Sunday, December 21, 2008
Called Business Conference
There will be a brief called business conference during the 11 am service on Sunday, January 4th, for the purpose of updating the congregation on the process of land acquisition. There has been a slight modification in the proposal for acquiring the Dickens Property. A vote of the congregation is necessary to approve the changes.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
New funeral plans for Joyce Jones
The funeral for Joyce Jones was postponed on Thursday because her husband was suddenly hospitalized with a life-threatening illness. Bryant is better, but still in ICU at WakeMed, Cary.
The funeral for Joyce will take place on Monday, December 15, 2008, at 2:00 pm at Swift Creek Baptist Church.
The funeral for Joyce will take place on Monday, December 15, 2008, at 2:00 pm at Swift Creek Baptist Church.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Funeral Arrangements for Joyce Jones
Joyce Elaine Jones (September 3, 1938 - December 6, 2008)
Joyce Elaine Cochran Jones of Cary died unexpectedly at her home Saturday December 6th, 2008. A native of Clewiston, Fla., she was born to the late Ruth Marshman Cochran and Trilton Earnest Cochran.
She was married to Braxton Bryant Jones and is also survived by one son, Trilton Braxton Jones and his wife Sandy Roach Jones; grandchildren: Logan, Trilton and Luke Jones; sister in law, Marbeth Cochran; a niece, three nephews, and numerous cousins.
She enjoyed bowling, crafts and her grandchildren. Joyce was truly a champion caregiver to her husband of 53 years.
A service celebrating her life and home going will be held at 2:00 pm on Wednesday December 10th in the Swift Creek Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Her family will receive friends from 5-7 pm on Tuesday December 9th at the Apex Funeral Home, 550 W. Williams St. in Apex.
Those wishing to honor her memory may choose to make a gift to the Swift Creek Baptist Church Building Fund, 9300 Penny Rd., Raleigh, NC 27606.
Joyce Elaine Cochran Jones of Cary died unexpectedly at her home Saturday December 6th, 2008. A native of Clewiston, Fla., she was born to the late Ruth Marshman Cochran and Trilton Earnest Cochran.
She was married to Braxton Bryant Jones and is also survived by one son, Trilton Braxton Jones and his wife Sandy Roach Jones; grandchildren: Logan, Trilton and Luke Jones; sister in law, Marbeth Cochran; a niece, three nephews, and numerous cousins.
She enjoyed bowling, crafts and her grandchildren. Joyce was truly a champion caregiver to her husband of 53 years.
A service celebrating her life and home going will be held at 2:00 pm on Wednesday December 10th in the Swift Creek Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Her family will receive friends from 5-7 pm on Tuesday December 9th at the Apex Funeral Home, 550 W. Williams St. in Apex.
Those wishing to honor her memory may choose to make a gift to the Swift Creek Baptist Church Building Fund, 9300 Penny Rd., Raleigh, NC 27606.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Correcting Misinformation... Sharing news from one of our partners...
CBFNC Coordinator Encourages Fellowship to Speak Up
Recent articles in both print and electronic secular media regarding the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship have been unfair and misleading. The following statement about CBF National and CBF of North Carolina will provide information for those in our Fellowship to use in responding to questions, criticisms, concerns, etc, that they may receive from church members and others in their communities. Please use the information provided below to write letters to the editor, internet posts, etc., to newspapers, television stations and other media outlets in your local communities. Please speak up. Your positive presentation of our Fellowship will do much to counter the negative perceptions that have been publicized and will provide an opportunity to be a positive witness for Jesus Christ.
Larry Hovis
CBFNC Executive Coordinator
Recent Associated Press accounts of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina’s meeting Nov. 10-11 have characterized the national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship as “gay friendly,” “liberal” and “does not support the belief that the Bible is entirely without error.” These are gross exaggerations based on comments made by Fellowship opponents on the floor of the Convention.
These reports are examples of bad journalism. Associated Press presented a one-sided and inaccurate description of the Fellowship. No member of the Fellowship was contacted before the stories were distributed. When national CBF staff contacted AP to correct the misinformation, much of the inaccurate descriptions were left in the story, and the new story that was distributed the next day included only an additional comment about the Fellowship’s hiring and funding policy on homosexuality. For more information about CBF’s position on homosexuality and related issues, visit http://www.truthaboutcbf.net/.
CBF is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission of Jesus Christ and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice. More than 5,000 churches have contributed to the Fellowship since it was founded in 1991.
These churches and individuals are Bible-believing, evangelistic, socially-conscious and committed to resolving difficult doctrinal and cultural issues for themselves through interpreting the Scriptures under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Fellowship’s staff does not speak for the Fellowship’s partnering congregations nor dictate Biblical positions.
Headquartered in Atlanta, the Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission. Supported by more than 1,800 churches and an additional 3,500 individuals, the Fellowship has 163 field personnel serving around the world, partners with 15 theology schools and has endorsed more than 600 chaplains and pastoral counselors.
The Fellowships’ core values include the Baptist principles of soul freedom, Bible freedom, church freedom and religious freedom; biblically-based Global Missions; the resource model; justice and reconciliation; lifelong learning and ministry; trustworthiness; and effectiveness. The Fellowship acts on these values through four initiatives – faith formation, building community and networking, leadership development and global missions.
CBF has a priority commitment to the local congregation. By providing resources to enhance the ministries of the local church, the Fellowship lives out its vision for being the presence of Christ in the world. Spiritual formation, Missional engagement, and ministerial readiness are at the heart of the work of the Fellowship. Today more than ever, the local church needs trusted resource providers that will help enhance outreach and enrich fellowship. CBF is committed to being such a partner.
CBF has existed for eighteen years. While still in a formative period, the Fellowship continues to seek God’s guidance and direction. CBF remains committed to the core values that formed it. Additionally, several patterns of effectiveness have emerged.
A strong commitment to partnering – CBF does not intend to own buildings, publishing houses, or delivery systems. CBF seeks partnerships that can extend the ministry of the Fellowship while bringing new relationships into the Fellowship movement. In addition to more than 1,800 partnering churches, CBF collaborates with more than 150 different partnering agencies to expand its reach.
In addition to the national CBF organization, the Fellowship movement includes eighteen autonomous state and regional organizations, one of which is Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBFNC). CBFNC is governed and financed separately from other CBF entities, but works closely in partnership to engage in missions, evangelism, leadership development and support for congregational ministries.
Constituted in 1994, CBFNC has offices in Winston-Salem and a paid staff of ten. Its ministries include missions in North Carolina, Ukraine and Belize; support of theological education; church planting; retreats and conferences for children, youth, adults, lay leaders and clergy; college campus ministries; position search assistance for churches and ministers; and much more. Its stated mission is “bringing Baptists of North Carolina together for Christ-centered ministries.” For more information about the principles and ministries of CBFNC, visit http://www.cbfnc.org/).
CBFNC also has partnerships with historic North Carolina Baptist agencies and institutions such as Baptist colleges, Baptist Children’s Homes, Baptist Retirement Homes and Baptist Hospital. Some churches choose to fund these agencies, as well as CBF and CBFNC, through a giving mechanism called the Mission Resource Plan (see http://www.cbfnc.org/missionresourceplan.asp for more details).
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina
8025 North Point Blvd., Suite 205
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
(336) 759-3456
(888) 822-1944 (toll free)
(336) 759-3459 (fax)
www.cbfnc.org
Recent articles in both print and electronic secular media regarding the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship have been unfair and misleading. The following statement about CBF National and CBF of North Carolina will provide information for those in our Fellowship to use in responding to questions, criticisms, concerns, etc, that they may receive from church members and others in their communities. Please use the information provided below to write letters to the editor, internet posts, etc., to newspapers, television stations and other media outlets in your local communities. Please speak up. Your positive presentation of our Fellowship will do much to counter the negative perceptions that have been publicized and will provide an opportunity to be a positive witness for Jesus Christ.
Larry Hovis
CBFNC Executive Coordinator
Recent Associated Press accounts of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina’s meeting Nov. 10-11 have characterized the national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship as “gay friendly,” “liberal” and “does not support the belief that the Bible is entirely without error.” These are gross exaggerations based on comments made by Fellowship opponents on the floor of the Convention.
These reports are examples of bad journalism. Associated Press presented a one-sided and inaccurate description of the Fellowship. No member of the Fellowship was contacted before the stories were distributed. When national CBF staff contacted AP to correct the misinformation, much of the inaccurate descriptions were left in the story, and the new story that was distributed the next day included only an additional comment about the Fellowship’s hiring and funding policy on homosexuality. For more information about CBF’s position on homosexuality and related issues, visit http://www.truthaboutcbf.net/.
CBF is a fellowship of Baptist Christians and churches who share a passion for the Great Commission of Jesus Christ and a commitment to Baptist principles of faith and practice. More than 5,000 churches have contributed to the Fellowship since it was founded in 1991.
These churches and individuals are Bible-believing, evangelistic, socially-conscious and committed to resolving difficult doctrinal and cultural issues for themselves through interpreting the Scriptures under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Fellowship’s staff does not speak for the Fellowship’s partnering congregations nor dictate Biblical positions.
Headquartered in Atlanta, the Fellowship’s mission is to serve Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission. Supported by more than 1,800 churches and an additional 3,500 individuals, the Fellowship has 163 field personnel serving around the world, partners with 15 theology schools and has endorsed more than 600 chaplains and pastoral counselors.
The Fellowships’ core values include the Baptist principles of soul freedom, Bible freedom, church freedom and religious freedom; biblically-based Global Missions; the resource model; justice and reconciliation; lifelong learning and ministry; trustworthiness; and effectiveness. The Fellowship acts on these values through four initiatives – faith formation, building community and networking, leadership development and global missions.
CBF has a priority commitment to the local congregation. By providing resources to enhance the ministries of the local church, the Fellowship lives out its vision for being the presence of Christ in the world. Spiritual formation, Missional engagement, and ministerial readiness are at the heart of the work of the Fellowship. Today more than ever, the local church needs trusted resource providers that will help enhance outreach and enrich fellowship. CBF is committed to being such a partner.
CBF has existed for eighteen years. While still in a formative period, the Fellowship continues to seek God’s guidance and direction. CBF remains committed to the core values that formed it. Additionally, several patterns of effectiveness have emerged.
A strong commitment to partnering – CBF does not intend to own buildings, publishing houses, or delivery systems. CBF seeks partnerships that can extend the ministry of the Fellowship while bringing new relationships into the Fellowship movement. In addition to more than 1,800 partnering churches, CBF collaborates with more than 150 different partnering agencies to expand its reach.
In addition to the national CBF organization, the Fellowship movement includes eighteen autonomous state and regional organizations, one of which is Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina (CBFNC). CBFNC is governed and financed separately from other CBF entities, but works closely in partnership to engage in missions, evangelism, leadership development and support for congregational ministries.
Constituted in 1994, CBFNC has offices in Winston-Salem and a paid staff of ten. Its ministries include missions in North Carolina, Ukraine and Belize; support of theological education; church planting; retreats and conferences for children, youth, adults, lay leaders and clergy; college campus ministries; position search assistance for churches and ministers; and much more. Its stated mission is “bringing Baptists of North Carolina together for Christ-centered ministries.” For more information about the principles and ministries of CBFNC, visit http://www.cbfnc.org/).
CBFNC also has partnerships with historic North Carolina Baptist agencies and institutions such as Baptist colleges, Baptist Children’s Homes, Baptist Retirement Homes and Baptist Hospital. Some churches choose to fund these agencies, as well as CBF and CBFNC, through a giving mechanism called the Mission Resource Plan (see http://www.cbfnc.org/missionresourceplan.asp for more details).
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina
8025 North Point Blvd., Suite 205
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
(336) 759-3456
(888) 822-1944 (toll free)
(336) 759-3459 (fax)
www.cbfnc.org
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Economic Reality
From the Pastor…
These last few weeks have been discouraging to all of us who have investments held in the stock market. We have lamented our losses and fretted over our futures. We will soon have new chief executives in our state and country, and from the tone of the campaigning, I feel confident that there will be many unhappy people – regardless of who wins the election. The only thing that seems certain in these days is that we are facing much more uncertainty.
As a result of the financial crisis, we have been forced to make some hard decisions. Because people are frightened or already in financial distress, many are not contributing to the church as they have in the past. This is reality. As a result, the church must cut our spending to the absolute minimum. We are not broke, but we are not in great shape either. Add to that the rising cost of doing business and the fact that money is not readily available from lending institutions (many churches are being denied loans for any construction), it has become necessary to suspend our capital campaign for the time being.
This does not mean that we are giving up… only that we are trying to use wise judgment in the face of a world-wide financial crisis unlike any seen in most of our lifetimes. Our capital campaign consultants believe we have made the right decision, and we all are praying that the financial climate will improve quickly, and we will be able to resume our campaign early in 2009. However, we are still actively pursuing funds for our project! Fundraising will continue. And all gifts are needed and greatly appreciated.
But the news is not all bad. First of all, some adjacent property has become available for the church to purchase. If we act quickly, we will be able to acquire enough land to solve all of our building concerns for the foreseeable future. Please prayerfully consider contributing toward this urgent need, and be present at our Quarterly Church Conference on November 12th, when we will discuss this one-time opportunity.
What’s more, I have even better news to share! You see, even though times are tough and people are hurting, we are closer yet to the return of Christ for His Bride – the Church. We are not without hope! Regardless of what the world tells us, we DO have a reason to rejoice. If we are in despair because of the current state of our world, then we are guilty of putting our faith in the wrong place to begin with. My brothers and sisters, through Jesus Christ, we are more than conquerors! I am confident that our God will complete what He has started in us and through us. Be of good cheer!
In Christian Love,
Billy Dennis
These last few weeks have been discouraging to all of us who have investments held in the stock market. We have lamented our losses and fretted over our futures. We will soon have new chief executives in our state and country, and from the tone of the campaigning, I feel confident that there will be many unhappy people – regardless of who wins the election. The only thing that seems certain in these days is that we are facing much more uncertainty.
As a result of the financial crisis, we have been forced to make some hard decisions. Because people are frightened or already in financial distress, many are not contributing to the church as they have in the past. This is reality. As a result, the church must cut our spending to the absolute minimum. We are not broke, but we are not in great shape either. Add to that the rising cost of doing business and the fact that money is not readily available from lending institutions (many churches are being denied loans for any construction), it has become necessary to suspend our capital campaign for the time being.
This does not mean that we are giving up… only that we are trying to use wise judgment in the face of a world-wide financial crisis unlike any seen in most of our lifetimes. Our capital campaign consultants believe we have made the right decision, and we all are praying that the financial climate will improve quickly, and we will be able to resume our campaign early in 2009. However, we are still actively pursuing funds for our project! Fundraising will continue. And all gifts are needed and greatly appreciated.
But the news is not all bad. First of all, some adjacent property has become available for the church to purchase. If we act quickly, we will be able to acquire enough land to solve all of our building concerns for the foreseeable future. Please prayerfully consider contributing toward this urgent need, and be present at our Quarterly Church Conference on November 12th, when we will discuss this one-time opportunity.
What’s more, I have even better news to share! You see, even though times are tough and people are hurting, we are closer yet to the return of Christ for His Bride – the Church. We are not without hope! Regardless of what the world tells us, we DO have a reason to rejoice. If we are in despair because of the current state of our world, then we are guilty of putting our faith in the wrong place to begin with. My brothers and sisters, through Jesus Christ, we are more than conquerors! I am confident that our God will complete what He has started in us and through us. Be of good cheer!
In Christian Love,
Billy Dennis
Monday, October 13, 2008
Pumpkin Patch
If you haven't picked up your fall pumpkins yet, we have a deal for you! While they last, you can pick out your pumpkin at the SCBC Pumpkin Patch. Pumpkins are just $5 each - look for the black box in which to leave your contribution. Look for the pumpkins in front of the cemetary, next to Penny Road. Tell all your friends!
Friday, October 3, 2008
Home, Sweet Home
The mission team arrived safely at Swift Creek around 3:00 pm on Friday. It was a wonderful week of ministry and fellowship. Be sure to attend our worship service on Sunday, October 12th at 11:00 am to hear from the participants and view our slide presentation.
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