The Gathering CBFNC Newsletter - October 2006

October 2006

Volume 11, Issue 7

“Where has your church been on mission in 2006?”

The summer of 2006 has been a busy one for Wingate Baptist Church in Wingate. Once again they sent a team to work on the Village of Hope project in Kiev, Ukraine. Their youth participated in PASSPORT camp in New Orleans, where they worked on cleaning out homes in the lower 9th ward. The prayer shawl ministry has continued to grow with over 78 shawls, toboggans, lap robes, scarves and pillows distributed to date. Each item is prayed over before it is given to an individual who needs a special “hug” from God. Recipients this summer included a mother who tragically lost her 24-yearold son in an auto accident, the house mothers at the Village of Hope in Kiev, and a Town of Wingate employee who lost her father and mother only days apart.

A team traveled to Bayou La Batre, Alabama, to help with Katrina relief. They worked on three separate houses, including the home of an 85-year-old woman who was able to return to her home to live. Their children made fleece blankets in our Fiesta VBS. These blankets are sent through Operation Kid-to-Kid to children in Central and South America.

First Baptist Church in Wilmington sent a team of 80 teenagers and adults to Grand Bay, Alabama, at the end of July to work in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and Pascagoula, Mississippi. The group divided into seven teams and provided assistance in rebuilding two churches and four residences. Their work included roofing, painting, installing a kitchen and bathroom, providing running water, and hanging sheetrock. The relationships they built with the church members of Friendship, San Souci and St. Paul’s churches and the home owners will last a lifetime. The Gulf Coast will never be the same after the losses associated with Katrina, but God blessed the members of their team with new friends. The weather was incredibly hot, but God’s Spirit allowed them the desire and energy to accomplish the task God put before them.

Read inside for more mission stories!

Rob Nash Coming to North Carolina Dr. Rob Nash, new Global Missions Coordinator for CBF National, will be accompanying Larry Hovis on a brief tour through our state October 15-18, 2006. The purpose of his visit is to meet CBF North Carolinians, share his vision for Global Missions, and engage in dialogue with us about our ideas for Global Missions. These meetings will be hosted by churches in eight cities from Asheville to Raleigh (hopefully we can have Rob back for a tour of Eastern North Carolina soon). All of the gatherings will take place around meals. The schedule is listed below. There will be no charge for the meals, but reservations are required. You may make a reservation by contacting Nancy Parks at the CBFNC office (nparks@cbfnc.org, 888-822-1944). This opportunity is for lay persons, especially missions leaders, pastors and staff members. Please spread the word and bring a delegation from your congregation to the meeting that is most convenient for you.

October 16 Asheville Boiling Springs October 17 Charlotte Winston-Salem Chapel Hill October 18 Fayetteville Raleigh

12 noon - Lunch 6 p.m. - Dinner

FBC Asheville Boiling Springs BC

8 a.m. - Breakfast 12 noon - Lunch 6 p.m. - Dinner

Providence BC Peace Haven BC University BC

8 a.m. - Breakfast 12 noon - Lunch

Snyder Memorial BC Ridge Road BC

Experience the World A Missions Day Camp Event For Children Grades 1-6 Saturday, November 11, 2006 Trinity Baptist Church, Raleigh 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Cost $15 per person Visit www.cbfnc.org/youth.html for details and registration form.

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CBFNC UPCOMING EVENTS October 6-7, 2006 Bringing Singles Together for Christ: CBFNC Single Adult Retreat Wilmington, NC For details and registration form, see www.cbfnc.org/comingevents.html.

October 24, 2006 Emergent Church Conference led by Brian McLaren Wake Forest University campus, Winston-Salem Sponsored by WFU Divinity School and CBFNC. For details and registration form, see http://divinity.wfu.edu/mclaren.html.

November 11, 2006 Experience the World: A Missions Day Camp Event for Children Trinity Baptist Church, Raleigh For details and registration form, see www.cbfnc.org/youth.html.

November 14, 2006 CBFNC Fellowship Dinner during the Baptist State Convention of NC First Baptist Church, Greensboro For details and registration form, visit www.cbfnc.org/comingevents.html.

December 29, 2006 - January 2, 2007 Antiphony Conference Atlanta, Georgia Sponsored by CBF Global Missions and The Samuel Project, for university and graduate students. For details or to register,visit www.antiphonyonline.org January 19-21, 2007 CBFNC Youth Ski Retreat Pipestem, West Virginia For details or to register, call CTI Group Adventures at 800-285-7273.

January 27, 2007 Children’s Choir Festival Temple Baptist Church, Durham For details and registration form, see www.cbfnc.org/youth.html.

February 16-17, 2007 Youth Choir Festival First Baptist Church, Greensboro For details and registration form, visit www.cbfnc.org/youth.html.

February 26 - March 1, 2007 Youth Ministers’ Retreat North Myrtle Beach, SC See www.cbfnc.org/comingevents.html.

MISSIONS COUNCIL - CONTINUING OUR BAPTIST HERITAGE The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina Missions Council provides opportunities for Baptists of North Carolina to continue a long-standing tradition of carrying out the Great Commission given by Jesus as recorded in Matthew 28:19-20 NASB, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

I recently had cause to get some of my old records in order. Going methodically through the file cabinets, I discovered a small box that I remembered seeing from time to time, but had never taken the time to open.

Now seemed to be the appropriate time.

Opening the box, it quickly became apparent that it contained items, mostly 50 to 60 years old, that had no monetary value, but for me, some are priceless. At the bottom of the box, under high school Beta Club and Honorary Society pins, there was my RA armband.

My mind raced back to those carefree days of youth when I had the privilege to learn about the great missionaries, both female and male, of that day. We were Missionary Baptists and proud of it.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship movement is striving to move forward to honor the Great Commission by offering opportunities for men and women called of God to serve Him based on their calling, whether it is through giving of their money, time or talents.

Cecil Sherman has served Baptists well in many ways over the years. One of the best ways he has served for the past fifteen years was to write commentaries for the Formations series of adult Bible study. These commentaries were extremely valuable to me as I sought insight in how to teach a particular lesson during this time. Now it is my pleasure to read the new five-book set of commentaries published by Smyth & Helwys for personal spiritual enlightenment.

The following excerpts from his Volume 5 originally published October 17, 1993, on Ephesians 3:1-21 are pertinent to a discussion of missions and the church.

“The vision Paul had was that all people are loved in equal measure by our Heavenly Father. He is the Father of us all. He loves people on the other side of

- DON HORTON, MODERATOR

the earth who have never been to church as much as He loves us. He wants them to come to know Him in Christ just as we do. That is what mission is about. It is the church as an extension of the coming of Jesus reaching out to the unknown, the forgotten, the wayward, the alien. This was and is Paul’s vision. ‘. . . Paul’s idea was that the church would be organized to go out and tell his vision (mystery/revelation). And for several centuries, the church did just what Paul envisioned. The church was missionary. In these days (since William Carey) the church again has the missionary spirit. We are agents of God. When we are at our best, we are used to implement the plan of God.” The Missions Council has a good grasp of Paul’s vision. This Council is exhibiting a renewed sense of calling under the dynamic leadership of our new Missions Coordinator, Linda Jones.

If you want to follow your Baptist heritage and become involved with an organization that believes in carrying out God’s Mission through the utilization of all persons called by Him to do so, come join with us.

“Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.’ ” Matthew 9:37-38 NASB.

We Welcome These New (or Returning) CBFNC Partnering Churches Casar Baptist Church..................Casar First Baptist Church....................Mayodan Covenant Baptist Fellowship.......Winston-Salem Maplewood Baptist Church.........Yadkinville

FINANCIAL REPORT AUGUST 2006 CONTRIBUTIONS CBFNC Budget — $64,307 Other — $44,783 2006-2007 MONTHLY BUDGET GOAL: $65,417

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CBF of North Carolina Fellowship Dinner during the Baptist State Convention Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.

First Baptist Church Greensboro, NC $10 per person

With Speaker: Richard Brunson, NC Baptist Men

Paid reservations are necessary as space is limited.

Please complete the form below and return it no later than Thursday, November 2 to: CBFNC, 8025 North Point Blvd., Suite 205, Winston-Salem, NC 27106 or fax (336) 759-3459.

Name: _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Phone: ____________________________________ Email: _________________________________________________ Address:_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Church,City you attend: ____________________________________ Ministerial Position (if applicable): _________________ Names of Each Reservation (please attach a separate list if necessary): _________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Number of Reservations: ____________@ $10 each.

Enclosed is my check in the amount of $________ made payable to CBFNC OR Charge my: ____ Visa ____ MasterCard Card No.: _______________________________________________________ Exp. Date: ________________________ Name on credit card: _______________________________ Signature: ____________________________________________

Children’s Choir Festival

Youth Choir Festival

Saturday, January 27, 2007 Temple Baptist Church, Durham

February 16 - 17, 2007 First Baptist Church Greensboro

For Children in GRADES 4-6 Tom Shelton, Director Music Specialist, Forsyth County Schools

Daniel Bara, Director East Carolina University Director of Choral Activities

Cost: $10 per singer, $125 max. per choir Food - $4 per singer and chaperone

Cost: $10 per singer, $125 max. per choir Food - $5 per singer and chaperone

Deadline - December 4, 2006

Deadline - January 15, 2007

Visit www.cbfnc.org/youth.html for registration and repertoire

Visit www.cbfnc.org/youth.html for registration and repertoire

Youth Winter Ski Retreat

Youth Ministers’ Retreat

January 19 - 21, 2007 At Pipestem in West Virginia

February 26 - March 1, 2007 North Myrtle Beach, SC

Cost includes one day ski lift ticket and rentals, two nights’ lodging, two meals, a t-shirt, conference fee, and worship.

Other skiing options and an added day option is available.

Join other youth ministers at this great opportunity for rest and renewal.

For details and registration information, contact CTI at (800) 285-7273. Call to sign up your church today!

More details at www.cbfnc.org/comingevents.html.

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missionsmissionsmissionsmissonsmissionsmissionsmissionsmissionsmissionsmissionsmissionsmissionsmissionsmissionsmissions First Baptist Church of Richlands (pictured right) reports that their principle translator, Alice Rutter, in cooperation with FBC of Jacksonville, accompanied a dental team to Honduras in January. This was followed in May as Senior Pastor, Don Christian, traveled to Belize to teach doctrine at the Pastor’s School. During the summer, a team of 34 traveled to Beaumont/ Port Arthur, Texas, to do disaster relief work from Hurricane Rita. The team replaced two roofs, repaired drywall, painted, and completed much needed repairs at the ministry center which serves families of individuals who are incarcerated at both the federal and state penitentiaries located in the area.

First Baptist Church, High Point, engaged in several mission experiences this summer. Baptist Men’s Director, Marshall Paine, led several teams to Gulfport, Mississippi. He also took a team to Grifton to work on Disaster Relief equipment. They washed and painted shower units, unloaded truckloads of furniture and other equipment, and performed other maintenance jobs. In June, two youth spent a week in Jamaica doing Bible School with hundreds of children. Thirty-five youth and adults worked at Bayou La Batre, Alabama, restoring and repairing several dwellings and a church. Librarians Jack and Virginia Cox worked in the temporary public library processing hundreds of donated books because the old log cabin library built in 1939 was destroyed by Katrina and no books, equipment or furnishings could be salvaged. Also, five adults traveled to Armenia for a week of Bible School and ministered in various ways to the people there, including 400 children! In September, ten Senior Adults are scheduled to work at NC Baptist Assembly, doing repairs, maintenance, renovations, and various “odd” jobs.

2006 MISSIONS

Youth and adults from First Baptist Church of Fairmont participated in World Changers held at Murphy, NC, in July. Many of their youth shared their testimony for the first time. Work was done repairing homes, door-to-door contacts for Christ, and leading Christfocused sharing times with children in a summer school program.

First Baptist Church of Fairmont

Greystone Baptist Church in Raleigh sent a 15 person team in July to Kiev, Ukraine, for the second year in a row to assist with support for the Village of Hope. Team members worshiped with the Bethany Baptist Church in Bucha, worked on construction and landscaping, met and played with the four foster children at the Village of Hope, and enjoyed fellowship and mutual encouragement with Village of Hope families and church families of the Bucha Church. In addition to this trip, at the end of July a team traveled and worked in Helena, Arkansas, with the CBF Rural Poverty Initiative and missionaries Ben and Leonora Newell in children’s ministries and many areas of need in the Helena area.

First Baptist Church of High Point

The Lindley Park Baptist Church in Greensboro youth group took thirteen adults and students to Tupelo, Mississippi, for a week of restoration work. They were so touched and excited about the adventure that they have begun a new ministry, procuring gently used furniture for delivery to Mississippi to aid those who are trying to get a fresh start.

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Hominy Baptist Church

First Baptist Church in Hillsborough has sent mission teams to many places in 2006. At the end of January, 14 people traveled to Maiquetia, Venezuela, to continue a seven-year partnership with churches destroyed in mudslides in 1999-2000.

Construction work continues and outreach events in local schools and street events are taking place as well.

For the second time this year, nine people (two from Lexington) went to Gulfport, Mississippi, to continue the work of rebuilding homes in this area during the first week of May. Their third trip to Gulfport in July took six youth and two adults for a MissionsConnect project. Finally, also in July, one youth and one college student traveled to Alaska with a team from other area churches for leadership in a new church’s VBS. They are also looking forward to at least one more trip in the fall to Gulfport.

In July Hominy Baptist Church in Candler took a group of 25 people to do missions work in the small community of Nada, Kentucky. While there, they had a construction team rebuild and paint a porch for an elderly man and level his bathroom floor. They were also able to put up gutters at another house. The rest of the team conducted “Wacky Workshop Week” for the children and several adults from the community. The workshops were intended to teach some useful skills such as cooking, carpentry, painting, and sewing. Each day they had more participants than the day before. On Friday night they held a well-attended cookout for the community.

2006 MISSIONS

In June, the Youth Choir Mission Tour from First Baptist Church in Greensboro (pictured below) went to Atlanta’s Cathedral of St. Phillip and Smoke Rise Baptist Church and to Miami and Homestead, Florida, where they worked with CBF Missions, Touching Miami With Love and Open House Ministries. They gave a concert at Central Baptist Church, their hosts for the week.

Also, in Charleston, South Carolina, the choir sang for both morning worship services at Providence Baptist Church.

First Baptist Church in Hillsborough

From First Baptist Church of Marion, a team of 14 traveled to Belize in January for medical and construction projects. Medical clinics were set up over four days at churches in four villages in the Belmopan area. Approximately 1,000 people were seen by the doctors during the week and medicine was dispensed by the support team. The construction team installed windows and doors, had a concrete floor poured at a church parsonage, and completed some electrical work. Cabinets and shelves were constructed and painting was done in the kitchen and dining area of the Kings Children’s Home in Belmopan. A second trip was made in May to prepare for a January 2007 trip. A host of projects were completed throughout Marion and McDowell County for Operation Inasmuch, April 8, including painting, carpentry, yard work, a blood pressure clinic, visitations, and food delivery. Sixteen of their youth and ten adults traveled to Pearlington, Mississippi, in June to help rebuild homes. One construction team put up rafters and plywood sheathing on the roof of a new home. The second construction team put up sheetrock in another home in Pearlington. In addition, sheetrock was installed in a house on a pre-site trip in April.

Is God calling you to be on mission for Him? Individually or on behalf of a church, if you would like more information about a mission opportunity, please contact Linda Jones (LJones@cbfnc.org or 888-822-1944).

“God saved you by his special favor when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT

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MISSION TRIPS AND WHAT I’VE DISCOVERED I love mission trips. I love going on them.

I love leading them. I love talking to people about them. I’ve spent twenty-six weeks at nineteen different sites. And I’m ready to go again this afternoon.

It’s more than the love of travel that drives my love for mission trips. It is what happens to a group and to the individuals in a group when we leave the comforts of home and the routines of our daily lives and open ourselves to new ways of experiencing life and the Life of the Spirit that makes me want to go and to invite others to go on a mission trip. Here are ten things I’ve discovered on mission trips: 1) Missionaries are special people. They have listened to and responded affirmatively to God’s call. They often find themselves in situations that drive them to become totally dependant on God. That does something within a person’s spirit. They stand out.

2) Missionaries are ordinary people. In spite of the extraordinary spiritual sense that missionaries often seem to have, they are just people. It’s possible to learn that on the mission field as you watch them deal with the same kinds of family problems, city hall problems and church folk problems that any other person has to deal with. Some problems they deal with well, others – well, they’re just ordinary people after all.

3) There are places with special needs. Resort areas need different skills than inner city areas. Rural areas have needs that are different from disaster recovery areas. There are enough needs in enough places that nearly anyone can go anyplace and be of some help.

4) Some of those places of need are in our own backyard. As a mission trip leader, I always required the youth to minister in our local community for at least twenty hours before going on a trip to minister elsewhere. The Salvation Army, Cooperative Christian Ministries, Boys and Girls Club, Crisis Pregnancy Center, food banks and clothes closets were always eager to have our volunteers, and our volunteers learned about how problems in our own community were being addressed before they entered a mission field.

5) Mission trips develop sensitivities. In our daily routine, we can become blind to the needs around us and deaf to God’s call for co-workers. Thrown into a new environment with fresh eyes and willing hearts, we grow in awareness, compassion and reliance on God’s power.

6) Mission trips give opportunities for creativity, leadership and demonstrations of courage that we are seldom called upon to use in our daily run of life. (Or are we often called upon, but seldom hear the call? See points four and five again.)

7) Mission trips are fun. It is fun to meet new people in new settings. It is fun to explore a new area of the country or world.

Mission trips should involve a lot work, but there should be time for just plain fun, too.

8) Mission trips bond. They bond a church to a missionary and a missions setting. They bond members of the mission team.

- RICK JORDAN, CHURCH RESOURCES COORDINATOR There is a fellowship that comes through shared suffering that does not come from what we often call “fellowships.”

9) Mission trips help us think differently about missions. For example, in some areas, the very word “missionary” carries with it baggage that our missionaries don’t want to carry. The word may conjure up images of colonialist, paternalistic, American-ized Christianity that the “heathen” hate. For others, “missionary” means money bags from deep-pocketed denominations. It was on a mission trip that I learned that this is why CBF uses the phrase “field personnel.” I also learned that our field personnel do missions in creative ways that do not always easily accommodate traditional mission trips. Working with the most neglected can be dangerous.

Ministering in areas where Christianity is seen as a threat is threatening. Pulling organizational leaders from many small ministries to create a united ministry focused on an unreached people group is something many of our field personnel do. It’s not something that twenty volunteers can show up and make happen in a week. But, in showing up, we discover that there are many ministries that we may partner with – some Baptist, some not – that can help sustain that alliance, so the gospel is shared more effectively. It is a different way of doing missions.

10) Mission trips encourage the ministers and the ministries on the field. When I have asked our field personnel what they need, most often I hear, “prayer.” And, this is not a “Sunday School answer.” They mean it. A card or email informing them of our prayers is encouraging, too. A team of lay ministers, be they youth or adult, can be encouraging, too. Walls get painted. Resources get provided.

Children get a focused time of ministry. The field personnel and the needy persons on the field are reminded that they are not alone.

And we know better who we are praying for. So, are you ready to go?

CBF Announces the Newly Endorsed Chaplains from North Carolina Peter M. Arges, Durham, NC, Department of Veterans Affairs Tony A. Biles, Concord, NC, NorthEast Medical Center Sharon K. Eldridge, Smithfield, NC, Community Home Care & Hospice Vicki G. Lumpkin, Wentworth, NC, Hospice of Rockingham County Cynthia G. Smith, Pittsboro, NC, University of North Carolina Healthcare Hospice Services Audrey L. Wilson, Durham, NC, Department of Veterans Affairs

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Every Member a Missionary?

Some of the warmest and most positive memories of my life were generated by mission trips. I took my first mission trip as a college student in the early 1980’s. Sponsored by the college ministry of FBC Raleigh, I was part of a group of students from N.C. State and Meredith who spent our Spring Break in New York City engaged in a variety of ministries. It was my first taste of cross-cultural hands-on missions. My most recent mission trip was to Pearlington, Mississippi, to perform Hurricane Katrina recovery work with a group of families from Ardmore Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, which I wrote about a few months ago in the gathering. There have been many meaningful mission trips in the intervening twenty-plus years. Beyond that, I have sought to live missionally in my local community, though admittedly, most of the time, I fall far short of this goal.

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina cares deeply about missions. It’s the heart and soul of our life together as a fellowship of Christians and churches. More of our financial resources are committed to missions than any other ministry area.

Though in one sense everything we do is missions, those ministries that are explicitly labeled “missions” occupy a special place of honor.

In late 2005, as we were preparing to conduct a search for our new missions coordinator, we revisited the purpose of CBFNC missions ministries. We developed the following missions strategy: Our Purpose - Helping Christians and Churches in our fellowship to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ by engaging in holistic missions, relational evangelism, and effective ministries in their local communities, in North Carolina and around the world Our Goals • North Carolina Missions - Coordinate missions initiatives within the state, with particular focus on the unreached and most neglected

Monthly Regional Fellowship Meetings in October Catawba Valley - 2nd Monday, 11 a.m., Layne Smith (laynesvbc@earthlink.net) or Bill Leathers (leathers@fbc.cc) Asheville - 1st Monday, 11:30 a.m., Fred Werhan (fwerhan@juno.com) North Central - 2nd Thursday, 11:30 a.m., Dennis Hill (dennishill@nc.rr.com) Northeastern - 4th Tuesday, 11:30 a.m., Kenny Sherin (kennysherin@ipass.net) Raleigh Area - 3rd Thursday, 11:30 a.m., Richard Wynne (pastor@stjohnsbaptist.com) Southwest - 3rd or 4th Tuesday, 11:30 a.m., Brint Hilliard (bah1268@hotmail.com) or Kent Cranford (cranford.kent@gmail.com) Triad - 3rd Thursday, 11:30 a.m., Nathan Parrish (phbcws@bellsouth.net)

- LARRY HOVIS, COORDINATOR • Church Planting - Start new churches in North Carolina • Missional Churches - Encourage local churches to engage in God’s mission wherever they feel called • Global Missions - Support and participate in missions outside the state, including the missions ministries of the larger CBF movement This strategy guided us to call Linda Jones as our missions coordinator. Linda began her work in March and is leading the Missions Ministry Council to organize around these initiatives.

A recent strategic planning summit on missions provided even more focus. Though CBFNC has made great strides in our missions ministries during the first dozen years of our history, we have a long way to go, and I’m confident that we are following the Spirit’s lead in helping the Christians and churches of this fellowship participate in God’s great mission in the world.

I am privileged to preach in many churches all across our state. It’s quite common to pick up a worship bulletin and where the church staff is listed, to see the phrase, “Every Member a Minister.” A few years ago, that idea communicated quite powerfully a theology that all Christians are called by God to serve, not just those who go to seminary or receive a church paycheck. Nowadays, with missions service open to all believers, and God’s mission field including not just as foreign lands, but the streets of our cities, the back roads of our counties and the neighborhoods of our suburbs, I wonder if a better description might be, “Every Member a Missionary”? Whether or not that phrase appears in the worship bulletin of your church, that’s really what CBFNC is trying to do – empower missional churches to equip missional Christians to engage in God’s mission in their communities, in North Carolina and around the world. It’s an effort that will make positive memories lasting for eternity.

Emerging Church Conference with Brian McLaren Tuesday, October 24 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Registration Required $50 per person includes lunch Held at Wingate Hall at Wake Forest University.

For details and required registration, visit http://divinity.wfu.edu/mclaren.html.

For questions, call the Divinity School at 336-758-3957.

Also, a free evening worship will be held at Wait Chapel at 7 p.m. with McLaren preaching.

Sponsored by CBFNC and Wake Forest University.

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CBF North Carolina October 2006 Phone: (888) 822-1944 • (336) 759-3456 Fax: (336) 759-3459 cbfnc@cbfnc.org • www.cbfnc.org Coordinating Council

Don Horton, Zebulon Carolyn Dickens, Raleigh Moderator Recorder Gail Coulter, Hendersonville Roger Gilbert, Mount Airy Moderator-Elect Past-Moderator Boyce Wilson, Winston-Salem Treasurer David Hood, Hickory Glenda Currin, Wilmington Katie Ethridge, Beaufort Steve Little, Marion Kathryn Hamrick, Shelby Greg Rogers, Greenville Roy Smith, Raleigh Larry Harper, Raleigh

Faith Development Ministry Council Randy Barrington, Winnabow Jennifer Baxley, Henderson Elizabeth Edwards, Nashville Bruce Hartgrove, High Point Cindy Joy, Oxford

Karen Metcalf, Raleigh Kristen Muse, Raleigh Jeff Pethel, Rolesville Blythe Taylor, Charlotte Tim Wilson, Hickory

Leadership Development Ministry Council Kitty Amos, Winston-Salem Rhonda Gailes, Blowing Rock Kheresa Harmon, Erwin Burke Holland, Belhaven 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 Jim Everette, Wilmington David Hailey, Raleigh Carolyn Hopkins, Cary

Christopher Ingram, Smithfield Bill Jones, Newland Shirley Kool, Sylva Judy LeCroy, Lexington Jack Watson, Apex

CBF Council Members From NC Jack Glasgow, Zebulon Bill Ireland, Winston-Salem Guy Sayles, Asheville

Sheri Adams, Boiling Springs Gail Coulter, Hendersonville Mary Anne Croom, Ahoskie Irma Duke, Fuquay-Varina

Staff

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Larry Hovis ...................... Coordinator Rick Jordan ...................... Church Resources Coordinator Linda Jones ...................... Missions Coordinator Nancy Parks .................... Office Manager Natalie Aho ...................... Communications Assistant Gail McAlister ................. Financial Assistant Beth McGinley ................ Office Assistant