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N.C. MINISTER DR. DAYNETTE SNEAD PEREZ NAMED AS CBF DISASTER RESPONSE LEADER
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The Rev. Dr. Daynette Snead Perez, an innovative pastor, intercultural ministry entrepreneur and experienced disaster recovery specialist from North Carolina, was named May 3 to provide leadership to the long-term domestic disaster relief and recovery work of CBF. She succeeds Rick Burnette who serves as CBF field personnel in Fort Myers, Fla. In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence in September 2018, Snead Perez joined the CBF Disaster Response team as a local response coordinator, mobilizing congregations
and resources across the country to help the people of Trenton, N.C., rebuild their community. She has held multiple ministry roles including associate pastor of First Chin Baptist Church in New Bern, N.C., a Burmese refugee congregation, and leads an intercultural-focused ministry she founded called DIASPRA, which equips pastors and congregations for community discipleship outreach and missional success through diversity and inclusion awareness and skills.
SOUTH CAROLINA PASTOR RICKEY LETSON JOINS CBF DEVELOPMENT STAFF; LONG-TIME FIELD PERSONNEL NELL GREEN SHIFTS SERVICE TO OGM
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Seeking to better serve congregations, CBF announced April 20 the addition of two strategic staff roles in the Fellowship. Rickey Letson, a pastor active in CBF life with more than 20 years serving congregations in a variety of settings, was named as CBF’s Congregational Stewardship Officer. Letson joins the CBF staff to serve as a resource to congregations to help strengthen their financial health and to develop and cultivate partnerships as congregations seek to live out their passion for mission and ministry alongside the Fellowship. He will also work with CBF state and regional organizations, CBF staff and governance bodies
to further develop and implement CBF’s annual giving program for churches. Nell Green, who has ministered in cross-cultural missions since 1986—for the past 27 years as CBF field personnel—has shifted her focus as field personnel to serve as CBF’s Offering for Global Missions Advocate. In this role, Green is engaging with field personnel, CBF fund development and identity and communications teams, ministry partners and churches to strengthen the Offering for Global Missions. Funding for both positions was part of the budget approved by the CBF Governing Board in October 2020.
JAY KIEVE NAMED TO NEW ABUSE PREVENTION AND RESPONSE ADVOCATE POSITION
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To continue its commitment to preventing abuse in congregations and advocating for abuse survivors, CBF has named CBF South Carolina Coordinator Jay Kieve to serve in the newly created position. In this part-time role, Kieve will be the Fellowship’s point person for connecting churches to resources for the prevention of clergy sexual abuse and clergy sexual misconduct, and will work alongside the Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force and CBF-partner GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment).
He will also support congregations seeking prevention training, developing abuse prevention policies and establishing a culture that protects children and vulnerable adults from abuse. Additionally, Kieve will be available to support survivors of clergy sexual abuse, including receiving allegations and recommending church response. He will continue to serve as coordinator of CBFSC. Kieve is one of the founding members of the Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force launched five years ago jointly by CBF and Baptist Women in Ministry.
