CBAmerica Summer Summit in Fort Collins, Colorado

The CBAmerica Summer Summer Summit will be held at the First Baptist Church in Fort Collins, CO, from July 23 to 25. The Summer Summit will feature training in church assessment by Dr. Bill Hoyt, President of NexStep Coaching, and I will be attending with four others from our region. We look forward to this time of training, networking and building relationships. You can learn more about the Summer Summit at http://www.cbamerica.org/. Pray for God's blessing upon this time and that we would become better equipped to serve our churches.

~ Jim

New Identity Work Continues

As our churches move into the summer mode, with VBS and other special programs launched, we at Mission Mid-Atlantic continue to work on the infrastructure needed to support our churches as related to our new identity.

For example, later in July, several of us will travel to the CBAmerica Summer Summit in Fort Collins, CO, to receive Assessment Training. This training is being offered by CBAmerica to our REDS and other pastors who desire to offer assessments to churches in our regions. This training helps us in our region to fulfill one of the four action steps we outlined at our Annual Conference at Sandy Cove.

Here are the four action steps we outlined at Sandy Cove:

1. Develop new churches.
2. Cultivate church leaders.
3. Build healthy churches.
4. Assist pastors and churches in crisis.

We are excited that CBAmerica is offering this training so that we can be better equipped to meet with churches who desire an extensive assessment accompanied by suggestions and guidance to improve their quality of ministry.

I will continue to reflect on the steps we are taking as we move in this new direction and appreciate your thoughts and suggestions, so feel free to add comments to the blogs. I look forward to interacting with you.

By the way, you can visit the CBAmerica website at www.cbamerica.org to learn more about the Summer Summit and assessment training.

~ Jim