Mission Moment from China

Our Church is pleased to support CBF Global Missions in moments like these where unity and love are modeled and shared.

"Many years ago, Macau was given the slogan 'Macau, city of God, there is none more loyal!' Today, Macau's loyalty is to false gods and the immoral things of man. The city seems to have been sealed up by the evil one, but we must not give up hope. Hope for change, hope for a new day, hope for Macau's people to be truly loyal to God. It is our hope that the Gospel message will gain momentum and soon be multiplying throughout the population resulting in a vast harvest of people for the Kingdom of God."

- Larry and Sarah Ballew, CBF field personnel in Macau, China

Mission Moment from Romania

Our Church is pleased to support CBF Global Missions in moments like these where unity and love are modeled and shared.

"November made the seventh time that Dutch Baptists have flown to Romania to teach at the Gypsy Smith School in Bucharest. The school meets four times a year for one-week intensive training. We resource coordinators do not have the fun of teaching these enthusiastic Romany believers ourselves, but it gives us great satisfaction to link people who have those teaching skills with leaders eager to learn; to see Christians cooperating across national, ethnic and linguistic lines to advance the Kingdom."

- Keith Holmes and Mary van Rheenen, CBF field personnel in Europe

Vests and More Vests!

Help! WMU has learned that 32 vests are needed for Royal Ambassadors to use to display missions badges they earn. A small group of women has met twice to make GA and RA vests but we need more help in order to complete the vests in the next few weeks.

If you can sew -- you are needed.
If you can't sew -- you are needed.
There is much to do - from ironing, to cutting out the vest patterns, to sewing.

Our next workday is Monday, February 13th from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM, in the Mission and Fellowship Center. Bring a snack to share for lunch. Call or email Cheryl Beck -- 369-6909, cheryl_beck@ncsu.edu if you can help. If you can't be there but could sew at home, that would be great too.

Let's show our support to the RAs and GAs as they learn more about missions.

Mission Moment from North Carolina

Our Church is pleased to support CBF Global Missions in moments like these where unity and love are modeled and shared.

"After helping a new Afghan refugee family coming to Raleigh settle into their home, one neighbor brought over a home-cooked meal for the whole family to enjoy. When the mother saw that her neighbor was an Afghan mom just like her, she began to cry. We believe they were tears of happiness. She and her family are now home, safe and sound after such a long, long journey. In those covered dishes, her new neighbor gave her much more than food."

- Kim and Marc Wyatt, CBF field personnel in the North Carolina Research Triangle

Mission Moment from Spain

Our Church is pleased to support CBF Global Missions in moments like these where unity and love are modeled and shared.

"One Saturday, I visited a local Spanish church that uses a storefront for its space. It was a special gathering. Christians from different churches in the community had been invited to come together to discuss how we could work together to transform our community. It wasn't a grand Cathedral or the living room of a house church, it was a simple storefront church, but we were there, praying, worshiping and being replenished in community so that we could serve our community. That is the beautiful picture of the church that I hope to see and of which I want to be a part of."

- Matt Norman, CBF field personnel in Spain

Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Tracking

"At Linda's I shared that I had put tracking labels that I got online on several of our Shoeboxes.

After church today I went online, put in the code, it came back that those boxes shipped December 5th from Charlotte heading to Togo in West Central Africa.

Tonight I just came across the photo below on Facebook....taken by a volunteer this week at the OCC Charlotte Distribution Center...the tally board... if you enlarge you can see boxes shipped to Togo on Dec. 5th.

Thought you'd like to share with the group.

Have a blessed week!"

- Teresa Deitz Manring

Mission Moment from Cambodia

Our Church is pleased to support CBF Global Missions in moments like these where unity and love are modeled and shared.

At church in Cambodia, the music leader often gets a phone call right in the middle of a song, steps outside to answer, and everybody else just keeps singing. A minute later, he will step back in and keep singing like nothing happened. As it turns out, the doors on the ground floor of the church have to be locked for security reasons. The music leader is the person you call to get in if you arrive after the doors have been locked. At first, I thought the action was a bit rude. However, it is an act of welcoming. Every call means that one more person has made the journey and the sacrifice to participate as part of the body of Christ that week.  

- David Bass, CBF field personnel, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Mission Moment from India

Our Church is pleased to support CBF Global Missions in moments like these where unity and love are modeled and shared.

Sewing Training Centers are key platforms to share God's true love in India. Needy widows and teenage girls are the beneficiaries of this sustainable community-based program. With six months of training, each one develops a new skill to support their family with dignity and respect. At Graduation they receive a sewing machine, a Bible and a certificate that enables them to work anywhere with job orders coming directly to their homes. This program is opening hard hearts and dark corners of the community for the Gospel.

- Sam Bandela, CBF field personnel, India

Mission Moment from Slovakia

(pictured above) Shane McNary and Sasha Zivanov.  Shane serves in Slovakia and Sasha serves in St. Louis, Mo.

Our Church is pleased to support CBF Global Missions in moments like these where unity and love are modeled and shared. 

We met Rene several years ago when he was working at the Children’s Center, an outreach of Bethel Ministries/Litomerice Baptist Church. I was immediately impressed by his commitment to serving others and we remained friends even after the Center closed. I know Rene to be a compassionate and committed servant, and I was honored to be present at his appointment service. At the service, an elder who happened to be Baptist shared how meaningful Rene’s friendship has been to him. He said, “I consider him my brother.”  He continued through his tears, “We are brothers here and we will be brothers in heaven.”  By bridging generations, races, and church affiliation these two brothers deconstruct the rhetoric of intolerance against “anti-sociables” as the Roma are euphemistically called by some Czech politicians. Deconstructing the myth that Roma and non-Rom Czechs cannot relate to the other, the reign of God grows as these men from different worlds learn to live in beloved community.

-Dianne and Shane McNary, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Field Personnel, Slovakia

Mission Moment from Barcelona, Spain

Our Church is pleased to support Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Missions in moments like these serving communities and spreading the Gospel in Spain:

“When I visit churches here in Europe, I love to go into the sanctuary and listen. In the silence, I can almost hear the people of the centuries past as they came to pray, worship and replenish themselves for their everyday lives. Recently, I visited a local Spanish church that uses a storefront for its space. Christians from different churches in the community had been invited to come together to discuss how we could work together to transform our community. We sat and talked about practical ways to serve and love our community. I sat and listened. It wasn’t a grand Cathedral or a living room, it was a simple storefront church, but we were there, praying, worshiping and being replenished in community so that we could serve our community.”

Matt Norman, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Field Personnel, Barcelona, Spain