Alpha Edinburg Gallatin Galt Jameson* Jamesport Laredo Lineville Medicine Valley Mercer. Modena. Princeton Ravanna* Rural Dale* Salem.

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1 Missouri Baptist Children s Home Apple Festival Saturday, September 11th 9:00 2:00 First Baptist Church, Raytown Contact the Mission Center for more information or for forms if you are entering quilts or other items. September 14 Lewis & Mabel Rogers 15 Jim Whitley 15 Deryl Niffen 21 Michelle Stark 23 Christine Ward Modena 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee Evangelist Tim Wilson September :00 pm Evangelist E.J. Barnes Sunday, September 19 10:30 am Lunch to follow Worship Leaders EJ and Diann Barnes Shelburne September Evangelist Alan Brock Associational Fish Fry Saturday, October 9th 6:00 pm Tenth Street Baptist Church Bring Salad or Dessert As Celebrate Recovery will be joining us we are requesting that you bring extra food. Missouri Mission s Trip Organizational Meeting If you are interested in being part of a mission team, there will be an organizational meeting on Monday, September 13th, 7:00 pm, here at the Mission Center. Men s Prayer Breakfast September 18th- 8:00 am Laredo Baptist Church All Men Invited Join with other brothers in Christ in a time of prayer and fellowship. Those that attended have experienced a wonderful time. North Grand River Baptist Association 1108 N Main Director of Missions Trenton, MO Rev. E.J. Barnes Fax: Ministry Assistant ngrmission@sbcglobal.net Debbie Dickinson BSU Telephone BSU Director DOM s Office Telephone Diann Barnes Web Page northgrandriverbaptist.com Alpha Edinburg Gallatin Galt Jameson* Jamesport Laredo Lineville Medicine Valley Mercer Modena Princeton Ravanna* Rural Dale* Salem Shelburne Spickard Tenth Street Trenton First Union North Grand River Baptist Association The Encourager 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 Volume 35, Number 9 September, 2010 Churches working together to fulfill Jesus Great Commission. U N I T E D O N M I S S I O N Matthew 28: North Grand River Baptist Association 169th Annual Meeting Saturday, September 11, 2010 Trenton First Baptist Church Registration begins at 8:30 am Meeting will be called to order at 9:00 am Noon meal provided of sandwiches and dessert Vince Blubaugh will be MBC Speaker sharing about the Great Commission Resurgence Please submit your resolutions to the Mission Center prior to the meeting Meeting should conclude around 5:00 pm Messengers or a Church Representative can pick up the Book of Reports on September 3rd. This will give the Messengers time to look over the reports. North Grand River Baptist Association s Purpose- To mutually and prayerfully support, encourage and challenge one another as churches to exalt Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, to edify and equip His disciples to serve him and one another, and to evangelize those who have yet to come to know Him personally. Matthew 28:19-20

2 From My Heart to Yours Rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer. (Romans 12:12) The theme of our Annual Meeting September 11, 2010 at Trenton, First Baptist will be Harvesting the Land Tilling the Ground. The Pastors in our Association believe that we need to focus on PRAYER for at least one more year. At the special called Pastors Prayer Meeting, August 16th, the Pastors were in total agreement that the Pastors in our Association must gather together consistently to share with each other and to pray fervently for one another, for our churches and especially for the children and youth in our area. All are desiring a great movement of God to bring about REAL REVIVAL in our churches and a GREAT SPIRITUAL AWAKENING in our area. The men voiced the need for they themselves to humble themselves more, to be more compassionate and to be more holy in their daily lives. They agreed that as the Spiritual leaders in their churches all our Pastors must set the example in these characteristics and practices. They acknowledged that God is our only hope for 3000 people to be truly born again in our area by the end of Therefore, we must cry out to Him for help and guidance, as we avail ourselves to be instruments in His hands to reach lost souls. They said it is obvious that what we are doing for the most part is not working. We must become 2 Chronicles 7:14 leaders and people; if My people who are called by My name will 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. Pray for our Pastors aa they make time to pray with one another and as they lead their churches and our Association to live God s way and to trust God to work. For His Glory, E.J. Barnes P.S. Please support the MMO offering. 10% of what the churches in our association gives, come tack to our association. Missouri Baptist Convention Annual Meeting 176th Annual Session, October 25-27, 2010 Springfield Expo Center 635 E St. Louis Street, Springfield, MO Overall Theme: Do the work of an Evangelist 2 Timothy 4:5 July 2010 Reports Monthly Inc. Seminary Checking $ Seminary Savings $2, Belarus $1, BSU-July Income to Expense Beginning Balance $2, Income $1, Total $4, Expenses $ Ending Balance $3, BSU Inc. SS MW EW DT WMU Bapt. Men Youth Kids Ministry Alpha $ Edinburg $ $ Gallatin $ $ Bapt. Galt $ $ Jameson 7 11 Jamesport $ $ Laredo $ Lineville $ $ M. Valley $ Mercer $ $ Modena $ Princeton $ $ Ravanna $ $ Rural Dale $ $ Salem $ Shelburne $ $ Spickard $ Tenth St. $ $ Trenton FB $1, $ Union $ $ Total $7, $ Chilli, FBC $ MBC $ Ltr/ Other July 2010 NGR Account Beginning Balance $24, Income $11, Total $35, Expenses $12, Ending Balance $22, Line Items in General Checking Designated Funds $13, General Fund $9, Checking Balance Total $22, NGR October 2009-July 2010 Income $133, Expenses $132, Difference $1,133.73

3 Edinburg On Saturday, July 28, we held our first church wide camp out on the grounds of the church. There was plenty of food, fellowship and entertainment. Thirty two attended. On Saturday, July 31, several members of our congregation participated in the 2nd annual Special Olympic Celebrity Ball Game sponsored by the DAWGS. The DAWGS faced off at the Griffin field in Trenton against the Trenton Celebrities. The DAWGS took the first game 32 to 3 and the second game 43 to 2. The event was a fund raiser for the DAWGS. Those participating from our church included two athletes and four coaches. Edinburg church was well represented at the event. On Sunday, August 1st, our Youth Church celebrated their first year by attending lunch at the Pizza Hut after regular services. On Sunday, August 8, one of the children came forward in Children s Church and accepted Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. On Sunday, August 15, he was presented to the congregation and will be baptized at a later date. On Sunday, August 8, we held our services at Sunnyview Nursing Home. Galt- We had a good VBS on July We entered a float in the parade at the Galt Fair and won first place. On Saturday July 31, Bro. Gene and Ann renewed their vows with a wedding ceremony at the church. Bro. Mike Dennis officiated the service. Remember to pray for the students and teachers as school s are now in session. Lineville - We held our Back to School Fair on August 7 and had a good turn out. Several children attended the fun & games and received their free back packs filled with school supplies and at least 12 of them have committed their Wednesday afternoons to attending the After School Program held here at the church each week. This will begin September 1. We have two new Bible studies in the works for the next several months. Beginning the first of September we will begin a women's Bible study to be held every Thursday afternoon. We will be doing the Women of Faith Bible Studies beginning with A Grand New Day. Then on September 5, we will begin a 6 week long study on Marriage: Built to Last, being led by Pastor Aaron Stark. All who are interested are encouraged to attend this study. Medicine Valley Community Ministry- Next month, September of 2010, promises to be an exceptionally important time in the development of our long range objectives at Medicine Valley Community Ministries. Beginning with a Gospel Music Jubilee the weekend of September 25, 26 we kick off a year of intensive outreach and disciplining. The Jubilee Music Celebration is to be at the Baptist Chapel at Newtown. The year s activities will include a number of special services throughout the year, culminating in September of 2011 with an Evangelistic Crusade at Humphreys co-sponsored by a number of area Baptist Churches. Churches invited to cooperate in the Crusade include Alpha Baptist, First Baptist Church of Milan, Galt Baptist, Ravanna Baptist, Laredo Baptist, Rural Dale Baptist and Medicine Valley Community Ministry. In addition the other churches in North Grand River Baptist Association are all encouraged to support this evangelistic effort. A number of gospel music groups are being invited to provide a half hour pre-session music each night of the Crusade to be held August of 2011, Evangelist Richard Green will deliver God s message nightly and worship time will be directed by recording artist Jamie Page. Various local music groups have been invited to participate in the Gospel Music Jubilee in September. These include Laredo s Gospel Choir, Mercer s Gospel Band, Zion s Lifeline Gospel Band, Jamesport s Gospel quartet, Gallatin s Gospel Quartet, and The Veatch Family. Others are still to be contacted and most of these have not yet confirmed their availability. All groups are coming free gratis as this is a fund raising event to help underwrite the cost of expanded ministries through Home Bible Study Groups and culminating with the Area-Wide Evangelism Crusade at Humphreys a year from now. We are asking, no, urging all pastors in the association to lead their people to pray, attend, and give increased financial support to these endeavors. It may well be that God is preparing to make himself known in significant ways in this small corner of his domain. Please help us to implement the vision he has given for his work throughout our Medicine Valley Communities and the surrounding areas as we attempt to join Him where He is already at work, in this Mission in Your own Backyard. Princeton Our Awana s worker will be meeting and planning with Awana s beginning on Wednesday, September 8th at 5:45 pm with supper. There were 25 in attendance for the Boys Campout. Our new Pastor Dr. David H. Robertson and his wife, Barbara have moved in the parsonage and began their ministry on Monday, August 16th. We warmly welcome you and looking forward to many years of serving the Lord at First Baptist. Shelburne- We had our VBS on July with 49 children enrolled. We also had an Adult VBS class with 8. There was a total of 25 workers. Our offering went to purchase 3 bicycles for missionaries transportation to spread the gospel with. For our coming events on August 22, CMA (Christian Motorcycle Association) will be holding the morning service telling of their activities. Everyone is invited. Our services begin at 11:00 am. On August 29th, Gregg and Andrea Brummit and Bethany, missionaries from FROG will be telling of their missionary work during the morning service beginning at 11 am. Salem- Our August VBS went very well. It was our biggest one ever. It's wonderful how it has grown. When we started a few years ago with VBS we had 6 children. This year our highest number was 42, with 38 being our average for the 5 days. Praise the Lord! This is really wonderful for our little country church. We had plenty of workers and helpers. We want to thank Hatton Chapel for providing the refreshments for the commencement Also want to thank Jen Myers and Amanda Griffin from Hatton, for all of their help with the teaching and outdoor activities. On August 8th, we baptized another new soul for Jesus. Another wonderful blessing. August 28th we are having a bridal shower for Melissa Wayman. August 29th we will be having the Sunnyview Nursing Home service. We have finished our study of The Old Testament made simple, it was so interesting, and enjoyable that we wanted to continue with the New Testament Made Simple. We will begin that this Sunday evening. On September 11th is the Annual Meeting. October 3rd is the tentative date for our annual hay ride, and wiener roast.

4 Trenton First The Sonshine Preschool started on August 23rd. We are making plans for Awanas to begin on September 8th. This year we will be serving an all church meal on Wednesdays at 5:00 pm. Awanas will begin at 6:00 pm and end at 7:30 pm. Adult Prayer and Bible study is from 6:30-7:15 pm. Our Senior Adults have been busy with a trip to Bethany to eat and shop. They are going to the Galt Café to eat. They have an ongoing food Collection to take to Medicine Valley Ministries. Brother Denny Chesnut will be sharing about his mission trip to Africa on August 29th at 6:00 pm. Refreshments provided afterwards. Autumn Begins September 23 The Mission Center and Bookstore will be closed on Monday, September 6. The association expresses their deepest sympathy to Bro. Jean Osborn and family in the loss of Nellie. Nellie served as secretary of the association beside her husband Bro. Jean who served as Director of Mission s for North Grand River for many years. We will all miss her greatly, but know that she is in Heaven rejoicing and for this we are all grateful. Guy s NLT Bible $17.00 Hands-On Bible NLT $17.00 Bible for Kids HCS $17.00 KJV Study Bible for Kids $17.00 Girl s NLT Bible $17.00 Student s NLT $17.00 NLT Life Application Study Bible $25.50 NIV Life Application Study Bible $25.50 A Hopeful Heart Kim Vogel Sawyer $ Days to Understanding the Bible $5.00 How to Study the Bible $5.00 Grace Rules Steve McVey $10.20 Heaven is Real Don Piper $12.70 Bringing up Girls Dr. James Dobson $ Conversations you must have with Your daughter Vicki Courtney $12.70 DVD s Gaither DVD s $17.00 Facing the Giants $7.50 CD s Statler Brothers $12.60 Many old favorites beginning at $1.98 Cross Magnets $1.50 Bundle of Joy key chains $1.25 Several items are marked 50% off SRP Lord s Supper figurine SRP is $ NGR Price is $30.00 Stop by the store for In-Store Specials We can try to order items that you are looking for. Church Supplies discounted a week, please call me, or me at ngrmission.diann@sbcglobal.net and schedule your choice soon to guarantee you get the week that works best for your church. Sunday, Aug. 29, will be our big Welcome Back Grill party in parking lot of 6pm. If any of you pride yourself on your homemade ice cream, please bring a freezer and share with us. Some other ministry dates you will want to put on your calendar to pray for are: 1. See You At the Pole, Wed. Sept. 22, Geyer lawn at 7:30am. 2. Garage Sale EJ/Diann Barnes driveway. Will accept donated gently used items for sale. Friday and Sat, Sept th. All proceeds applied to BSU ministries. 3. Month of October Toilet paper and Paper Towels Drive for Ronald McDonald Houses in KC. Will be delivered Friday, Oct 29 th with supper to both houses. BSU accepts all church contributions to this ministry. (Churches, Please wait till 28 th to bring paper goods to office.) 4. MO Days parade. This year the BSU students would also like to put together a float for the parade. Does any one have a flat bed trailer they would let us use to build the float on? 5. Thanksgiving Dinner for campus students, Nov. 21, Sunday night. We ll accept food donations and dessert contributions. We anticipate serving 60 students physical food and spiritual food. As you can see this semester is full of opportunities to share our Jesus with the NCMC students. Please pray that we will take advantage of every opportunity God gives us to share HIM with those He gives us. Before I end this, I want to give a big THANK YOU to Dale Leeper, Lou Bankson, and John Rice for mounting and setting up the projector system downstairs to be used in the BSU ministry. Also God gave us a newer stove for the downstairs kitchen. It came off the back of a Lowe s delivery truck for FREE!! Want to hear more details about God s blessings just ask. Until Later, take advantage of every opportunity HE gives you this month, because: HE is Worthy to Receive the Rewards of HIS Sacrifice! Diann

5 MBC BSU BSU of NCMC Students moved into the dorms yesterday, and Monday starts the new fall 2010 season for NCMC. This weekend has been full to the brim with tons of opportunities to meet new students, get caught up on summer happenings with returning students, and most of all share Jesus Love with open arms. Thank you NGRBA ladies for helping me make our students feel welcomed by our BSU. You brought enough bagged cookies to make 150 welcome bags for the dorm students. Several students dropped by our Welcome table on Saturday to eat from our cookie trays and mentioned having already gotten their welcome bag of cookies. (Thank you, Evelyn and Emogene for supplying more cookies for our Sat. table.) I even saw one father leaving the girl s dorm with his daughter s gift bag minus the cup and ink pen, but containing the tea, cocoa and eating the cookies. I later saw the daughter and she said, yeah, dad thought he earned the goodies but I wouldn t let him take my mug or pen! Friday night, we hosted supper for the student Dorm Leaders and the baseball team who managed the Move-In on Saturday. Thank you, Gene and Ann for helping cook the meal, and all the ladies (some from Shelburne) who supplied desserts for the supper. It was a huge successful ministry because of your team efforts. No way, could I have pulled it off by myself. So Thanks, TEAM, for all your hard work. Stephen Williamson shared Jesus Words with the students in a powerful way. Aaron Elliot showed a clip about LifeCenter concert in Bethany, September 25, and Katie Welch shared with the students about her mission trip experience to Canada. (A huge thanks to Dale Leeper for helping set-up the projector upstairs for Aaron.) All the multiple people and churches who pitched in to make this weekend one of the BEST Move-In weekends since I ve been in Trenton, blows my mind. Wow!! Is God good or WHAT?! Some evident results from this weekend 3 female students came to our home unexpectedly Saturday night about 7pm. Two were return students and their new roommate, a young lady originally from El Salvador. (Our BSU ministry is going international. God is exploding our local into international outreach. Remember the 6 from Chile, last year? Now we have students from El Salvador, Zimbabwe and West Guiana.) I made a batch of sugar cookies from a cake mix, and set the girls to icing the cookies while I grilled burgers, since they said they hadn t eaten. After clean up, EJ joined us and we played a 5 man speed card game, that the girls laughed so hard there were tears. Because of all the ministries Friday and Saturday, when I got to 10 th St Baptist this morning to play for their worship service, 6 of those students were filling up one complete row of chairs, to worship with me, fulfilling their promise to join me for worship. Thank you, Ron for preaching Truth. Now we ll let the Holy Spirit harvest. Some new ministries I really need you to pray about and see where you can plug in this year with your mission hearts are: 1. Monday and Wednesday, 7am-8am, we will attempt to serve homemade cinnamon rolls/coffee/cocoa for $2 to commuters using the parking lot by the BSU. My plans are to open the windows and let God spread the smell of fresh cinnamon rolls to bring students by before class, and use the opportunity to share Jesus. (If someone has a great yeast recipe, share it with me, please!) All funds will be used for next year s Canada Mission trip in May. 2. 4:30p Supper/Bible Study for students to really dig in God s Word. 3. 6pm Common Grounds (pun on coffee grounds) a time for students to meet and find common ground with other students games, tournaments, movies, and snacks. Our Wednesday Free Lunch and Sunday Night Alive ministries will continue again this year. The 1 st 3 Wednesdays have already been scheduled and one in November. If you have a preference to host Seminary Extension Sign up now for Fall Classes North Grand River Mission Center 1108 Main, Trenton, MO Dynamics of Teaching RE 264 A study of the principles and methods of teaching youth and adults, including the relationship of the teacher to the teaching task, the steps in lesson plan development, and the use of teaching aids. 3 Hour Course. Co-Teachers Rev. Denny Chesnut and Rev. E.J. Barnes Textbooks: Teaching Ministry of the Church by Daryl Eldridge Teaching for Results by Findley B. Edge Cost: Registration- $ Books- $65.00 Total Cost $ Class begins Tuesday, October 12th, :00 pm- Mission Center Revelation NT 190 A study of the background, authorship, and teachings of the book of Revelation. 2 Hour Course. Teacher- Rev. Dan Wilford Textbooks: The Book of Revelation by Robert H. Mounce Holman New Testament Commentary, Vol. 12 by Kendell H. Easley Cost: Registration - $82.00 Books- $70.00 Total Cost $ Class begins Thursday, October 14th, :00 pm- Mission Center *There will be a charge of half of the Registration fee if student drops the class.

6 Worship Leadership Conference September Union Hill Baptist Church Holts Summit Featuring: Mike Harland Lifeway Christian Resources WMU/Women s Ministry Retreat Saturday, September 18 Grand Oaks Baptist Assembly Empowering Sunday School Leadership Tuesday, October 12, 2010 First Baptist Church, St. Joseph Conferences: 6:30 pm 9:00 pm Conferences will include for all Sunday School age groups and there is also a Discipleship & Evangelism Conference. Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Reveal Our Father in Heaven, Reveal Who You are. Matthew 6:9-13 Gather at your school flagpole, PRAY for your school, friends, family and world. Ask God to RE- VEAL Who He is to your campus. Pray for Awakening. SEE YOU AT THE POLE! The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry Trenton First Baptist Church Sunday, September 12th- 6:00 pm What he teaches them will last forever. Best buddies Dustin, Albert and Mark, are twelve year old boys looking forward to a summer of fun in What happens the rest of the summer is something Dustin and his friends will never forget. This movie is highly recommended and very evangelistic. It is for all ages. You will leave very inspired. The DVD retails for $24.98, but you will be able to purchase the DVD that night for $20.00 and get the DVD Unidentified for free. EVERYONE WELCOME Left at Children s Camp NKJV Bible with name inside Landon Brown Blue Bag with Cosmetic items Items are at the Mission Center Show-Me Sunday Sunday School High Attendance Day- Sunday, October Celebrating With the Kunkels First, what a blessing we received at our August Program with Evelyn Trickel s Power Point presentation of her trip to Canada with a group of 150 World Changers! Emma Bankson led the time of devotion, since Hilkah Rose Post was unable to attend. And, as usual, a great lunch and time of fellowship! Ladies, thanks to all of you who made cookies, helped fill the gift bags, and put scripture labels on the bottles of water for the carnival workers. A special thanks to Carol Gutshall for getting the New Testaments from the Gideons and Belinda Hogan for making all those scripture labels for the bottles of water! And thanks to those from Coon Creek who showed up on Sunday afternoon to help deliver the bags and water, but we were unable to do so Sunday afternoon because the Carnival workers didn t come in until Sunday evening. However, Belinda, Emma, Jimmie and I were able to deliver the bags and water on Monday morning to very appreciative carnival workers. Extra bags were handed out to people in the Rock Barn who were setting up displays. We discussed at the August program the possibility of doing this mission again in the future. This is a field that is white for harvest. (John 4:35) September is going to be another busy month with our Associational Annual Meeting on September 11th and our Northwest Missouri WMU/Women s Ministry Training at Grand Oaks on September 18th. If you haven t received the information and registration forms by the time you read this, please contact Debbie or me, and we ll get them to you. On September 17th, we will be joining Tenth Street at 7:00 pm to visit with the Kunkel s, missionaries to Uruguay. Tim Kunkel will give a message, with finger foods and fellowship to follow. I hope many of you will be able to attend and bring your favorite finger food. This evening at Tenth Street will be instead of our September Program and Prayer Luncheon. If you, your church, or WOM group has not had the opportunity to participate in the Christmas in August, items can still be taken to the Mission Center by September 16th. The items will be taken to Iowa later that week. If you need a list of items needed please contact me at October is Shoebox Ministry Month! Besides the Shoebox Ministry focus, our October Fall Celebration and Prayer Luncheon will feature Christine Ward sharing with us about the Cowboy Church. Remember Baptist Women s World Day of Prayer Program will be Monday, November 1st at 10:30 am at First Baptist Church, Trenton. Bev Martin WMU Director Acteen s Retreat November 12, 14 & 14, 2010 Pulaski Baptist Asociation Camp, Waynesville Cost $45 Deadline to register October 10, 2010 Retreat for any girls and leaders 7th 12th grades Contact Mission Center for more information