Stories tagged with: national african american fellowship

• NAAF launches new website, logo, social media

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, July 03, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- The National African American Fellowship (NAAF) of the Southern Baptist Convention has rebranded with the new website naaftogether.org, a new logo and social media presence on several platforms.

  NAAF will send a letter in mid-July announcing the change to its membership of about 4,000 African American Southern Baptist pastors, rebranding task force leader Kevin James told Baptist Press Tuesday (July 2). Read More

• E.W. McCall, SBC leader of 'vision,' dies

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, April 25, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- E.W. McCall Sr., an African American Southern Baptist leader and champion of Sunday School, died April 19. He was 79.

  Beginning in 1970, McCall pastored St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church in La Puente, Calif., for 37 years. During that time the congregation grew from 35 members meeting in a house to more than 4,000 members. Under his leadership, the church developed ministries to the community for children and youth, addressed the needs of the homeless population, and ministered to senior adults. Read More

• NAAF to 'fill the gap' in state conv. church training

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, July 27, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- Through a new initiative of the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention, consultants are available to help state conventions train church staff in discipleship, evangelism, missions and community ministries.

  NAAF's African American Ministry Assist Team (AAMAT) is designed to fill Southern Baptist resource gaps that NAAF said are widening for the nearly 4,000 African American churches in the SBC.

  AAMAT will fill a critical need for both churches and state conventions, said NAAF President Marshal Ausberry Sr., pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Fairfax, Va. Read More

• Stateside pastors begin Virgin Island partnerships

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, July 19, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- Pastors leading U.S. Virgin Island churches still recovering from devastating 2017 hurricanes are receiving new stateside ministry partners as another hurricane season threatens.

  Seven pastors leading the only Southern Baptist congregations on St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas are networking with stateside leaders as guests of the 2018 Black Church Leadership and Family Conference at Ridgecrest Conference Center through July 21.

  "It has been the worst year, and yet it has been the best year," Reginald Joseph, pastor of Cruz Bay Baptist Church on St. John, said at a July 17 networking event. "The hurricane [Maria] has done a number on us, but God has blessed us." Read More

• NAAF's Byron Day: 'Rest assured that God delivers'

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, June 13, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  DALLAS (BP) -- God never fails to deliver on behalf of His faithful servants, Byron Day preached in his final sermon as president of a fellowship representing more than 3,500 African American Southern Baptist pastors.

  Day recommended to pastors Psalm 34 during his June 11 sermon at the 2018 annual banquet of the National African American Fellowship (NAAF) of the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas. Read More

• NAAF seeks to build bridges in racially charged U.S.

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, April 20, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

  BP file photo by Jeremy Scott

  DALLAS (BP) -- Relationships beneficial to the Kingdom continue to flow from the National African American Fellowship nearly 25 years after its 1994 founding, NAAF president Byron Day said in advance of the group's 2018 annual meeting June 10-11 in Dallas.

  "NAAF today continues to be a valuable resource to [Southern Baptist] African American churches and the convention at large," said Day, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Laurel, Md. "NAAF seeks to be a bridge-builder among our racially diverse convention, particularly during this highly charged racial climate in America. Read More

• NAAF expanding SBC footprint for 4,000 churches

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, June 13, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

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  PHOENIX (BP) -- The 4,000-church strong National African American Fellowship (NAAF) announced new partnership initiatives at its June 12 business meeting to increase black church participation and leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention.

  Partnership initiatives with Southern Baptist mission boards, intended to strengthen churches while advancing the Great Commission, are at various stages of development, NAAF Executive Director Dennis Mitchell said during his annual report. Initiatives with non-SBC but like-minded ministries valuable in the African American community are also underway, Mitchell said. Read More

• NAAF to join in pre-SBC pastors' conf., crusade

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, April 21, 2017 (7 years ago)

  The National African American Fellowship (NAAF) has suspended its June 11 worship service in Phoenix preceding the 2017 SBC annual meeting to allow members to attend the SBC Pastors' Conference and the Harvest America Crusade. Read More

• NAAF pres. urges 'reconciliation' among Moore, critics

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, March 09, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  LAUREL, Md. (BP) -- The president of a network of some 4,000 predominantly African American Southern Baptist churches has issued an open letter urging reconciliation between Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore and those threatening to withhold Cooperative Program money over his actions.

  Byron Day, president of the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote in a March 9 letter that while "feathers have been ruffled on both sides," "obedience to the Bible's teaching can surely offer a solution so that we can get back to working together to share the good news of God's love, forgiveness, and gift of eternal life." Read More

• N.Y. Baptist leader Samuel Simpson dies

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, March 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  NEW YORK (BP) -- Samuel G. Simpson, a retired Southern Baptist leader and New York pastor known for a legacy of faith, vision and integrity, died Feb. 23 at his home in Bronx, New York. He was 83.

  Simpson served two terms as president of the Baptist Convention of New York, was the founding pastor of the Bronx Baptist Church and Wake-Eden Community Baptist Church, both in New York, and was a Home Mission Board (North American Mission Board) missionary. He was often called the "Bishop of the Bronx." Read More