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In Canada, CBF field personnel Kim and Marc Wyatt are ministering among the immigrants and refugees living in the country’s largest cities.
Five Tips for building a legacy
Starting new churches • Partnership with Ghana Baptists results in new U.S. congregations • Among Roma, church planting involves unique challenges • In Belgium, church planting is a long-term strategy
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Affect: February Missions Education Resource Changing the lives of children • Field personnel share Christ, hope with Miami youth • Kindergarten gives children educational foundation • Virginia ministry provides encouragement to Latino children
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Affect: March Missions Education Resource Partner Spotlight: Baptist Women in Ministry Carla Wynn Davis Photo
2012 CBF Task Force Update
2012 General Assembly — Fort Worth, Texas
FROM THE EDITOR Of all the photos I took last summer at Touching Miami with Love, the one above is the most memorable.
You may ask why because, I agree, it’s not a very good photo. It’s just a few stuffed animals piled outside a fence. But, sadly, it’s a lot more than that. As Angel Pittman — one of CBF’s field personnel serving at Touching Miami with Love — explained, this collection of stuffed animals is a memorial for a victim of street violence. Now you see why this photo is hard to forget. In this issue of fellowship! you will read about the ministry of Angel and her husband, Jason, who lead Touching Miami with Love, a ministry center in a Miami neighborhood called Overtown. There, crime and poverty rates are among the nation’s highest, and Touching Miami with Love wants to change this picture. Nearly every day dozens of children and teenagers experience the love of Jesus Christ as shown through Angel, Jason, staff, community members and Fellowship Baptists who make this life-changing ministry possible. Sometimes we forget that ministries like these need our support. Without people like you giving to the CBF Offering for Global Missions, many life-changing ministries would not exist. It’s that simple. They need you, and you need them — because only together can we join God’s mission to transform communities and lives. What a picture that would be.
Carla Wynn Davis, associate editor, cdavis@thefellowship.info
fellowship!
February/March 2012
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