JUNE 2011 The Messenger VOLUME 54 NO. 6

Music Minister Monte Martin Pastor Eric Spano Youth Pastor Jason Cockayne

Our biggest outreach event is coming this month! Mega Sports Camp (MSC) is an exciting time where we get to have fun while building meaningful relationships with families in our area. So, why MSC? Well, our desire is to reach those who are unchurched. Seeing that many elementary age children are involved in sports (just check out the ball fields right across the street), we knew we could use sports to reach families. Last year, we saw over 150 children with MOST of those being unchurched! This year, we will continue with our focus on bringing in people who are unchurched by having some “unusual” and crowd-drawing performances in which people will see guys breaking stuff and a man who can swallow swords! We pray that those who would have never stepped into a church will be drawn in to see one of these unique performances, and in turn hear the gospel and get plugged into our church. We look forward to each of you becoming involved in some way, not to see big numbers at our event, but to see lasting results of people coming to Christ and unchurched families becoming part of our church family. So, were do each of us at MPBC fit into this outreach event? We ask each member to prayerfully consider 2 things: 1) Volunteer at our event! You can view the different needs on our church bulletin board. We delegate out the many jobs to make it easy on everyone. And, we have jobs for those who are athletic, those who aren’t, and those in between! 2) Help us in our follow-up process. This is our BIGGEST focus this year. As a church, we will

take the following 3 Sunday nights (6:30pm) to make short visits to the homes of those who came to our event.

In Christ, Eric and Jason

Mega Sports Camp June 20th-24th

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Deacons Meeting Sunday,

June 19th 5:00 pm

Business Meeting

Wednesday, June 29th 7:00 pm

June 5th will be the final regular Sunday night service for the summer. Watch for details about special Sunday evening outreach events June 26, July 3 and July 10th. Sunday night services will resume in September.

Sunday morning

schedules

Nursery

6/5-Angel Cockayne & Barbara Hinchee

6/12-Donna Early &

Pat Sink 6/19-Bonnie Bush &

Reva Hollandsworth 6/26-Libby Draper &

Diana Wilson

Toddler Schedule

6/5-Kayla Gonzales & Mackenzie Locke

6/12-Taylor Herndon, Cathy

Ryan & Emily Thompson 6/19-Kathleen Duffy &

April Martin 6/26-Melinda & Aaron Dooley

Extended Session

6/5-Reva & Randall Hollandsworth

6/12-Kevin Duffy 6/19-Cindy & Dwayne Weikel 6/26-Dee Burks &

Kathleen Duffy

This Month

Rodney Hurd 6/1

Vicki Duffy 6/3

Rachel Parr 6/3

Jason Overstreet 6/4

Phyllis States 6/5

David Duffy 6/6

Dawn Cowan 6/7

Susan Parr 6/7

Tracey Roberts 6/7

Shirley Morgan 6/8

Jannet Turner 6/8

Brian Dogan 6/11

Cathy Ryan 6/11

Cindy Rowland 6/14

Patrick Harper 6/15

Jamie Lyle 6/15

Hunter Locke 6/16

Dori Exline 6/23

Eric Spano 6/26

Duane Ison Jr. 6/27

Joe Starkey 6/27

Ethan Exline 6/29

Tom Parr 6/30

Jeff Smith 6/30

Sunday and Wednesday night Nursery for June:

Harper and Duffy’s Classes

Wednesday night Nursery for July:

Bobby Bush/ Larry McCulloch Class

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Donnie Arthur Jenny Arthur Dee Burks

Barbara Hinchee

Adults, we would like for you to be a

part of our 2011 Mega Sports Camp

June 20-24

See our bulletin board for the many areas you

can help us in!

Food Lion shoppers…you can now

easily support our MPBC Missions

Team by shopping at Food

Lion. By registering your Food Lion

MVP card, we receive money

when you purchase Food Lion

Brand, Healthy Accents, Home

360, Nature’s Place, On the Go

Bistro, Smart Option, Taste of

Inspirations, Butchers Brand Beef

and Holly Farms Poultry. Also, we

get double credit when you

purchase these items on the 10th of

the month! Go to http://

www.foodlion.com/Community-

Outreach/MVP-Rewards or follow

the link on the left hand side of our

webpage. “Touching the heart of God, changing the

hearts of kids!”

Children’s Church for K-5th Grade

Now on every 2nd and 4th Sunday morning

following the children’s

Dear Church family,

Ruth and I want to thank

you for the wonderful

meal you brought us. The

prayers, cards and visits

were greatly appreciated.

Thank you for being a

special church family!

Sincerely,

Don Mullins

Cave

Spring Baptist Church

Friday, June 24th 6:30 – 9 pm

Carpool leaves MPBC at 5:45 pm

This is a ministry to disabled children and young adults. See Larry McCulloch for details.

Celebrating Dad

June 19

For the

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Youth Happenings Dear Church Family,

The past month has been very exciting as our teens have been studying the lives of mission-ary heroes from our past, praying for missionary heroes of today, and learning about the spiritual needs around the world. The teens are also challenged to dig deeper on their own by decorating tables that represent each area of the world and also by bringing in native foods from each area and sharing with the teens (DON’T try the “green stuff” from India!). As mentioned in my newsletter last month, I have 2 prayers. I pray that each of our teens will become passionate about the spiritual and physical needs of the world around us and find ways to do something about it. My second pray-er is that we will once again see teens come out of our church who are called to full-time Christian service. Finally, keep your eyes open for a special service in July where we will share what we have learned to our church family!

In Christ, Jason Cockayne

Jason@generation246.com *follow me on facebook or twitter

540-556-1246

Mark Your Calendar! June 5- Youth Picnic

June 12- Graduation Sunday

June 20-24- Mega Sports Camp (no Wednesday night youth)

June 27th- Team Ecuador’s Golf Tournament

**Full event details can be found at www.Generation246.com!

Full details about this series, including links to

missionaries you can pray for and other help-

ful things can be found at Generation246.com.

There will be a link on the left or you can go to

our “lessons” page.

Eden Bowen– Homeschool

Darin Duffy– Liberty University

Eli Exline– William Byrd High School

Kelsey Gibson– William Byrd High School

Beth Moats– William Byrd High School

Macy Rowland– William Byrd High School

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*****You won’t want to miss our LAST

regular TEAMKID meeting of the school year on

June 5th! Come for a time of “school year end”

celebration with snacks and games along with

announcements for upcoming events for the summer months!!*****

………………………………….AND NOW…………………… ………………………………………For the first time at Mt. Pleasant……………

....An unforgettable series answering the BIG question…..?????? What’s in the Bible? That’s right! Join Buck Denver and friends as we explore what’s really in the Bible! Starting with the very first book of Genesis and journeying along to the time of the kings in Israel we will discover all that God has given us in the Bible. We will be praising God in song, and viewing this fabulous series from the Veggie Tales creator, Phil Vischer.

*Beginning on Wednesday, June 29 and continuing every Wednesday night

this summer from 6:30-7:30 p.m.!

June 5th- TEAMKID closeout meeting June 12th- Mega Sports Camp Preparation (No children’s events). June 19th- Father’s Day (No events). June 20-24th- Mega Sports Camp (sign up today!!) June 29th- Summer series begins with What’s in the Bible?

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Boy’s/girl’s Soccer Girl’s Cheerleading Boy’s/girl’s basketball

Mt Pleasant Baptist Church ~ June 20-24 (6-8:30pm)

This FREE sports camp is for boys and girls just finishing kindergarten through 5th grade!

Registration and details @ www.MPBaptist.com!

The week kicks off with our jam-packed pep rally on Monday, June 20th.

Special guests this week include a world famous Sword swallower, the “power source”, & more!

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

3000 Pitzer Road

Roanoke, Va. 24014

427-5494 FAX 427-3034

June 12th Graduation Sunday June 19th Father’s Day

June 19th Deacon's Meeting June 20-24th Mega Sports Camp

June 27th Golf Tournament June 29th Business Meeting