2009 CBF General Assembly

Missions service projects

Blood drive added to Friday's schedule
You can help save lives by donating blood on Friday, July 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 pm. in the Convention Center. Schedule your appointment time online to help hospitals project donations. Currently there is just a one-day supply for several blood types, so sign up to help ensure a stable blood supply this summer. 
Can you donate?
What you need to know about iron
General infromation about donating


Find a project and serve!
During General Assembly community organizations and local church-based ministries will open their doors for Fellowship Baptists to work alongside them. To sign up for a service project, e-mail Chris Boltin for additional details and to schedule a time to serve.  Sign up by June 17.

From Monday, June 29 through Wednesday, July 1, some of the offsite mission projects will include:

• SEARCH ministry - This ministry provides various services/resources to the homeless community of Greater Houston. Participants may serve through staffing a kitchen for daily meal service, assisting with client intake processing at resource fair, providing sorting assistance at the clothes closet & food pantry, mobile health unit assistance, assisting with daycare services for homeless families     
• Star of Hope - this ministry provides daily meals and worship services. Participants may serve through staffing the kitchen for the daily meal service, participate/plan worship service (music & message)
• Volunteer Houston- this ministry is the local affiliate of the Hands On family of ministries. This group provides a wide variety of ministry throughout the city. Participants may serve through light construction, local soup kitchens, inner-city beautification, laundry service

On Site Collection Projects

“The Needs of Our Neighbors” is an ongoing collection project providing a ministry option for every General Assembly attendee. Located in the registration area, four large collection receptacles will be available for connecting with the following ministries-

• SEARCH Ministry - a local non-profit organization that provides resources to more than 2, 000 homeless men, women, and children. SEARCH provides job training, transitional housing, day care services, and mobile health screening. Attendees are encouraged to donate hygiene products (shampoo, soap, lotion, toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc) and diapers (sizes 1-5).
• Books for the Border - CBF Texas partners to provide many tangible resources all along the Border. Many of these families must choose between paying for meals vs. paying for medicine. Subsequently, literacy and reading rarely get addressed. Books for the Border provide preschool literature to children throughout the region. Attendees are encouraged to donate new/gently used books and literature appropriate for preschool age children.
• PORTA - Albania House in Athens, Greece- CBF Field Personnel continue to minister among the Albanian people located in Athens. In addition to ongoing marriage enrichment, discipleship training, and personal financial training, PORTA offers holistic resources for the entire family. Infant/children’s clothing is always needed. Attendees are encouraged to donate new pajamas and flip-flops. (Sizes 24 months to 10 years)
• Sichuan, China Children’s ministry - CBF Field Personnel continue to be the presence of Christ in this corner of the world. In addition to assisting locals to rebuild their physical lives after the recent earthquake, these workers minister to the spiritual need of local children with limited resources. Simple items like VBS materials, SS supplies, picture packs, markers and even musical instruments are in short supply. Attendees are encouraged to donate VBS/Sunday School material, games, puzzles, coloring books, craft idea books, markers, books, and simple musical instruments(shakers, tambourines).
• Crow Creek Reservation, a CBF Together for Hope ministry site in South Dakota - Items needed are glue sticks, cotton balls, popsicle sticks, waxed paper, highlighters, trash bags, colored tissue paper, index cards, construction paper.