2014 CBF Offering for Global Missions Brochure

On Mission with Christ to 2014-2015 Offering for Global Missions Emphasis If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. – Isaiah 58:10

CBF Global Missions The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is a Christian network of people and churches that puts faith to action through missions and ministries. Through its Global Missions efforts, CBF is transforming the world — engaging God’s mission and touching and serving the most neglected and least evangelized with Christ-like love. Today, 125 CBF field personnel bring love and hope to the poorest of the poor in the United States and in more than 30 countries on five continents. We share Christ, and we love people because God loves us.

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Promotes leadership and ministry among the least evangelized Develops the local church among the least evangelized Provides Bible translations and digital resources in partnership Reaches international refugees, immigrants and students Seeks justice/reconciliation for the most marginalized Works to end extreme poverty Develops and transforms communities Transforms conflict situations Restores natural environments

Global Missions Funding Offering for Global Missions - 44.93% Undesignated Budget - 20.30% Individual Designated Gifts - 14.48% Partner-Funded Designated Gifts - 9.66% Anonymous Gift - 8.18% Endowment/Foundation - 1.76% MK Scholarship Endowments - 0.45% Membercare Endowments - 0.24%

About 50 percent of CBF field personnel are partner funded, which means they raise a majority of their own support. These commissioned ministers engage in close, collaborative relationships with churches, agencies, small groups and individuals to faithfully answer God’s call.

Much of CBF’s global missions impact is funded by the Offering for Global Missions. The Offering is the foundational means of support for the CBF missions enterprise and provides access to a wide array of tools and resources to serve people and equip churches. When you support the Offering for Global Missions, you make ministry possible by supporting all CBF field personnel.

All field personnel receive • Support for technology and travel • Member care and wellness services • Exploratory conferences and the discernment process for candidates seeking missions as a life call • Annual retreat for the children of field personnel • Support for traveling to team meetings

2014-15 Offering for Global Missions emphasis Cooperative Baptists engage in God’s mission with and among the most neglected and least evangelized people on earth. Through the work of field personnel and through CBF’s rural poverty initiative, Together for Hope, the Fellowship is helping to #EndHunger with partners across the United States and around the world. CBF works to #EndHunger in 20 nations across four continents with partners such as the Virginia Baptist Mission Board and Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission Hunger Offering as well as with state and regional CBF organizations such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Heartland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

As CBF Field Personnel seek to be the Presence of Christ, they follow the example of Christ, who often provided those around him a meal. Your gifts to CBF’s Offering for Global Missions help #EndHunger and impact CBF’s global missions work meeting other needs worldwide including work in Fredericksburg, Va., and Lebanon.

Give online today at www.thefellowship.info/ogm.

CBF Hunger Ministries

impacting 20 countries on 4 continents.

CBF Hunger Ministry Funding Offering for Global Missions ministries Partner-funded ministries Together for Hope ministries

International Impact Story Lebanon: Spreading the Peace of Christ Since civil war broke out in Syria three years ago, more than 2.5 million refugees have fled the country. More than a million of those have settled in Lebanon, creating a burden on the nation’s public services and doubling unemployment among Lebanese citizens. Hunger is widespread, and there are no official refugee camps. Families are struggling to resettle in a foreign land. Chaouki and Maha Boulos, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Field Personnel serving in Lebanon since 2002, are working to #EndHunger for Syrian refugees through food distribution to more than 300 participants of a women’s Bible study, more than 350 students ages 4 to 13 years old at a school in the Bekaa Valley and to internally displaced Syrians in Damascus.

Go online For more information, including videos and photos of the Bouloses’ work, visit www.thefellowship.info/ogm.

North America Impact Story

Fredericksburg, Virginia: A Holistic Christian Response A Christian response to #EndHunger requires more than providing food.

It’s about protecting the dignity of those in need and meeting physical, social, spiritual, mental and emotional needs. For Greg and Sue Smith, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Field Personnel serving the Latino community of Fredericksburg, Va., it’s meeting people wherever they are. With support from CBF’s Offering for Global Missions, since 2006, the Smiths have worked in partnership with the Fellowship, the Virginia Baptist Mission Board and Fredericksburg Baptist Church to meet the challenges of immigrants. The Smiths founded LUCHA ministries, which in English means “struggle.” To combat hunger, LUCHA ministries maintains a food pantry and partners with the local food bank, churches and individuals to provide culturally appropriate food to the Latino community.

Go online For more information, including videos and photos of the Smith’s work, visit www.thefellowship.info/ogm.

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