Opportunities to Affect

January 2017

Opportunities to Affect: Justice and Empowerment 
CBF Kentucky is helping CBF churches partner with EmpowerWest to bring justice to Louisville and other communities.

In Small Groups
At Home: Around the Table
At Church: Around the Table
Reading Group Discussion Guide for A Tour of Bones by Denise Inge

 

December 2016

Opportunities to Affect: Transformation and Reconciliation 
CBF field personnel Jonathan and Tina Bailey build relationships and engagement though art in Indonesia.

In Worship: A Litany
At Home: Around the Table
In Small Groups
Reading Group Discussion Guide for Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

 

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November 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Community Ministry in Chattanooga 

At Church: Children's Sermon
In Small Groups
At Home: Around the Table
Reading Group Discussion Guide for Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber

 

October 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty.

in Small Groups
At Home: Around the Table
In Worship: A Missions Moment
Reading Group Discussion Guide for The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin

 

September 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: CBF at 25

In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Church
Reading Groups Discussion Guide for Katrina: After the Flood  by Gary Rivlin

 

August 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Bearing Witness in Thailand

In Worship: A Missions Moment
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
Reading Groups Discussion Guide for Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

  

July 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Clean Water Projects

In Small Groups
In Worship: A Missions Moment
At Home: With Children

 

June 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Language Learning

At Church: Around the Table
In Small Groups
In a Unique Setting

 

May 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Being a Neighbor

In Small Groups
At Church: Around the Table
In Worship: A Missions Moment
Book Discussion Guide for The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

April 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Literacy Ministry

In Small Groups
In Worship: A Missions Moment
At Home: Around the Table
Book Discussion Guide for Maggie Lee for Good by Jinny and John Henson

March 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Student.Church

Around the Table: At Church
In Small Groups
Discussion Guide for The Pause by John Larkin (Young Adult)

 

February 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Literacy Ministry

In Worship: A Litany
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
Discussion Guide for All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

January 2016

Download Opportunities to Affect: Overcoming Differences

Around the Table: At Home
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Church
Discussion Guide for Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

December 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Literacy Ministry

In Worship: A Litany
At Home: With Kids
In Small Groups
Discussion Guidefor God Help the Child by Toni Morrison

November 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Literacy Ministry

In Worship: A Missions Moment
At Home: With Children
In Small Groups
Discussion Guide for My Spirit Took You In by Louise Troh

October 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: South Africa Network

In Worship: A Missions Moment
Around the Table: At Church
In Small Groups
Discussion Guide for Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans

September 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Asset-based Community Development

Around the Table: At Home
In Small Groups
Discussion Guide for The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

August 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Church Starters

In Worship: A Missions Moment
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
Discussion Guide for Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

July 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Searching for Resurrection

In Small Groups
 Around the Table: At Church
 Around the Table: At Home

June 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: A Listening Servant

In Small Groups
 In Worship: Communal Prayer
 Around the Table: At Church

May 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Ministry of Healing and Empowerment

In Small Groups
 In Worship: A Missions Moment
 Around the Table: At Home
Discussion Guide for Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline.

APRIL 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Being Church Together
 Around the Table: At Church
In Small Groups
In Worship: Children's Sermon 
Discussion Guide for Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor.

 

March 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Forming Together
In Small Groups
Around the Table
In Worship
Discussion Guide for Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos

February 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: Renewing God's World
In Small Groups
Around the Table
In Worship
Discussion Guide for Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

January 2015

Download Opportunities to Affect: CBF Hunger Ministries
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
In Worship: #EndHunger Challenge
Discussion Guide for The Big Truck That Went By by Jonathan Katz

December 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: CBF CARES
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
In Worship: Children's Sermon
Discussion Guide for And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

November 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Disaster Response - Water
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
In Worship: Communal Scripture Reading
Discussion Guide for Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard  by Liz Murray 

October 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: National Baptist Memorial Church
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
In Worship: Communal Scripture Reading
Discussion Guide for Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. by Gary Rivlin

September 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Passport/Ukraine Partnership
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
In Worship: Celebration of Missions
Discussion Guide for The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

AUGUST 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Disaster Response
Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
In Worship: Communal Prayer
Discussion Guide for Never Fall Down  by Patricia McCormick

July 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Church-to-Field Personnel Partnerships
In Small Groups
Around the Table: At Home
In Worship: Communal Prayer

June 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Church-to-Church Partnerships
Around the Table: At Church
Around the Table: At Home
In Small Groups

May 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Homelessness

Download the Reading Guide for The International Bank of Bob

April 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Human Trafficking

Download the Reading Guide for A Place at the Table

March 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Immigration and Advocacy
Download the Reading Guide for Risky Marriage: Reflections from Tanzania on HIV and Intimate Relationships

February 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Internationals
Download the Reading Guide for Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim

January 2014

Download Opportunities to Affect: Education
Download the Reading Guide for The Virgin Cure

December 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Disaster Response
Download the Reading Guide for Community

November 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Poverty and Justice
Download the Reading Guide for Still

October 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Church Starting
Download the Reading Guide for Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

September 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Transformational Partnerships
 

August 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Missional Christians
Download the Reading Guide for A Different Sun by Elaine Neil Orr

July 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Long-term Ministry
 

June 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Chaplaincy and Pastoral Counseling

May 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Ministry Partners
 

April 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Urban Ministry
Download the Reading Guide for Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans

March 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Refugee Ministry
Download the Reading Guide for Of Beetles and Angels by Mawi Asgedom

February 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Caring for our Neighbors
 

January 2013

Download Opportunities to Affect: Translating the Gospel
Download the Reading Guide for Let Me Tell You Where I’ve Been, edited by Persis M. Karim

December 2012

Download Opportunities to Affect: Skills for Life
Download the Reading Guide for Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor