Associations & Affiliations | Community Partners | Partners Abroad
We have the great privilege to partner with some outstanding people and organizations. While our partners don't ultimately define our church or share all of our views, we're glad to support and participate in the good things each of these groups is doing.
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Baptist Joint Committee on Religious LibertyPrimarily an education and advocacy organization, the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty is a leading voice in Washington, D.C., fighting to uphold the historic Baptist principle of religious freedom for all. It stands guard at the intersection of church and state, defending the first freedom of the First Amendment by protecting both the free exercise of religion and defending against its establishment by government.
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Baptist News GlobalBaptist News Global is a reader-supported, independent news organization providing original and curated news, opinion and analysis about matters of faith. BNG covers the people, events and ideas that are shaping American culture and Baptist life. We do so from a perspective that is Baptist in heritage and ecumenical in spirit.
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The Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America / Bautistas por la PazBPFNA ~ Bautistas por la Paz is the largest network of Baptist peacemakers in the world. We celebrate and support the peacemaking work done by Baptist churches in our four home countries of Canada, the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico by raising the visibility of these efforts; bringing peacemakers together in regional and international gatherings; and providing resources, speakers and training to our members. We also actively connect with peacemakers from other traditions, faith-based and secular, to build alliances and work together toward our common goal of a more just and peaceful world.
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Baptist Women in MinistryBaptist Women in Ministry is a catalyst in Baptist life, drawing together women and men, in partnership with God, to illuminate, advocate, and nurture the gifts and graces of women. Baptist Women in Ministry is committed to advocating for, connecting to, and networking with Baptist women in ministry and those who care about them.
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Baptist World AllianceThe Baptist World Alliance is a worldwide alliance of Baptist churches and organizations, formed in 1905 at Exeter Hall in London during the first Baptist World Congress. The organization counts 48 million people, being the largest organization of Baptist churches in the world.
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CBFVACooperative Baptist Fellowship Virginia is a Christian network of churches and individuals motivated by Jesus Christ; inspired by our unique Baptist heritage; invested in forming healthy congregations; committed to mission engagement at home and abroad; and sustained by partnership and collaboration.
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Hopetree Family ServicesThe Mission of HopeTree Family Services is to provide Christian residential, educational, and support services to at-risk children and youth, and to adults with intellectual disabilities throughout Virginia. We do this by creating an environment in which adults with intellectual disabilities can experience the most complete life possible. We also serve children through residential and treatment foster care placements, clinical services, and through HopeTree Academy.
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Jon & Tanya Parks - SlovakiaJon and Tanya Parks are Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel serving among the Roma community in Košice, Slovakia and surrounding areas. Despite their status as Europe’s largest ethnic minority group, many Roma — especially in Slovakia and other Eastern European countries —experience discrimination and live in generational cycles of poverty and dependence. Jon and Tanya believe that education and the Gospel can make the biggest difference in forming a new future for Roma communities.
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Journey Partners - ZimbabweJourneyPartners connects resources, people, challenges and opportunities around the world and at home. We focus in three main arenas: clean and available water, education and resources, and health and medicine. Past celebrations included the construction of a 75,000 gallon water reservoir in Gweru, Zimbabwe; assisting the new Alliance of Baptists in Brazil in the publication of Walter Shurden's “Four Fragile Freedoms” in Portugese, and delivery of more than two tons of supplementary textbooks to Jones County Schools in eastern North Carolina. More recent partnerships have brought more than a dozen cross-cultural mission immersion teams to Zimbabwe, and included the construction of a hostel to house AIDS orphans in Masembura and shipment of more than 500 nursing and medical textbooks to nursing schools in several developing areas.
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Will Cumbia - AustriaWBC's own Will Cumbia is spending a year in Austria working with refugees. To keep up with Will's sojourn go to the WILL'S WANDERINGS blog. If you would like to sign-up to receive updates from Will, you can SIGN UP FOR HIS NEWSLETTER. If you would like to support Will financially, CLICK HERE.
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