2013 CBF/GA State Mission Offering

•40% of gifts go to New Church Starts

•40% of gifts go to Cooperative Student Fellowships

•20% of gifts go to New Initiatives and Development

Our 2013 Goal is $50,000!

Cooperative Student Fellowship

The Cooperative Student Fellowship exists in order to provide students a Christian community that is Baptist in nature; fosters authentic relationships; encourages open-minded

conversation, learning, and discipleship; engages the world through missions; and creates experiences that nurture the

development of students as current and future church leaders.

History of CSF

•2004: First CSF organized at First Baptist Church, Clemson

•2006: CSF Mercer

•2008-2009: CSF Athens (UGA)

•2010: CSF Georgia Tech

CBF/GA CSFs

CSF Georgia Tech

CSF Mercer

CSF at UGA

CSF Georgia

Tech“I have met so many people I

consider my close friends through CSF. This group

truly defines what a community is: people who care and support you

to “live a life worthy of the

calling you have received” from God.” - Morgan

Keeling, second-year student at Georgia Tech

CSF Mercer“In this

fellowship, I find people who seek

God, and in doing so invite

others to journey with them, struggling together to

discern how this path might look, how the God we

are seeking might look, and where we might find the boldness to live as called.”

- William Scruggs, first-

year student at Mercer

University

CSF at UGA

“All of us yearn for genuine community—a gathering of friends in which we know we are loved and that we

belong. We want the confidence that faith provides and assurance that God is with us no matter what happens to us. At CSF at UGA, we strive to engage Christ in a

university context to build relationships, deepen faith, and serve others.” – CSF at UGA Development Team

CSFs in the Southeast• Appalachian State

University

• Clemson University

• East Carolina University

• Furman University

• Stetson University

• UNC-Chapel Hill

• Western Carolina University

• Winthrop University

In addition to the three

Georgia CSFs, others are located at:

How are CSFs started?

•One church, one campus

•Multi-church, one campus

•One church, multi-campus

•Multi-church, multi-campus

How are CSFs funded?

•Each CSF receives a programming budget of $1,500 and a campus minister salary of $3,000 from the CBF/GA annual budget

•Support from local congregations, either one-time gifts or annual contributions

•CBF/GA State Mission Offering

•Development Team Model

Want to Get Involved?

•Promote the State Mission Offering!

•Annual contributions or one-time gifts

•Connect with students visiting your congregation

•Provide a meal or snacks for your local CSF

•Let us know where your students are attending college

New Church Starts

New Church Starts and Restarts

CBF/GA has been committed to helping churches start and “restart” in its twenty-year history. Through the

years, churches have been started in the following ways:

•Planter-Led

•Lay-Led

•Hispanic/Latino Communities

New Church Start Partnerships

•Identity Partners

•Affiliate Partners

•Friendship Partners

Within the two years, CBF/GA’s Missions Committee has presented a protocol for

how new church starts may relate to CBF/GA.

Cornerstone Baptist Church

Gwen Brown, pastorSnellville, GA

The Summit Baptist Church

Ron McCaskill, pastorCairo, GA

How to Support CSF and Church Starts

Make a check payable to CBF/GA and write “State Mission Offering”

in the memo line.

State Mission giving envelopes can be requested from CBF/GA, found

in your pew racks, or in the August-September 2013 issue of Visions.

Questions?