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Innovator Florida Baptist Association Tallahassee, Florida Baptist Association www.floridabaptistassociation.org February 2010
Inter-Mission with David David Southerland
In Memoriam Mrs. Christine McCauley went to be with our Lord January 25. Affectionately known as Chris, she was admired for her knowledge of Christian education and loved by those who knew her as a selfless worker and a loyal friend. She loved her family, her association, her church she more than faithfully served, and her hundreds of friends. One of my greatest joys in life was to be called her and Mac’s friend. I say that for all of her friends for I know they gratefully feel as do I. “Well done thou good and faithful servant.”
Operation: Training Church Leadership Annual Discipleship Conference Monday, February 22, 2010 7:00 - 9:00 PM Location: Immanuel Baptist Church 2351 Mahan, Tallahassee
This is your opportunity for a VBS Training Workshop
1. Conflict Management 2. Music Leadership for Smaller Churches 3. Personal Finances 4. Creating and Broadening Kingdom Vision in Our Church 5. Help, I'm the Parent of a Teenager 6. Unchristian (How do some people see the church? How can we be a clear witness?) 7. VBS Training: Bible Study, Music, Crafts and Mission Stories
Child Care Provided (Infant-Grade 5) Conference Cost: Free Sponsored by: Florida Baptist Association
Pastors Stewardship Meeting DATE: Thursday, February 11 TIME: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm (Lunch Included) PLACE: Florida Baptist Association Office 1839 Jaclif Court, Tallahassee LEADER: Bill Hild
This meeting is for pastors and any church staff members the pastor wishes to invite.
The Pastors Stewardship Meeting will feature the following new stewardship materials: • Church Giving Matters • Unlimited… God’s Grace and Glory • How to Grow a Strong Stewardship Church • Giving Empowered by Grace • Give – Finish with Satisfaction • Church Financial Guidebook
The packet of new materials is available only at this association stewardship meeting. Please mark the date on calendar now and plan to attend. (Please RSVP - 877-7600)
Ideas for Impact Garry Goodin
10 MISSION CHURCHES BEING PLANTED NEED HELP If your church is considering a local mission project this summer, there are ten local churches being planted that might welcome your help. - There are four church plants that could use some help with painting and yard work for their facility - All ten might like help for one week with a VBS, camp or special event this summer - Most would appreciate donations of sound equipment, children’s supplies or discipleship supplies to use with small groups or Sunday School classes - Many could use help to pay for a mail-out or some radio spots - Do you have 5 couples who would come help the church plant with children’s, youth, outreach, music or adult ministry for one year? - Do you have any small group leaders who could give the church plant one year to help them get a small group Bible study going in a home? If your church would like to provide some help to a church plant, please call Garry Goodin at the Association office, 877-7600
Getting the Most out of Your Association… Blog: Emil Turner, shared by Rich Kincl, Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church Executive Director of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention Friday, 15 January, 2010 If every denominational entity in the SBC burns down tonight, if there are no more seminaries, no more mission boards, no state conventions, if it all disappears, the first manifestation of the SBC structure would be recreated tomorrow: the Associations. They would be re-created almost immediately. Local churches have always banded together regionally for fellowship, mutual support, and cooperative ministries. The impulse to cooperate is not just cultural, it is Biblical. It is unimaginable that Jesus expected individuals and churches to function separately from every other individual and church. Associations will remain a part of the SBC for as long as the SBC endures.
How can you get the most out of the Association? Participate. Attend the meetings, give your opinions, and get involved in the Associational ministries…
Support it financially. Put the Association in the budget of your church and get involved financially in the special projects of the Association…
Involve your church members. Encourage them to go on the associational mission trips. Encourage them to participate in the association training meetings. Let the Associational Missionary preach while you are present at your church. Brag on him.
Befriend the Associational Missionary. He is an asset. He knows more folks in the association, and he knows people in the state convention who can help you. He is a man who cares about you and your church and there are not many like him.
“My people are not interested in the Association” is a cop-out. Your church members care about what you care about. If you lead them to be involved in the Association, they will care about it. It is your leadership that makes it happen, not their “interest.” Be the leader.
Ralph Webber was the first Associational Missionary I ever knew. He prayed for me and with me. He told me what to expect in my first church, and he grieved with me, and rejoiced with me. You will be better and your church will have greater resources as a result.
Florida Disaster Relief Ministry 2010 Regional Training Events 9:00 AM –3:00 PM March 20 Region 2 Gateway BC, Lake City March 27 Region 6 FBC Punta Gorda April 17 Region 3 San Jose BC, Jacksonville May 1 Region 5 Trinity BC , Apopka May 15 Region 7 Christ Fellowship, Miami - Downtown Campus June 5 Region 1 Cinco BC, Ft. Walton June 26 Region 4 Idlewild BC, Tampa
Training Provided in these Disaster Ministry Areas: Mass Feeding Cleanup & Recovery - Administration - Temporary Childcare Emergency Communications - Spiritual Care - Water Purification First Time Volunteers - Registration Fee $30 per person Returning Volunteers - Registration Fee $15 per person
Quick FAQs Who should attend this training? (1) Anyone who wants to become a new volunteer in the Florida Baptist Disaster Ministry or (2) Any previously trained volunteer who wants additional training or needs to retrain. (Volunteers must retrain every 3 years) Why do I have to be trained to be a volunteer? Emergency Management Officials now require all volunteers to be credentialed by an organization like ours before they are allowed to work in a disaster response area. Our training is designed to meet these requirements and prepare volunteers to do effective ministry when called upon. How do I register? There is no pre-registration. Register at the event site between 8:30 AM & 9:00 AM the day of the event. Why is there a fee to attend? The cost of training a new volunteer is more than $40. The fee is to help us offset some of the costs. Participants will receive DR shirt & hat, ID badge, training material, instruction and lunch for attending. What about lunch? Lunch is prepared by trained feeding volunteers on one of our feeding units at the event. The cost of the meal is included in the registration fee. What about time zones? The schedule is based on the time zone of the event site. Why isn’t there an event closer to me? The training season can only be done between March and June because we have to be ready to respond to our most likely disaster, hurricanes, between July –October. With a limited number of weekends available, we have to do regional events. Our goal is to have at least 1 event within a 2 1/2 hour drive for volunteers to attend. We move the sites to different associations from year to year within specific regions.
Florida Baptist Children's Home Buckets of Hope You can change a life in Haiti by filling a Bucket of Hope for a Haitian family still suffering from the devastating effects of the earthquake that occurred on January 12th. You can help by purchasing a white plastic five-gallon bucket and packing it with rice, cooking oil, black beans, flour, sugar, spaghetti noodles, and peanut butter. Once the food supplies are used, Haitian families will find multiple everyday uses for the bucket. In addition, we are requesting that you include a $10 cash contribution in an envelope attached to the lid of the bucket. These funds will help offset the cost of transporting the relief buckets to Haiti. Buckets can be dropped off at the Florida Baptist Children's Home in Tallahassee. More specific information is available on our website at www.fbchomes.org
Association Calendar February 3-5 State Board of Missions - Lake Yale 11 What’s New in Stewardship Conf., 10:30 am - Noon, Assoc. Office (Lunch provided) 20 VBS Regional Training - FBC, Chipley 21 Association Youth Musical, Immanuel Baptist Church, 6:00 pm 22 OPERATION: Training Church Leadership, Immanuel Baptist Church, 7:00-9:00 pm 24-26 Global Focus, North Florida Christian (For Information, 385-7181) 25 Ron Rickner Minister's Conf. - Helping Sexually Compulsive Persons, 8:15 am - Noon, Killearn United Methodist Church ($30 per person) March 9 Family Champion Network Regional Conf. 11 Association Directors Mtg., Assoc. Office, 12:00 Noon 14 Daylight Savings Time 18 Association Council Mtg., Grace Baptist Church, 10:30 am Fellowship, 11:00 Mtg. (Lunch following meeting)
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