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North Grand River Baptist Association

The Encourager 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

Volume 41, Number62

June, 2017

“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

Alpha 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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PRAYER BREAKFAST

FOR MEN & WOMEN

Led by Steve Dennis- NGR Prayer Director

Galt Baptist Church

Saturday– 8:00 am- June 17, 2017

Following Breakfast there will be a devotion followed by a time of prayer for our churches, association and our country. We encourage all men and women to come and join together in a time of prayer and fellowship.

Saturday- June 24, 2017- 6:00 pm

Moberly Park Upper Shelter House

BRING: Salad, Chips, Relish BRING: Salad, Chips, Relish BRING: Salad, Chips, Relish BRING: Salad, Chips, Relish

Tray or a Dessert. Tray or a Dessert. Tray or a Dessert. Tray or a Dessert.

Bring your lawn chairs.Bring your lawn chairs.Bring your lawn chairs.Bring your lawn chairs.

Drinks, Hamburgers & Hotdogs Drinks, Hamburgers & Hotdogs Drinks, Hamburgers & Hotdogs Drinks, Hamburgers & Hotdogs

provided by the NGRprovided by the NGRprovided by the NGRprovided by the NGR————WMU & WMU & WMU & WMU &

BrotherhoodBrotherhoodBrotherhoodBrotherhood

Music by Music by Music by Music by

“Servants Of The Most High”“Servants Of The Most High”“Servants Of The Most High”“Servants Of The Most High”

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Christian Fathers face the same pressures as nonbelieving fathers, but they face

them with faith instead of fear.

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Brothers and Sisters, Edward Mote wrote the phenomenal words to the hymn: “The Solid Rock.” It starts with, “My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteous-ness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.”

Amen! There is nothing in this world that we can fully put our trust in but Jesus Christ. We don’t have the power to save ourselves from sin and death. It is only by the grace of God that we are able to know Christ and live in His presence daily, and into eternity. Our faith brings us into the connection with God Almighty that we need. There are times when everyone of us gets distracted by the world’s cares, work, technology, enter-tainment, and keeping up with relationships. This song is a reminder that we can’t put our hope in ourselves or anything else because everything is “sinking sand” but our anchor who is found in Christ. This is it. This is our answer! Romans 3:22, “the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus”. Romans 5:5 says, “and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” (ESV) This is just a reminder that we have hope because of who Jesus is and what He has accomplished on the cross for us. Our trust needs to be fully in Him and His resurrection. If you have found your-self turning to something or someone more than your risen Savior, remember that He is our only Solid Rock through life! Hold on to Him! In Christ,

Garrett Trunk Pastor Gallatin First Baptist Church

Pastors Prayer & Fellowship Time

at Pizza Hut 2nd Monday

of each month

Rural Dale Baptist Church invites all churches to the Deacon Ordination Ser-vice for Mike Bowers on Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 2:30 pm If you are ordained and would like to be part of the ordination council please come and meet at 1:30 pm.

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VBS Princeton FBC

June 12-16 9:00 am—11:30 am

Theme: “Ocean Commotion”

Father’s Day- June 18 DAD Coffee Cups

Paperweights

Men’s Christian Socks

DAD Car Coasters

Men’s Ball Caps- $8.50

Several other items to choose from

Children’s Novelty Items

Smile Whistle Bubbles- .50 each

Rose Chart Pamphlets- $3.30 each Includes– Denominations Comparison,

Bible Time Line, Parables of Jesus, Evidence of the Resurrection, Gospels Side by Side and

more.

June

3. Tim & Cyndy Munday 3 Rich Neeley 12. Kenny & Judy Wilson 14. Ron & Bobbie Helton 16. Rich & Chris Neeley 21 Garret & Jennifer Trunk

175th NGR Anniversary Clear Cups

$1.00 Available at the

NGR Mission Center

Shelburne Baptist Church June 23-25, 2017— 7:00 pm

Speaker– Garrett Trunk Worship Leader– Anita Ewing

Alpha Baptist Church July 9-16- 7:00 pm

Speaker– Richard Green Worship Leader– Lisa Reid

Remember in Prayer SBC Annual Meeting

June 12-14, 2017 Phoenix, Arizona

Volunteers Needed!

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

June dates to help with food

distribution at Medicine Valley Community

Ministry June 13th– Prepare Boxes at

Newtown Baptist Chapel– 9 am to noon

June 15th– Food Distribution

There are several old SBC Annuals (Fifties through Seventies) and some MBC Annuals if anyone would like to have them. Contact Debbie at the Mission Center.

The ACP’s (All Church Profile) are here. Church Clerks you can pick up your church ACP at the office or if you need me to mail it to you please contact me. The ACP’s need to be returned to me August 15th, 2017. Thank you Church Clerks for all your work.

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All budget requests for NGR 2017-2018 are due to be turned in at the Mission Center by June 9th.

Chillicothe Baptist HomeChillicothe Baptist HomeChillicothe Baptist HomeChillicothe Baptist Home

HomecomingHomecomingHomecomingHomecoming

June 10, 2017June 10, 2017June 10, 2017June 10, 2017

10 am to 2 pm10 am to 2 pm10 am to 2 pm10 am to 2 pm

Musical Entertainment, Bake Sale,

Guided Tours, Games for Children of all ages, Fishing and Outdoor Barbecue

(freewill offering)

Thank you for the opportunity to serve. I know that we did not get all of the projected activities planned completed. A lack of interest in the planning process or similar community activity hap-pening interrupted the budgeted plan submitted. I do have a mission project in mind that requires little prep work. However, without the support of your youth leaders/teachers and announce-

ments, that too will fail. In combination of a news report and a project that BSU has done in the past; I would like to get with the fire chef and see what it would take to walk around offering fire detectors or batteries to homes and also provide a list of our churches and times of service. If your church, youth leader/teacher has an idea that they would like to include the association, please let me know! Pastors, encourage those people to work on bringing all the churches together in the name and love of Je-sus. Vanessa Hamilton NGR Youth Director

Be in prayer for

Youth Camp- June 12-16

Children’s Camp- July 24-28 Forms must be turned into NGR by

June 23 to avoid late fee.

Cost for camps is $95 and late fee is $130.

NOTE!

There will be a meeting for any camp staff on June 9th at 6:00 pm at Melburne Baptist Church. You are encouraged to come to this meeting as there will be a lot of new stuff that needs to be gone over.

Upcoming Events

Resound Festival at Bethany June 9-10

Includes Big Daddy Weave, Jaime Grace, Unspoken, Ryan Stevenson, David Donn,

Love and the Outcome, We are the Messengers, and more

Father’s Day June 18, 2017

MB 125 Pastor’s Conference

June 28—July 1, 2017 Skyline Baptist Church, Branson

For more info: mobaptist.org/mb125

Biblical Manhood Conference August 19th, 2017 8:00 am to 3:00 pm St. Joe- Frederick Blvd Baptist Church

Northwest WMU Women’s Retreat

Thursday– September 14, 2017 Grand Oaks Baptist Assembly Registration Begins 8:30 am

NGR Annual Meeting

Saturday, September 17, 2017 Galt Baptist Church

Remember to pray for the churches as

they lead in VBS in June and July.

Summer

Begins

June 20

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May 16th was the date of our monthly meeting. Members from 5 dedicated churches attended. We opened with prayer requests, there were many local needs which in-cluded the BSU trip to Canada, our association Picnic in June, our association, our gov-ernment and our president.

June 20th, our last meeting for the summer we will have Marissa Knapp our guest speaker. She is just home from Africa on leave. She will be talking about her work

there.

Several mission items were discussed. The group worked on the 2017-2018 budget. Plans for fall activities were discussed.

Remember to promote the Association Picnic in all the churches. “Servants Of The Most High” will be there to share some good old southern gospel music.

Virginia gave a devotion on feeding the 5000. Then a meal and fellowship was shared by the group.

Next meeting: Tuesday June 20, at 10:30 with carry in to follow. Program will be Marissa Knapp

Verse for the month—John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; and whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst”.

Shelly Sims

Alpha Baptist Church- We would like to invite you to our upcoming Revival on July 9th-16th starting at 7:00 pm each night. The Evangelistic Speaker will be Rev. Richard Green.

Gallatin FBC Vacation Bible School will be July 9-14. The Men's Bible Study meet each Tuesday evening at 7 pm. JOY Youth are meeting on Wednesday evenings for Bible Study and will be going to Midland Youth Camp on June 19-24.

Thursday, June 1st is our Keenagers noon luncheon! There is always lots of good food and fellowship. Come, be a blessing and be blessed!

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Salem- God has given Salem Baptist Church the opportunity to serve Him by serving others. On April 26th, many members, along with Modena Baptist Church and Faith Bible Church, providing, preparing, and serving the Baptist Student Union (BSU) of the North Central Missouri College (NCMC) luncheon. It was a cool rainy day and chilidogs hit the spot.

A devotion was given using Philippians 4:6-7 encouraging the NCMC/BSU students to not worry concerning future endeavors and events of their lives, but to seek God’s will through prayer. Fi-nally, a special thanks to the Salem Baptist Church’s WMU for overseeing this great ministry on this day.

Then on April 30th, the Salemites had a pot-luck luncheon directly after the morning services to celebrate and honor five young people who will be graduating from high school. Karli Crawford (daughter of Scott & Tiffany Crawford), Mor-ganne Farmer (daughter of Mike & Jennifer Farmer), Jasper Hanson (son of Tim & Michelle Hanson), Tylor Doolittle (son of Tom & Kasey Doolittle) will be graduating from Trenton High School, and Hunter Tucker (son of Tim & Lynn Tucker) will be graduating from Liberty High School-Liberty, MO.

Each graduate received a personalized Bible during the celebration. The members of Salem Baptist Church highlighting their personal favorite verse(s) then in each of the graduates Bibles then signed next to it in hopes of encouragement throughout their lives.

To continue with honoring the graduates, many members attended the Trenton High School (THS) Baccalaureate at the First Baptist Church on May 10th, then the THS graduation at the Ketcham Community Center on May 14th.

Also on May 14th, a celebration to Mothers as given. Each mom received three roses and a lot of hugs. Proverbs 31:10-31 was read as not only to honor the woman as a wife, but as a mother.

Finally, on May 7th, Salem Baptist Church began their summer Sunday Night Bible Study at 6:00 pm. The studies is NON-TRADITIONAL in nature (and perhaps somewhat CONTROVERSIAL as some might come with preconceived ideas). These studies includes the subjects: Judaism (then & now), Christian Denominations (who’s right/who’s wrong?), Bible Translations/Versions (which Holy Bible is the “real” one?), and if time permits, Hymns vs Praise Mu-sic (traditional vs contemporary). Anyone & all are invited and encouraged to comeOand to bring your “thoughts and ideas” to the tableObut we all come in the Love & Name of Jesus Christ and we all will leave with the same.

Trenton FBC– The Keenagers have been busy this spring. JA and Chris Keuhn shared about their ministry work in Haiti on April 21st. May 18th they went to Warm Springs to the Clydesdale Horse Farm. On July 7th they will be going to Arrow Rock to see “Oklahoma”. July 21st they will be having breakfast at Moberly Park.

We are having a block party behind the church July 1st at 6:00 pm. Our VBS is scheduled on July 16-20.

During the summer months starting June 4th, there will be an early service starting at 8:00 am with a light breakfast to follow from 9:00 to 9:30 am in the fellowship hall. Sunday School will be at 9:30 am, Sunday Morning Worship at 10:40 am, and Sunday evening at 6:00 pm.

June 11th our Sunday evening service will move to Calvary Baptist Church in Chillicothe at 5:00 pm for the Nicaragua mission trip fund raiser to help build homes on the mission field.

Union Coon Creek -.The Pastors wife Dianna Crawford, NGR VBS Director led the NGR Special Friends VBS for all

ages, on April 30th. Dianna thought everything went well and would like to thank all who assisted and attended. Thanks

to those from our church and others who helped set up and tear down. Cale Gondringer was our speaker sharing with

everyone the workings of a telescope, and then adding how all the universe, each star, and constellations all fall in place

through only one creator. How awesome God is.

We have had 4 baptisms since the last newsletter and looking forward to more.

For our 5th Sunday service on April 30 Matt Arthaud assisted Micah Knapp in our song service then Matt brought the morning message form Leviticus.

We thank God for all the mothers of our church and association and appreciate all they have done or are doing. Also congratulations to all graduates this year.

We go to Eastview Nursing Home every 3rd Sunday of the month and serve the Celebrate Recovery meal once a month. Be praying for VBS and Camp.

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North Grand River Baptist Association

1108 N Main

Trenton, MO 64683 Ministry Assistant

Fax: 660.359.0200 Debbie Dickinson

E-Mail: ngrmission@sbcglobal.net BSU Interim Director

Telephone – 660.359.3897 Christina Boatright

Church Giving Church Service Times

April 2017 Reports

Monthly Inc.

BSU Inc. SS AM PM Weds.

Alpha $ 137.07 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 7:00

Edinburg $2,202.58 $ 255.85 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00

Gallatin $ 714.09 $ 50.00 9:30 10:40 6:00 7:00

Galt $ 115.00 $ 25.00 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00

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

Laredo $ 255.83 $ 50.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 6:00

Lineville $ 167.76 $ 25.00 9:45 10:45 6:00 6:00

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

Mercer $ 215.50 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 6:30

Modena $ 150.22 $ 150.00 10:00 10:40 6:00 6:00

Princeton $ 49.29 $ 80.00 9:40 10:40 7:00 6:00

Ravanna $ 122.43 $ 52.47 9:30 10:45

Rural Dale $ 636.73 $ 75.00 9:45 10:45 5:00 6:00

Salem $ 275.59 $ 25.00 10:00 11:00 6:00

Shelburne $ 525.67 $ 75.00 10:00 10:55 6:00 6:30

Spickard $ 25.00 9:30 10:30

Tenth St. 9:30 10:30 6:00 7:00

Trenton FB $1,538.17 $ 256.86 9:30 10:40 6:00 6:00

Union $ 317.44 $ 200.00 10:00 11:00 6:00 6:00

Total $7,473.37 $1,395.18 Join any of these churches in worship

Chilli, FBC $ 45.00

Gilman BC $ 200.00

Milan FBC $ 192.88

MBC $1,840.00

April 2017 NGR Account Beginning Balance $38,211.87 Income $18.162.45 Total $56,374.32 Expenses $16,033.42 Ending Balance $40,340.90

Line Items in NGR Checking NGR Designated Funds $9,824.73 NGR General Fund $21,369.53 BSU Line Item Balance $9,146.64

NGR October 2016-April 2017 (Includes BSU & Designated Funds)

Income $97,661.11 Expenses $85,908.42 Difference $11,752.69

Seminary Checking $144.21 Seminary Savings $2,309.11

Benevolent Savings $795.20

NGR Savings $1,257.34

BSU– April– Income to Expense Beginning Balance $7,658.41 Income $5,225.56 Total $12,883.97 Expenses $3,595.31 Ending Balance $9,288.66 General BSU Fund $6,934.88 Designated BSU Fund– Canada $2,353.78

NOTE: BSU included in NGR Account below.

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