Opportunities Within Our Churches Baptist The Mid-South€¦ · Send resume to Pastor Rick Panis at [email protected]. Children’s Minister/Director Faith Baptist Church

PastorRosemark Baptist Church Send resume to T.G. Campbell, 8899 Brunswick Rd., Millington, TN 38053 or call 901-829-3396.

Associate Pastor (Bi-vocational)Gateway Baptist Church Send inquiries and/or resumes to [email protected].

Minister of Music/Worship/Praise LeaderGeorgian Hills Baptist Church (P/T) Call Pastor Tim Vassar at 901-357-5333.

Lakeland First Baptist Church (P/T) Send resume to Pastor Chris Hodges at [email protected].

Still Waters Baptist Church (P/T) Contact Pastor Don Amburn at 901-488-5016.

Minister of Music/Youth Oakland Baptist Church (F/T) Send resume to Jason Evans at [email protected].

Minister of Youth Trafalgar Village Baptist Church (P/T) Send resume to Pastor Rick Panis at [email protected].

Children’s Minister/DirectorFaith Baptist Church Send resume to Kevin Womack at [email protected].

Lakeland First Baptist Church (P/T) Send resume to Pastor Chris Hodges at [email protected].

Ridgeway Baptist Church (P/T) Send resume to Pastor Ashley Ray at [email protected].

Family Ministry DirectorIsland Community Church (P/T) Applications can be submitted at: https://iccmemphis.breezechms.com/form/ familydirector

Nursery Worker/Childcare/PreschoolBalmoral Baptist Church (M-F: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.) Contact Connie at 901-754-2302.

First Baptist Church, Collierville (Wed. 6-8 p.m.) Contact Kristy at 901-853-2668.

First Baptist Church, Collierville (P/T sub preschool - Tu/Th - 9 a.m.-3 p.m.) Contact Kristy at 901-853-2668.

Leawood Baptist Church (P/T) Contact the church office at 901-324-7169 to schedule an interview.

Organist (Sunday mornings only)Bartlett Hills Baptist Church Contact church office at 901-386-9763 for more information.

If you have filled a position, please contact the Association office at 901-373-6161 to

have the ad removed from the list.

Opportunities Within Our Churches

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The Mid-South

October 2016Vol. 11, Issue 11

MSBA Question and Answer SessionTuesday, October 18, 2016 • 7:00 p.m.

Our annual meeting is intentionally designed to highlight the ministry of Mid-South Baptist Association churches. In order to make the business session function more efficiently and effectively, a question and answer session has been scheduled to provide an opportunity to discuss matters that will be presented for action at the upcoming annual meeting. MSBA leadership will be on hand to answer questions you may have about proposed recommendations. We will meet at the association office, 6896 Highway 70, Bartlett.

MSBA Annual CelebrationMonday, October 24, 2016

Bartlett Hills Baptist Church • 4641 Ellendale Rd., Bartlett

5:00-6:30 p.m. – Memphis Food Trucks Festival6:00 p.m. – Business Meeting

6:30 p.m. – Annual Celebration8:00 p.m. – Dessert Fellowship

Childcare is available for infants - elementary (No reservations needed.)

Great Commission Multipliers

Great Commission Multipliers is an initiative to connect interested MSBA churches with an experienced mentor/coach to begin a relational, discipling process. The GCMs are people of passion for Jesus who have invested their lives as intentional disciple makers. We are blessed that the Lord has placed these folks in our midst. We are introducing GCMs below, and you will have an opportunity to meet them at the Annual Celebration.

Rick Shepherd serves as the Minister of Prayer and Spiritual Awakening at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis. Prior to that he served fifteen years as Team Strategist for the Prayer and Spiritual Awakening Team of the Florida Baptist Convention. He has served in churches in Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. He is a graduate of Mobile College and has an M.Div and Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Rick is one of the authors in the Following God Series. He has been

Dr. H. James (Jim) Spikes and his wife Lori have more than 30 years of experience in ministry in a variety of settings.They have pastored in the USA and have served for almost twenty years in South America as urban church planters, strategy coordinators and mission mobilizers. From 2010 to 2015, Dr. Spikes resided in Europe working with Latin American and Brazilian Diaspora communities and mobilizing and leading churches and others to develop effective cross-cultural ministry strategies. Dr. Spikes can offer coaching and mentoring in the area of evangelism, discipleship, leadership and cross-cultural ministry. The Spikes attend Germantown Baptist Church.

Mark and Cindy Morris are high school sweethearts from Memphis who serve the Lord together in local and global missions. Today they minister through RefugeeMemphis.com, befriending, serving and pointing new arrivals to Jesus. They are members of Christ Community Church of Memphis. In December of 1983 the Morrises were appointed by the International Mission Board as church planters to the Portuguese of South Africa. Several indigenous churches emerged. In 1988, God led them to shift their ministry to the Shia Muslim mountain people

Stan and Pam Wafler are members at Ellendale Baptist Church in Bartlett. After both of them grew up in the Memphis area, they met at Union University where Stan earned a Bachelor’s degree. They served on staff in youth leadership roles in churches in TN and LA. While in LA, Pam earned a B.A. degree at Southeastern Lousiana University while Stan pastored. He earned M.Div, M.A.C.E. and Ph.D. degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological

Seminary. After serving five and a half years as pastor in MS, Stan and Pam were appointed as career missionaries in 2000. They served in Arua, Uganda for the last 15 years. The Lord used them to make disciples among students, encourage and equip couples to use their marriage as a ministry and to train pastors. Now they are back in Memphis seeking to find the role where the Lord wants them to serve. Stan serves as the Great Commission Multiplier Coordinator for the Mid-South Baptist Association.

of Afghanistan. Mark and Cindy moved to Islamabad, Pakistan where they facilitated gospel ministry among Afghan refugees who had fled civil war in their own country. From 1983 to 1997 Mark served the IMB as a church planter, as Associate to the Area Director for CSI’s Central Asian region and as Regional Leader for the Central and Southern Asia region. From 2008 to 2016 he served from Memphis in Mobilization and most recently on the Training Team for the IMB.

married to Linda Gail since 1977 and they have four children and four grandchildren. They have had the privilege of ministering in several states and foreign fields and are always glad to encourage believers and witness to listening hearts wherever they go.

Important Dates for Octo- 3 Ministers’ Conference – 11:30 a.m. Bellevue Baptist Church Dr. Stan May, speaker 4 MSBA Staff Meeting – 9:30 a.m. MSBA Office 6 MSBA Foundation Meeting 9:00 a.m. – MSBA Office 10 Ministers’ Conference – 11:30 a.m. Bellevue Baptist Church Bill Choate, speaker 11 MSBA Staff Meeting – 9:30 a.m. MSBA Office 17 Ministers’ Conference – 11:30 a.m. Bellevue Baptist Church Tim Jackson, speaker 18 MSBA Staff Meeting – 9:30 a.m. MSBA Office 20 Focus Church Metric 2 – 10:00 a.m. Faith Baptist Church 24 MSBA Annual Celebration 6:30 p.m. Bartlett Hills Baptist Church 25 MSBA Office Closed 28-29 Small Church Conference MABTS 31 Ministers’ Conference – 11:30 a.m. Bellevue Baptist Church Dr. Stan Wafler

Upcoming EventsMid-America Baptist Theological Seminary will host its Fall Preview Day on Tuesday, October 11, 2016. This is a chance to visit classes, meet faculty and discover seminary life. Call 901-751-3060 or e-mail Dana at [email protected] to register. Registration deadline is Tuesday, October 4, 2016.

First Baptist Church, Olive Branch, MS, will be hosting a Racial Reconciliation Conference on Thursday, October 13, 2016, from 10:00 a.m.-noon. Pastors, church leaders and anyone is welcome to attend this FREE EVENT. Dr. Fred Luter will be the featured speaker, and the Daraja Children’s Choir will lead in worship. For more information or to register, visit www.fbcob.org.

Impact Baptist Church will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pastor and Mrs. Michael Ellis’ calling to lead the church. There will be an appreciation banquet on Friday night, October 14, and a special service on Sunday, November 6, at 10:00 a.m. The church is located at 2025 Clifton Ave. Contact Santrell Ellis-Freeman at 901-230-9030 for more information or to make reservations for the Friday night banquet.

The TBC will offer Step Out in Library Training on Saturday, October 22, at Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson, TN. Visit www.tnbaptist.org for more information.

Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary will host the Mid-South Small Church Celebration Friday and Saturday, October 28-29, 2016 on their campus in Cordova. This celebration is sponsored by the Bivocational and Small Church Leadership Network. Special guests include: Dr. Dale Denning; Ron Roy; Alvin Whitehead; Melanie Redd; Robert West; Dr. Tim Seal and Dr. Jere Phillips. Worship sessions as well as breakout sessions and special tracks for Hispanic Pastors and ministers’ wives will all be offered. There is no charge, but dinner Friday night is limited to the first 200 persons who register prior to October 15. You can register by calling Ashley in the association office at 901-373-6161 or e-mailing [email protected].

Kirby Woods Baptist Church will be hosting Eleanor Witcher, IMB Prayer Team Leader, as part of the Global Impact Conference taking place at Kirby Woods November 6-9. On Wednesday, November 9, Ms. Witcher will lead a mssions prayer workshop from 9:00-11:30 a.m.. Ther is no cost, but please make reservations by calling 901-322-7057 or e-mail [email protected].

Focus on Church Starting

Art GroomesChurch Starting Specialist

A Marathon and Church PlantingDid you hear about George Chmiel’s marathon mission? On September 11, 2016, Chmiel began a 3,031 mile marathon from San Diego, CA to Ground Zero in New York City. He will run an average of 50 miles a day in order to arrive in Manhattan on Veterans’ Day. He is seeking to raise one million dollars for the Guardian for Heroes Foundation, an organization that helps combat veterans through life coaching and fitness programs. Chmiel hopes that this effort will also help unite our country. In some major city stops along his route, Chmiel will meet and celebrate veterans with concerts by nationally-known artists. George Chmiel saw a need among combat veterans returning from war, facing depression and trying to adjust, and he took action. Believers can take action also. We can take actions to start churches in this marathon of life. Starting new churches can meet the needs of many who are helpless, hopeless and despondent. When the need to respond is embraced and we take steps in faith, the Lord will send others to help. After all, He is the God who sends. We read in Matthew 28:18-20 (HCSB): 18Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given Me in heaven and on earth. 19Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Our journey in life is like a marathon and the task is great, but the Lord promises to be with us always. He has also prayed that we might be united (John 17:20-21) so that the world will believe that He was sent. The cross of Christ provides eternal life and allows us to be united in Christ. Our unity displays God’s glory to a watching world and more churches can be started during the marathon. We have a promise and a prayer, so let’s stand united and make disciples while running life’s marathon. Contact the Mid-South Baptist Association if you’re interested in starting churches or helping in some way.

English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers are needed at Hartland Baptist Church (Wednesday nights) and Leawood Baptist Church. Contact Minne Garrett at [email protected] or Julia Binford at 901-373-6161 if you can help.

First Baptist Church, Huntingdon, TN, is prayerfully accepting resumes for its pastor. Confidential resumes may be submitted by 10/15 to the FBC Pastor Search Committee at [email protected] or by mail to P.O. Box 22, Clarksburg, TN 38324.

Whitten Baptist Church has about 80 different selections of music (10-60 copies of each). Some are sheet music and some are cantata-type books. They are asking $.25per piece or $1 per book. Call Suzanne Lindsey at 901-568-0056 for details and titles.

The Visitation Gallery for the resident children who will be approved to stay overnight on weekends at the Women’s Prison in Henning is seeking donations of furniture (sofas, chairs, twin beds), books and toys. Contact Lisa Tennyson at 901-828-2189 for more information.

Ministry OpportunitiesGolden Offering for Tennessee Missions

Mid-South Baptist Association churches gave $118,991.24 to the 2015 Golden Offering for Tennessee M issions (GOTM). Because of their generous support, GOTM has returned $11,899.12 (10%) to the MSBA. These extra funds will assist with the association strategies of Church Starting and Church Strengthening. Thank you to our churches for giving to Tennessee missions and to the GOTM for reinvesting your gifts back into the association.

A Word from the Executive Director of Missionsby Dr. Mitch Martin, Executive Director of Missions

It was a pastor who first explained the gospel to me. That same pastor, who is now 87 years old and living in California, later baptized me as a ten-year-old boy. Then as an eleven-year-old boy, a different pastor was preaching a revival for us when I felt God calling me into the ministry. He was actually a professor at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and is now enjoying his reward in heaven. When I was licensed to preach, another pastor signed the document. He is retired and living in Atlanta. When Myra and I were married, it was two pastors who presided. It was a pastor who gave me my first job in a local church. That same pastor later signed my ordination papers. When I became a pastor, my former pastor gave me some of his books to help me start my library. He is retired and living in Virginia and his twin brother was a member at Bellevue. When my father in law passed, it was a pastor who spoke words of comfort. Pastors have taught me the word of God. They have been an example to me. They have shown me godliness and compassion. Pastors have been my friends and inspiration. I’m sure you could say the same. The Bible says God gave gifted men as gifts to His church. Aren’t you grateful for wise, godly, moral pastors? October is Pastor Appreciation Month. Be sure to thank the pastors and staff in your life. And bring your pastor with you to the Annual Celebration on Monday night, October 24, at Bartlett Hills Baptist Church.

happenings

BaptistWomen’s World Dayof PrayerBrunch

Saturday, November 12, 20169:00-11:00 a.m.

Colonial Baptist Church1503 Colonial Rd., Memphis

Contact Julia Binford at 901-373-6161 for more information.

Baptist Hospital AuxiliaryThe annual informational day will be Friday, October 7, 2016 at the Baptist Women’s Hospital, 6225 Humphrey’s Blvd., on the main floor. Please come see how God is working through volunteers to be a blessing to those who are hurting and those who are receiving Baby Bibles through your monetary donations.

2016 Goal$50,000

Church Plant Spotlight

Mosaic Church - MemphisAli and Anetta Chambers

Sponsoring Church: Kirby Woods

Prayer Points• Upcoming series on community

and the opportunity to disciple our people in real Christian community.

• Present meeting location and issues• That we are allowed to keep our sign

up throughout the week.• Greater unity and love for one

another within our leadership team.

Each year, the Jack May Offering will highlight a different area of ministry of the Mid-South Baptist Association. This year, the focus will be on Great Commission Multipliers. The offering will be used for instructors and materials to ensure no financial burden for the church. The vision is to see multiple clusters of reproducing disciple makers. C o n t a c t A s h l e y a t t h e associational office at 901-373-6161 or [email protected] to order promotional posters and envelopes.

Disciples Making Disciples ConferenceSaturday, November 5, 2016

8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Friendship Baptist Church1355 Vollintine Ave. • Memphis

Register by calling Ashley at 901-373-6161 or e-mail: ashley@

midsouthbaptist.com