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'Affect' Now Part of 'fellowship!' Magazine
 Have you heard the news? Affect, CBF’s missions education resource for adults, is now available for FREE as a part of fellowship! magazine. Each issue will include ideas for using the fellowship! stories with adults in small groups, reading groups, and other settings. Additional tools and teacher helps are available at www.thefellowship.info/affectonline. Subscribe to fellowship! magazine today at www.thefellowship.info/subscribe to receive this free missional resource for adults.
How to use: Use the missional stories and the small groups outline in fellowship! magazine to lead monthly missions meetings. Select the books featured each month and create a Book Club ministry using the reading groups study guide. Use the missional stories in fellowship! as missions moments in worship or Sunday School.
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Barna Update Offers Research Recap
The Barna Update e-newsletter informs you about their latest studies including:
- Church Confidence? Check out George Barna's recent commentary on changing levels of church confidence.
- Prepare Your Children's Ministry. One of the implications of their newest research is that what happens spiritually when a person is in childhood matters more than during any other time in life. Use George Barna's bestselling work on children's ministry, Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions, to help your church build a strong foundation with the next generation. On sale here, use these research-based resources to get ready for the fall!
Subscribe to the Barna Update.
There’s Still Time to Take the Journey of Biblical Faithfulness
More than 500 churches within the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship have participated in the 40-day New Testament listening program "You’ve Got the Time: A Journey of Biblical Faithfulness." Hear the stories of CBF churches in their own words as they describe how they successfully implemented the program. No reservations, needed. Just visit this link at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 8, to join the online seminar.
CONFERENCES & COURSES
ChurchWorks Conference Coming in February 2011
ChurchWorks will be at First Baptist Church, Decatur, Ga., from Feb. 21-23, 2011. More details will be available soon at the ChurchWorks Web site.
Hopeful Imagination:
Traditional Churches Finding God’s Way in a Changing World
Oct. 22-23
First Baptist Church, Wilmington, N.C.
A 200-year-old church can make an impact today and tomorrow. Learn how churches move from "why we can’t" to "how we can." Discover the power of relationships and how to create missional partnerships to impact a city. Dialogue with pastoral staff and lay leadership that are effectively transitioning a congregation from maintenance to mission. Experience encouragement, hope and help for leaders and congregations. Registration and workshop details are available at
www.hopefulimagination.info.
Pinnacle Offers Pastoral Leadership Courses
Pinnacle Leadership Associates offers the following opportunities:
Vital Skills for Ministry: The Peoplemap Communication System is designed to strengthen communication skills and interpersonal relationships. Participants will take two inventories, learn their personality type and Leadership Style Preferences, and identify a strategy for making the most of their personality strengths to perform at an optimal level in pastoral leadership. Course facilitator: Mark Tidsworth. Locations: Greenville, S.C., Sept. 9, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and then 9 a.m.-noon on Sept. 23, Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Nov. 4, Nov. 18 and Dec. 2. Tuition: $420, includes all inventories and manual. Columbia, S.C., Sept. 7, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and then 9 a.m.-noon on Sept. 21, Oct. 5, Oct. 19, Nov. 2, Nov. 16 and Nov. 30. Tuition: $395, includes all inventories and manual. Learn more and download a registration form.
The Leadership Coaching Project: Two Pinnacle services are combined into one substantive personal and professional growth opportunity. Participants will gather for a retreat, where they will learn about their leadership competencies and personality tendencies. These will be considered in light of each person’s ministry context. A Learning Plan will result, followed by six months of coaching with a Pinnacle Leadership Coach. Tuition: $840, retreat room and board: $100. Retreat dates: Nov. 11 at 2:30 p.m.-Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m. Retreat location: Lutheridge Conference Center, Asheville, N.C. Leadership coaching: November 2010 – April 2011. Coaches: Doug Cushing, Ircel Harrison, Anita Flowers and Mark Tidsworth. Go to www.pinnaclelead.com/calendar to download a registration form or call Pinnacle at (803) 673-3634 to learn more.
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EVENTS
Global Voices Summit
Oct. 15-16
First Baptist Church,
Austin, Texas
This Summit will be packed with opportunities to experience hands-on ministry projects, powerful worship, meaningful dialogue, investigative sessions covering issues that affect women everywhere, and transformative friendships. Register online at www.globalwomengo.org. A full schedule, list of investigative sessions, and registration is posted on Global Women's Web site.
Coached By The Spirit!
Convener’s Retreat
Oct. 29-31
Ignatius Retreat House
Atlanta
Designed with peer learning group conveners and lay leaders in mind, retreat participants will explore their common call to participate in God’s ministry of reconciliation. This first year we are asking each Convener who participates to bring two lay leaders with them from their congregations. Retreat leadership includes: Melissa Clodfelter, Center for Congregational Health; Rick Bennett, CBF Congregational Life; and Steve Graham, CBF Leadership Development. Cost: $170 per participant (includes meals and lodging.) Each participant signing up by Sept. 25, will receive a scholarship to cover one-half of this cost subsidized by the CBF Initiative for Ministerial Excellence. View the schedule or register.
2010 Youth Worker Summit:
Sacred Space for Youth Workers
Dec. 1-4
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort
Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
The 2010 Youth Worker Summit, an ecumenical gathering, will bring together youth ministry leaders from congregations across the country. Find Sacred Space to explore your unique experiences and a unified call. For more information, visit www.youthworkersummit.org.
CBF BLOG
Check out all updates from the 2010 General Assembly.
Other blog postings:
Trying to Preach the Gospel!!
Children’s Rotation Model Sunday School
Twenty Years and Counting
Five years after Katrina: Recovery in Louisiana
Five years after Katrina: Recovery in Alabama and Mississippi
Five years after Katrina: Responders see change
Five years after Katrina: Remembering the sadness, destruction and survival
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