ATLANTA – Leaders from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will sign a memorandum of understanding with Operation Inasmuch, representing an official partnership between the organizations.
The memorandum will be signed at CBF’s General Assembly in Houston, Texas, July 2-3.
“This partnership offers the local church a proven model of how to create a congregational mission experience in a local setting,” said Harry Rowland, CBF’s director of missional church ministries. “It is not enough to just believe that every Christian is a missionary. One also has to go on mission. CBF is committed to being a missional journey partner with congregations, and Operation Inasmuch assists local churches in how to use events to strategize long-term. In the partnership, we are helping churches transform their communities by being the presence of Christ.”
In the three-year partnership, the Fellowship and Operation Inasmuch will coordinate their efforts related to congregational engagement in local communities. The organizations will share resources and work together to foster transformational engagement both locally and globally.
Operation Inasmuch began in 1995 at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C. Its mission is to “empower congregations worldwide to catalyze community ministry with the Operation Inasmuch model and create a culture of compassion ministry.” The organization facilitates regional and city-wide mission events through the training of local church leaders. The events are designed to provide people of all ages with opportunities to serve in a single day.
“We are pleased to enter into a working relationship with CBF to facilitate the mobilization of CBF congregations to be the hands and feet of Jesus in their community,” said David Crocker, executive director of Operation Inasmuch. “We share a common vision of seeing churches return to the biblical mandate to put good deeds with the good news as spelled out by Jesus in Nazareth in Luke 4. God will use this relationship to transform churches and communities.”
To learn about partnership opportunities with Operation Inasmuch, contact Chris Boltin at engage@thefellowship.info or (800) 352-8741.
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.