E-Encourager North Grand River Baptist Association The Encourager 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 Volume 37, Number 8 August, 2013 Churches working together to fulfill Jesus Great Commission. Matthew 28:18-20 20 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 Remember to Pray for Students as they return to school for their safety, that they may be alert and ready to study and learn. Pray for the students that know Jesus as their Savior, that they can be strong with peer pressure and a good witness. Pray for the teachers. Pray for their safety, what they teach and that they can be an inspiration to students for their educational growth. 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 Seminary Extension Class OT 3104 Old Testament Survey Part II a 3 Hour Course This is a survey of all the prophetic books of the Old Testament, as well as miscellaneous books known as the Writings. Rev. Dan Wilford is the teacher. If you plan to enroll in the course, please contact the North Grand River Association Office indicating your interest. We need early registration so materials may be ordered for you. Thank the Lord, your $125 registration fee will be paid by an interested party. We do require that you pay for the textbooks if possible since they will be yours, although, scholarships are available to cover the cost of books if necessary. The price of the books is $90. In This Issue DOM Report 2 WMU Report 2 BSU Report 4 Financial Report 7 Church Reports 5-6 Birthday & Anniversary 3 Men s Breakfast 3 Bookstore 3 ACP S 6 NGR Annual Meeting 6 Alpha Revival 3 Shelburne Concert 3 Director of Mission s E.J. Barnes Ministry Assistant Debbie Dickinson BSU Director Diann Barnes Assistant BSU Director Gene Schreffler
E-Encourager 2 From My Heart to Yours Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the Will of God in Christ Jesus for you. I Thessalonians 5:16-18 I have much to rejoice over. Our Lord continues to bless me way beyond my expectations way beyond what I deserve. He answers prayer after prayer. He meets every need and most wants. He fills my day with purpose and meaning. Another birthday comes in a few days. I can t help but rejoice! I have even more to pray about. It is such a privilege to be able to talk to the Creator of the Universe without ceasing at any time, in any place, about anything and know that He listens and cares and will respond with compassion and wisdom. The more time I spend in prayer the more I experience His supernatural presence and power! I have more to give thanks for than I am consciously aware of. There are little blessings and big blessings. Our God is so generous, so merciful, so gracious and so wise. I am so thankful for my wife Diann. On August 21 st we will celebrate 42 years of marriage. I am thankful for my Administrative Assistant Debbie Dickinson. On August 12 th, we will celebrate her 11th year at NGRBA. I am thankful for all our churches and associational leaders who serve so unselfishly. I am thankful for our BSU staff and Mike Dennis for their faithfulness. I am thankful for our summer missionaries (Bola & Tyler) who have served so sacrificially. The list goes on!!! Please remember these in your prayers: August 25-28 Revival at Alpha with Richard Green, 7pm August 25-28 Rallies at Trenton Rock Barn for Youth, 6:30pm September 14 Being Equipped AS Men Revival at Ketchum Community Center for Men, 8am-5:30pm September 28 North Grand River Baptist Association Annual Meeting at Coon Creek, 9am Let me know if I can share with your church about our Association and the BSU. I would love to do so! May Our Lord Bless You Richly EJ Barnes Summer Mission Project Our associational ladies mission s project of collecting school supplies for missionaries Jon and Mindy Jamison, Director of the Friendship Baptist Center in Des Moines, has been extended to September 20th to be brought to the Mission Center. For those able to attend the WMU Regional Training at Grand Oaks on September 26th, school supplies can be taken there. Mindy Jamison will be one of the special guests at the training. School supplies for the center in Des Moines will be the missions project at Grand Oaks. Churches should already have received information regarding the WMU Regional Training at Grand Oaks on September 26th. If your church has not received the information, let me know. I hope many of our ladies are able to attend. For women who work or have young children and find it difficult to attend missions meetings and programs, there is a new missions opportunity on line called www.mymissionfulfilled.com. Your church may want to have its own online group or join others online. Shelly Sims and I were blessed by our visit to Edinburg s WOM group on Wednesday Evening, July 3rd. What a joy to hear about their various missions projects. We will resume our monthly associational programs/luncheons with the September 17th New Year Celebration announcing our officers for the coming year. Hope you're having a great summer! Bev Martin WMU Director
E-Encourager 3 Check out the assortment of Cookbooks beginning at $5.00. Pie Plates with Christian Sayings or Scriptures New- Spatula s- Great gift items! NKJV Deluxe Gift Edition Bible- $10.00 Holman Bible- $6.00 NKJV- $6.00 New Book- Experiencing God at Home New CD s- Duck Hunter s Bluegrass Gospel, Great Gospel Quartets, 16 Great Praise & Worship Classics, Instrumental Worship Favorites and many more CD s. The Bookstore carries- Bibles; Books for all ages; Devotional Books; Bible Covers; Bible helps including Dictionaries, Concordances; Church Supplies; Listening CD s of all types; Accompaniment CD s; Karaoke; DVD s for all ages: Bookmarks; T-Shirts; Boxed Cards; Leanin Tree Cards; Jewelry; Gift items including Duck Commander, Veggie Tales, Hermie; Children s novelty items; and many more items. Many items discounted or a special sale price. The Story Lives On Celebrate Connect Commit As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard. Acts 4:20 Northwest WMU Retreat Grand Oaks Baptist Assembly, Chillicothe Thursday, September 26, 2013 Cost: $15 that includes lunch Mail registration form to Virginia Stephenson by Thursday, September 19th Mission Project: Friendship Baptist Center, Des Moines, Iowa- Soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant. Winter Items gloves, hats, scarves, coats and sweaters. School supplies paper, notebooks, pencils, pens, crayons, markers, scissors, glue and erasors. Also need diapers. Princeton First Baptist Saturday, 8:00 am August 10, 2013 All Men Invited! August 7 E.J. Barnes 12 Aaron Stark 17 Ron Helton 18 Carolyn Chesnut 19 E.J. & Diann Barnes Gospel Concert by Walter Plant Shelburne Baptist Church August 18, 2013 10:55 am Fellowship meal to follow Come and enjoy the wonderful music of Walter Plant featuring great Gospel music. You will enjoy his unique blending of four keyboards. Walter does not use any sound tracks or tape recorded music. His accomplishments are performed live. Revival Alpha Baptist Church Begins Sunday Morning at 10:30 August 25-28 28- evenings at 7:00 pm Evangelist- Richard Green Worship Leadership Conference September 20-21 MBC, Jefferson City, MO Registration fee is $4o person (early bird by Aug. 20) $50 after. Register online at www.mobaptist.org/worship
E-Encourager 4 BSU @ North Central MO College This summer has been a very packed summer with multiple opportunities to share Jesus story with people of all ages. Our 2 summer missionaries have been incredibly flexible in rising to the challenges of sharing Jesus with children and adults. Between them they have been involved in a mission trip to Canada, Super Summer, Children s Camp, a High School discipleship conference, 6 different VBS (one of those was a 7:30 AM Pancake Bible school-which reached 21 different children), Youth worship services, tutoring at the college, and consistently living out a missional life style for 10 weeks. I praise God for Him sending these two committed Jesus Followers our way. Our Fall semester is quickly approaching. August 17 th, is Move-In Saturday this year. We are again putting together a survival back-pack for dorm students and making 50 more available as gifts by drawing for commuter students on our 1 st Wednesday Free Lunch ministry. We gave back-packs last year for the first time, and we had such a great return on our investment, that we have chosen to use them again this year as welcome gifts. If your church would like to help by donating one type of item tagged with your church name/times of worship/church address to be put into the back-packs, please call me quickly @ 660.654.0785. We will need 175 counts of each item. Some suggested items are: 175 bags of rahmen noodles, 175 flavored tea bags, 175 pencil highlighters (these can be purchased at our bookstore from Debbie), sticky note pads, packets of cocoa, 175 water bottles (we will put a label on these saying Jesus-the Living Water John 4:10,14; 175 Crystal Light flavored packets for the water bottles, small hand sanitizers (bottles or wipes), granola bars, beef jerky, 75 count of men s disposable razors, travel size body lotions, etc. If you have an idea for another type of item, give me a call and let me know. Anything that would be considered a survival item for a college student living in the dorms will be greatly appreciated. We will have a welcome table again that Saturday. Instead of making cookies for the Welcome-Table we ask you to prayerfully consider an item for the Welcomepacks. Cookies in past years have been scrumptious, but students and parents have been so busy getting moved in and settled that too many cookies have been left. If you would still like to make cookies for the table, but be willing to use any left from the event, put your name on your batch and I will return them to you. More than anything, we need your prayers for this weekend and the following 2 weeks. Pray that we will have opportunities to engage in conversation as many of these students as possible. If we don t connect with a student within the first two weeks, inviting them to take part in our BSU ministries, it is very likely that we will never get them to check out the ministry. Another prayer concern is how to raise support for Christina s continued ministry with us on our campus. Many of you know that her NAMB support will end August 2013. This NAMB support has been very nominal each month, but she has been able to stay with us because of her commitment to be obedient. Her continued ministry with us will be an even greater impact this semester than previous semesters because of the foundation she has laid over the last 2 years. Please continue to Pray that God will do a God sized miracle to explode His presence on our North Central Missouri College campus, through Christina, myself, and others as we all seek HIS plan for this year. He Is Worthy to Receive the Rewards of HIS Sacrifice Souls Diann Barnes Saturday August, 17th
E-Encourager 5 Edinburg- The average attendance for June was 36 for Sunday School; 64 for Morning Worship; 52 for Evening Worship and 22 for Wednesday. Medicine Valley- In September we will be doing our annual food drive in our local communities. We plan to distribute grocery sacks to homes throughout the area on September 7 and then pick up the donated items on the following Saturday September 14 Area churches are being invited to collect food, particularly vegetables, during the month of September. We would also welcome the support in this of churches throughout North Grand River Baptist Association. Donations may be left at the Associational Office or with prior scheduling brought to us at either Humphreys or Newtown. In July we have provided assistance to 287 individuals in 89 families. As distribution continues to increase at both points of distribution, Newtown and Humphreys an increasing amount of food products are needed. Funding support for this as well as our other ministries is also an area of growing need. We make one trip to Unionville per month, meeting a Food Bank truck there and either one or two trips monthly to pick up food at the Food Bank in Columbia. Other costs include office and computer supplies, transporting food from Newtown to Humphreys for distribution there and attendance at quarterly and annual Food Bank/Food Pantry meetings and freezer, refrigerator purchase and maintenance. Any help will be greatly appreciated and put to good use. We are in Vacation Bible School this week at Humphreys. We are conducting only the one Bible School this year and are providing transportation from Newtown, Harris and Osgood children who wish to attend. We remain in need of concerned individuals to assist in some basic repairs to our ministry properties as listed in last months Encourager, and in the monthly report to the Advisory Council, and again in the report to the Executive Board. Any help on any of these would be a great blessing as we simply do not have the manpower available to complete these projects. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to all who have shared and who continue to share in these ministries with your donations of time, prayers and funding. God s blessings to all for your support in this mission in your own backyard. Princeton- First Baptist Church of Princeton, welcomes our new Minister and wife, Rev. Dave and Roberta Dennis. The first Sunday of each month church members go to the nursing and residential homes for their services for those who unable to attend church. The WOM 1 & II meet the first Monday and Tuesday each month with a luncheon at noon, our mission project for the month of July was collecting pens, pencils, scissors, glue and etc for the back to school fair. Our youth have been passing out tracts on Sunday evenings, visiting with people in the community and inviting them to Sunday School and Church, and praying for those in spiritual need. Had 12 of our children go to camp this year at Grand Oaks, with 4 adults attending as well. They left July 8th and returned on July 12th. On July 13, Men's monthly breakfast was held at 7:00 AM serving breakfast to 14 attending and delivering 7 meals to shut ins. On July 14, several from the Baptist Church attended the Brush Arbor Services in Lineville, Sunday night. On July 20th the youth are leaving on a Mission Trip to Wyoming, they will be handing out water and scripture that's on the bottles of water during Cheyenne Frontier Days. There's a a total of 13 going and returning on July 27th or 28th, let's keep them in our prayers as they make this journey in the service for the Lord. Vacation Bible School begins July 28th and runs through August 1, time is from 5:30-8:00 PM each evening. The theme this year is Jungle Jaunt.
E-Encourager 6 Spickard- We would like to thank Diann Barnes and her crew of summer missionaries Christina, Ben, Christy, Gracie, Molly and Bola for putting on a 3 day morning backyard VBS in Spickard. Each morning averaged 18 children out at 7:30 am to enjoy a pancake breakfast and to learn about the love of Jesus. You just have to believe that God's hand was in this when you have that many children up and at church at 7:30!!!!! Thanks also to the ladies that came out to help with the breakfast Kathy Rorebeck, Janet Brewer, Jennifer Roberts and Georgetta John. Our average attendance for June was 10 for Sunday School; 22 for Morning Worship; 5 for Evening Worship and 4 for Wednesday. Trenton First- As we reflect on this past summer our church has been so blest with many involved in sharing the gospel through Mission trips to Canada, Haiti, Wyoming, and youth to southern Missouri. At home our own VBS witnessed two accepting Christ as their Savior. They are awaiting baptism. Sunday, July 21st, Richard and Sharon Brummitt shared about their mission trip to Africa working along with IMB missionaries there. September 4th we will begin Awana and our church choir practice will begin. Union Matthew 5:16- Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in Heaven. It has been a busy summer, so we thought everyone needed a rest. There is not much on the calendar to report. We had a great time at the Picnic in the Park to kick-off our VBS 2013: Tell It On The Mountain & enjoyed reaching the children for Christ. So be a good steward of the Word and tell someone about Jesus...Go Tell It On The Mountain & Everywhere: Jesus Christ is King! We also enjoyed a day of fishing; however, the fish made better than we did. The Singspiriation was enjoyed by all...so much God given talent...it was truly a blessing. Every Wednesday night is Supper at 6 pm with Bible Study at 7 pm. Call Ryan Hughs for rides from Brimson at 654-0435 or Mike & Sherry Knapp for rides from Trenton at 789-3841 or Doug & Dianna Crawford at 359-3094. Remember if you are looking for a church home- come worship with us; we would love to have you! We are down home folk that love the Lord! NGR 172nd Annual Meeting Saturday, September 28th Coon Creek Baptist Church Morning Session followed by lunch Please submit Reports & Calendar items by September 6th Don t forget to elect your messengers at your August business meeting. ACP s have been delayed due to printing problems with Lifeway. I have just received them and they will be ready for pickup July 31.
E-Encourager 7 June 2013 Reports Church Giving Monthly Inc. Seminary Checking $450.21 Seminary Savings $2,067.81 Benevolent Savings $744.39 NGR Savings $433.78 BSU June Income to Expense Beginning Balance $7,211.20 Income $2,788.96 Total $10,000.16 Expenses $2,921.44 Ending Balance $7,078.72 General BSU Fund $5,902.81 Designated BSU Fund $1,175.91 North Grand River Baptist Association Church Service Times BSU Inc. SS AM PM Weds. Alpha $ 154.55 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 7:00 Edinburg $ 937.32 $ 104.14 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00 Gallatin $ 696.58 $ 50.00 9:30 10:40 6:00 7:00 Galt $ 164.00 $ 25.00 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00 Jameson 9:30 10:30 Jamesport $ 25.00 $ 25.00 9:45 10:45 7:00 6:30 Laredo $ 271.78 9:30 10:30 6:30 6:30 Lineville $ 358.74 $ 119.58 9:45 10:45 6:30 7:30 M. Valley $ 33.73 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:00 Mercer $ 166.00 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 6:30 Modena $ 151.62 $ 150.00 10:15 9:00 7:30 7:00 Princeton $ 609.51 $ 50.00 9:40 10:40 7:00 7:00 Ravanna $ 88.90 $ 38.10 9:30 10:45 Rural Dale $ 611.29 $ 75.00 9:45 10:35 7:00 7:00 Salem $ 161.99 $ 25.00 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00 Shelburne $ 498.06 $ 75.00 10:00 10:55 6:45 7:00 Spickard 9:30 10:30 6:30 Tenth St. $1,008.12 $ 168.02 9:30 10:30 6:00 7:00 Trenton FB $1,004.07 $ 223.27 9:30 10:40 6:00 6:30 Union $ 276.82 $ 100.00 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00 Total $7,218.08 $1,303.11 Join any of these churches in worship Chilli, FBC $ 45.00 MBC $ 460.00 Gilman BC $ 200.00 Highview BC $ 80.49 June 2013 NGR Account Beginning Balance $4,411.43 Income $10,287.03 Total $14,698.46 Expenses $9,941.03 Ending Balance $4,757.43 Line Items in General Checking Designated Funds $4,394.85 General Fund $362.58 Checking Balance Total $4,757.43 NGR October June 2013 (Does not include designated funds) Income $101,903.82 Expenses $9941.03 Difference $2,424.90 1108 N Main Director of Missions Trenton, MO 64683 Rev. E.J. Barnes Fax: 660.359.0200 Ministry Assistant E-Mail: ngrmission@sbcglobal.net Debbie Dickinson BSU Telephone 660.654.0785 BSU Director DOM s Office 660.359.3365 Telephone 660.359.3897 Diann Barnes Web Page www.northgrandriverbaptist.com
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