American Baptists, CBF discuss closer cooperation
Author and activist Tony Campolo brokered unpublicized dialogue early this year between heads of two national Baptist groups that share much in common, according to officials of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Leaders of American Baptist Churches USA and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship met in Pennsylvania and Georgia to explore closer cooperation between the two groups, interim CBF coordinator Pat Anderson told the CBF Coordinating Council in late February.
Anderson has filled in since last summer’s retirement of former executive coordinator Daniel Vestal and will stay on to ease the transition for his successor, Suzii Paynter, who began work March 1.
