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North Grand River Baptist Association

The Encourager 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

Volume 40, Number 9

September, 2016

“Churches working together to fulfill Jesus’ Great Commission.”“Churches working together to fulfill Jesus’ Great Commission.”“Churches working together to fulfill Jesus’ Great Commission.”“Churches working together to fulfill Jesus’ Great Commission.” Matthew 28:18Matthew 28:18Matthew 28:18Matthew 28:18----20202020

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

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Edinburg Gallatin

Galt

Jamesport Laredo

Lineville

Medicine Valley Mercer

Modena

Princeton Ravanna

Rural Dale

Salem Shelburne

Spickard*

Tenth Street Trenton First

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North Grand River Baptist Association Annual Meeting

CELEBRATING 175 Years

Seminary Extension Celebrating 50 Years!

NGR Seminary Extension is the longest ongoing Seminary in the nation.

September 10, 2016 at Princeton First Baptist Church

Registration begins at 8:30 am, Meeting begins at 9:00 am

Brad Paisley will be singing from 8:45 to 9:00 am

BRING 2 COVERED DISHES (Salad, Vegetable or Dessert) Princeton FBC will provide the meat

Celebration cups will be available to purchase for $3.00

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Wanted, women who are

Mission minded to Unite The kickoff meeting for the 2016-2017 associational WMU will be Tuesday September 20th at 10:30 am in the mission center with a luncheon to follow. Missionary, MaDonna Meurer, will give the program for the meeting. Come and join us for good fellowship and good food.

This meeting is open to Christian women (or men) who are interested in missions. Our group goal is to pro-mote missions in our individual churches while we practice them ourselves in word, prayer and deed.

September 15 is the Northwest District WMU regional meeting at Grand Oaks Camp near Chillicothe with registration beginning at 8am. The registration fee is $15 per person. Advanced registration is recommended to plan the meal which is included. The registration fee this year is to be sent to Bev Null, 13584 NE Craig Drive, Breckenridge, MO 64625 by Thursday September 8 if possible.

We can help you or your church to be more involved in missions. Contact Shelly Sims if you would like a speaker on missions to your women's group or church. Phone 660-663-2380. In Christian Love

Shelly Sims

From My Heart to YoursFrom My Heart to YoursFrom My Heart to YoursFrom My Heart to Yours 175 years! What a history! 175 years of voluntary cooperation with other Southern Baptist Churches in our area! 175 years of encouragement to one another as NGRBA churches! 175 years of fellowshipping with one another! 175 years of evangelistic and mission endeavors! 175 years of training people to serve in various ministries! 175 years of holding to doctrinal truths derived from God’s Word! 175 years of connecting with the SBC and MBC! 175 years of bringing glory to our God! May we continue to pray for one another, to work together, to chal-lenge one another to operate according to God’s will and to enjoy our fellowship with one an-other! We need each other more than we know and even more so as we move into the future!

‘Remember to pray for the Rheubin L. South State Missions Offering and give generously to it this month.

Remember to pray for our 175th Annual Meeting at Princeton FBC (September 10th) and attend and celebrate with us.

Remember to come to the Men’s Prayer Breakfast (September 17th at 8 am) at Laredo and the Ladies Prayer Luncheon (September 20th– 10:30 am) at the Mission Center.

In the month we experience our National Labor Day holiday, let’s remember to pray for more laborers to harvest more souls (Matthew 9:38) before it’s too late!

For His Glory,

E.J. Barnes

Seminary Extension North Grand River Baptist Seminary Extension is looking forward to celebrating our 50th year of existence. During the Annual Meeting on September 10th, we will have a time to share information of the past and looking to the future.

We plan to start our Fall Semester on September 29th and will be studying the Book of Jeremiah. If you are interested in taking the class, please contact Dan Wilford or the associational office of your intent. We need to know in advance if you are serious about taking the class. Again this year the registration fee has

been paid and students will be responsible only for the textbook.

Please pray for your Seminary Extension, promote it, and plan to attend the class. I am personally thankful for those who have been so faithful in attending in the past. Let’s look to a brighter future.

We meet on Thursdays at 7:00 pm at the NGRBA Mission Center in Trenton.

Dan Wilford Director/Teacher

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NORTH GRAND RIVER BAPTIST

175th Celebration Sale

SEPTEMBER 6-16 Bibles 15% off

Bible Cases 10% off

SEPTEMBER 19-23 Books 15% off

Boxed Cards 15% off Cookbooks– 15% off

SEPTEMBER 26-30

Novelty Items and Toys 10% off (Includes stuffed animals)

GIFT ITEMS 10% off (Includes pie plates, cups, plaques)

ALL DVD’S & CD’S 10% off

NEW!NEW!NEW!NEW!

“God’s Not Dead 2” DVD- $17.00

“The Daniel Prayer” by Anne Graham Lotz

Names of Jesus Table-top Plaque

GRANDPARENTS DAY– September 11

“Lessons I Learned from My Grandchildren”

Laredo Baptist

Saturday, 8:00 am

September 17, 2016

SeptemberSeptemberSeptemberSeptember 1 Garret Trunk 5 Timothy Munday 14 Lewis & Mabel Rogers 15 Jim Whitley 15 Deryl Niffen 21 Michelle Stark

Volunteers Needed!

Medicine Valley Community Ministry needs vol-unteers to help with the preparation and distribu-tion of the Food Pantry Ministry

September dates to help with

food distribution at Medicine Valley Community

Ministry September 13th– Prepare Boxes at Newtown Baptist Chapel– 9 am to noon

September 15th– Food Distribution

Mission’s Committee- Help Needed!

Please call to volunteer to help in the Associa-tional Booth in the Livestock Pavilion during Mis-souri Days. Share Jesus with others. Saturday, October 17th from 8:00 am to approximately 2:00 pm. Call EJ or Diann Barnes at 359-1286 or 654-0785.

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The Buckets of Love hospice kits, a Baptist Global Response initiative, to send to our missionaries and Baptist partners in Africa, who in turn, present the buckets to persons dying of AIDS related illnesses. Missouri Baptists have sent over 750 buckets to Af-rica this year. Bill and Carol Bowers are the coordi-nators of the Bucket Project. You can go online to www.gobgr.org/buckets and locate the shopping list (all supplies are available at Wal-Mart) and pack buckets using the instructions. These buckets can be brought to the Missouri Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Springfield, MO on October 26-28. There will be a booth set up to ac-cept the buckets.

We will be closed Monday, September 5th, 2016 In observance of Labor Day.

See you at the Pole– September 28th

“We Cry Out”

A Generation Seeking Him Psalm 24: 3-6

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In Appreciation Dearest All,

Thank you for the beautiful ivie plant with yellow and orange flowers in honor of our mom– Virgia Leona Barnes. Your prayers and thoughtfulness during this time is very much appreciated by the families of E.J.

Our love, Wayne and Mollie The Barnes Families

Thank you for the love you continue to show to E.J. and Diann as they minister to you!

2016 GA Retreats

“Planted in Missions” October 14-15

Grand Oaks Baptist Assembly in Chillicothe

DEADLINE: August 31,2016

Drawings will be Chosen for: Banners, Retreat Bookmark, Program Cover, Retreat T-Shirt

Artwork Guidelines Must be drawn by girls on 8 1/2 by 11

Copy paper. No computer designs. Simple 2-3 color design, avoid small detailed drawings. Print name– church– city on

back. Include leader name and phone number on back.

Sent Artwork to: Teri Broeker,

26973 275th Ave Ewing, MO 63440

Registration— $36.00 per person

October 4th Deadline Shirts available for

$7.00 through 9/30/16

Apple Festival 2016

Saturday, September 10, 2016 9:00 am—3:00 pm

First Baptist Church, Raymore

Because Missouri Baptist Children’s Home is primarily supported through private sources, funds to operate the ministry come from the Cooperative Program, en-dowment, Baptist churches and individual donations. Crafts, quilts, children’s area and a variety of apple-related foods are just a few of the many reasons the Festival is a day full of fun, food and fellowship for the entire family. Handmade crafts and quilts are donated to the Children’s Home from all over the state. There will also be live entertainment and craft vendors.

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The 2015-2016 school year was amazing, from seeing students come to know Jesus to sharing Jesus in Florida and Canada! This year was filled with laughter and tears. Our students gave us the greatest joys this year. In Florida our team gave out batteries and church information to 720 homes and had great revival services every night, where two students gave their lives to Christ! We had students that dove deeper into the Word of God. Our worship services on Tuesday

nights have grown and Sunday Night Alive had tons of athletes attend every week! Wednesday lunches have been won-derful and God has really been moving in them this past year. We had a great number of students come to eat lunch and hear about Jesus. For many of these students it was the only time during the week that they heard about God.

In Summer Missions this year we had four summer missionaries for the association that Diann and myself mentored. They were Maggie Schmidt, Gracie Cabral, Trey Shaw and Melissa Chisenwa. They did a wonderful job sharing Jesus in Canada among the First Nations people. The “For St. Louis” mission trip, which was just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention, was designed for college students from all over the United States to spiritually impact the St. Louis area. Participating in this project, our summer missionaries were able to work with refugees, new church plants, and meet in-ternational people all living in St. Louis. Our Summer Missionaries were able to also participate in Super Summer, Asso-ciational youth and children’s camp, and five Vacation Bible Schools. This was a full summer with some hard trials, but the Lord blessed by allowing these college students to lead others to Christ, to draw believing students closer to the Lord, and to do things they never thought they were going to do such as working in rodeos, passing out invites to churches in risky neighborhoods in St. Louis, and meeting refugees from Pakistan and Nigeria. Summer Missions was a learning and growing experience that is still going on.

As a new school year begins we look forward to ministering to new and returning students. What we really look forward to is meeting new faces and continuing to disciple old ones! Discipleship is one of the core parts of this BSU ministry. We desire to see college students be like Jesus! That is what discipleship is all about, people looking more like Jesus! Col-lege students are the shaping force of our country and our future! They are the largest voting group in the United States. They will define this current election and many to come. They will decide which direction our culture goes. That’s why the BSU ministry is such a needed ministry. We are showing the truth of Jesus next to the lies of culture and media. The more people that look like Jesus is exactly what we need in our world.

This school year’s ministries are Sunday Night Alive, Tuesday Night Worship Service, and Wednesday Free Lunch. We have all kinds of semester events, such as a fall party, Missouri Day Parade, Thanksgiving Meal, Ronald McDonald House drive for paper goods, Getaway Retreat, and Advent/Christmas party. That’s just our fall events. Spring events are January Leadership training, Engage Conference, Spring Break Mission Trip, Canada Mission Trip, Glorieta Colle-giate Week, and Summer Missions.

He is Worthy to Receive the Rewards of His Sacrifice— Diann Barnes and Christina Boatright

Gallatin- A special Backpack Blessing Service was held for all the children, young people and school staff on Sunday morning, August 14.

The JOY Youth will have an “End of Summer Bash” August 19 -20.

Gallatin FBC Annual Church Picnic will be held at Dockery Park in Gallatin on Sunday evening Au-gust 21. Beginning with baseball and games at 4 pm, and the meal being served at 5 pm. Our spe-cial guests “The Dysart Family will be providing entertainment at 6 pm. Everyone invited to attend.

Keenagers will host their monthly luncheon on Thursday, September 1.

Pioneer Club will begin meeting on Wednesday evening, September 14 with meal being served at 5:30 pm and Bible study from 6-7:30 pm. JOY Youth also meet at the same time each Wednesday evening.

Recharge Sunday will be held September 25, with Clyde Chiles as our guest speaker. There will be potluck luncheon

after the morning worship service.

Trenton FBC- As our summer activities and ministries come to a close, we are looking forward to new ministries and activities beginning. Awana will begin September 7th from 6:00-7:00 pm. This will be each Wednesday that school is in session. No school or early out, no Awana.

Our RA’s, GA’s, Mission Friends begin August 7th at 5:00 pm. The Keenagers went to the Shatto Milk Company at

Osborn, MO.

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Union- JESUS IS ALL WE NEED. Romans 11:26; He’s THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, John 8:12

We’ve had a very busy summer, like most of you.

Pastor Doug has been very busy preaching, teaching, Bible studies and teaching kids Sunday School. He does our bulletins and cleaning too and dishes when we need him, he drives our bus as fill in and picks up kids on Wednesday evening, AND even got to go on a one day Mission project. He helped to pass out VBS flyers in Lennox, Iowa with our Association mission team. And much, much more. THANKS PASTOR DOUG for all you do.

Robert Hutchison is our Youth Leader and teacher. Thanks.

David Burkeybile is our Preschool teacher. Thanks.

Dianna Crawford is our Wednesday evening teacher for our kids 1st-6th grade.

Mike and Sherry Knapp bus drivers. Thanks.

We have several others that serve where we need them. Thanks to them also.

We took to RESOUNDFEST at Bethany, 8 youth girls and we had 14 adults go too. We had a very pleasant evening. We were blessed.

We also hosted two reunions, the Brimson and the Gray/Shaw, and have for years. We love doing it.

We had a baptism and more to come!

2016– SUBMERGED VBS– Psalms 139:23-24– Submerged in the WORD OF GOD.

We started with training at Jeff City and Macon which Pastor Doug was able to go this year. We also took a team to Macon. Thanks TEAM. Our Associational VBS CLINIC FAIR, was next. It was fun and exciting putting together be-cause WHAT GOD CREATED UNDER THE SEA IS AWESOME. To research under the sea, the coral, fish, species, rocks, shells, creatures of life, the beautiful colors, shapes and designs. How could you not believe in Christ’s handy work. Thanks again to TENTH ST. BAPTIST for hosting our clinic again. We had lots of great help.

We held our Special Friends VBS with Bible Study, music, games, a craft and a light lunch.

We also held a Youth VBS Lock-in and training. With Bible Study, music, games, missions, and stayed up all night, most of us. They made their own pizzas for supper and we made breakfast; cleaned up and went home. It was amazing.

Adults-VBS and our KIDS VBS– Dianna was our DIRECTOR and Captain, and Caina was her assistant First Mate. Pas-tor Doug was her CO-CAPTAIN and led Bible Study daily and his crew was Cayson. Sherry and Micah served as our Music leaders, FIRST MATES, with Flora as their Crew member. Christina and Gracie– served as our craft leaders, First Mates, their crew was Mari, and Earlyne. Recreation leaders and FIRST MATES were David and Malachi- SU-MARINESERS WERE LED BY FIRST MATES, Janna, Lacey and their crew was Libby, Judy, Maerissa, Johnny, Mea-gan, Johnathan, Matheson, Kyle, Cambree and Trevor. They had 27 submariners enrolled. 1-3 grade class– Submarin-ers was led by FIRST MATE Oletha and her crew was Jessie and Teagan. They had 17 Submariners enrolled. 4th-6th grade Submariners were led by FIRST MATE Caina and Betty. The crew was Susan and Chealyn and they had 18 en-rolled. 4th-6th grade boys were led by FIRST MATES Jayden.

His crew was Taylor and they had 9 enrolled. We were blessed with an AWESOME KITCHEN CREW. Ida Lee, Dixie, Telly, Nancy, Barbara, Susan, Erma, Johnny, John, Randy, Greg and Lanny. Thanks a lot. The kids loved the food a lot. Thanks for all your hard work. Missionaries wer Christina and Maerissa. They shared from the heart and about what they have been doing and where they have been. Thanks ladies for listening to Christ’s call. You are in our prayers. Bus drivers, Mike, Doug, Betty and Robert and Dianna and anyone who brought out kids. Thanks for a great year at VBS. Jim Bush came out for our Kick-off and shared his heart, faith and his under the sea experiences. Thanks again. We ended our week with a program for the families and a finger food fellowship for all, with Pastor Doug getting whip cream pies in the face for all the kids inviting over 100 kids. Then a Swim Party for all who came to VBS and church families. WOW WHAT Christ can do when we let him lead.

We had YOUTH CAMP- THE WAY– Galatians 2:20. We sent 3 and 6 workers.

KIDS CAMP– THE WAY– we sent 15 kids and 6 workers.

We also serve on the 4th Saturday night the Celebrate Recovery meal. each month at their Solid Rock Café.

Just had our 5th Sunday dinner and youth Sunday. That’s most of what’s been happening at our church.

IF YOU’RE WILLING TO SERVE THE LORD, HE WILL USE YOU.

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North Grand River Baptist Association 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 BSU Assistant Director

Christina Boatright

Church Giving Church Service Times July 2016 Reports

Monthly Inc.

BSU Inc. SS AM PM Weds.

Alpha $ 95.35 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 7:00

Edinburg $ 447.77 $ 49.75 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00

Gallatin $ 634.05 $ 50.00 9:30 10:40 6:00 7:00

Galt 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00

Jameson 9:30 10:30

Jamesport $ 25.00 $ 25.00 9:45 10:45 7:00 7:00

Laredo $ 300.50 9:30 10:30 6:30 6:00

Lineville $ 174.45 $ 58.15 9:45 10:45 6:00 6:00

M. Valley 9:30 10:30 6:00

Mercer $ 164.38 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 6:30

Modena $ 141.96 $ 150.00 10:15 9:00 6:00 6:00

Princeton $ 195.09 $ 80.00 9:40 10:40 7:00 6:00

Ravanna $ 122.45 $ 52.48 9:30 10:45

Rural Dale $ 864.82 $ 75.00 9:45 10:35 7:00 7:00

Salem $ 154.70 $ 25.00 10:00 11:00 6:00

Shelburne $ 473.97 $ 75.00 10:00 10:55 6:00 6:30

Spickard $ 70.00 9:30 10:30

Tenth St. $1,185.74 $ 197.62 9:30 10:30 6:00 7:00

Trenton FB $1,038.37 $ 103.84 9:30 10:40 6:00 6:00

Union 10:00 11:00 6:00 6:00

Total $6,088.60 $ 991.84 Join any of these churches in worship

Chilli, FBC $ 45.00

MBC

Gilman BC $ 200.00

Zion BC

Milan BC $ 80.47

July 2016 NGR Account Beginning Balance $24,570.22 Income $9,101.52 Total $33,674.74 Expenses $8,024.56 Ending Balance $25,647.18

Line Items in General Checking Designated Funds $8,050.96 General Fund $17,596.22 Checking Balance Total $25,647.18

NGR October –July 2016 (Does not includes designated funds)

Income $106,725.41 Expenses $89,413.11 Difference $17,312.30

Seminary Checking $189.21 Seminary Savings $2,303.05

Benevolent Savings $783.14

NGR Savings $462.75

BSU– October– Income to Expense Beginning Balance $7,670.87 Income $1,917.31 Total $9,588.18 Expenses $2,020.57 Ending Balance $7,567.61 General BSU Fund $6,713.83 Designated BSU Fund $853.78

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