what we do

Our vibrant church ministers to folks of all ages. There are many opportunities to connect and grow with others, while lending a helping hand to each other and to those in our community and throughout the world. Read our newsletters 2010: March, January 2009: December, November, October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, January 2008: December, November, October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, January 2007: December, October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February Read about our Children and Youth Music Ministry | Sunday School | Youth Activities Mission Outreach: 3 Nickels What if you had to walk three miles for clean water or if half of your family died from a treatable disease? If you could only eat when food could be found? What would one dollar mean to you? Now is your chance to help. Pledge to support College Park's newest outreach 3 Nickels per day. Our goal is to have 100 families or members pledge at least $1 per week, or 3 nickels per day. Our 3 Nickels campaign for 2010 will first feature earthquake relief for Haiti. We are using the American Baptist Church's International Ministries as they currently sponsor two missionaries in Haiti. This organization will send 100% of our donation to relief efforts. These offerings will be used to fund missions around the world. In 2009, 145 people gave 3 nickels a day, so we were able to do the following: - Watering Malawi: Works to provide access to clean water and simple irrigation inside the country of Malawi. Gave $1,050 - Heifer International: Dedicated to relieving global hunger and poverty. It provides gifts of livestock and plants, as well as education in sustainable agriculture, to financially-disadvantaged families around the world. Gave $1,620 - Ruth School: Offering improved life chances through education for poor children, particularly from Roma (Gypsy) communities in the poor Bucharest suburb of Ferentari. Gave $1,600 - Pennies for Peace: Educates children about the world beyond their experience and shows them that they can make a positive impact on a global scale, one penny at a time. Gave 1,400 We invite you to pledge and give 3 nickels per day and to suggest other world mission groups that we can help next year. Help fight poverty around the world by sending your dollar per week. Contact the church office to give (you don't have to be a church member to help!): cpbcgbo@bellsouth.net or 336.273.1779 Read Michael's sermon about 3 Nickels. Want to help us locally? Check out our Backpack Club! Local Missions Backpack Club (click to read more) Greensboro Urban Ministry (we cook and serve dinner every 3rd Sunday) Habitat for Humanity Narcotics Anonymous, National Hotline 1-800-721-8225 Mary's House - A local shelter where women who are recovering addicts can live with their children while receiving treatment. American Red Cross Shepherd's Center - Older adults helping older adults pursue independent and active lives of quality, enriched and supported by learning and service activities in a caring fellowship. Phone: 336-378-0766. Family Life Council - Committed to strengthening families in all their diverse forms by providing family life education and advocacy. Foreign Missionaries Ralph and Tammy Stocks, Romany Ministry in Hungary (Read their Blog) Stocks Reports: Nov 2009 | Dec 2009 Contact them: Email them Mail:  Ralph, Tammy, Amy, and Joshua Stocks XVI u. 37 1224 Budapest Hungary Help us support the Project Ruth, offering improved life chances through education for poor children, particularly from Roma (Gypsy) communities. From the Stocks: Greetings from the Stocks family in Budapest, Hungary! As members of College Park Baptist Church our commute is a little long and infrequent! We are glad to represent the church here in eastern Europe and especially in ministry to the Romany (Gypsies). We arrived in Hungary in February of 1995 and settled into the village of Derecske. Amy and Joshua attended Hungarian schooling and quickly learned the language. Ralph and Tammy attended language training courses through the University of Debrecen. We quickly settled into the Baptist church in the village and began plugging into it's ministry. An evangelistic outreach to the village of Pocsaj (Po-choy) led to the establishment of a Romany mission. For the first year it met in the local police station, and for the last two years in an abandoned movie theater. During this summer of 1999, a house was purchased and will be renovated to serve as the worship center. We invite you to come visit us here in Budapest. We will show you the sights of the city and country, Gypsy ministry, and delight you with Hungarian cuisine. Women in Ministry A recent report released by Baptist Women in Ministry indicates that approximately 1,600 women in southern United States have been ordained to the ministry in moderate-to-progressive Baptist churches. College Park, an American Baptist Church, has been in the forefront of ensuring that women have the God-given right to serve in all church positions. Women of College Park, who have served as ministers, include Peggy Haymes, Benita McFarland, Monica Citty Hix, Dorisanne Cooper, Marnie Fisher-Ingram, Ginger Burkhead, Tammy Stocks, Paula Burch, Jeanette Quick, Lounelle Selle, Janice Wakefield and Meredith Neil. Continuing this tradition, Jennifer Ingold and Lin Bunce began their ministry in 2007. Denominational Missions Alliance of Baptists, Washington, DC Associated Baptist Press, Jacksonville, FL Baptist Center for Ethics, Nashville, TN Baptist Joint Committee, Washington, DC Baptist Peace Fellowship, Charlotte, NC Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA Baptists Today, Macon, GA Baptist Women in Ministry-NC, Charlotte, NC Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Atlanta Center for Congregational Health, Winston-Salem, NC Mercer University School of Theology, Atlanta, GA Wake Forest Divinity School See youth doing mission work at Passport Camp

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