AFRICAN AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP

Our purpose is to provide a unified base of all Southern Baptist Churches in Maryland and Delaware that identify themselves as African American congregants. We aim to connect African American churches and pastors in order to build relationships, form partnerships, and organize fellowships with one another. We encourage African American churches to partner together to adopt and fulfill the objectives of the BCM/D and the objectives set forth by the National African American Fellowship.

The AAF envisions a BCM/D that fully embraces the great commandment, reflects the unity of the body of Christ, and celebrates our diversity while carrying out the great commission. We embrace and adopt the core values of the National African American Fellowship of the SBC.

• We believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God.
• We believe and support the Baptist Faith and message.
• We believe that people are lost but created in the image of God.
• We believe that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.
• We affirm cultural diversity in expression of worship.

Our vision is to create a premier learning community that is intentional about developing the heart, the hands and the habits of servant leaders for global impact as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

Our Strategy is to meet the needs of African American churches in the areas of Church Planting, Church Growth and Revitalization, as well as Church Sending (Missions).

To accomplish these tasks, we will work through the foundational structure and strategy of the George Liele Leadership Institute (GLLI).

Our mission is to enlist and equip Believers to think and live as Christ-centered, biblically based and Holy Spirit-led Christians; and to send them back to their neighborhoods and to the nations of the world, to proclaim and advance God’s kingdom agenda in the church and society.