The Gathering CBFNC Newsletter - August 2007

The Gathering of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina

Bringing Baptists of North Carolina Together for Christ-Centered Ministry Volume 12, Issue 6

August 2007

North Carolinians were in high attendance at the CBF General Assembly and the NC State Meeting in Washington, DC on June 28-29.

Read highlights on page 4.

2007 - 2008 Upcoming CBFNC Events Fellowship/General CBFNC • August 20, 21, 23 - Fall New Day Tour See page 3 for more details.

• November 13 - Fall Fellowship Gathering First Baptist Church, Greensboro, NC

• April 11-12 - General Assembly Forest Hills Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC

• Monthly Regional Fellowship Groups Visit our website for locations and details.

Missions • November 2-4 - NC Missions Initiative Henderson/Littleton Area, NC

• Find ongoing mission opportunities on our website.

Music • February 16 - Children’s Choir Festival First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC

• March 14-15 - Youth Choir Festival

Youth Ministry • September 7-9 or 21-23 - Fall Retreats Myrtle Beach, SC

• January 25-27 or February 1-3 - Ski Retreats Winterplace, West Virginia

• February 25-28 - Youth Ministers’ Retreat Myrtle Beach, SC

• April 18-20 or 25-27 - Spring Retreats Vineyard Camp, Westfield, NC

College Ministry • August 4 - College Ministry Discussion Greystone Baptist Church, Raleigh

• Read more on page 5 about our new College Ministry Consultant.

Children • Spring 2008 - Children’s Missions Day Camp Dates and location to be determined soon.

Watch for more details on our website.

First Baptist Church, Greensboro, NC Find more details, information and registration for these events at www.cbfnc.org.

August 2007

The Gathering of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina

phone: 888.822.1944 • phone: 336.759.3456 • fax: 336.759.3459 • cbfnc@cbfnc.org • www.cbfnc.org

Larry Hovis .......... Coordinator

Jack Causey .... Ministerial Resources Coordinator

Natalie Aho .... Communications Manager

Rick Jordan ......... Church Resources Coordinator

Wanda Kidd .... College Ministry Consultant

Gail McAlister ..... Financial Assistant

Linda Jones......... Missions Coordinator

Nancy Parks.... Office Manager

Beth McGinley .... Office Assistant

Coordinating Council Gail Coulter, Hendersonville, Moderator Greg Rogers, Greenville, Moderator-Elect Don Horton, Zebulon, Past Moderator Glenda Currin, Wilmington, Recorder Donna Bissette, Winston-Salem, Treasurer Carolyn Dickens, Raleigh Don Gordon, Durham Kathryn Hamrick, Shelby Steve Little, Marion Glenn Phillips, Goldsboro Roy Smith, Raleigh Bert Young, Bladenboro Janice Young, Whiteville

Faith Development Ministry Council Blythe Taylor, Charlotte, Chair Elizabeth Edwards, Nashville, Chair-Elect Jennifer Baxley, Henderson Cindy Joy, Oxford Rebecca Husband Maynard, Elkin Kristen Muse, Raleigh Kathy Naish, Hickory Jeff Pethel, Rolesville Tony Spencer, Forest City Allen Winters, Hillsborough

Missions Ministry Council Bill Jones, Newland, Chair Shirley Kool, Sylva, Chair-Elect Seth Asbill, Raleigh Cecelia Beck, Forest City Kenny Davis, Wise Jim Everette, Wilmington Carolyn Hopkins, Cary Christopher Ingram, Smithfield Judy LeCroy, Lexington Jack Watson, Apex

Leadership Development Ministry Council Steve Zimmerman, Mebane, Chair Burke Holland, Belhaven, Chair-Elect Mark Ashworth, Kernersville Kheresa Harmon, Erwin Terry Honeycutt, Rutherfordton Scott Hovey, Durham Mike Jamison, Charlotte Jerry Richards, Apex Sheila Russ, Winston-Salem Karen Sherin, Oxford

CBF National Council Members from NC Sheri Adams, Boiling Springs Buddy Corbin, Asheville Scott Hagaman, Marion Don Horton, Zebulon Bill Ireland, Winston-Salem Crystal Leathers, Hickory Mickie Norman, Leland

Endowment Management Board A. G. Bullard, Raleigh Joe Harris, Mocksville Scott Hudgins, Winston-Salem Drag Kimrey, Laurinburg Tom Smith, Greensboro

Financial Report:

May 2007 Contributions June 2007 Contributions

CBFNC Budget - $99,244; Other - $107,580 CBFNC Budget - $62,483; Other - $67,483 2007-2008 Monthly Budget Goal: $76,255

CBF Announces Newly Endorsed Chaplains from North Carolina Nancy Campbell, Lenoir Hospice Chaplain Robert Cooke, Raleigh Pastoral Counselor Susan Rogerson, Farmville Hospice Chaplain Learn more about chaplaincy and pastoral counselors at www.cbfnc.org or www.thefellowship.info.

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NC Missions Initiative November 2 - 4, 2007 Henderson - Littleton Area Poverty in Our Own Backyard A Weekend of Missions in NC Friday travel/arrival

Saturday devotional, work at job sites, evening reflection/celebration

Sunday morning worship and lunch

Visit www.cbfnc.org for a video and details (lodging, projects and registration).

Sponsoring churches: First Baptist Church, Henderson, Littleton Baptist Church, Warrenton Baptist Church, and Wise Baptist Church all in partnership with CBFNC!

Pockets of intense poverty exist all across North Carolina! CBFNC churches are coming together for a family friendly mission weekend, November 2-4, 2007, addressing the poverty needs in the

Henderson/Littleton area. This initiative is sponsored by CBF of NC and is the fruit of two years of shared worship and ministry of the four sponsoring churches.

Register today at www.cbfnc.org.

Eight Hundred Participate in Spring 2007 New Day Tour CBFNC launched its first “New Day Tour” in May 2006, focusing on the CBFNC Mission Resource Plan (MRP), a new way for churches to give financial support to CBF ministries (state and national) as well as other cherished Baptist ministry partners in North Carolina and beyond.

When the CBFNC New Day task force (Paul Baxley, Chair, Mack Dennis, Roger Gilbert, Don Horton, Larry Hovis, Charlotte Smith and Roy Smith) planned a similar tour for 2007, they decided to take a new approach. Instead of lunch and dinner meetings focusing primarily on the MRP, they sought to bring a taste of the New Day to seven locations in Eastern and Piedmont North Carolina.

Each gathering included a fellowship dinner, multiple ministry workshops, and a worship service. Ministry workshops were offered on various topics, including missions, outreach, spiritual formation, and church administration.

“We were trying to create a ‘minigeneral assembly’ experience in each stop on the tour,” notes Larry Hovis, CBFNC Coordinator. “We combined the foundational components of our life together as CBF Baptists – fellowship, worship, missions and ministry – in a unique regional expression.”

Worship services in each location followed a common framework but featured the music and worship ministry of the host church. Young NC Baptist ministers, both men and women and graduates of the newer CBF partner theological schools, delivered the sermon at each gathering. Their messages provided an interpretation of the theme: “Come and See: Celebrating the New Day” based on Isaiah 43:18-19, “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?”

Roy Smith, New Day task force member and former executive director of the Baptist State Convention, remarked, “We were blessed with outstanding

sermons at the 2007 New Day meetings.

Every one of these young preachers did a fabulous job and gave me great hope for the future.”

The diverse churches hosting the spring 2007 New Day tour included Oakmont, Greenville; First Baptist, Ahoskie; First Baptist, Fayetteville; Trinity, Raleigh; First Baptist, Wilmington; Wingate, Wingate; and First Baptist, WinstonSalem. Approximately 800 participants represented 96 churches. Gail Coulter, pastor of Providence Baptist Church in Hendersonville and current CBFNC moderator, participated in five of the meetings, though they were far from her home. She commented, “These gatherings were inspiring and uplifting, a gracious gift of the Holy Spirit. I believe that we need to organize more regional events such as these in the future, helping folks throughout the state experience the essence of our Fellowship.”

Though the 2007 tour did not focus on the Mission Resource Plan, participants were given the opportunity to learn

about this creative financial covenant in a ministry workshop led by Paul Baxley and Larry Hovis. They reported that participation in the plan had more than quadrupled since the 2006 New Day tour, and CBFNC is sending more contributions to partner ministries than it utilizes for CBFNC missions and ministries. Larry Hovis responded, “We are grateful that churches, in increasing numbers, are trusting CBFNC to serve as a channel through which they engage the mission of Christ in our state and around the world.

The Mission Resource Plan enables churches to support a variety of cherished ministries in a cooperative manner, while taking seriously the cherished Baptist principles such as congregational autonomy and the priesthood of all believers.” For more information about the MRP, call 888-822-1944 or email Hovis at LHovis@cbfnc.org.

The 2007 New Day tour will continue in late summer following the same general format, with stops in Asheville, Sylva and Gastonia.

Fall 2007 New Day Tour August 20

Sylva

East Sylva Baptist Church

August 21

Asheville

Calvary Baptist Church

August 23

Gastonia

First Baptist Church

Each event will be from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm and will include a meal, ministry workshops and a worship service featuring the preaching of younger ministers.

Some ministry workshop topics include Outreach, Taking Care of Business, Good Mission Trip and Ministry Strategies, Haiti Medical Missions, Five Qualities of Good Leadership, College Ministry, and Leadership with Volunteers in the Church.

Cost, including meal, is $10. Make your reservations no later than one week in advance (online at www.cbfnc.org or call 888-822-1944).

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National CBF General Assembly and CBFNC State Meeting Report North Carolina CBFers were active and visible at the recent CBF National General Assembly in Washington, DC on June 28-29. Highlights of the gathering include: Global Missions

Photo courtesy of CBF

Several North Carolinians were appointed as Global Missions field personnel: •

Jay and Cokie Westfall of Wilmington were commissioned as affiliates to serve in India. Cokie is a recent graduate of Campbell University Divinity School.

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Steve and Nancy James of Spruce Pine, already serving as affiliates, were co-commissioned by CBF and American Baptists to continue medical missions in Haiti.

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Paula Settle, who served many years in North Carolina, was commissioned as an affiliate to continue her rural poverty work in Kentucky.

Leadership • Jack Glasgow, pastor of Zebulon Baptist Church in Zebulon, was elected moderator-elect of the national body.

• Wanda Kidd was introduced as the new College Ministry Consultant for CBFNC. Read more on page 5.

Divinity Schools • All four CBF partner schools in North Carolina (Campbell, Duke, Wake Forest and Gardner-Webb) were well represented in Washington through their faculty, staff and students, with Campbell and Wake Forest hosting fellowship meals.

State Meeting • Led by moderator Gail Coulter, the state meeting featured multimedia ministry reports from each of CBFNC’s four leadership councils (Coordinating, Missions, Faith Development and Leadership Development). A standing-room-only crowd of over 300 participated. Coordinator Larry Hovis reported that contributions to both the general budget and the Mission Resource Plan remain strong and growing.

Visit www.thefellowship.info to see pictures and read highlights from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly.

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CBFNC Announces New College Ministry Consultant Wanda Kidd has contracted with the Coordinating Council to serve as CBF of NC College Ministry Wanda Kidd Consultant. Kidd was introduced June 28 at the North Carolina state meeting held during the CBF National General Assembly in Washington, DC. The new position grew out of CBFNC’s recently formulated strategic plan, which identified college ministry as a high priority for Fellowship congregations in North Carolina. A College Ministry Discussion was held in August 2006 which revealed a strong desire among North Carolina churches to be the presence of Christ with college students.

Kidd will be retiring this summer as Baptist Campus Minister at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee where she has served since 1994. Previous ministry experience includes service

in several congregations and on other campuses. She holds degrees from Western Carolina (B.S.), Southeastern Seminary (M.Div.) and Drew Theological Seminary (D.Min.).

In her work with CBFNC, which will begin August 1, Kidd will assist CBFNC leaders, congregations and ministry partners to develop and direct ministries that lead young adults into vital and compassionate Christian discipleship and leadership in a Free and Faithful Baptist context. One of Kidd’s first duties will be to participate in the annual CBFNC College Ministry Discussion which will be held on August 4 at Greystone Baptist Church in Raleigh. The meeting will be from 10 am until 2 pm. Visit our website, www.cbfnc.org, for more information.

“We feel extremely blessed to have a person of Wanda Kidd’s stature to lead our college ministry efforts,” said Larry Hovis, CBFNC Coordinator. “Wanda is a proven Christian leader who has been effective not only in reaching and discipling

Student.Go Program Includes North Carolinians

By Courtney Hodges, CBF Communications Each summer undergraduate and graduate students serve across the country and around the world, working alongside CBF Global Missions field personnel and Fellowship partners. Through the Fellowship’s Student.Go program, students can spend a summer or semester involved in hands-on missions.

This summer, more than 30 students will serve in such U.S. locations as Arkansas, Alabama and New York and such international locations as Africa, China and the Middle East. “Students fill vital needs on the field,” said Amy Derrick, the Fellowship’s Global Service Corps and Student.Go selection manager. “There are ministries that simply would not happen if these students were not there. We are amazed every year at the ways that God uses summer and semester Student.Go personnel in the lives of those with whom they minister. But we are equally amazed at how the Holy Spirit works in the lives of the students through these experiences.”

Students from North Carolina serving this summer include: • Carson Foushee, Statesville, serving in China • Lauren Rogers, Greenville, working with immigrants in Fredericksburg, VA • Karen Taylor, Forest City, serving with Sowing Seeds of Hope, AL • Kristen Wood, Fayetteville, serving with Touching Miami with Love, FL Student.Go provides a $1,000 stipend, secondary insurance, room and board, local transportation at the ministry site, and travel to orientation.

For more information on Student.Go visit www.thefellowship.info/involved/serve/ student.icm or contact Amy Derrick at aderrick@thefellowship.info.

college students through a campus-based ministry, but also in developing young adults into church leaders, both lay and clergy. She has consistently encouraged alumni of her campus ministry to enroll in seminary and pursue vocational ministry.

I believe the next step in campus ministry for Fellowship Baptists in our state is for congregations to become full partners in ministering with college students. Wanda Kidd is the right person to help us do that.”

Kidd and her husband, Dan, will continue to live in Cullowhee. They have two adult children.

Fall Youth Retreats Sea Palms Motel Myrtle Beach, SC

September 7-9 or 21-23, 2007 Pizza-at-the-pool party, missions opportunities, awesome worship leadership, a block party with live DJ, a sand sculpture contest, organized beach games, and an afternoon at an amusement park! All of that plus two nights’ lodging, Saturday’s three meals, Sunday’s breakfast and a t-shirt for only $105. $15 p/p deposit due August 1; balance due August 27.

Visit our website, www.cbfnc.org, for more details or to register.

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Top Ten Reasons to Start a New Church

by Jack Watson, Pastor, Woodhaven BC, Apex, NC 10. Healthy churches birth new churches.

9. Planting a new church helps the mother church to look outward instead of looking inward.

8. New churches bring excitement, enthusiasm and new energy to its mother church’s congregation and the community.

7. Healthy churches plan intentional new church starts instead of splitting.

6. Starting a new church can help the mother church grow too.

5. Starting new churches is missions at its best.

4. Satan does not want us to start new churches.

3. You reach more people for Christ through starting new churches.

2. There is a great need in our growing communities.

1. A church like you was bold and faithful enough to help start your church!

(Matthew 9:36-38; Matthew 28:16-20, John 4:35, John 9:4, The Book of Acts)

CBFNC Wake County Church Planting Gathering Who: CBF church leaders in Wake County - ministers and lay missions leaders What: Church Planting conversation with Larry Hovis and Linda Jones and input from Roger Nix and Cindy Buffalo of the RBA When: Thursday, September 13, 10:30 am - lunch Where: Ridge Road Baptist Church, 2011 Ridge Rd, Raleigh, NC, 27607 How: Email Nancy Parks at NParks@ cbfnc.org or call 888-822-1944 by Monday, September 10. There will be no charge for lunch.

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Why Start a New Church?

It has been said that church starting is the X-Games of Christianity. If that is true, then I was the guy eighteen months ago preparing to throw myself off of a suspension bridge with only a slender piece of rubber attached to my legs. In that first year of free-fall, I wondered many times if the support would hold or if I would bust like Humpty-Dumpty into a thousand pieces on the ground.

Because I am writing this article today, it is safe to assume the bungee cord held and that we are off to more new adventures in doing what it is that God has called us to do in Jackson County. The Summit (www.thesummitonline.org) has grown numerically (now at 100 members) as well as spiritually. I received three calls last week from people who called just to say thanks for starting our church. They all stated that they have never been closer to God in their lives. Most of our members were unchurched before attending The Summit. But the successful start of The Summit Church would not be possible

without the tethering of our church to secure fellow supporters.

Support came early. Looking over the cavern below, I had CBFNC and the Western Network Regional Group as two groups who said, “Anchor onto us.

We believe in you and will support you.”

Several churches came along beside us and have provided financial support, office space and moral support that have sustained us as we took the plunge.

Your church support is needed. Would your church begin a new work to reach the ever-changing culture as we enter a post-modern age? Would your church help support and sponsor new churches in order to fulfill the great commission to which Jesus has called us? The gospel must be proclaimed in fresh new ways to those who have never heard. Will you take the plunge? For more about how your church can be involved in church planting, visit www.cbfnc.org. ~ Jim Dean, Pastor, The Summit - New Church Start, Webster, NC

CBFNC and Church Planting - the Time is Now! Through CBF’s identity statement, we describe ourselves as: “a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission of Jesus Christ and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice.” As Great Commission Christians, we believe in growth – Kingdom growth, church growth and the growth of the CBF movement. All of our “growth paths” are important; however, planting new congregations has definitely been under-emphasized in our fellowship though it is critical to the growth of God’s Kingdom and the growth of the CBF movement. You’ve probably heard the chilling statistics: • 70% of the people in the U.S. have no meaningful church relationships.

• There are 195 million unchurched people in the U.S. making it the third largest mission field in the English-speaking world and the fifth largest globally.

• There is no county in the United states that has 50% or more of its population involved in a meaningful church relationship.

• A majority of existing churches are plateaued or declining.

In addition, the churches and Christian organizations that are most heavily involved in church planting, especially among Baptists, tend to be more fundamentalist in their theology. Few of the new Baptist churches being planted in our state would identify with CBF values and principles or feel led to affiliate with our fellowship. The time has come for CBFNC to become more intentional and assertive in church planting.

In the coming months, you’ll be hearing more about church planting needs and opportunities in our state. Please pray about how you and your church can be involved. In a very real sense, the future of God’s Kingdom in our state, as well as the CBF movement, is dependent on our response to this critical challenge. ~ Larry Hovis, Coordinator

Connect the Dots

by Jack Causey, Ministerial Resources Coordinator

When our children were small they liked the game of “connect the dots.”

All the dots were numbered and the idea was to draw a line from one dot to another in sequential order. When done right, the child would end up with a picture of an animal, a ship, a house or something else. The game Jack Causey of “connect the dots” would entertain our children for hours, well, at least minutes!

The task of the Ministerial Resources Coordinator is something like that childhood game of connecting the dots. It is helping ministers and churches to “connect” with each other and ultimately to make a “picture” of them in a healthy relationship that encourages and strengthens the ministry of both and brings pleasure to God. Of course, connecting ministers and churches is not a game but is a serious endeavor that requires prayer, discernment, integrity and confidentiality.

Every ministry that any of us attempt should begin with and be daily bathed in prayer. This endeavor is no different. Join with us at CBFNC as we pray for this ministry that it may accomplish its

purpose of serving ministers and churches.

Discernment is a key part of “connecting the dots.” Discerning God’s leadership is getting to know churches and ministers as much as possible so that we can effectively recommend them to each other. For them to serve meaningfully together, their needs, personalities, gifts and visions must be a fit. Though committees and ministers always make the final decisions, we will seek to connect churches and ministers together that “fit” each other.

In the matter of integrity, this ministry will carry on the tradition of the past and relate to all churches with fairness, impartiality and honesty. Integrity is an essential element of this ministry as it is with all ministries.

Finally, the need for confidentiality is crucial. We will always seek to protect all those with whom we work. The trust that others place in this office will be honored and respected.

As we seek to build on the firm foundation that Rick Jordan has provided for this ministry, we commit to those churches and ministers who call on the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, the very best that we have to “connect the dots” under God’s divine leadership.

Being a Part of Something Original by Garin Hill, Associate Pastor, First Baptist Church, Burlington Perhaps you’ve heard the story of how the French government after World War I decided to build what they called the Maginot Line: a series of concrete fortifications and machine gun posts that would make France impenetrable from any further German attack, which would soon be realized in the battles of WWII. The problem, however, is that the new technology of WWII tanks and planes had little trouble overcoming these defenses, and France realized they had made a plan to win a war they had already fought, not a new one.

The Maginot Line story is one I first heard on May 10th of this year, when a group of pastors and lay people gathered at Yates Baptist Church in Durham and dialogued with Tim Conder, pastor of Emmaus Way Church in Durham and author of The Church in Transition.

We spent two days talking about the emergent church movement and what it means to build structures and discover strategies for a church living in the world today and tomorrow, not ‘winning a war’ that was actually fought yesterday. It was

an interesting and lively conversation, to be sure, partly because so very few of us had any kind of handle on what the emergent church really looks like. While I don’t know that anyone walked away with complete resolutions or solid definitions, we found comfort in the fact that the emergent church takes a lot of different forms – for a group of mostly Baptists, variety feels like home.

We discussed how the emergent church takes root in a post-modern world: a world where community and context trump personal and the absolute. We discussed how the emergent church is missional: the church living a hands-on faith that wants to redeem all that’s broken in the world, spiritual and otherwise. We discussed how the emergent church will have a leadership of prophets, apostles, and poets: those who vision what the church will be, those who do what the church will be, and those who describe what the church will be in beautiful and memorable ways. We discussed how the emergent church has a lot of different streams: some churches choose to make

a brand new thing, and some churches blend the old with the new.

Variety.

Community.

Hands-on.

Making a world today that the church will live in tomorrow. Being a part of something original. In the end, the entire conversation for two days boiled down to one thing in my mind – building Maginot Lines. The emergent church doesn’t mean that church as we’ve always known it is obsolete and you better get on board or get left behind. What it does mean, however, is that for the good of God’s kingdom, as Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Tech Professor and poet, says, all of us need to continue to invent the future. The emergent church movement means a lot of things, really, and looking back, perhaps only one thing was completely resolved on that afternoon in May at Yates Baptist in Durham: we’re tired of building Maginot Lines – with God’s Spirit as our fire and cloud, let’s be part of something new.

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In This August 2007 Edition ~ Page 1 2007-2008 Upcoming CBFNC Events Page 3 Spring 2007 New Day Tour Report Page 3 Fall New Day Tour Information Page 4 Report on the CBFNC State Meeting During the CBF General Assembly Pages 5 New College Ministry Consultant

Page 5 Student.Go Program Page 6 Why Start a New Church? by Jim Dean and Jack Watson; CBFNC and Church Planting - the Time is Now! Page 7 Connect the Dots

by Jack Causey, Ministerial Resources Coordinator Page 7 Being a Part of Something Original

by Garin Hill

The Gathering is published ten times a year; mailed by the 5th of the month.

All questions may be directed to Natalie Aho, 888-822-1944 or naho@cbfnc.org.

Upcoming Events ~ August 4, 2007 College Discussion Greystone Baptist Church Raleigh, NC Fall New Day Tour August 20, Easy Sylva BC, Sylva August 21, Calvary BC, Asheville August 23, FBC, Gastonia Visit www.cbfnc.org for further details and to register.

September 7-9 or 21-23, 2007 Youth Fall Retreats Sea Palms Motel Myrtle Beach, SC Cost is $105 per person.

Non-refundable deposit of $15 per person due August 1, 2007. Balance due August 17. Visit www.cbfnc.org for more information.

September 13, 2007 CBFNC Wake County Church Planting Gathering Ridge Road Baptist Church Raleigh, NC See page 6 for more information.

November 2-4, 2007 NC Missions Initiative Henderson/Littleton Area, NC $25 per person due October 1; max. of $65 per family. Visit www.cbfnc.org for further details and to register.

November 13, 2007 Fall Fellowship Gathering First Baptist Church Greensboro, NC More information and registration coming soon.

January 25-27 or February 1-3, 2008 Youth Ski Retreat Winterplace, WV Cost before upgrades is $149 per person. Visit www.cbfnc.org for more information. To register, call CTI at 800-285-7273 or email Tim Wilson at twilson@skicti.com.

February 16, 2009 Children’s Choir Festival First Baptist Church Winston-Salem, NC More information and registration coming soon.

February 25-28, 2009 Youth Ministers’ Retreat North Myrtle Beach, SC More information and registration coming soon.