Prayer and Preparation
During the season of Lent, First Baptist Church in Danville, Va., promotes the CBF Offering for Global Missions. The congregation incorporates missions spotlights into the theme of the service each week, highlighting a specific need in the world. Then, they extinguish a candle on the Lenten wreath and collect gifts to the CBF Offering for Global Missions. This is just one example of how Fellowship Baptists are recognizing the season of Lent and the needs of the world’s most marginalized people.
Online devotion: Journey to the Cross
Church resources: Lenten season
Video: CBF Offering for Global Missions
LEARN
Are you participating in CBF’s You’ve Got the Time initiative during this Lenten season? If so, be sure to check out the online resources and ideas for listening to the Bible. Also, read the CBF blog for reflections from other who have also committed to listening to the Bible each day.
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Sign up now for CBF's next Narrative Leadership Retreat, March 21-24 in Elba, Ala. You'll learn how to put your story to work in bringing about deep change in the story of your congregation. Cost is $400, which includes lodging and most meals. Learn more by contacting Steve Graham.
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GIVE
During this season of Lent, support Christians in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Give so that Roma believers, an often marginalized people group, may worship together. Each Sunday, Roma from the town of Cinobana travel on public transportation to attend services at the sponsoring church in Lucenec. $2 will provide a round-trip ticket for one person to attend church. $30 will provide one Bible for a Roma believer. $500 will provide a scholarship to a quarterly Bible training school for more than 60 Roma pastors. Give online or mail your check to CBF with #89751 in the memo line.
SERVE
Consider giving some of your time this spring to serve as hospitality manager in Athens, Greece. PORTA, the Albanian House run by CBF field personnel Bob and Janice Newell, needs individuals to serve for three week to two months (May-July), coordinating volunteers, assisting with day-to-day operations and encouraging small groups of English-speaking Albanian believers. To learn more, contact Chris Boltin at (800) 352-8741.
PRAY
“Give ear, O people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth” (Psalm 78:1).
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Excerpt from Prayers for the People, a free yearlong guide to prayer for CBF missions and ministries.
Order the Prayers of the People prayer calendar as a way of remembering CBF missions and ministries throughout the year. |
Hundreds of CBF-partnering churches are participating in the “You’ve Got the Time” initiative. They are dedicating 28 minutes each day during Lent to hearing God’s word. Learn how you and your church can participate. Faith does come through hearing. An Iranian woman testifies that she called out to the Lord in a very difficult circumstance. She then turned on the television to a Christian program where she heard the gospel and put her faith in Jesus. CBF field personnel are ministering among Persian-speaking people to meet their needs. Persian speakers include 20 million Afghans, 70 million Iranians and 20 million Tajik. Pray that Persian-speaking people will continue to be reached through Christian satellite television broadcasting as well as through Internet contacts.
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CBF BLOG
Check out all updates from ministry in Haiti. Other entries this week include:
•What to do with Pat Robertson
•“Take up your cross and follow me.”
Find more on the CBF Blog
FEATURED RESOURCE
 Words That Shape and Form is a 40-day resource for a meaningful Lenten journey, as well as throughout the year. With reflection questions and spiral binding, this resource makes for an exceptional devotional piece or small group study. To order visit the CBF Store online or call (888) 801-4223.
EVENT
Make plans to attend the Five-Day Academy for Spiritual Formation: Spirituality and the Modern Prophet April 11-16 in Atlanta. Go online to register.
PRAYER CALENDAR
Feb. 10-16
(CH) = Chaplain
(FP) = Field Personnel
(PC) = Pastoral Counselor
(FPC) = Child of Field Personnel
(PLT) = Church Planter
(PMP) = Partner Mission Personnel
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Karen Estle, Speedway, IN (CH)
Hae Kim, daughter, Philippines (PMP)
James Rentz, Spartanburg, SC (PC)
Sam Southard, Naples, FL (PC)
Cynthia Thomas, Houston, TX (CH)
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Lauralee Estes, Northport, AL (PC)
Ann Miller, Arlington, TX (CH)
Will Runyon, Maryville, TN (CH)
Robert Stevenson, Ft. Knox, KY (CH)
Derrick Togba-Doya, 2001, Liberia (FPC)
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Mera Corlett, Louisville, KY (CH)
Louisa Houser, 2004, Southern Africa (FPC)
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Dianne Swaim, North Little Rock, AR (CH)
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Roger Bolton, Conyers, GA (PC)
Iris Dickerson, Chester, SC (CH)
Charla Littell, Burlington, NC (CH)
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Mi H. Lee, Central Asia (PMP)
Taliaferro Williamson, Decatur, GA (CH)
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