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The Evangelist A PUBLICATION OF UNITY BAPTIST CHURCH MARCH 2016
Rev. Jeremy Couture Rev. Brad Callaway
Pastor Minister of Youth & Education
PINTREST PARTY CHURCH WIDE WORK DAY
AWANA MARCH MISSION MADNESS
CHILDREN’S SS OUTING HEART SONG
COMMUNITY EASTER EGG HUNT
March 2016 1 Nu 7-8 Ac 11:1-18 2 Nu 9-10 Ac 11:19-30 3 Nu 11-13 Ac 12 4 Nu 14-15 Ac 13:1-12 5 Nu 16-17 Ac 13:13-52 6 Nu 18-19 Ac 14 7 Nu 20-21 Ac 15:1-21 8 Nu 22-23:26 Ac 15:22-35 9 Nu 23:27-26:51 Ac 15:36-16:15 10 Nu 26:52-28 Ac 16:16-40 11 Nu 29-31 Ac 17:1-15 12 Nu 32-33 Ac 17:16-34 13 Nu 34-36 Ac 18:1-28 14 De 1-2 Ac 19:1-22 15 De 3-4 Ac 19:23-41 16 De 5-7:11 Ac 20:1-16 17 De 7:12-10:11 Ac 20:17-38 18 De 10:12-12 Ac 21:1-16 19 De 13-15 Ac 21:17-40 20 De 16-18:8 Ac 22:1-21 21 De 18:9-21 Ac 22:22-23:11 22 De 22-24 Ac 23:12-35 23 De 25-27 Ac 24 24 De 28 Ac 25:1-12 25 De 29-31:13 Ac 25:13-27 26 De 31:14-32 Ac 26:1-18 27 De 33-34 Ac 26:19-32 28 Jos 1-2 Ac 27:1-26 29 Jos 3-5:12 Ac 27:27-44 30 Jos 5:13-7 Ac 28:1-16 31 Jos 8-9 Ac 28:17-31
April 2016 1 Jos 10-12 Mk 1:1-20 2 Jos 13-15 Mk 1:21-45 3 Jos 16-19 Mk 2:1-22 4 Jos 20-22 Mk 2:23-3:12 5 Jos 23-24 Mk 3:13-35
SUNDAY, MARCH 13
Why Plant New Churches? Unity has a strong history of church planting. Many of the Baptist churches in the Ashland area were started by Unity or by one of her daughter churches. In 1892, Unity planted Pollard Baptist under the leadership of Pastor S. Hensley. In time, Pollard planted at least 7 mission churches, including Rose Hill Baptist, and Wildwood Baptist, who would plant their own daughter churches as well. In the early 1900’s, Unity was instrumental in starting 3 mission churches. In 1954, one of those missions became Belmont Street Baptist in under the eventual leadership of Pastor Wesley Harris. In
1974, Unity helped the 45th Street Mission organize into Blackburn Avenue Baptist under the leadership of Pastor Thurman Jackson.1 Some of Unity’s spiritual progeny have grown through the years, and some have disappeared, but her church-planting legacy lives on today.
Church planting has been overlooked for several years, but recently it has made a comeback. Some forward-thinking church leaders, like Ed Stetzer, Executive Director for Lifeway Research, believe church planting is essential for the future of the church in North America, but others have doubts.2 Those who resist the idea of planting new churches think that there are already enough churches. Here are 3 objections to church planting that Stetzer addresses in his book Planting Missional Churches.
Isn’t one big church better than several smaller ones? It’s true that larger churches have more to offer than medium or smaller churches, but that doesn’t mean they are better at reaching people. Consider the findings from a recent study:
Churches under three years of age win an average of 10 people to Christ per year for every hundred church members.
Churches three to fifteen years of age win an average of 5 people to Christ per year for every hundred church members.
Churches over fifteen years of age win an average of 3 people to Christ per year for every hundred church members.3
Shouldn’t we help our struggling churches instead? It’s estimated that as many 90 percent of churches in North America are in plateau or decline. Some feel that the resources used to start new churches should be used to revitalize churches that are struggling. This is possible in some cases, but it’s not very common. Existing churches that are struggling are struggling for a reason, and they are often resistant to the kind of change that is necessary to revitalize them. The best strategy is to both plant new churches and revitalize existing churches that are open to change.
March 2016 SUNDAY Sunday Schedule 9:00 a.m. Library Open 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship Service 4:15 p.m. Journey (Sr. High Youth) 5:00 p.m. Praise Band/Team Rehearsal 5:15 p.m. Youth Choir 5:30 p.m. Library Open 5:45 p.m. Awana 6:00 p.m. Evening Worship Service
MONDAY
TUESDAY Tuesday Schedule 1:00 p.m. Ladies Prayer Group
WEDNESDAY Wednesday Schedule 6:00 p.m. Library Open 6:15 p.m. Children in Action 6:30 p.m. Mission Friends 6:30 p.m. Prayer Service 6:30 p.m. Sr. High Youth Group 6:30 p.m. Trek (Jr. High Youth) 7:00 p.m. Children’s Choir K5 - 5th grade 7:30 p.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal
THURSDAY
FRIDAY SATURDAY
1
10 a.m. Women on Mission
2
BYC
3 4
6 p.m. Pintrest Party
5
9 a.m. Church Wide
Work Day
6
4:30 p.m. Deacons Meeting
7 8
6:45 p.m. Women on Mission
9
10 11
8-11:30 p.m. UPPER ROOM
12
13 2 p.m.
Woodland Oaks
14 15 16
5:45 p.m.
Finance Committee
Business Meeting
17 18 19
6 p.m. Youth Event
with Heartsong From Cedarville
20 21
6 p.m. GBA Meeting
At GBA Conference Center
22
11 a.m. Prime Timers
23 24 25
Good Friday
OFFICE CLOSED
26 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Community Easter Egg
Hunt
27
Easter
28 29 30 31
Here is a list of a few items that we will need for the Pintrest Party, if you would be willing to donate any of these items please bring them to church on Wednesday evening, March 2, and drop them off in the library. Scrap fabric/felt. spools of thread, small mason jars or recycled jelly jars (no larger than pint size), any size of buttons, yarn, fabric scissors, We also need to “borrow” ironing boards & sewing machines, please contact the church office if you have any of these. Attendees who would like to bring a homemade snack are encouraged to bring the recipe to share along with recipes you have tried and liked.
Annie Armstrong Week of Prayer for North American Mission Board March 6-13
24 Hour Prayer Marathon
Dear Church Family, I want to thank the church for the prayers lifted up weekly for my mother, Danise
Sexton and myself. Also, I would like to thank everyone that helped provide the dinner for our family after the funeral, it was greatly appreciated.
Love, Debbie Sexton
The following donations were
received by the church office:
To the Debt Reduction Fund
In memory of Walter McCall
by Peggy Sturgill
CHURCH WIDE WORK DAY We will be having a workday on Saturday, March 5, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. We will be working on sprucing up and decluttering SS Classrooms, storage areas, garages, etc… We appreciate any amount of time you can work. A small breakfast will be provided. Sign up sheets are in each classroom.
Diana Ferrell Circle of Women on Mission The evening group of Women on Mission will meet-ing on Tuesday, March 8, at 6:45 p.m. in the Mission Ministry House. All ladies are invited to attend.
Will have their monthly meeting on
Tuesday, February 23, at 11 a.m.
(weather permitting) Bring a covered
dish and join us for a time of fellowship. For
more information contact Ralph Clere.
Alice Welch Music Scholarship
It is time NOW for graduating high school seniors or
college students to submit an application for the
Alice Welch Music Scholarship. Applications ae in
the Welcome Centers as well as at the Alice
Welch display in the back foyer to the right of the
sanctuary. Applications must be submitted to the
church office by March 31. Those who apply should
be members of Unity OR be actively involved in our
youth/Church activities.
Pastor’s Book Recommendation for March
Andy Stanley has a passion to shape the next
generation of church leaders in America. He seems
to come by that honestly as the son of Charles Stan-
ley, the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Atlanta, Georgia. But he is not content to ride on
his father’s coattails. The younger Stanley is the
lead pastor of North Point Community Church, the
founder of North Point Ministries, and prolific
author and sought after conference speaker. He is
one of the most influential voices in the North
American church right now on the subject of leader-
ship.
This month, I would like to recommend to you
Andy Stanley’s Next Generation Leader: Five Essen-
tials For Those Who Will Shape The Future. This
book is clear, concise, and applicable to many differ-
ent areas of leadership, inside and outside the
church.
The five essentials that Stanley addresses are
competence, courage, clarity, coaching, and charac-
ter. I found his insights on all five components help-
ful, but the chapters on coaching were some of my
favorite. Stanley points out something we instinc-
tively know from the world of athletics: you and I
can go farther and faster with someone coaching us
than we can on our own (104). He grounds this
principle in the bad example of King Rehoboam and
the wisdom of Proverbs (111). In Stanley’s view,
coaches are very similar to mentors, which are criti-
cal for leadership success.
I hope you will make an investment in yourself
this month by reading this book. It may take you
only a couple hours to read, but it may pay out divi-
dends for a lifetime.
Ladies Bible Study
The Ladies Bible Study group will resume on Thurs-
day, March 3, for their study of the Gospel of Luke in
the Missions Ministry House at 6:30. All ladies are
welcome.
Continued from page 1: Why Plant New Churches?
Haven’t we already reached everyone? Even after generations of evangelism and discipleship, the U.S. is the largest mission field in the Western hemisphere.4 Our country’s largest cities are filled with millions of lost people, and there are thousands of lost people in our Tri-state area, too. According to recent estimates, 40 percent of people in the Ashland area have no religious affiliation whatsoever, and only 15.7 percent of the people in the Ashland area attend church on a given Sun-day. That means that of the approximately 9,000 people who live within a 1-mile radius of our church property, 3,600 have no specific religious connection, and 7,600 do not attend church on a regular basis. It’s estimated that there are as many as 30,000 lost people in Boyd County alone. The North American Mission Board is encouraging Southern Baptists to pursue church planting as the best way to reach the lost through the Annie Armstrong Missions Emphasis and the SEND City Church Plant-ing Strategy. This year, we will all be encouraged to participate in mis-sions in North America by praying, giving, and even going. But this is nothing new for Unity. We have been participating in missions and planting churches for years.
1. Special thanks to Judi Little and her careful research on the history of Unity Baptist. 2. Ed Stezer, Planting Missional Churches (Nashville: B & H Academ-ic, 2006), 5. 3. Bruce Nichols, “Churches Die With Dignity,” Christianity Today (January 14, 1991), 69. 4. Stetzer, 13.
Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 a.m. Monday - Friday
Telephone: (606)324-7157
Fax: (606)324-6761
email: [email protected]
Web: www.unitybaptistashland.com
UNITY BAPTIST CHURCH Volume 16.3 MARCH 2016
2320 29TH ST.
ASHLAND, KY 41101
The Evangelist is published monthly by Unity Baptist Church, 2320 29th St., Ashland, KY 41101
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CHURCH OFFICE
We are in need of plastic eggs and candy for this
outreach. There will be containers in the front
vestibule and the back hallway to drop off your
donations.