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BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
Sandy Run Baptist Association
10/03
10/04
10/05
10/06
10/06
10/09
10/09
10/14
10/20
10/25
10/31
Wedding Anniversaries
Rev. & Mrs. Raymond Byrd
Rev. & Mrs. Chris Hensley
Rev. & Mrs. Chris Fox
Rev. & Mrs. Mike Conner
Rev. & Mrs. Leroy Bridges
Retired
Drury Dobbins
Bethany
Corinth
Pores Ford
10/11
10/15
10/20
10/27
10/29
Church Secretaries
Mrs. Ginger Penson
Mrs. Crystal Smith
Cliffside
Florence
10/02
10/28
828-245-2613 Phone
828-245-2805 Fax
s_assn@bellsouth.net
www.sandyrunba.com
Rev. Marvin Green
Director Of Missions
greenmc@bellsouth.net
Mrs. Loretta Winters
Administrative Assistant
lorettaswinters@bellsouth.net
Annual Meetings of the SRBA 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Bethel Baptist Church,
379 East Mail Street, Ellenboro, NC 28040
6:30 p.m.
Remember these churches as they
Seek God’s choice in pastoral leadership.
Broad River
High Shoal
Liberty
Mt. Pleasant ©
Prospect
Sandy Mush
Temple
OPEN
Rev. John Godfrey, Interim
Dr. Scott Thompson, Interim
OPEN
Rev. Dennis Spencer, Interim
OPEN
OPEN
YOUTH MINISTERS
MONTHLY FELLOWSHIP
All youth ministers from
Rutherford and Cleveland Counties
are invited to attend a monthly
meeting held at the Sandy Run
Baptist Resource Center. We meet
the first Tuesday of each month at
7:00 p.m.
Sandy Run Baptist Association
186 Puzzle Creek Road
Bostic, NC 28018
Pastor’s Conference Preaching Schedule
Marvin Green
Jim Colon
Larry Ford
Brian Rome
The Call To Be On Mission
The Destination Could Be anywhere
Sometime Chosen ~ Sometime Chosen For Us
Paths That Lead To Destinations
Churches
Registration 6:00 p.m.
October 6th
October 13th
October 20th
October 27th
PATHWAYS
ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED
Mt. Harmony
Cane Creek
Bethany
Retired
Mtn. View
Retired
Mt. Pleasant ®
True Word
Retired
Fairview
Crossway
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Birthdays
Rev. Eugene Passmore
Mrs. Danny Camp (Dawn)
Mrs. Chris Fox (Jamie)
Rev. Raymond Byrd
Mrs. Clayton Hartsell (Jane)
Rev. Ed Rogers
Mrs. Bob Philbeck (Nancy)
Rev. Eddie McKinney
Mrs. Eddie Rape (Nancy)
Mrs. David Ledford (Tina)
Rev. Pherson Weatherman
Non-Profit Organization
U. S. Postage Paid
Forest City, NC
Permit No. 36
SRBA Contact Info.
For more information call:
Howie Lederfind at (828)429-7968.
Our Mission as a Baptist Association
Our mission is to be a body of cooperating Southern Baptist churches for
the purpose of promoting missions, ministry, and evangelism within the
local churches of the Sandy Run Baptist Association.
Bethany
Bethel
Big Springs
Bostic First
Broad River
Calvary
Campfield Memorial
Cane Creek
Caroleen
Chase
Cliffside
Concord
Corinth
Crestview
Cristo Vive Iglesia
Crossway
Drury Dobbins
Element
Fairview
Faith
First Broad
Florence
Floyd’s Creek
Forest Lake
Gantt’s Grove
Glenwood
Goode’s Creek
Gray’s Creek
Harmon Street
Harris First
Haynes Memorial
Henrietta First
Hick’s Grove
High Shoal
Holly Springs
Iglesia Baptista Libertad
Lavonia
Liberty
Mt. Harmony
Mt. Lebanon
Mt. Olivet
Mt. Pleasant ©
Mt. Pleasant ®
Mtn. View
New Bethel
Pilgrim
Piney Mtn.
Plainview
Pores Ford
Prospect
Race Path
Riverside
Sandy Level
Sandy Mush
Sandy Run
Shiloh
Smith Grove
Temple
True Word
Victory
Walls
Wilson
OCTOBER 2014
Pastor's
Appreciation Month
For giving of yourself,
your time and your many gifts….
Thank you.
For loving the Lord and extending
that love to His people….
Thank you.
For answering the call of the
Shepherd to feed His sheep….
Thank you.
For serving, sharing, praying, leading…
For all the ways you minister
big and small…
Thank you.
You’re A Blessing!
Your love has given me great joy and
encouragement, because you...have
refreshed the hearts of the saints.
Philemon 1:7 NIV
ANNUAL MEETING 2014
Bethel Baptist Church, Ellenboro, NC
Monday, October 27th, & Tuesday, October 28th
Registration 6:00 p.m. Meeting begins at 6:30 p.m.
Everyone is invited to come out and join us in two nights of Praise,
Prayer and Worship. On Monday night our guest speaker will be
Mike Sowers, Strategic Coordinator, NC Baptist Convention office.
On Tuesday night Mark Abernathy, Consultant with NC Baptist
Men. Come join us as we share what God has done through our
churches and pray together for the days ahead.
Michael Sowers has had the privilege of serving North Carolina
Baptists for 17 years as a youth pastor, senior pastor and as the Great
Commission Partnerships Consultant. He now serves as the BSCNC
Strategy Coordinator for the Triad area. Before serving NC Baptist
churches, Michael spent five years in the United States Coast Guard in
Kodiak, Alaska, as a search and rescue flight mechanic.
Michael is married to Sara and they have two children, Andrew and Luke.
It is Michael’s passion to assist churches in taking the gospel of Jesus Christ to those in our
state, North America and the world who have little or no access to its eternal, transforming
power.
Mark D. Abernathy has served with NC Baptist Men since 1994. He began
serving as a consultant for children/Royal Ambassadors and as director of
Camp Caraway for Boys. Mark now serves as consultant for adult/men’s
ministries and partnership missions. His previous experience includes
serving as a chaplain, as director of the Kentucky State RA Camp, and as a
journeyman missionary for the Foreign Mission Board (now International
Mission Board).
The third annual “Coats for the City” is scheduled for Dec.
11-13 in New York City. Coats for the City is an event
hosted in partnership between the Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina’s Office of Great Commission Partnerships and the Metropolitan New York Baptist Association
(MNYBA).
Coats for the City provides warm coats to needy
people in New York and opportunities for local churches and
church planters to meet local residents and share the gospel in a city where it is estimated that
less than three percent of the population know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
During last year’s event, North Carolina Baptists collected and helped distribute
more than 5,000 coats, Bibles and Jesus films at 14 distribution sites across all five boroughs of
New York City.
The goal for 2014 is to distribute 30,000 coats, hats and gloves and to give either a
Bible or Jesus film in the language of the person receiving the coat.
“When you give to Coats for the City, you are partnering with churches and church
plants in New York City that are making a difference in one of the world’s most influential
cities,” said Chuck Register, BSCNC executive leader for church planting and missions
partnerships. “This is a strategic opportunity for North Carolina Baptists to impact lostness in
a city that desperately needs the gospel.”
North Carolina Baptist churches can participate in Coats for the City in a number of
ways, beginning by collecting coats.
Churches are asked to collect new or gently used coats, sorted into heavy-duty lawn
bags for men, women and children and deliver them to a number of statewide collection
centers by October 31. Convention staffers will then pick up the coats and deliver them by
truck to New York. To view a list of collection centers, click here.
North Carolina Baptists are also encouraged to help distribute the coats in New
York. Volunteers who want to help distribute the coats are asked to commit to: arrive in New
York by the evening of Thursday, Dec. 11; attend a training session in New York on Friday,
Dec. 12; be prepared to pray and share the gospel with those they engage as they distribute
coats on Saturday, Dec. 13.
Housing for 40 volunteers will be available in the MNYBA office in Manhattan;
other housing can be arranged as needed. Volunteers will need to pay for transportation,
lodging and meals.
For more information about Coats for the City, visit www.ncbaptist.org/coats or contact Abby
Edwards at (800) 395-5102, ext. 5536 or e-mail at aedwards@ncbaptist.org.
He has participated or led mission trips to Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Puerto Rico, India,
Kenya, Lesotho and Mozambique.
Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Appalachian State University and his
master of divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Please remember these churches and the pastor during your weekly Prayer
Service.
Mark and his wife, Kellie, have a daughter, Ashley, and a son, Aaron. Mark enjoys
backpacking, photography and sports.
Matthew 21:22 "And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will
receive."
NATIONAL BOSS’S DAY
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16TH
A Godly Leader
Finds strength by realizing his weakness
Finds authority by being under authority,
Finds direction by laying down his own plans
Finds vision by seeing the needs of others
Finds credibility by being an example
Finds loyalty by expressing compassion
Finds honor by being faithful
Finds greatness by being a servant
Roy Lession
Week 1:
Mountain View
Rev. Clayton Hartsell
Week 2:
New Bethel
Rev. Stephen Matheny
Week 3:
Pilgrim
Rev. Bruce Duncan
Week 4:
Piney Mountain
Rev. Terry Padgett
From the Directors Heart
For more than twenty-five years I have used the Radio Bible Class Ministries
“Our Daily Bread” devotional in my daily quiet time. How God has blessed me
through it many times over. However, I have added Christian books and other
materials that have blessed me also. One of my favorite devotionals is I Exalt
You, O God: Encountering His Greatness in Your Private Worship by
Jerry Bridges. I want to share a recent devotion with you entitled Only By His
Blood. “In responding to God’s holiness, we’ll also want to grow in gratitude
to God for His mercy to us through Christ. We continually sin against His
perfect moral purity, and our sin is aggravated by the greatness of His
transcendent majesty. Each of us has committed high treason against the
supreme, exalted Ruler of the universe----and we’ve done it again and again and
again.
Yet God has not dealt with us in perfect justice as He could have. Rather He
has extended mercy to us at the cost of His own dear Son. Surely such grace
calls forth our deepest heartfelt gratitude. As those who have been forgiven
much, we should love much (Luke 7:47).
Now we may enter into His presence with adoring reverence. In Old
Testament times God dwelt symbolically in the Most Holy Place of the
tabernacle or temple. Only the high priest was allowed to enter there, and then
only once a year, and never without the blood of atonement. God
demonstrated His holiness by maintaining this separation from the sinful
people.
But all that has changed. When Jesus died on the cross, the temple curtain
barring the way into the Most Holy Place was torn in two from top to bottom.
Jesus opened the way of access for sinners to come into God’s holy presence.
In fact He invites us to come. We’re all invited (not just the high priest), and we
may come continually (not just once a year). ‘Therefore, brothers since we have
confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus…let us draw
near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith’ (Hebrews 10:19,22).
One thing hasn’t changed, however----the necessity of blood. In Old Testament times it was the blood of the sacrificial animal; now it is the blood of
Jesus. We can come boldly and continually, but we must always come through
the blood of Christ. Only He provides entry for sinners into fellowship with a
holy God.
Had sin never entered the world, it still would be fitting for us to bow in
reverential awe before Him. We would gladly join the seraphs in calling out,
‘Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.
But sin did enter the world----and because of His holiness, God now reveals
Himself as the hater of sin and the just punisher of sinners. But He also reveals
Himself in the person of His Son as a merciful and gracious Savior. Our awe of
His holiness can be joined with amazement at His love.”
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Love in Christ,
Marvin Green
Floyd’s Creek Baptist Church in Forest City, North Carolina is currently seeking a
Our desire is following the Lord’s direction and leadership in finding the right minister for our
church. We believe that music plays a vital role in our worship services.
Henrietta First Baptist will be starting an Awana Ministry program on
Sunday evenings from 6:00 -7:30 p.m.. The first night for this ministry is
October 5, 2014. All children from 3 years old through high school seniors
are invited to attend.
Some of the responsibilities include the following:
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Selecting and leading music for corporate worship, choir and other special music
for the services.
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Leading praise team and choir rehearsal.
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Proficient in reading music and understanding of general music terminology.
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Working directly with the pastor in planning worship services.
We will also have an adult Bible Study during this same time so that
parents are encouraged to learn along with their children about God and His
Word.
For more information:
Contact
Part Time Worship Music Minister.
Our church is less than an hours drive from the NGU campus. Our services use a blended
music style.
If you feel lead to speak with us further about this opportunity we ask that you email your
resume and cover letter to floydscreekchurch@gmail.com or you may call the office at 828245-1059.
Pastor Trent C. Keeton
Henrietta First Baptist Church
Henrietta, NC
828-657-5991—www.facebook/com/firstbaptistofhenrietta
HENRIETTA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Seeking Part-Time Youth/Children’s Minister
Henrietta First Baptist is currently seeking a Part-Time Youth/Children’s Minister. If you feel called by God to work with youth, please prayerfully consider
this position. This is a great opportunity for the right person. If you feel God
leading you into working with youth, please call the church office with any
question you may have. You may also mail your resume to:
Henrietta First Baptist Church—c/o Youth/Children’s Search Committee
PO Box 265—Henrietta, NC 28076—828-657-5991
Following the ONE, Loving All, Reaching All, Teaching All
Luke 9:23
Concord Baptist Church in Bostic, NC (about 15-20 minutes from GardnerWebb) is looking for a Part-time Youth Pastor.
This minister will be responsible for leading and teaching grades 6th-12th and
engaging them in the mission and vision of the church to reach others for Christ. We
are looking for someone who shares in our Vision to share Christ, and disciple
believers. One who has a passion for teenagers and desires to use their calling to
serve the Lord.
Send Resume' and letter of interest to:
Concord Baptist Church—PO Box 70—Bostic, NC 28018
Attn: Youth Pastor Search Committee or call 828-429-3758 for more info.
When: Sun. October 19, 2014
Time: 6 pm
Where: The Foundation at Isothermal Community College,
Spindale NC
Cost: FREE Event
PG 15
Contact Person: Marvin Green, 828-245-2613
November Events
Please submit your resume to:
Floyd's Creek Baptist Church, 2004 Chase High Rd., Forest City, NC 28043
Call the church office at 828-245-1059 for additional details.
Focus on the Family’s “Irreplaceable” Movie Event:
Hosted by the If My People Prayer Ministry
November 2
Daylight Savings Time
November 3
WMU Day of Prayer
November 17 - 24
OCC Collection Week
November 27
Thanksgiving Day
Irreplaceable a feature length documentary, asks the questions "What's
wrong with the Family? And what can we do about it?" Irreplaceable
can equip your church members with the facts, information and
real-life stories needed to better understand God's design for family.
Viewers will be able to confidently engage their neighbors, friends,
songs and daughters on issues like casual sex, marriage and
fatherlessness.
Help strengthen families in your community with this compelling
new movie from Focus on the Family!
LOTTIE MOON CHRISTMAS OFFERING
WEEK OF PRAYER
NOVEMBER 30TH - DECEMBER 7TH
NOTE: Some of the subject matter in Irreplaceable covers topics that deal
with sexuality and family issues that may be too explicit for
children. You know your children best, but Focus on the Family
suggests ages 15 and older.
TO: Churches, Pastors, & Messengers of the SRBA
Question;
Would you like to see the Association plan and conduct training for women’s
ministries, men’s ministries, evangelism, missions, Deacons, etc.? How
about marriage conferences, Sunday School conferences, or Financial
planning?
Many of our churches do a lot of these things individually to benefit and
grow individual ministries, which in turn should grow the Kingdom of God.
Many of our churches are smaller and would like to provide these types of
training but cannot afford to do so as an individual church.
This is one of the purposes of being apart of an association. An association
of churches should pray together, serve the Lord together, and be trained
together. Think of how much more could be done for the Lord if we all
combined our resources for training and service.
Problem;
The Association’s budget for “program” training is extremely limited, only
$550 available for a year. To benefit the Kingdom of God by training our
people so that they are equipped to serve in their God called area of ministry,
we need to give so that the funds will be available to do as many different
ministry trainings as possible.
Answer;
At the August Executive Board meeting, we delivered a challenge to the
pastors and messengers. The challenge was as follows;
We challenge every church in the SRBA, to prayerfully consider giving a
one time financial gift of $100 DESIGNATED to the “Program Line” of
the 2015 Budget, at the annual meeting in October.
Southern Sounds Quartet: 20th Anniversary Concert
Red Box Women’s Prison Ministry
The WMU will be collecting Chap Stick for the Red Box Women’s
Prison Ministry. You can drop these by the Sandy Run Baptist
Association office Monday thru Thursday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm or you can
bring them to the Association Annual Meeting on October 27th & 28th at Bethel
Baptist Church in Ellenboro.
On Saturday, October 4 at 6:30 PM in the Corinth Baptist Church
sanctuary, Southern Sounds Quartet will celebrate 20 years singing gospel
music with a concert featuring former members Terry Roach, Ray Wilson,
Greg Millwood, Shawn Blanton and Jeff Hamrick as well as current members Russell Reep, David Murray, Gene Shell, Scott Morrow and David
Bradley.
Rick Strickland (former tenor with J D Sumner & The Stamps) will be our
special guest.
Corinth Baptist Church is located at 767 Pinehurst Road, Ellenboro, NC.
Everyone is invited!
We ask that you give this $100 designated gift over and above the normal
general budget giving that your church gives yearly or monthly. If every
church would accept this challenge, it would provide and additional $6,300 to
the “program” line of the 2015 budget. Think about how many different
training conferences could be done in the next year to benefit your people,
this county, and the growth of God’s Kingdom.
We ask for you to share this with your congregation, commit to prayerfully
seek God, and then be obedient. We will take a designated offering (Tuesday
night) for this at the Annual SRBA meeting in October. We look forward to
what God is going to do!
In Christ!
Rev. Scott Huffman – Campfield Memorial Baptist Church
SRBA – Moderator
Rev. Chris Fox – Bethany Baptist Church
SRBA – Vice Moderator & Finance Committee Chair