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ATLANTA – Among the highlights at the 15th annual Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly will be featured speaker Daniel Vestal, the Fellowship’s national coordinator, and guest pianist Joseph Martin. The event will be held June 29-July 2 at Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.
Martin, director of sacred publications for Shawnee Press, has performed as a soloist and featured orchestra artist throughout the United States and Mexico. A Dove Award-nominated composer, he has more than 750 compositions in print.
"His own particular style of playing is unique. As a solo concert artist, he’ll bring a significant amount of weight to the program," said Paul Magyar, minister of music and worship at Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston.
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Other featured events include a Wednesday evening hymn festival at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, a Hispanic leadership conference and "Companions in Christ" training in English and Spanish. Friday evening’s concluding session will include the commissioning of new CBF Global Missions field personnel.
Departing from the traditional midday Thursday through Saturday morning schedule, this year’s assembly will run Thursday morning, June 30, through Friday evening, July 1, with auxiliary events being offered Wednesday, June 29, and Saturday, July 2.
General Assembly Chairman Philip Wise said the event is especially beneficial to those interested in learning more about the Fellowship.
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"Experiencing a General Assembly is one way of understanding more about CBF and what it’s doing in missions and religious education. It’s also a way to meet the people of CBF and find out what CBF is all about," said Wise, senior pastor of Second Baptist Church in Lubbock.
This year’s theme is "Being the Presence of Christ in All the World."
Online registration and hotel reservations can be made at the Fellowship’s Web site, www.thefellowship.info.
CBF is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice. The Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission.