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
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