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Hope in the Marketplace Event | Oct 2nd

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Faith in the Marketplace Virtual Event
Friday, October 2, 2020 @ 7:30 AM EST



Are you looking to be refreshed?
Gather with other Christian men and women in the workplace to be encouraged on how to live out your faith with hope and joy.
Join us online this Friday morning October 2, 7:30-9 am 
for some encouragement and inspiration from J.R. Briggs of Kairos Partnership. His topic will be  
“Unchanging Hope in a Changing World: Resilience When the Crisis Seems Unending”

To learn more about J.R. or his new book, click on one of the photos below.        
During this current season when many are discouraged, resilience is more important than ever. J.R. will talk about what resilience is and what practices we can cultivate in our lives to live more resiliently. Following J.R.’s talk, there will be an opportuntity for small group questions, discussion, and sharing.    

The vision of Hope in the Marketplace is to bring together Christians in the marketplace all across the region to have a Kingdom-focused event that will: Motivate and mobilize Christians in the marketplace to take the next step to engage with God’s activities right where they are planted. Give you increased ‘vision’ of what your role can be in God’s plans. Join us to hear fellow marketplace Christians share their real-world experience in bringing the hope of Jesus Christ into the marketplace.

Check out our website for more information including the featured speakers.   
        
 
The Christian Businessmen’s Connection of Montgomery County is a workplace ministry network for mutual encouragement, support, and discipleship training based on the Christian Business Men’s Connection (CBMC). CBMC was started in Chicago in 1930 during the Great Depression by a group of Christian businessmen who came together and started praying for each other and for the presence of God’s Kingdom in each others’ businesses. 

Our Montgomery County CBMC team (for men only) meets weekly to encourage each other spiritually and to practically pursue the disciple-making work of the Great Commission — meeting men where they are and and helping one another to become the men that God intends us to be. We welcome men from different church backgrounds and economic strata who are called to represent Christ and His kingdom in the workplace. 

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National Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Businesses of America | Sept. 16, 2020

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The 2020 CBMC National Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Businesses of America was a powerful time of prayer for business, government and community leaders during this time of testing.

Join CBMC and business people across the nation on Wednesday, September 16th at noon local time for The National Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Businesses of America. 

This time is set aside as we dedicate our lunch hour to pray and fast for the businesses of America.  We are inviting everyone to join this 50-minute event, streaming at noon in every time zone.  All business people are invited to join us!  

During times of crisis, CBMC stands ready to answer the call to prayer.  Businesses across our nation are struggling; business owners aren’t sure what the future will hold.  Small business is the hardest hit.  Let us stand in the gap together and turn our faces toward God.  Let us pray!

“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”  2 Chronicles 7:14

We invite you to gather your employees, your teams, and co-workers during the lunch hour of Wednesday, September 16th, noon local time.  Join CBMC members along with nationally-recognized business people who will be offering up prayers on behalf of the businesses of America.  This virtual event will be streaming on YouTube and Facebook.   Mark your calendars now to join us for The National Day of Prayer and Fasting for the Businesses of America where we will humble ourselves, pray and seek His face together. All are invited to join this virtual event . Men and women from all sectors of industry are welcome.  It is time to seek God and find hope for today – hope and purpose during these challenging times.

Day of Prayer Details

Pray with us as we prepare our hearts for this event.

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name” Matthew 6:9.

Lord, you designed this day for Your glory and our good.  We ask for wisdom and the power to obey.  Our business lives are the best opportunity to show the world Your infinite power.  Lord, our work is in your hands.  Be glorified through it.    

“May Your kingdom come. May Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” Matthew 6:10.

Lord, the workplace can be a dog-eat-dog place. Give us hearts that are wise and compassionate to lead as Jesus did.  In a world that is fraught with shortages and broken promises, help us work as teams to bring improving processes and creative solutions. 

Lord, our world seems to hold grudges and judge harshly.  Help us to see the value of each person made in the image of God.   Thank you for the promise to be with us always.  Bring Your presence to mind as the Day of Prayer approaches.   Give us hearts that pray.  Thank you for the opportunity to bring our requests to you during these troubling times.  May our prayers be pleasing unto you and may we live in such a way  as to hear you someday say,  “Well done my good and faithful servant.”  Amen.

The Christian Businessmen’s Connection of Montgomery County is a workplace ministry network for mutual encouragement, support, and discipleship training based on the Christian Business Men’s Connection (CBMC). CBMC was started in Chicago in 1930 during the Great Depression by a group of Christian businessmen who came together and started praying for each other and for the presence of God’s Kingdom in each others’ businesses. 

Our Montgomery County CBMC team (for men only) meets weekly to encourage each other spiritually and to practically pursue the disciple-making work of the Great Commission — meeting men where they are and and helping one another to become the men that God intends us to be. We welcome men from different church backgrounds and economic strata who are called to represent Christ and His kingdom in the workplace. 

Please sign up for our email annnoumcents or ‘like’ us on Facebook directly at: 
https://mococbmc.org
https://www.facebook.com/mococbmc
If you are not located in Montgomery County MD, find other teams here: https://www.cbmc.com/teams

United in Action Christ For Justice Rally

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Rockville Maryland, May 20, 2020

United in Action is a movement committed to helping local churches act as one to declare the gospel in our community. As those who were once dead in our sins, made alive together with Christ and commanded to unite in love as members of his body, we acknowledge that we have not acted as one when it comes to confronting the racialized sin in this country that is antithetical to the good news of Jesus Christ.

We stand together to visibly demonstrate our commitment to pray, connect with one another, and be part of the solution that brings justice and peace particularly for black and brown people who have been so often the target of violence and systemic racism.

2020 Montgomery County National Day of Prayer

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For those who were able, thank you for participating in the 2020 Montgomery County National Day of Prayer! Although our world is going through a very difficult time, it is our mutual hope in Christ that provides us with the stregnth to persevere as the Lord’s ambassadors where he has placed us (2 Cor. 5:20). Stay tuned for news of future commnity prayer & outreach events. If you were unable to participate or would like to review the event, please see below a link to the video from the Zoom call. 

Unfortunately, the prayers for our community were inadvertently not recorded.  We are very sorry not to be able to share them – they were powerful and moving. Many thanks to the following community leaders for participating: 

  • Antonio Cyrus, Lead Pastor, Interdenominational Church of God, representing United in Action.
  • Nicole Hayes, D.C.Area Director, Christian Medical & Dental Associations
  • Meredith McNerney, Principal, Gaithersburg Elementary School
  • Officer Jeremy Wojdan, Montgomery County Police Department
  • Clark Kendall, Kendall Capital, representing the Christian Business Men’s Connection
  • Patrick Young, Physician & Navy Veteran at Walter Reed Hospital

Below is a link to a follow-up a prayer and reflection exercise, provided by our keynote speaker, Rick Barry, from the Center for Christian Civics.  This is a helpful way to turn our own hearts towards God and transform any frustration, blame or resentment into constructive, Kingdom-centered action when the time of quarantine is over.

GETTING OUT OF THE BLAME GAME
A follow-up exercise for the Montgomery County National Day of Prayer.
Rick Barry, Center for Christian Civics (christiancivics.org)

Please see below a list of the prayer partners who support this event. We encourage you to explore the links to these organizations who are doing good things for the Kingdom right here in Montgomery County. If you would like to consider helping organizations providing food assistance in Montgomery County, please see a list below.

Montgomery County National Day of Prayer Partners:

Local Ministries aiding Montgomery County Residents

Please consider a donation to the one of these worthy organizations during this time of need.

  • Bethesda HELP | 301-365-2022
    Serves residents in the Bethesda area. Service Area is illustrated here.
  • Celestial Manna | (240) 350-1456
    Celestial Manna is a faith-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, based in Derwood MD, that supports over 10,000 people monthly in DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia.
  • Damascus HELP | 301-253-4100
    Serves the areas of upper Montgomery County covered by zip codes 20871, 20872, 20882 north of Brink Rd and 20876 from route 27 north of Brink Rd
  • Gaithersburg HELP | 301-216-2510
    Gaithersburg HELP serves all of zip codes 20877, 20878, 20879, 20880, and 20886, plus parts of: 20850, 20855 and 20882.
  • Germantown HELP | 301-482-1320
    Provides delivered emergency food, prescription assistance and holiday help to residents of Germantown, Maryland zip codes 20874 and 20876
  • Mid-county United Ministries (MUM) | 301-929-8675
    Serves residents in the following zip codes: 20853, 20895, 20896, 20902 and 20906
  • Ministries United Silver Spring / Takoma Park (MUSST) | 301-495-4699
    Provides emergency assistance to eligible residents in zip codes 20901, 20910, 20912, and the Montgomery County portion of 20783
  • Olney HELP | 301-774-4334
    Provides assistance to eligible residents of Olney, Brookeville, Brinklow, Sandy Spring or Ashton, Maryland zip codes 20832, 20833, 20860, 20861 and 20862
  • Rockville HELP | 301-564-0800
    Provides food delivery and limited help with payments (prescriptions, rent, utilities, etc.) to Rockville residents.  See Service Area at https://www.rockvillehelp.org/
  • Western Upper Montgomery County HELP (WUMCO) | 301-972-8481
    Service Area includes a wide swath of the upper county, roughly the area from Frederick County line (northwest) to Potomac River (west/southwest) to Clarksburg and Germantown (east), including the towns of Poolesville, Boyds, Barnesville, Dickerson and Beallsville

2019 Montgomery County National Day of Prayer Breakfast

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Rockville, MD | May 2, 2019

The Christian community will join in prayer on Thursday, May 2, 2019, asking for God to provide unity and his peace in America, Maryland and Montgomery County. As Christ’s ambassadors in Montgomery County, we ask for the power of God’s Spirit bring renewal or love and flourishing of Christ’s Kingdom into our homes, workplaces, and communities.

2019 Theme:  #LOVE1ANOTHER

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35 )

Specific prayers were made for:

  • Prayer for the love of Christ to be poured out on our nation through the body of Christ
  • Prayer for the safety and well-being of our Families, Parents, Teachers and Students
  • Prayer for wisdom and courage for our Government Leaders and Public Servants; First Responders and Veterans
  • Prayer for flourishing and integrity of our workers & business leaders for the good of our communities
  • Prayer for compassion and assistance for our Poor, Vulnerable and Oppressed

Keynote:  Chaplin Russ Isler

Russell Isler has been a minister with Good News Jail & Prison Ministry for close to 30 years and most of that time has been spent helping inmates in jails in Montgomery County. Originally from Western New York, he started volunteering, as a teen, at a local prison after someone needed help with a religion class there. He’s been ministering at both the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Boyds, near Clarksburg, which has a capacity of 1,028, and the county’s Detention Center on Seven Locks Road in Rockville, with a capacity of 200. Chaplin Isler also serves as a full-time pastor at Montgomery Baptist Church.

In 2016, Chaplin Isler was awarded the highest honor that the Good News Jail and Prison Ministry organization hands out, the Bill Simmer Award. Named after the founder of Good News Jail and Prison Ministry, it is given to a minister who stays the course and leads an effective career. In his career, Chaplin Isler has seen many types of people, has heard many stories, and has witnessed many miracles. Many of the young men he works with lack a strong family structure, but time in prison gave them access to the gospel and an opportunity for God to work in their lives.

Good News Jail & Prison Ministry

Good News Jail & Prison Ministry is the largest independent provider of chaplains for jails and prisons worldwide, serving in 22 states, 1 American territory and 25 countries. Good News chaplains also reach out to meet the spiritual needs of the correctional staff in the facilities in which they serve, and work closely with volunteers who give of their time to minister inside the jails and prisons . Good News accepts no local, state or federal funds and is supported by churches and individuals interested in partnering in the work of the Gospel.  For more info, see:https://goodnewsjail.org/

Prayer Breakfast Ministry Partners:

Prayer Breakfast Marketplace Sponsors:

CBMC Guest Speaker: Paul Bice – April 23

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Please join us this Tuesday, April 23, from 6:45-8:00 AM in the community room at the Einstein Bagel at 531 Firstfield Road and Quince Orchard Blvd in Gaithersburg. Our guest speaker, Paul Bice, chairman of the Loudoun Community Breakfast.

Paul has a heart for bringing people together and building a sense of community.  In 2012 Paul was called to begin an outreach ministry called the Loudoun Community Breakfast.  The breakfast is quarterly and is used as a platform for people to introduce their co-workers, friends and clients to Jesus Christ. This breakfast is free, informative and provides a fun yet meaningful setting to get to know others in the Loudoun County Community.  Networking is a mild part of the morning and not the focus.  The focus is to connect with the personal stories of men and women who live, work, and play in the Loudoun County Community.

Paul began his banking career in 1984 with Central Fidelity Bank, he also married Shari his wife in the same year.  Paul grew up in Lynchburg Virginia, attended Virginia Tech and graduated in 1982.  Paul has three wonderful children: Victoria (27), Nathanael(24) and Ruthanne (20).  In 1998 Paul assisted in forming James Monroe Bank in Arlington Virginia.  James Monroe Bank was sold in 2006.  In 2008 Paul was a part of the formation of John Marshall Bank as the Regional President for Loudoun County.  

Paul is an active member of the community: as a current member of the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce where he served as past Chairman of the Board in 2008, past Vice Chairman of the Loudoun County Economic Development Authority, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for StoneSprings Hospital Center, past Board of Trustees for Reston Hospital and Past President of The Friends of the Thomas Balch Library.

CBMC Guest Speaker: Chaplin Russ Isler – March 19

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Please join us this Tuesday, March 19, from 6:45-8:00 AM in the community room at the Einstein Bagel at 531 Firstfield Road and Quince Orchard Blvd in Gaithersburg to hear Chapin Isler’s perspective on ministry to men in our county prisons.

Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those ill-treated as though you too felt their torment.

Hebrews 13:3
Montgomery County Detention Center

About Our Guest Speaker: Russell Isler has been a minister with Good News Jail & Prison Ministry for close to 30 years and most of that time has been spent helping inmates in jails in Montgomery County. Originally from Western New York, he started volunteering, as a teen, at a local prison after someone needed help with a religion class there. He’s been ministering at both the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Boyds, near Clarksburg, which has a capacity of 1,028, and the county’s Detention Center on Seven Locks Road in Rockville, with a capacity of 200. Chaplin Isler also serves as a full-time pastor at Montgomery Baptist Church.

Chaplin Isler with Bill Simmer Award

In 2016, Chaplin Isler was awarded the highest honor that the Good News Jail and Prison Ministry organization hands out, the Bill Simmer Award. Named after the founder of Good News Jail and Prison Ministry, it is given to a minister who stays the course and leads an effective career. In his career, Chaplin Isler has seen many types of people, has heard many stories, and has witnessed many miracles. Many of the young men he works with lack a strong family structure, but time in prison gave them access to the gospel, making it possible through Chaplin Isler’s encouragement, to turn their lives around.

Good News Jail & Prison Ministry is the largest independent supplier of chaplains for jails and prisons worldwide, serving in 22 states, 1 American territory and 25 countries. Good News chaplains also reach out to meet the spiritual needs of the correctional staff in the facilities in which they serve, and works closely with volunteers who give of their time to minister inside the jails and prisons . Good News accepts no local, state or federal funds and is supported by churches and individuals interested in partnering in the work of the Gospel. A Good News chaplain’s work includes preaching, counseling, teaching, administering the Bible Correspondence Course and training.  For more info, see: https://goodnewsjail.org/

Communal Reading of Scripture

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In 1 Timothy 4:13, Paul encourages us to devote ourselves to the public reading of Scripture. After the Israelites escaped slavery and when they entered the Promised Land, they came together to hear God’s law. In Deuteronomy, God commands that the entire law be read every seven years for all of the Israelites to hear. Even in the New Testament, we find Jesus reading Scripture aloud in the synagogue. Public reading of Scripture was a reminder of God’s law and his faithfulness. It also brought God’s people together in community.

Reading the Bible aloud with a group of people is an ancient practice. In fact, the origins of the Bible are deeply rooted in it being read aloud in public. The Bible Project provides a facinating look into the origins and development of this biblical topic, and how it offers us a model for engaging the Scriptures in our own day.

Our Montgomery County CBMC team meets weekly to encourage each other spiritually and to practically pursue the disciple-making work of the Great Commission — meeting men where they are and and helping one another to become the men that God intends us to be.  We seek God’s wisdom and direction in life by reading the Bible together, discussing how it impacts our life and mission, and praying for each other.

Our group is for men only but open to all – please come and join us!

CBMC Presents: Dave Brown, Washington Coalition of Men’s Ministries – Jan. 29

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Dave Brown

Please join us this Tuesday, January 29, from 6:45-8:00 AM in the community room at the Einstein Bagel at 531 Firstfield Road and Quince Orchard Blvd in Gaithersburg to hear Dave’s perspective on today’s culture and the issue of masculine identity.

In his blog, Authentice Manhood, Dave writes about the way we find our masculine identity in Jesus Christ:

MEN IN OUR CULTURE ARE IN TROUBLE 
Masculinity is in crisis mode. The signs are everywhere. Men are confused and wavering. The stats on fatherlessness are alarming and growing. So is the sexual violence that seems to be aired everywhere. Everyone is pointing out symptoms or pointing fingers. I want to point to something else. I want to point to a door that has been opened. Men are predisposed to figure things out for themselves. But manhood resists all attempts to be figured out that way. 
To enter it, a man must do something very different. He must learn to receive. He must let Himself be given three priceless gifts, ones he cannot earn, work for, or prove himself worthy of. They come as graces given in his time of need.
[These three priceless gifts] come from the One described as the indescribable gift, Jesus Himself. He took 12 men and gave them those three gifts: an identity in Him, a quest to build His kingdom, and a promise to be their guide through it all. They entered manhood this way. They became men like Him, chiseled into His image. Read More

DID GILLETTE GET IT RIGHT? Recently Gillette introduced an ad, “We Beilieve: The Best Men Can Be” – Gillette: “Bullying. Harassment. Is this the best a man can get? It’s only by challenging ourselves to do more, that we can get closer to our best. To say the right thing, to act the right way.”
Gillette has been bombarded with both praise and abuse after launching an advertising campaign promoting a new kind of positive masculinity. Engaging with the #MeToo movement, the company’s new advertising campaign plays on its 30-year tagline “The best a man can get”, replacing it with “The best men can be”. This has tapped a nerve in our society and raised some controversy.

Dave Brown is the Director and Pastor-at-Large of the Washington Area Coalition of Men’s Ministries (WACMM), a non-profit, non-denominational ministry to develop and encourage ministries to men in the mid-Atlantic region. Founded in 1999, WACMM is one of the oldest and largest coalitions of local men’s ministries in the nation.

Dave served thirty years in the Federal Government holding senior policy and management positions in the U.S. Congress, the Executive Office of the President and the Executive Branch, where he was a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES). From 1981-1989, he served as an appointee of President Ronald Reagan. Since 2001, Dave has served in pastoral roles in churches in our area, and currently serves on the leadership team of OneHeartDC.

Montgomery County Prayer Breakfast – May 3, 2018

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The Christian community joined in prayer on Thursday, May 3, 2018, asking for God to provide unity and his peace in America, Maryland and Montgomery County. As Christ’s ambassadors in Montgomery County, we ask for the power of God’s Spirit bring renewal and flourishing of Christ’s Kingdom into our homes, workplaces, and communities.

  • But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. [Ephesians 2:13-18]

Keynote: Dr. Joel Freeman: 

Dr. Joel Freeman served as player development mentor and character coach to the Washington Bullets/Wizards team for 20 NBA seasons.  He is a renowned expert, author and speaker on African American history and culture and brings a rich reservoir of personal experience blended with contagious enthusiasm, clarity and down to earth humor to empower people from diverse walks of life.

Prayers for Unity & Peace — Specific prayers were made for:

  • Prayer for unity under God in our nation and throughout the body of Christ
  • Prayer for the safety and well-being of our Teachers, Students, and Families
  • Prayer for wisdom and courage for our Government Leaders and Public Servants; First Responders and Veterans
  • Prayer for flourishing and integrity of our Workers & Business leaders for the good of our communities
  • Prayer for compassion and assistance for our Poor, Vulnerable and Oppressed

Montgomery County Prayer Breakfast Sponsors