Mid-Atlantic leaders are among nominees named April 4 to serve on three governing bodies created in a restructuring of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Also nominated was Washington pastor Kasey Jones to serve as moderator-elect, placing her in position to become moderator in 2014.
Leaders of the District of Columbia Baptist Convention said in a statement March 27 that while the convention’s “diverse body of believers” holds strong opinions on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate, its churches remain focused on shared values.
As the Supreme Court launched two days of oral arguments March 26 on a landmark same-sex marriage case, ministers and members of some Baptist churches in the Mid-Atlantic rallied with other faith groups on the court’s steps in support of marriage equality.
Gordon Cosby, founder of the Church of the Saviour in Washington and a pioneering Christian activist whose ministry foreshadowed both the missional and emergent church movements, died March 20 at 95. Cosby and his wife, Mary, started the church in 1947.
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches in Maryland and the District of Columbia have significant human and financial resources to share with the national CBF movement and they need to “tap into that” to impact the organization, members of those congregations were told Feb. 24.