Henry County Baptist Association April 2015

T h e C a l l e r Sharon Smith, Office Manager - spatterson3449@centurylink.net Office Email: hcbaptists@centurylink.net

Karen Reed, Ministry Assistant

3449 Kings Mountain Road, Martinsville, VA 24112 • Phone:(276) 638-2951 • Fax: (276) 638-2326 www.racewayministriesmartinsville.com • www.hcbaptists.net

National Day of Prayer

May 7, 2015

“Lord, Hear Our Cry”

“Listen to Your servant’s prayer and his petition,

LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and

the prayer that Your servant prays before You

today.” I Kings 8:28 (HCSB)

The HCBA Office will be closed on

Monday, April 6, 2015

in observance of the Easter Holiday

May You Have a Blessed Easter

Holiday! Because Jesus Christ rose from the dead on that wonderful first Easter Morning, we have the Blessed

Hope of Heaven as our home

Remember…..

News for

THE MAY CALLER

is due April 15th!

HAPPY

EASTER!

WMU Annual Meeting Tuesday, April 14, 2015 First Baptist, Collinsville

Pre-Service Music, 6:15 pm Ryan & Rebecca Beachy

Program Begins, 6:30 pm Guest Speaker: Rebecca Beachy

Please plan to join us!

Church News! AXTON … Our annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held at the church on Saturday April 4th. Youth Sunday will be April 12th.

We will have a Spaghetti Dinner April 25th.

BLACKBERRY … March 28th: Golden Agers visited Hales Ford Church for the Easter drama, The Cry of Christ. March 14th: K—6th grade had Devotion and Movie night. Youth, grades 7—12 meeting for Bible Study on Wednesdays at 6:45 p.m. April 25th: Men’s Day with Classic Car Cruise In and Breakfast. April 26th: Men in charge of Worship Service. Plans in progress for a new Church Pictorial Directory. March

22nd: Women’s Ministry and Bible Study Time: 5:00 p.m.

COLLINSVILLE, FIRST .. Easter Events: Maundy Thursday Service with Communion, April 2, 6:00 PM; Children’s Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday, April 4, 11:00 AM; Easter Sunrise Service, April 5, 7:00 AM. Our church will host the HCBA WMU Annual Meeting on Tuesday, April 14. We will have spring revival April

19-22, 7:00 PM nightly, with Dr. Dennis Deese.

FORT TRIAL … Children’s Easter Celebration Saturday, April 4th , 10 am – noon. The Secret Church, Friday, April 24th, beginning at 7 PM and ending at 1 AM (Sat.). 6 hours of worship, intense Bible study and prayer for the persecuted church led by David Platt (President, International Mission

Board of the Southern Baptist Convention).

FULLER MEMORIAL … A group from our church honored our oldest living church member with a birthday party March 9 at Stanleytown Health Care Center. Nola Fulcher is 98 and we enjoyed celebrating with her. We missed morning and night services one Sunday and Bible study one Wednesday night due to ice and snow, but are so happy to be back on schedule. We look forward to serving our Lord with the renewed promises

of spring.

GRACE … Check out our new website, www.gbcridgeway.com

HILL MEMORIAL … We will be having a spring revival beginning with the 11:00 AM service on the 17th of May, evening service on Sunday at 6:00 PM and Monday through Thursday at 7:00 PM. Brother Randy Perry will be the Evangelist and will be singing each night. Everyone is invited to

attend.

HILLCREST … Mar. 27th & 28th youth & leaders participated in 30-hour famine including a prayer walk, worship, and service project at Community Storehouse. Sun., Mar. 29th 4-6pm Easter Egg Hunt with games, food, devotion, and more. Thurs., April 9th - Daughters of the King celebration. Melissa Futrell is featured speaker. Banquet cost $10. Call church 957-2449 to reserve a ticket. Sun., April 19th, 6pm - Rockingham Male

Chorus will lead our evening worship.

MARTINSVILLE, FIRST … March 23 Baptist Men Meet with Nancy Stanton McDaniel as speaker; April 2 Maundy Thursday Service and Holy Communion; April 5 Early Service at 9:00 followed by Breakfast, Worship Service at 11:00 with Easter Egg Hunt for children after worship; April 7 WMU meet; April 18

Newspaper Recycling; April 19 Reception after Worship.

MCCABE MEMORIAL … Some of McCabe’s members participated in Raceway Ministries March 27th-29th during Martinsville’s race weekend. McCabe’s next “Free Community Meal” will be held on Wednesday, April 8th from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Our VBS is being planned for June 22nd-26th. Plans are underway for McCabe’s 75th Anniversary & Homecoming

Celebration which will be on Sunday, August 30th.

MOUNT VERNON … April 3- Good Friday Service- begins @ 7:00 p.m. April 5- Sunrise Service @ Mountain Valley

Chapel (time n/a yet)

ORCHARD DRIVE … Community Meal held March 31, Started Bible Study “Why Jesus” Sunday Evenings 6:00 pm, Youth Fund Raiser Lunches held March 8 and March 22, Youth attended ATF in Greensboro March 20-21, April 5 Easter Sunrise service 7:30 am, 8:00 am Breakfast, 10:00 am Sunday School, 11:00 am Morning Worship, Community Meal April 28-

5:30-6:30 pm,

SHILOH … April 11 – Jail & Prison Ministry Workshop, 10:00 AM, at the church. April 12 – Annual Jail & Prison Ministry Service at 3:00 PM, with guest speaker Rev. Kevin West. April 18 – Annual Ushers Workshop at 10:00 AM. April 19 – Ladies Day at 3:00 PM, guest speaker TBA. April 26 – May 3, Spring Revival, guest preachers nightly. Schedule as follows: Sunday,

April 26, 11:00 AM, and 6:30 PM nightly.

STARLING AVENUE ...Feb 1st youth participated in annual Souper Bowl of Caring by collecting food for Grace Network. Feb 15th church dedication of the new hymnals “Celebrating Grace”. Dr. Paul Richardson, Editor, was guest speaker during both services. Feb 15th, the church enjoyed the annual Valentines Spaghetti Supper, with music provided by Skyline Drive. March 8th youth provided a chili lunch and a dessert auction to help fund their annual mission trip to Washington, DC

to minister to the homeless.

TRINITY … March 24th - Senior trip to Hamrick's. Lunch at K&W cafeteria. March 29th Combined Easter Services at Pleasant Grove Methodist Church 6:30 p.m. April 4th – Children’s Easter egg hunt 2-4 p.m. April 5th Sunrise Service

with breakfast. Sunday School and Worship to follow.

This & That... "Send Your Ambassadors"

to History/Heritage Meeting Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Lunch/Meeting at 11:30 am

HCBA Office

Confirm at 276.638.2951 ------------

An Ambassador is ....

1 noun envoy, emissary, representative, high commis-

sioner, consul, diplomat

2 as in great ambassador for the sport: campaigner,

representative, promoter, champion, supporter, backer,

booster.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ambassadors to the History/Heritage team are a

combination of both definitions. As church representa-

tives each is an envoy and a promoter. Each church

must have boosters to encourage the work of today, to

promote the sharing in the tomorrows and to look to the

beginning foundations to build upon. In all, let God’s

love shine.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your Ambassadors: Please search out church members

who are interested in locating records, in keeping safe

places for the treasures, in backing the church programs,

and willing to be the emissary to the HCBA. There they

will be assisting with the same above assignments within

the total association. Send those ambassadors to the His-

tory/Heritage committee meetings. Clip items for the

scrapbooks. Update your chapter in the 2017 book

HisStory... to be Continued.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Suggestion: Your church needs

a history/heritage committee/

team. As a person is called

home by our Lord, another

must continue the record-

ing. Appoint at least two to be

your ambassadors to the HCBA

team.

April Birthdays

4 – John Fox, former Director of Missions

6 – John Tinsley, Pastor, Shiloh

11 – Loretta Smith, Secretary, McCabe Memorial

17 – Harold Draper, Retired Minister

25 – Mike Hatfield, Pastor, Chatham Heights

April Anniversaries

24 – Daniel Willson, Asst. Pastor/FamilyMin&Educ/

Martinsville, First, 2 yrs.

29 – Sarah Leamy, Music Director, Martinsville, First, 3 yrs.

April Calendar

3 Good Friday

5 Easter Sunday

6 Office Closed for Easter Holiday

12 Cooperative Missions/Cooperative

Program Day

14 WMU Annual Meeting, 6:15 PM,

Collinsville, First

14-15 Virginia Baptist Mission Board, Virginia

Baptist Resource Center, Richmond

15 News for the Caller due in Association

office

16 Executive Committee, 7:00 PM, Asso-

ciation Office

21 Ministerial Association, 10:30 AM

23 Senior Adults, 12:00 PM, Collinsville,

First

26 Baptist World Alliance Sunday EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

Thursday, April 16,

2015

7:00 PM

Association Office

HCBA Monthly Financial Report

February 2015

Receipts:

Church Contributions ............................. $4,463.41

Interest .............................................................. $.72

Total receipts ........................................... $4,464.13

Total Expenditures .................................. $5,591.05

Operating Balance ............................... $102,547.11

Congratulations to Rev. Dennis Wingate, Pastor at Grace Baptist Church, who has received a Doctorate in Ministry from the Billy Graham School of Mis-

sions, Evangelism & Ministry. Dennis and his wife, Sharon, recently celebrated their 10th anniversary at Grace. Congratulations! May God bless you with many more years of serving our Lord!

We are pleased to welcome...

Mrs. Mary Helen Cameron, who has been called as

the Minister of Music, at Pocahontas Bassett BC. She

will begin her ministry on April 13, 2015. Mary Helen

has a Bachelor of Music degree from Union University in

Jackson, TN, and a Master of Church Music degree from

the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She has pre-

viously served churches in Tennessee, Kentucky, and

Virginia as pianist and has experience working with

choirs of all ages. She has taught private piano lessons for

over 30 years, and is a member of the VA Baptist Wom-

en’s Chorale. She is married to Rev. David Cameron,

who is the Associate Minister at Chatham Heights BC.

Mary Helen, we say a big “Welcome” and look forward

to many years of serving our Lord together!

HERE COMES PETER COTTON TAIL HOPPING DOWN THAT SENIOR TRAIL"

Happy Easter to all the senior

adults. Mark your calendars for Thursday April 23 at First Baptist Church of Collinsville, the Presbyterian Home band will be performing to some good "ole down home music"; with instruments you just will not believe. The fun will begin at 12:00 noon. Then in September head on down to Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Axton for our fantasy trip to Hawaii. The luau will begin at 12:00 noon, Thursday September 24. This is our talent show meeting, so you have plenty of time to practice your talent. I hope we will at least have a few hula dancers. There might have been some confusion about this trip. We are not really going to Hawaii, but we will make you feel like you are in Hawaii. The Bunny hopes to see all of you HOP ON OVER to the April meeting. (Now if anyone is really going to Hawaii and wants to take me along, I can pack in a minute’s notice)

HALLELUJAH HE IS RISEN SUSAN BLEVINS

Choral Workshop May 23-24, 2015

Starling Avenue Baptist Church

The HCBA Music Team is planning a Choral Work-shop with published composer Conway A. Bolt, Jr. for Saturday, May 23rd with a concert planned for Sun-day afternoon, May 24th, all at Starling Avenue Bap-tist Church. The schedule is as follows:

Saturday, May 23rd: 9:30 AM – Registration 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon – Workshop 12:00 Noon – Lunch provided by Starling Avenue BC 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Workshop

Sunday, May 24th: 2:40 PM – Workshop Choir returns for warm-up 3:00 PM – Concert with Mr. Bolt conducting and Rev. Ed Spencer accompanying

At registration, we will accept a $10.00 fee for a sin-gle singer and $15.00 for a couple. This fee is to help defray the costs of the workshop. However, if this is not possible, we still want the singers to attend. Eve-ryone will receive a folder with unpublished and pub-lished music. Mr. Bolt will give permission for choir directors to copy only the unpublished works; he will have to buy his published works.

Any questions can be addressed to:

Pat McKinster, 276-806-4170

David Cameron – 276-632-2150

Jencie Gibson – 276-650-8389

Please encourage anyone in your church to at-

tend…they do not have to be choir members.