2015 report
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• Minister of Education, Janet Henley<br />
The <strong>2015</strong> Christian Education year was an experiencing God year!<br />
It was about His work in us, around us and through us.<br />
We began the Fall 2014 session with an all-church study on<br />
Experiencing God Together, by Henry T. Blackaby and Melvin<br />
D. Blackaby. Sessions were held on Sunday morning and<br />
Wednesday evening with a total enrollment of 105. This study<br />
pointed us toward our corporate life together and how the<br />
quality of our individual relationship and walk with God<br />
impacts the church's spiritual health and mission effectiveness.<br />
Although our relationship with God is personal, it is not<br />
private. In addition, the emphasis on the necessity of corporate<br />
prayer did not go unnoticed.<br />
We entered the Spring <strong>2015</strong> study session going back to<br />
Henry Blackaby's original work on experiencing God entitled,<br />
Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God. In<br />
addition, our Wednesday night prayer meetings prior to the<br />
class became Experiencing God prayer meetings as the focus<br />
of the lessons became the focus of our praise and praying.<br />
Our children, teens and college students studied versions of<br />
the book specific to their age. One of the primary messages<br />
of Experiencing God is that God is wanting to do through us<br />
what only He can do; our responsibility is to remain in His<br />
hands. God is the one with the agenda and the plan. He is<br />
always working around us and as we watch, He shows us, and<br />
when we see, that is His invitation for us to join Him in what<br />
He is doing. (See Pastor's <strong>report</strong> as he tells the Experiencing<br />
God story of the purchase of our new church van.) However,<br />
keep reading, as this <strong>report</strong> contains other experiencing God<br />
stories.<br />
CPBC's Leadership Training Institute (LTI) Inaugural Class<br />
Graduation was held on May 30, <strong>2015</strong>! Last year my annual<br />
<strong>report</strong> marked us as having finished 10 of 12 modules in LTI, a<br />
2-year biblical leadership training program. In this <strong>report</strong>, I<br />
am praising God for our completion of it and the well planned<br />
ceremony that honored it. Rev. Dr. Kirk T. Houston, Sr., pastor<br />
of Gethsemane Community Fellowship Baptist Church,<br />
Norfolk, VA, was chosen as our keynote speaker. In addition<br />
to Dr. Houston other special guests included two LTI corporate<br />
team leaders. Thirty-one participants marched forward in<br />
humility wearing graduation gowns as they received their<br />
certificates of leadership, turned their tassels and took their<br />
seats satisfied that they had achieved a significant feat toward<br />
their leadership development for the Lord's glory.