Churches working together to fulfill Jesus Great Commission. Matthew 28:18-20

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1 E-Encourager North Grand River Baptist Association The Encourager 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 Volume 38, Number 9 September, 2014 Churches working together to fulfill Jesus Great Commission. Matthew 28: 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 North Grand River Baptist Association 173rd Annual Meeting Rural Dale Baptist Church Acts 1:8 On Mission Focus Saturday, September 27, 2014 Registration begins at 8:30 am Meeting will be called to order at 9:00 am Alpha Edinburg Gallatin Galt Jameson Jamesport Laredo Lineville Medicine Valley Mercer Modena Princeton Ravanna Rural Dale Salem Shelburne Spickard Tenth Street Trenton First Union U N I T E D O N M I S S I O N Annual Sermon- Rev. Rich Neeley (Pastor of Jamesport Baptist Church) Noon meal will follow the meeting Rural Dale will supply the meat, rolls and drinks Please bring 2 side dishes vegetable, salad or dessert Please have all Department Reports and Calendar Items submitted by September 9th to the office. Book of Reports will be ready to pick up on Friday, September 19th, so that you can look over the reports prior to the meeting. In This Issue DOM Report 2 WMU Training 4 BSU Report 5 Financial Report 7 Church Reports 6 Birthday & Anniversary 3 Men s Breakfast 3 Bookstore Sale 3 Sparrow Ministry 8-9 Sunday School Training 4 GA Retreat 4 Calendar 3 Director of Mission s E.J. Barnes Ministry Assistant Debbie Dickinson BSU Director Diann Barnes

2 E-Encourager 2 From My Heart to Yours Will you not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You? Show us Your mercy, O Lord, and grant us Your salvation. Psalms 85:6-7 By the time you read this our Associational Revival will most likely be done or almost done. Nevertheless, the burden of my heart is that we begin (or continue) to experience real REVIVAL in our local churches and the church overall. This is part of my daily heart cry to the Lord. The church is desperate for a fresh moving of God s Spirit in us as individual followers of Jesus Christ and as local bodies of believers. Real REVIVAL is when we, as God s people, have 1. a passionate love for Jesus Christ (In that we love Him above everyone and everything.) 2. It involves having a passionate love for His Word (In that we read it, study it, meditate upon it, memorize it and listen to it consistently daily if possible. In that we rejoice in it and seek to live by it with the help of the Holy Spirit.) 3. It involves having compassion for brothers and sisters in Christ (In that we pray for them encourage them, edify them, forgive them and serve them. In that we fellowship with them, worship with them, care for them and exercise our Spiritual gifts with them.) 4. It also involves having compassion for unbelievers (In that we pray for them, share God s Word with them, care for them by helping meet their needs, invite them to our church activities and seeking to bring them to Jesus by sharing with them our personal testimonies and the Gospel.) Let us not grow weary in crying out to our Lord of REVIVAL, for His MERCY and for His SALVATION! For His Glory E.J. Barnes Seminary Extension The Fall Semester of Seminary Extension starts on Thursday, September 4, Classes will be held from 7:00-9:00 pm at the North Grand River Baptist Association. The three hour course, How to Understand the Bible, will be taught by Dan Wilford. Because of God s amazing grace, the tuition will be free. The only expenses to students will be the $18.00 text that will be used for the course. Please register early and make a commitment to complete the course. Last year was an expensive year because three students dropped out or never did start. Please let s not let this be a repeat. This past semester there were four students completing the course on Survey of the Old Testament, Part II, with three getting credit and one auditing the course. Praise God! Please be praying for your Seminary Extension and promote it in your churches. This is a course that every born again believer could benefit from. Please sign up early so resources can be ordered in a timely manner. Let s have another great year. Dan Wilford Director-Teacher Training Date and Location September 5-6, 2014 New Hope Baptist Church 664 E 16th St Sedalia, MO Registration begins at 4:30 pm Friday, supper to follow at 6 pm, and Intro to Disaster Relief begins at 7 pm. Breakfast is served at 7 am Saturday with training beginning at 8 am. Training for Chain Saw and Communication will continue after lunch. Other areas of training are scheduled so you will be able to train in more than one area. All training will be complete by 3 pm. Please note you must be 18 years of age and a member of a Southern Baptist church to be certified as a Disaster Relief Volunteer. All trainees must submit a background check request, have a letter of recommendation signed by your Pastor or Director of Missions and attend the Introduction to Disaster Relief every three years. Those training in Chaplaincy, refer to the Chaplaincy information on the MBC website.. For convenience and efficiency we plan to offer all types of training at every location. Forms are available on MBC website for your convenience.

3 E-Encourager 3 A few copies left of God s Not Dead DVD sale price of $ Just Released! Mom s Night Out DVD You and Me Forever by Francis Chan Card Sale- 20% Off September 8th-19th Grandparents Day- September 14th Lesson s I Learned From My Grandchildren Grandma s Memories of Growing Up A Matter of Faith This is a Christ honoring movie that we would like to have shown in our local theatre. We have a goal date set for September 26th to presale 1000 tickets. These tickets are only $6.00 each. This movie deals with evolution being taught in our schools and colleges. It presents the gospel that we can share with those that are lost. Several pastors have previewed the movie and I have here at the office a Trailer DVD and posters for your church. What a great opportunity to take a friend to the movie who doesn t know Jesus or to purchase tickets for High School or College students so they can attend. One of the good things on showing this movie is part of the funds will come back to the association and our community. Hopefully your church has a sign up list of people that want tickets. For more information contact Debbie. Let s join together and bring this movie to Trenton our mission field. Expecting to See Jesus by Anne Graham Lotz Men s Spiritual Polo Shirts- $9.00 Cl earance- Duck Commander Shirts Happy, Happy, Happy - $9.00 (Reg ) Si s Tea Glass- $2.90 (Reg. 6.00) Souvenir Cup $1.50 (Reg. 2.99) September 1 Garret Trunk 5 Tim Munday 14 Lewis & Mabel Rogers 15 Jim Whitley 15 Deryl Niffen 21 Michelle Stark Laredo Baptist Church Saturday, 8:00 am September 20, 2014 All Men Invited! September Calendar of Events Missouri Mission Offering Month 1 Labor Day Mission Center Closed 1 Revival at Rural Dale 7:00 pm 2-3 Revival at Princeton FBC- 7:00 pm 4 Seminary Extension Begins NGR 7:00 pm 4-5 Revival at Gallatin FBC- 7:00 pm 5-6 Disaster Relief Training at Sedalia 6-7 Revival at Ketchem Community Center 7:00 8 Medicine Valley Advisory Committee 7:00 14 Grandparents Day 16 Women s Prayer Luncheon 10:30 am 20 Men s Prayer Breakfast Laredo 8:00 am 27 NGR Annual Meeting at Rural Dale 29-October 1- Baptist Secretary Training at Osage Beach Missouri Baptist Children s Home Apple Festival September 13, :00 am to 3:00 pm First Baptist Church, Raymore Together is theme of Missouri Baptists Annual Meeting 180 th gathering is Oct at Tan-Tar-A Resort

4 E-Encourager 4 Northwest Missouri Regional Sunday School Leader Training Tuesday, October 7, 2014 First Baptist Church Cameron, MO Registration begins at 6:00 pm General session begins at 6:30 pm Conferences from 7:00 to 9:00 pm Conferences for each Age Group: Preschool & Children s Leaders Student Leaders & Adult Leaders PLUS Pastors & Sunday School Directors Guest Speaker: JC Beckner Pastor of FBC, Raymore Show-Me Sunday State-wide Sunday School High Attendance Sunday Sunday, October 26, 2014 ALL FOR YOU Surrender Sacrifice Serve NORTHWEST WMU RETREAT Grand Oaks Assembly Chillicothe Thursday, September 25, 2014 Cost $15.00 that includes lunch Register by Thursday, September 18, 2014 Bev Null, NE Craig Drive, Breckenridge, MO Make checks payable to St. Joseph Baptist Association & put in memo section- Grand Oaks Retreat Christian Women s Job Corp Mission Project 10 Gift cards from Casey s for gas $10 Gift cards from Wal-Mart for gas or personal care items Forever stamps for general use at this site Donations toward Life Recovery Bibles for Prison Ministry or (formally GED) tests Pastors Prayer & Fellowship Time at Pizza Hut 2nd Monday of each month October Grand Oaks Baptist Assembly Cost- Online or Mail-in Pre-Registration: $36.00 per person After September 18th: $41.00 per person T-shirts available for $6.50 each, but can only be ordered when registering by September 18th. Your registration and payment includes lodging, program fee and meals (Friday dinner; Saturday breakfast/ lunch). Do not bring more campers than you have registered. You may substitute campers. No refunds will be made. There will be no registration money handled at the retreat site. Ministry Project You may choose to bring stocking caps of any size infant through adult. These hats will be used in Missouri and in the country of Mexico Registration will be found on website: mobaptist.org/wmu For more information call Teri Broeker or Sharon Paris Ext. 324

5 E-Encourager 5 NCMC ANNNND Their OFF!! The Fall semester started with a huge weekend. Friday night, 8/15, the BSU hosted 47 baseball and RA assistants at a Welcome dinner, with speaker Tim Munday, sharing words of encouragement. Thank you Tim! Saturday, from 8am-1:30pm, we hosted a Welcome table in front of Ketchem, meeting many parents and new/old students moving into the dorms. Then Sunday, 6pm, we served approximately 110 sandwiches to all dorm students who came to the Sugg Room in Ketchem center for supper. Monday, 8/18, we hosted a Welcome table at the Club Fair Day, meeting lots of freshmen students this year. Tuesday, was our 1st Communitas worship service at 9 pm, when we met 5 new students for the first time. Wednesday the 20th, FBC Trenton hosted our 1st Wednesday Free Lunch ministry, when God allowed us to serve 97 lunches. Thank you Shawn Allee for sharing the gospel during the devotions and for praying with students. Then Sunday, 8/24, we hosted our first Sunday Night Alive at the BSU, having 26 students, most with hollow legs and holes in their toes. (23 of the 26 were hungry males.) During the evening we showed the video Humanity by Jefferson Bethke, sharing the concept that God is a God of relationships (God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) and he created us in His Image to be people of relationships. Pray for our students as they navigate this scary new phase of their lives. Pray that they seek meaningful relationships with believers and investigate the greatest relationship that of knowing Jesus as Lord. Matthew 28: Jesus came and told his disciples, I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, [a] baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age. No matter how many times I read the previous text, or how many different versions I read this passage from, Jesus last Words commands HIS children to MAKE Disciples! Simply, as His child, I am OBLIGATED without options to intentionally be making disciples. And if I follow the greatest example, I will be living LIFE with those few people who God is telling me to teach them how to obey all His commands. The ultimate result will be the same results that Jesus had. His disciples began going throughout the world Making Disciples which began the New Testament Church. So my questions are: Who has God told you to specifically pour your life into that they will become a disciple? AND If you have discipled a person like Jesus did, are they now Making Disciples also? He is Worthy to Receive the Rewards of His Sacrifice Souls Diann Barnes

6 E-Encourager 6 Edinburg- There is a new Sunday School Class being started at Edinburg Church. This is a class for Young Adults, married and non-married. The class is being taught by Pastor David s wife, Barbara and meets at the regular time of 10 am. We hope to see this class continue to grow each and every week. If you are not attending somewhere this might be a great opportunity for you to get into the Word of God. The ladies are also starting a book club. They meet on specific Sundays at 5:30 pm to discuss a book that they have been reading. This month s book is Her Daughters Dream by Francine Rivers. The meeting time this month is Aug. 24. The Church also has a web site on Facebook, listed under Edinburg Church ccz. There are prayer posts and happenings at the church, along with some neat pics and sayings. Check it out!! We are in prayer for the upcoming Fall Revival, Aug. 31- Sept 7. This will be a community wide Revival with several churches involved, everyone pray it is a successful harvest of reaching people. Fall is on the way enjoy the beauty of God s wonderful season. Join us Sundays at 11:00 am for worship, 10:00 am for Sunday School and evening services at 6:00 pm. We also have children s church for children 3-12 and a nursery for children 2 and under. Princeton- The WOM Groups have had good turn outs for their meetings and are collecting school supplies for their annual shoe box drive. During our VBS we had 4 children to come forward and are baptizing 2 children August 24. Praise the Lord. First Baptist Church wants to welcome our new Deacon Dennis Bagley having Ordination Service for him August 24th at 2:00 pm. We held a wonderful gospel concert by Walter Plant he doesn't use any sound tracks or taped recorded music in his music ministry. W e will be hosting a Revival first part of September 2-3, with International Evangelist Richard Green. The youth had a going away picnic for the Youth Pastor Josh Ishmael in August with a good turn out wishing him and his wife Kate, son Sabbath the best in their new calling and may the Lord be with him and the family. We will begin our Children's Program in September. We want to invite each child to come and the hear the word of Jesus. Other activities are planned as well. Our Youth will hosting 5th Quarter following the Home Games beginning September 5th Salem- We appointed our nominating committee. We supplied the BSU with back pack items for when the students returned. On August 10th, it was nice to have EJ and Diann Barnes come visit. Diann played the piano for our Sunday service and EJ led the music. They both sang a special with Diann accompanying on the piano. We are getting in touch with our foundation man to see when he is starting September 28th, we will have our annual Hay Ride at 5:00 pm with hot dogs and s'mores for dessert, plus other goodies. Hard to believe that fall is here already. We have really had a nice summer and very thankful for the big rain last night, Monday 18th. We are blessed. Trenton FBC We begin our new church year in September with our annual Sunday School Round-up on Sunday, September 7th. We invite guests and those that have not been with us for awhile to come and join us. Many members dress in western attire for the theme. Mission Center Closed September 1, 2014

7 E-Encourager 7 Church Giving Church Service Times July 2014 Monthly BSU Reports Inc. Inc. SS AM PM Weds. Alpha $ $ :30 10:30 6:30 7:00 Edinburg $ $ :00 11:00 6:00 7:00 Gallatin $ $ :30 10:40 6:00 7:00 Galt 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00 Jameson $ $ :30 10:30 Jamesport $ :45 10:45 7:00 6:30 Laredo $ :30 10:30 6:30 6:30 Lineville $ $ :45 10:45 6:00 6:00 M. Valley $ $ :30 10:30 6:00 Mercer $ $ :30 10:30 6:30 6:30 Modena $ $ :15 9:00 6:00 6:00 Princeton $ $ :40 10:40 7:00 6:00 Ravanna $ $ :30 10:45 Rural Dale $ $ :45 10:35 7:00 7:00 Salem $ $ :00 11:00 6:00 Shelburne $ $ :00 10:55 6:00 6:30 Spickard $ :30 10:30 6:30 Tenth St. 9:30 10:30 6:00 7:00 Trenton FB $1, $ :30 10:40 6:00 6:00 Union $ $ :00 11:00 6:00 7:00 Total $6, $1, Join any of these churches in worship Chilli, FBC $ MBC $ Gilman BC $ Highview $ Seminary Checking $31.21 Seminary Savings $2, Benevolent Savings $ NGR Savings $ BSU July Income to Expense Beginning Balance $4, Income $1, Total $6, Expenses $2, Ending Balance $3, General BSU Fund $2, Designated BSU Fund $1, North Grand River Baptist Association July 2014 NGR Account Beginning Balance $4, Income $10, Total $14, Expenses $9, Ending Balance $4, Line Items in General Checking Designated Funds $4, General Fund $6.77 Checking Balance Total $4, NGR October July 2014 (Includes Designated Funds) Income $115, Expenses $114, Difference $1, 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

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