At Summit, Baptist leaders announce
action covenants on hunger, literacy, predatory lending
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By CBF Communications t a Carter Center commissioning service on Nov. 22, innovative Baptist leaders from diverse traditions concluded a two-day summit by announcing cooperative service projects to promote literacy and combat hunger and predatory lending. Church leaders from Dallas, Birmingham,
Frederick D. Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church and George Mason, senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, led the delegation from Dallas in a covenant to address the problem of predatory lending. The congregations will act “jointly to confront predatory lending practices that disproportionately harm the vulnerable … by educating our churches, advocating for more just laws and creating alternative credit sources that promote the welfare of the lenders and borrowers alike.”
CBF field personnel Jon and Tanya Parks minister among the Roma in Košice, Slovakia.
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Ala., St. Louis, Atlanta and the Northwest United States region participated in and are part of the movement started by President Jimmy Carter in 2007 called the New Baptist Covenant. Its aim is to break down barriers of race, theology and geography among Baptists so that Jesus’ mandate in the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Luke to proclaim good news to the poor and set the oppressed free can be realized. The projects, called “Covenants of Action,” will meet specific needs of the communities represented.
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