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Ongoing MinistriesExecutive Board Meeting Sunday, July 10th at 2:30 p.m., LCC An Executive Board Meeting is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, July 10th, at 2:30 p.m. at the Lee Conference Center. The Executive Board consists of the Pastors and one elected representative from each church. Please make an effort to attend so you can take part in the business of your Association.
WMU - Rita Bilbo I went to the voting precinct last Tuesday to cast my ballot in the election. The word that resonated in my head was Freedom. We in the USA can still voice our opinion and vote for the candidate we choose. We should never take our freedom for granted. When I see the US flag flying, I am reminded of those men and women that have served and died for our Freedom. Several of my family members have served in the Armed Forces. My dad was only 17 years old when he joined to serve in World War II. I have a great nephew, and my granddaughter, Katie, who served, or are serving, in the United States Air Force. I am sure you probably can name several of your family members who served, or are serving, our country. Because of their service, we can proudly salute our flag. Thank you.
LET FREEDOM RING!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA! God Bless you, my brothers and sisters in Christ. Rita
Union Baptist Kindergarten and Academy The Union Baptist Church School is now taking applications for teaching positions for the 2022-2023 School Year. You may pick up an application at the Union Baptist Church Office. There is still time to enroll your child between the ages of 3 years and 12th grade for the upcoming year. If you would like more information, please call the UBA office at 601.799.2181, or the UBK office at 601.798.8999.
Goodyear BC Upward Soccer Online registration begins July 1st https://registration.upward.org/UPW82263. To volunteer follow this link: https://registration.upward.org/UPW82263/volunteer. Follow our Facebook page Goodyear Baptist Church Sports Ministries for updates. ROLLING HILLS THIRSTY THURSDAY BIBLE STUDY: 10:30 a.m. every 2nd & 4th Thursday. This is an on-going study. All are welcome, and lunch is served following. Current study is Dr. David Jeremiah’s 10-week “Is this the End?”, which looks at 10 major developments in America and the world that almost defied imagination.
IMPACT Training-Sept. 8, 5:15-8:30 p.m. (dinner provided) FBC Gulfport This event is for pastors, and leaders of adults, youth, children, and preschool. The training is for lay leaders and church staff. The focus of the training will be disciple-making with emphasis on both reaching the lost and discipling the saved. To register go to MBCB.org; click on events; locate this particular training; click open. Mark the form as needed, then be sure to click on the FBC Gulfport location.
ATTENTION ACP CONTACT PERSON: The ACP (Annual Church Profile) is due Friday, September 9, 2022! If you need help with this in ANY way, do not hesitate to call, text, or e-mail me!! Linda Fay
GROUNDS UPKEEP Dates mowing/grounds care needed: July 22-23 Sept. 30– Oct. 1
THANKS TO THOSE WHO’VE COME!! UPCOMING MOWERS: July 8-9- Unity; Aug. 5-6- Rolling Hills; Aug. 19-20- Bethel July 2022 4 Independence Day- OFFICES CLOSED 10 Executive Board Meeting; 2:30 p.m.; LCC *12-15 SMACK (Summer Music & Arts Camp for Kids); 1 pm (12th)-8 pm (15th); William Carey, Hattiesburg (*Date Changed from MBCB Calendar) 11-15 Christian Leadership Institute; 4 p.m. (11th)- 1:00 p.m. (15th); Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain
August 2022 1 Minister’s Fellowship; 10:30 a.m.; FBC Carriere 3 Prayer Walk Schools/Teacher Appreciation: 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. each campus 6 Son & Father Fishing Rodeo; 6:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; Association Lakes September 2022 - Margaret Lackey State Missions Offering Emphasis 5 Labor Day; Offices Closed 6 Men’s Ministry Meeting; 6:30 p.m.; Corinth 8 Senior Adult Choir Festival; 10:30 - Noon; LCC 9 Synchrony; 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; (Preschool-College Ministry Training); 12 Minister’s Fellowship; 10:30 a.m.; FBC Poplarville 22 See You at the Pole STAYING CONNECTED July 2022 “Sit down, be quiet, and do not speak unless you are spoken to.” – That is not the way Pastor Arthur and the adult leaders at Shiloh Baptist Church are training their youth. “Let no one despise you because of your youth” (1Tim. 4:12); “What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also” (2 Tim. 2:2); and “May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace” (Psalm 144:12). Perhaps these are the scriptures that led the thoughts of Shiloh Baptist as they set their youth free to become leaders and disciple-makers in the church. For several years the Shiloh Baptist youth have been learning hands-on what it means to lead and disciple children as they have been taking charge of their summer kids camp. One week every summer at the Lee Conference Center, the youth are guiding the campers through Bible stories, songs, skits, and activities. This is one of the greatest tools of leadership development the church can invest in their students. They have three layers of disciples: adult chaperones, youth workers, and the kids. The adults are guiding and outlining the process, but the teens are working it out. They are learning teamwork, growing in relationship with one another, feeling out their individual spiritual gifts, stretching outside of their comfort zones, and learning to serve others. The kids are learning the Word of God, the example of older brothers and sisters in Christ, and they are having a ball.
Let’s keep making disciple-making disciples, Bro. Tony 
Let’s keep it simple Now that the SBC has at least started the process of addressing the sexual abuse issue, you may be wondering what the next hot button issue will be. It actually began stirring at the same convention, when Rick Warren and the Saddle Back Church were in threat of being expunged from membership in the SBC for having ordained three women as pastors. When allowed to speak to his position, his only semblance at a defense was to suggest a difference between the office of pastor and what he considers to be a “spiritual gift of pastor.” This sparked some debate during the convention as to what really is the role of pastor. Hopefully this issue will be quickly dealt with in the ranks of our convention churches as Scripture is very clear when it comes to who can serve as a pastor. I believe the BF&M 2000 summarizes it best: “A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture. The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.” Matthew 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42,47; 5:11-14; 6:3-6; 13:1-3; 14:23,27; 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 3:16; 5:4-5; 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11,21; 5:22-32; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:18; 1 Timothy 2:9-14; 3:1-15; 4:14; Hebrews 11:39-40; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Revelation 2-3; 21:2-3.
7451 Highway 43 North Sunday, March 1 – Services on Sunday will begin with Prayer at 9:15 a.m. Services will start at 6:30 p.m. each night Bro. Todd Allen will be preaching and The Allen Family will lead the music.
Mowing/Weed Eating Needed! Thank You!!!
We so appreciate the churches that volunteered last year to help mow and weed eat here at the Association! The schedule is listed below, and if your church would care to volunteer, you can contact the Association office at this number: 601.798.2372 Thanks again!!!
April 3-4, 17-18; May 1-2, 15-16,29-30; June 12-13, 19-20; July 10-11, 24-25; Aug. 7-8, 21-22; Sept. 4-5, 18-19; Oct. 2-3, 16-17, 30-31
Organ For SaleFlat Top Unity is selling their organ. If you, or your church, would be interested, please contact Cindy Mitchell at the following number: 601.569.3863
March 2020-Annie Armstrong Easter Offering
1-8 North American Missions (WMU Emphasis) Annie Armstrong Offering 2 Minister’s Fellowship; 10:30 a.m.-Noon; LCC 2 Church Safety for Minors Workshop; 8:30 a.m. -2:30 p.m.; Temple BC; Hattiesburg 3 Men’s Ministry Meeting; 6:30 p.m.; FBC Poplarville
3 Church Safety for Minors Workshop; 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; FBC Gulfport 8 Daylight Savings Time Begins (Spring Forward) 9 Senior Day Luncheon; 10:30 a.m.-Noon; LCC 10 Substance Abuse Prevention 27-28 VBS Kickoff Weekend; 7:00 p.m. (27th)-Noon (28th); Garaywa Camp, Clinton 30-31 Ministry Assistants’ Conf.; 8:30 a.m. (30th)-4:00 p.m. (31st); Garaywa, Clinton 31 VBS Training; 6:30 p.m. -8:00 p.m.; FBC Gulfport, Gulfport
April 2020
4 State Speakers’ Tournament; 9:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; FBC Ridgeland, Ridgeland 6 Minister’s Fellowship; 10:30 a.m.; New Buffet City, Picayune
7 Church Security Seminar; 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; FBC Biloxi
10 GOOD FRIDAY; Office Closed
12 EASTER (He is Risen, Indeed!)
13 WEDNESDAY, Assoc. Bible Drill; 6:30 p.m.; Central
18 State Bible Drill (Sat.); 10 am-1 pm; Hardy St. BC, Hattiesburg 22 State Preaching Conference; 8:30 am-2:00 pm;; William Carey Univ., Hattiesburg 23 Association Ministry Assistants’ Lunch; 11:00 a.m.; LCC 24-25 Son & Father Campout; 6:00 p.m.-Noon; Association Grounds
**Those bolded are new items to the calendars.
From Carl’s Desk March 1-8, 2020 is the Week of Prayer for North American Missions. This week is also the beginning of the 2020 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions. The offering goal this year is $70 Million Dollars. One hundred percent of the gifts given to the Annie Armstrong Easter offering are used to support Southern Baptist Missionaries serving in the USA, US Territories, and Canada. The theme this year is: It’s All About the Gospel with 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 as focal scripture: “For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: That Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, That He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures…” 1 Corinthians 15:3-4, CSB North American Mission Board (NAMB) Missionaries are involved in planting churches dedicated to ensuring that those who hear the good news of Jesus Christ are firmly planted in the gospel and are bearing fruit. Our NAMB Missionaries cannot do it alone. They need our prayers, support, and commitment.
The Week of Prayer emphasis for 2020 presents six missionary couples to represent the work of more than 5,000 North American missionaries: Dave & Mary Elliff Church Planters- Seattle, Washington J.D. & Andreina Fasolino Church Planters- Toronto, Ontario Kirk & Karen Kirkland Church Planters- Cincinnati, Ohio Jonathan & Yesenia Santiago Church Planters- Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Rob & Annabeth Wilton Church Planters- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mojic & Munkho Baldandorj Church Planters- Denver, Colorado Prayer Request from the Missionaries: Elliff’s: For hearts of people to be prepared for the gospel in Roosevelt Community.
Fasolino’s: For Emmanuel Baptist Church to create community and family for those who are lonely and isolated. Kirkland’s: For their plans to plant a third Church in Cincinnati. Santiago’s: That God will open doors to share the gospel. Wilton’s: For more church planting missionaries who feel called to Pittsburg. Baldandorj’s: For true spiritual revival among Mongolians in Denver. ANNIE ARMSTRONG EASTER OFFERING® (AAEO) FAST FACTS Because You Give . . . · $ 5- Bus fare for travel in the local community · $ 25–Meal with an unreached person · $ 85- Subscriptions for training resources. · $ 100- Anniversary gift for a missionary couple · $ 300- Training and conferences for church planter’s wife · $ 500- Neighborhood outreach event · $1,000- Emergency travel assistance for missionary family · $1,200– Bibles, gospel tracts, and discipleship materials · $1,400– Monthly worship facility rent These are only a few examples of the many ways your gifts train, resource, and support missionaries on the field throughout the U.S. Matthew 28: 19-20 Acts 1:8 Serving Together In Christ, Carl
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Debbie Eubanks was invited to go to Uganda in May to participate in shoe box distributions for Operation Christmas Child. She found it a very enlightening experience and would like to share over the summer on Sunday nights, Wednesday nights or during the week for any special groups that might be interested. She has pictures, short videos, and items to display. Debbie can be reached at 228-832-6237 or eubanksdj@bellsouth.net at anytime.
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