacher who blew up things and taught them about God.” The theme for the week was “Leaning on Jesus.” On Friday parents and families of the children also came to the church for a hotdog lunch and a time of celebration where each City Kid was presented a Bible. andndnsncnansndnansndnf andnsn a dns andns d The Memorial Baptist Church, Greenville. Domingo and Maria Nicolas, CBF summer missionaries at The Memorial, did a great job with Hispanic VBS (with 58 children enrolled), and they
started a Bible Study on Sunday afternoons. Currently the Bible Study has over 40 participants, and relationships are being built with Hispanics in Greenville under the leadership of Dr. Abdias Mora and Rev. Jose Camacho and his wife Angela. The Memorial members Don and Joanna Bradley and the church’s Hispanic Task Force work as liaisons and help every Sunday with the children, food, and visitation. As Joanna says, “The Lord is at work and we are amazed as we sit back and watch!” andna andna andna andna Forest Hills Baptist Church, Raleigh. Forest Hills teams spread out across the planet this summer: ESL in East Asia (see photo to the right), VBS and construction in Kiev (see photo below), VBS and construction in Savannah, VBS in Atlanta, VBS and sports camps in New York City, improvement projects in Durham, and caring for Belarusian children brought to Raleigh. One of the youth who worked on roofing a house in Savannah said, “When we started working it was hot and our attitude was not good and we were griping among ourselves. One night during devotional time the leader reminded us why we were there and that we were representing God. Wow! That gave us a whole new perspective. Sweat didn’t matter so much after that.” When you think of New York, very often the impression is one of a pagan city. “We were surprised,” said a team member, “when we got on the subway and lady who saw our t-shirts, said ‘blessings on you’ and prayed for us right there!” God can use everything! Twenty–two youth accepted Christ as a result of our sports camps and Bible studies. Forest Hills members went all over the world to accomplish something for God, but the testimony over and over again was, “I gave a lot of myself and it was good, but I received more than I could have ever given.” Wow! Isn’t God good? Pastor Larry Harper’s goal is that 50% of the congregation will have participated in a mission project in five years. To have your mission activities covered in a future issue of The Gathering, email your report (200 words or less) to Nancy Parks at nparks@cbfnc.org. Any photos should be sent as email attachments, formatted as .jpg files. a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a aaa a
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MISSIONS IN TRANSITION - LARRY HOVIS, COORDINATOR Tran-si-tion “passage from one state, stage, subject, or place to another: CHANGE; a movement, development, or evolution from one form, stage or style to another.” If we were to choose key words that characterize life at CBFNC these days, “transition” would certainly be near the top of the list. We are still trying to make the transition from one large, general-purpose Coordinating Council to several smaller, special-purpose Councils. My family and I are still trying to make the transition from Greenville to WinstonSalem, and from pastoral ministry to CBFNC. And, as you probably have already heard, Jim Fowler is trying to make the transition from CBFNC missions coordinator to a new way of life, and all of us associated with the missions ministry of CBFNC are trying to make the transition from Jim’s leadership to an interim situation, and eventually, to a new missions leader. Although we are open to changing our approach, at this time, the Coordinating Council has determined not to hire an interim coordinator, but to handle missions coordination in the interim through a combination of Missions Council, staff, and volunteer leaders. We are blessed in CBFNC with excellent “go to” volunteer leaders with regard to key missions ministries. Although the list is much longer, let me name a few: Kiev/Village of Hope Bill Mason, Wingate Church Jeffrey Vickery, Cullowhee Church Belize Dennis Hipp and Ray Howell, FBC Lexington Hispanic Ministries David D’Amico New Church Starts Bill Jones, FBC Newland Rick Jordan, CBFNC staff Hurricane Katrina Recovery Christopher Ingram, Ridge Road Church, Raleigh These are just some of the many CBFNC missions ministries and volunteer leaders in place. Please pray for all of our efforts to “bring Baptists of North Carolina together for Christ-centered ministry” through missions. As far as searching for a new missions coordinator is concerned, our policies direct that the moderator appoint a search committee to conduct the search process. Moderator Don Horton, in consultation with Moderator-elect Tonya
Vickery, and with the blessing of the Coordinating Council, has appointed the following search committee: David Hood, Chair (David is an attorney and a member of Viewmont, Hickory, and also serves as chairperson of the Coordinating Council’s Personnel Committee); Jimmy Allen (Jimmy is pastor of Heritage, Wake Forest, which is a CBFNC new church plant); Bill Jones (Bill is pastor of FBC, Newland, and serves as chair-elect of the CBFNC Missions Council); Linda Jones (Linda is associate minister at Winter Park, Wilmington, and very involved in CBF missions, having recently traveled to South Asia for tsunami relief with CBF); Mavis Bissette (Mavis is a member of Ardmore, WinstonSalem, and has also been very involved with CBF missions at the local, state, national and international levels). If you have ideas, questions, or input regarding the next CBFNC missions coordinator, please don’t hesitate to share them with any of these committee members. Above all, please pray for the committee and this very important process. The search committee will begin its work by evaluating our missions needs, revising the job description as necessary, and developing a profile of the ideal candidate. Interested candidates should send their resume to the CBFNC office and to the attention of the Missions Coordinator Search Committee. Transitions are never easy. They usually evoke more than a little anxiety and uncertainty. They are almost always necessary for growth and development. May our prayer be that of Harry Emerson Fosdick in a favorite hymn: “Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage, For the living of these days,” these days of transition.
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CBF North Carolina October 2005 Phone: (888) 822-1944 • (336) 759-3456 Fax: (336) 759-3459 cbfnc@cbfnc.org • www.cbfnc.org Coordinating Council Don Horton, Zebulon Greg Rogers, Greenville Moderator Recorder Tonya Vickery, Cullowhee Roger Gilbert, Mount Airy Moderator-Elect Past-Moderator Boyce Wilson, Winston-Salem Treasurer Glenda Currin, Wrightsville Beach Larry Harper, Raleigh Carolyn Dickens, Raleigh David Hood, Hickory Katie Ethridge, Beaufort Steve Little, Marion Kathryn Hamrick, Shelby Roy Smith, Raleigh
Faith Development Ministry Council Jennifer Baxley, Henderson Bruce Hartgrove, High Point Crystal Leathers, Hickory Karen Metcalf, Raleigh Kristen Muse, Raleigh
Mickie Norman, Leland Jeff Pethel, Rolesville Anita Sayles, Asheville Blythe Taylor, Charlotte Tim Wilson, Hickory
Leadership Development Ministry Council Kitty Amos, Winston-Salem Ron Glover, Monroe Kheresa Harman, Erwin Burke Holland, Belhaven Randall Lolley, Raleigh
Ken Massey, Greensboro Pam Riley, Durham Wayne Wike, Matthews Larry Williams, Louisburg Steve Zimmerman, Mebane
Missions Development Ministry Council Cecelia Beck, Forest City Kendell Cameron, Whiteville Ron Cava, Clinton Raymond Earp, Beaufort David Hailey, Raleigh
Carolyn Hopkins, Cary Bill Jones, Newland Shirley Kool, Sylva Judy LeCroy, Lexington Layne Smith, Hickory
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