Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

INTRODUCTION Blake Martin is the senior pastor at Wallace Avenue Baptist Church (WABC) in Shawnee, Oklahoma and has been there since August 2016. Blake is married to Bryse Martin who is a student at Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU) and they have been married since August 2015. Blake was hired at WABC after serving at two other churches in Shawnee. At only 23 years of age and little experience under his belt, most people assume that WABC is a church of mostly college age students, however the congregation is middle aged adults around 40 years of age. Before Blake came to WABC the church was fairly set in their traditional ways making it very hard to grow into a family oriented church body. Along with the rest of his staff, including, Graham…

determine “Will direct instruction in cooperative learning and meaningful group work result in an increase in students’ desire to be part of trusting collaborative groups?” Allard (2003) had a former group four girls in AP calculus that studied together and became a bonded group inside and outside of the classroom. She noticed that the girls’ achievement in the course was increasing. The girls studied together, as well as encouraged one another to do their best while playing on each other’s…

Introduction The key function within Human Resources Management this document will audit is Total Rewards, specifically comparing and contrasting the current model to a new Total Rewards package for the organizational change from a tiered organization to a new, flatter, hybrid “Money Advisor” model. The question of appropriate compensation is a critical question as G&F Financial Group moves toward the organizational change called, “Member Experience 2.0”. Backgrounder – Introducing G&F…

What matters most to me is creating far-reaching, community-based opportunities. Achieving this would mean living a life that is meaningful and leaving behind an inspiration for other people to follow. More often than not, I have played the role of a social organizer, transferring and leveraging skills in my professional work-life to galvanize people and resources to build platforms where I believe more people in the community are able to benefit. While, I have come to believe in individual…

DuBois’s cooperative economic proposals were “the need for a communal, Black-focused solution that would emphasize and establish the following; social ownership, strong family and group ties, consumer unions, economic planning, socialized medicine, cooperative organization of Black professionals for social service, elimination of private profit, Black controlled educational system, and the essentiality of collective self-reliance” (Maulana, 2010), he coins this solution as ‘a cooperative…

The Johnson & Johnson co-op experience is one of the most highlighted opportunities in Rutgers Business School. Many faculty members and students rave about the chance to participate in a six month long job with such a strong pharmaceutical company, especially in the area of Supply Chain. Before starting this position, I never would have thought I would end up at this company – it was never on my list of attainable goals. However, as I look back at these last six months, I can affirmatively say…

The Four Stages of Business Growth Brian Weaver American Public University Businesses go through many different stages throughout their lifetime. Most importantly, businesses experience four stages of growth during their entire runs. Within the first stage of growth, “typically a business will have one owner who does everything from sales and bookkeeping to marketing and production” (McCubbrey, 2009). This is the very beginning when things are just getting started. In the second stage…

learning, cooperation works in the favour of the athlete’s performance. Athletes have the opportunity to become leaders of their own learning, relying less on their coaches to command them at trainings and with tactics when personal input can be effective as well. Decision-making is essential when training/playing sport. The command coaching style allows coaches to make all the decisions and athletes to perform the coach’s request. Athletes’ coached by the cooperative style have the opportunity…

What Cooperatives Mean to My Community With all the political and social unrest of the past year, many people feel like they do not have a voice in their ever changing community, or they think they are not able to help the masses. However, by working with cooperatives society has a chance to positively impact its members in, helping, and caring for others. Cooperatives are owned and operated by the people of the community it serves, which allows the inhabitants of that community to have a…

street corner of every city spurs from a much greater reason than disagreement of congregational conflict, sanctuary design, and worship preference. For many centuries the Baptist church has strived to form a Christian community that is established in both Scripture and Spirit crafted to best spiritually form Christians to live God’s calling for their lives. While there are numerous factors that differ us from our denominational brethren, I regard Believer’s Baptism, Authority of Scripture,…