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TEBA STAFF STAFF & CHURCH OPPORTUNITIES PASTORLESS CHURCHES
VOLUME 40
ISSUE 3
March 2015
THE WAY TO PEACE WITH GOD
THE PROBLEM: SEPARATION FROM GOD Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” THE RESULT: SPIRITUAL DEATH Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” GOD’S SOLUTION: HIS DEATH IN OUR PLACE Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” YOUR SALVATION: BY FAITH Romans 10:9 “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
UPCOMING EVENTS
Mark your calendars!
Roger Yancey, D.Min. [email protected] Executive Director Tracy Jaggers, D. Min. [email protected] Church Development Associate Stewart Pickle, D. Min. [email protected] Church Planter and Ethnic Consultant* Shannon Brown [email protected] Administrative Assistant, Financial* Mark Wilson [email protected] Financial Administrator* Crystal Miller [email protected] Administrative Assistant Executive Director Natalie Bowman [email protected] Administrative Assistant *Part-Time or Consultants
Center Hill Baptist* 16771 E FM 1097
Willis 77378
FBC Conroe 600 N Main St Conroe, 77301
FBC Dodge P.O. Box 515 Dodge, 77334
FBC Plum Grove 155 CR 345
Splendora 77372
Harmony Fellowship
26811 FM 2978 Magnolia 77354
North Woods Baptist Church 5803 Treaschwig
Rd Spring 77373
Rainbow Baptist P.O. Box 276
Rye 77369
Rural Shade 3304 CR 2274
Cleveland 77327
Sawdust Road 3100 Sawdust Rd
Spring 77380
Unity* 8904 FM 787 West Cleveland 77327
*Bi-Vocational
Full-time Pastor needed at Rural Shade Baptist Church located eight miles southeast of Cleveland, Texas. Detailed information about RSBC can be found on its website, www.ruralshadebaptist.org. If you are interested in seeking this position, please send resume to Randy Glasgow at [email protected] or fax it to (281) 592-7565. Please do not send resumes by email to the church office and please do not call the church office for information about the position. Full-Time Pastor needed at FBC Dodge. Please send resumes to FBC Dodge, Attn: Pastor Search Committee, PO Box 515, Dodge, TX 77334. Bi-Vocational Music Minister needed at New Hope Baptist Church, Cleveland. Blended worship style. If interested, send resume to 13200 FM 2025, Cleveland, Texas 77328. Full Time Staff Member needed at First Baptist Church Shepherd. The position is a multi-task position that includes music ministry and other associate pastor tasks. If interested please call 936-628-3130. Part-Time Music Minister needed at Drew ’s Landing Baptist Church, Sundays only. If interested, please contact Chad McCool at [email protected] Part-Time Music Minister needed at Calvary Baptist Church of Huntsville. Blended worship style and working with choirs and praise teams. If interested, send resume to [email protected] Youth Pastor needed at Union Grove Baptist Church. Please send resume to 24380 FM 149, Richards, TX 77873-2434, Attn: Pastor Rick Boswell. Full-Time Secretary needed at FBC Huntsville. If interested, please send resume to [email protected] or call the church at 936-291-3441. Certified teachers needed at Spring Baptist Academy for the 2015-2016 school year. Please email [email protected] or call 281-353-5448 x116. 15 passenger van needed at Calvary Road Baptist Church in Willis to transport individuals to and from church. If you can help, please contact the church office at 936-856-7351 or Pastor Dale Inman at 281-460-4900. Letters for sign needed at Pleasant Grove. If you can help them in any way, please contact Chad at 281-592-5874.
March
TEBA 10th Annual Golf
Tournament
April 27th, River
Plantation Country Club
Ministry Assistant
Luncheon
May 28, 11:30-1:00, TEBA
Pastor’s Conference
in the Evening
March 12, 6:30 p.m.,
TEBA
KidsLifeKamp
Carolina Creek
July 26-29, Camp 1
July 29-Aug. 1, Camp 2
Pastor & Staff Training
with Dr. Gary McIntosh
September 12, 8:00 a.m. to
2:30 p.m., Crossroads
Baptist Church The
Woodlands
Introduction to
Interim Ministry
August 10-11, TEBA
Ministry Assistant Luncheon Thursday, May 28th, 11:30—1:00
Cost $7 TEBA Resource Center
“Successful
Communication”
Led by Karen A. Francies, Administrative Assistant to
President of Houston Baptist University. Register at [email protected] or 936-856-2001
Catering by Vernon’s Kuntry Katfish
Please RSVP by March 10th to the TEBA office by calling 936-856-2001 or by email at [email protected].
Entertainment by Cary Smith
Evening Pastor Conference for Pastors and Wives
March 12, 2015 6:30 p.m. at TEBA
Proceeds used to benefit TEBA Strategic Church Planting
Register online at www.teba.org
River Plantation Country Club
Monday, April 27, 2015
10th Annual TEBA Golf Tournament
Sr. Adult Council
March 9, 10:30 a.m.,
TEBA
Sr. Adult Music Rally
March 24, 10:30 a.m.,
FBC Conroe
Senior Adult Music Rally Tuesday, March 24, 2015
FBC Conroe 633 N. Main Street Conroe, TX 77301 Lunch - $8/person
Registration at 9:30 a.m. Program begins at 10:30 a.m. To register, please contact Natalie at [email protected] or call 936-856-2001.
ANNIE ARMSTRONG EASTER OFFERING
ANNIEARMSTRONG.COM
WEEK OF PRAYER—MARCH 1-8, 2015
WWW.TEBA.ORG
Connecting Churches to Change Our World
Not Holding Their Breath by Stewart Pickle, D.Min.
This event is for EVERY church that has used the Special Events Trailer and all those who may one day decide to use it! Texas State Insurance Codes have changed and we are required to update and renew the training certification for all groups using the trailer from this point forward. We will actually be setting up and tearing down some of the amenities in the trailer, so dress casually. Since the video training video did not incorporate the new rules, previous training will not suffice for future checkout of the trailer. Make sure you have the person present who is your church’s responsible party or their designated alternate. Following the training session, new training certificates will be signed, dated, witnessed, and kept on file in the TEBA office.
Special Events Trailer Training by Tracy Jaggers, D.Min.
Often those of us who are members of existing churches hear of a new church which is starting and think that it must be nice to have people who are eager to be part of a new church start. That would be nice, but they aren’t eagerly waiting for a new church to start. When that church planter or someone with him—if he has that blessing—talks to people they are thinking, “I couldn’t care less.” There are some conditions which make it easier to start a church. 1. Social Connections. If the church planter has been a teacher, a coach or worked with a para-church or
community organization where he has built trust and relationships, it gives him relationships and credibility which will get him a hearing and maybe at least one visit to activities related to starting the church.
2. A community crisis. If something traumatic happens and God places the church planter at the right place and time with the right message to make sense and bring healing, it can result in a quick response to the new church. With bold action and speech and rapid effective basic discipleship, momentum for rapid growth using on the job training and just in time leadership development, an amazing movement of God can come out of an available and focused pastor.
3. A person of peace. God has been working in many people before the church planter came. As he is sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit and listens with his heart, God will expose the need of this person of peace. In Scripture we see Nicodemus, the woman at the well, Lydia, Cornelius, and the Ethiopian Treasurer—all are people of peace. The church planter has to leave his time line and focus on developing this person. The person will require a lot of attention, but they will reach maybe 60 people often in the first year. They will usually train those they reach. The person of peace has the social connections. They give the pastor credibility. The transformation in their lives is the strongest sermon.
4. A strong core group hived off of one or more partner churches. These leaders will need to bring the group to a common vision, mission and values. One benefit is that growth to maturity is predictable. A negative is they will resemble the churches they came from in ways that raise the question as to whether another church like ours is needed (unless the new church is in an area which lacks a church).
Without conditions like these, most church planters go through a time of false hope, frustration, spiritual brokenness, and testing of his call before beginning to harvest seed he has planted to start building community among the people he is to reach. He must avoid the temptation to build structure in the group before growth is over 100 in attendance at worship events. He must concentrate on personal evangelism, discipling those who come into the small groups to do the same, and keeping change as key part of the new church until they can finally launch with sufficient people. God is faithful. When He calls, that very call is a promise that He is at work and He will not fail.
April 18, 2015 9:00 – 11:00 AM
at the TEBA Resource Center
Some time ago I became aware of a book by Steve Harper, a writer out of Austin who authored the book The Ripple Effect. The premise of the book is simple - Relationships; their impact, value, and life-changing reality. Harper asks a simple question in his introduction, “How will you want to be remembered?” and challenges the reader to chose to live a life that is well lived where relationships are focused on and developed intentionally. While the book is not based on scripture it has a number of elements that will echo biblical principles of relationship building.
The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 – Developing A Relationship Mindset where he discusses the way our lives intersect (ripples) and the unpredictable opportunities that occur through our relationships. Additionally he suggests a model of understanding others by better understanding yourself. Part II - Planning A Relationship Strategy is designed to help you understand how existing relationships can be expanded and how to develop healthy relational webs of connection. He further explores the ways to leverage social media and build a network of relationships even when you’re facing hard times. Part III - Practicing Relationships, Harper describes different levels of relationships and how to deepen them and how we can cause ripples that benefit others. He closes the book by sharing a number of stories of how relational ripples impact lives of other people.
We know this stuff, right? We know that healthy relationships are critical in everything we do. We know the basis of healthy relationships within the church family are built upon the reality of our hearts being transformed by our relationship with Christ. That we are meant to walk together in harmony remembering the prayer of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane found in John 17:20-21, “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” As followers of Christ we should have the best understanding of the value of healthy relationships and how to build them but sometimes things interfere with strong healthy relationships being built. I am grateful for the many pastors, ministers, and church leaders in our Association who have given time to build healthy relationships with each other. Earlier this year we had a group of pastors who came together for a Prayer and Planning Retreat. I watched these men as they prayed for one another, listened to concerns and praises, shared dreams for God’s work within the churches they serve, and enjoyed fellowshipping with each other. I have heard back from many of them about what the retreat meant to them and how they particularly enjoyed getting to spend a significant amount of time with other pastors in the Association. In February we had a gathering of Church Planters, Missions Ministers, and Pastors from Sponsor Churches. It was a joy to hear the stories they shared about the way God is working in the ministries they are part of and how they saw God’s leadership in the churches that are being planted. It was a special joy to hear them pray for one another and for God’s favor upon their efforts and boldness in sharing their faith in Christ. I was reminded how the Lord is so faithful to plant people in our lives to encourage, shape, and be the presence of Christ among us. I pray you’re building relationships intentionally.
LEADERSHIP MATTERS by Roger Yancey, D.Min.
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17
General Tournament Information
$59/person—Early Bird Price (by April 10th)
$79/person—after April 10th
*Deadline to register is April 17th.
Please fill out registration on back and mail into
the TEBA office or register online at
www.teba.org or call 936-856-2001.
Fee includes green fee/cart fee, range balls,
lunch, and unlimited Christian fellowship!
No money will be refunded if cancellation
is after March 27, 2015.
Player Enhancement Costs $15 for 3 Mulligans (limit of 3 mulligans per player).
Unused mulligans cannot reduce total score.
10th Annual TEBA Golf Tournament
Proceeds used to
benefit
TEBA Strategic Church Planting
River Plantation
Country Club
550 Country Club Drive,
Conroe, TX 77302
Monday
April 27, 2015
Schedule:
8:00 a.m. Registration & Range Balls
8:30 a.m. Shotgun Start
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Awards/Prizes
Prizes: *Closet to the Pin
*Longest Drive
1st Flight—1st,2nd, & 3rd Place
2nd Flight—1st, 2nd, & 3rd Place
Please fill out this form completely and return with your payment to the TEBA office or register online at www.teba.org.
Golf Registration Instructions Hole Sponsor Instructions
Be sure to check the box under player’s name if
purchasing mulligans.
Player 1—Captain
Name _____________________________________
Email _____________________________________
Cell Phone _________________________________
Player 2
Name _____________________________________
Email _____________________________________
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Player 3
Name _____________________________________
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Player 4
Name _____________________________________
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3 Mulligans for $15/player
3 Mulligans for $15/player
3 Mulligans for $15/player
3 Mulligans for $15/player
If you would like to sponsor a hole, please fill out this form completely, check the correct sponsor level and return with your payment to TEBA, or you may sponsor online at www.teba.org.
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Please enter information you would like printed on
your sign:
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_____Level 1: $100—Bronze Level
_____Level 2: $150—Silver Level
_____Level 3: $300—Gold Level
_____Level 4: $500—Platinum Level
TEBA P. O. Box 2408
Conroe, TX 77305-2408
