CBF executive coordinator Daniel Vestal, left, and Ghana Baptist Convention general secretary Kojo Amo, right, sign an agreement as Rob Nash and Harry Rowland of CBF Global Missions look on.
ATLANTA – Leaders from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Ghana Baptist Convention recently signed a memorandum of understanding, representing an official partnership between the organizations and churches that partner with them.
For many years, Fellowship partner churches and Ghanaian Baptist churches have collaborated in ministry. Leaders hope that this formal partnership will enable more congregations to join the work that is already in progress.
“The future of global missions will be shaped by strategic partnerships between Baptist bodies as well as between churches,” said Daniel Vestal, CBF executive coordinator. “This partnership has the potential of being transformative both for the Ghana Baptist Convention and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. It represents a vision of shared ministry that is exciting.”
The Ghana Baptist Convention represents approximately 1,000 churches with more than 65,000 members, primarily located in the country’s rural areas. Twenty percent of these churches have their own church building, and the remainder worship in classrooms or temporary structures. The convention has approximately 600 trained ministers and two ministerial training institutions.
The Fellowship and Ghana Baptist Convention will collaborate in a variety of ministries. These will include establishing church-to-church connections, creating networks of congregations focused on meeting the needs of the most marginalized and supporting Ghanaian churches in the United States. The organizations will share resources in five specific areas – prayer, church planting, leadership development, ministry infrastructure and community transformation.
The convention’s Student Holiday Outreach Program will enable student groups from the United States to travel throughout Ghana, ministering in villages through construction projects, sports activities and evangelism.
To learn more about partnership opportunities related to the Ghana Baptist Convention, contact Chris Boltin at cboltin@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.