North Grand River Baptist Association

The Encourager 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

Volume 40, Number 7

July, 2016

“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 1108 N Main Director of Missions

Trenton, MO 64683 Rev. E.J. Barnes

Fax: 660.359.0200 Ministry Assistant

E-Mail: ngrmission@sbcglobal.net Debbie Dickinson

BSU Telephone– 660.654.0785 BSU Director

DOM’s Office– 660.359.3365 Telephone – 660.359.3897 Diann Barnes

Web Page– northgrandriverbaptist.com BSU Assistant Director

Christina Boatright

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

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Edinburg

Gallatin

Galt

Jameson

Jamesport

Laredo

Lineville

Medicine Valley

Mercer

Modena

Princeton*

Ravanna

Rural Dale

Salem

Shelburne

Spickard

Tenth Street

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Novelty Items on SaleNovelty Items on SaleNovelty Items on SaleNovelty Items on Sale Summer Bubbles- .50

Cell Phone– .75

Pliers & Screwdriver– .75

Sandal Eraser & Skateboard Pencil

Sharpener– .75

Plastic Dish Set- $1.00

Find a cool place and read a bookFind a cool place and read a bookFind a cool place and read a bookFind a cool place and read a book----

Books 15% OffBooks 15% OffBooks 15% OffBooks 15% Off–––– July 11 July 11 July 11 July 11----29292929

Bibles– 15% Off

July 25-29

God’s Guy or God’s Girl Hardcover ESV Bible

$10.00

NIV Hardcover- $10.00

Men’s Polo T-Shirts- $5.00 (While supply lasts)

Have you stopped by the Bookstore lately? We have Bibles, books, accompaniment CD’s, DVD’s, listening music, gift items, children’s books, Children's CD’s and DVD’s and so

much more.

There will be no Men’s

Breakfast this month.

Anniverary

2 Ron & Iva Gail Ratliff

ACP’s are here!!

If you have not picked up your packet at the Mission Center, please contact Debbie. The due date for the ACP to be turned back in is August 15th. Filling out the ACP is very important and helps through the year provide so much information to the church, pastor, associa-tion and the conventions.

NGR Executive Board Meeting

July 18, 2016 at 7:00 pm

Items for the agenda are due July 1st. All reports must be submitted by July 12th. At the July meeting the proposed budget will be discussed for NGR and the BSU. The agenda and proposed budget can be picked up on July 15th. This will give you time to review over it before the meeting.

We gather 'round to celebrate On Independence Day Pay homage to our country As the children run and play. With barbecues and picnics And fireworks in the air The flag we own is proudly flown To show how much we care. The stars and stripes spell freedom She waves upon the breeze While bursts of colors can be seen Above the towering trees. This is all quite wonderful We revel in delight But God above in divine love Has brought this day to light. With just a stroke of liberty A touch of His great hand He gave democracy to us And helped this country stand.

The stripes upon our stately flag Were touched by His sweet grace

Each star of white that shines so bright Reflects His loving face.

So as you turn to face the flag For battles that were fought

Be filled with pride for those who died And freedoms that were bought.

But don't forget to thank the One

That gives the bright display The reason why we paint the sky

On Independence Day Coppright @ Marilyn Ferguson 2003

Happy Independence Day!

Jesus on the 4th of JulyJesus on the 4th of JulyJesus on the 4th of JulyJesus on the 4th of July

Church Giving Church Service Times May 2016 Reports

Monthly Inc.

BSU Inc. SS AM PM Weds.

Alpha $ 95.03 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 7:00

Edinburg $ 556.56 $ 61.84 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00

Gallatin $ 637.79 $ 50.00 9:30 10:40 6:00 7:00

Galt $ 165.00 $ 25.00 10:00 11:00 6:00 7:00

Jameson 9:30 10:30

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

Laredo $ 398.00 $ 150.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 6:00

Lineville $ 176.42 $ 58.81 9:45 10:45 6:00 6:00

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

Mercer $ 272.50 $ 25.00 9:30 10:30 6:30 6:30

Modena $ 104.13 $ 50.00 10:15 9:00 6:00 6:00

Princeton $ 937.41 $ 80.00 9:40 10:40 7:00 6:00

Ravanna $ 126.21 $ 54.09 9:30 10:45

Rural Dale $ 808.64 $ 75.00 9:45 10:35 7:00 7:00

Salem $ 123.12 $ 25.00 10:00 11:00 6:00

Shelburne $ 458.82 $ 75.00 10:00 10:55 6:00 6:30

Spickard $ 70.00 9:30 10:30

Tenth St. $1,060.74 9:30 10:30 6:00 7:00

Trenton FB $1,550.53 $ 155.05 9:30 10:40 6:00 6:00

Union $ 100.00 10:00 11:00 6:00 6:00

Total $7,565.90 $1,034.79 Join any of these churches in worship

Chilli, FBC $ 45.00

MBC $ 920.00

Gilman BC $ 200.00

Zion BC $ 50.00

Milan BC $ 83.72

May 2016 NGR Account Beginning Balance $19,701.18 Income $11,667.46 Total $31,368.64 Expenses $9,832.69 Ending Balance $21,535.95

Line Items in General Checking Designated Funds $6,988.52 General Fund $14,547.43 Checking Balance Total $21,535.95

NGR October 2015-May 2016 (Does not Include designated funds)

Income $88,248.38 Expenses $74,547.21 Difference $13,701.17

Seminary Checking $189.21 Seminary Savings $2,301.05

Benevolent Savings $782.48

NGR Savings $462.34

BSU– October– Income to Expense Beginning Balance $9,548.16 Income $3,700.32 Total $13,248.48 Expenses $4,146.90 Ending Balance $9,101.58 General BSU Fund $7,676.71 Designated BSU Fund $1,524.87

From My Heart to YoursFrom My Heart to YoursFrom My Heart to YoursFrom My Heart to Yours “Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 14:34

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or a spiritual giant to realize that our country is in a terri-ble mess. We are in desperate need for a great Spiritual Awakening. Our country again needs to recognize God’s…

AAAAuthority 1 Chronicles 29:11

MMMMercy Numbers 14:18

EEEEternalness Deuteronomy 33:27

RRRRighteousness Psalms 7:9

IIIInstructions Proverbs 1:1-3

CCCCompassion Psalm 86:15

AAAAnger Psalm 90:10-12

Let’s seriously pray for REVIVAL in our churches and SPIRITUAL AWAKENING in our nation!

For His Glory-

E.J. Barnes

MONTHLY ENCOURAGERS

To save costs the Missouri Prayerways will no longer be an insert in the Encourager. Copies will be made for each church that can be set out or more copies can be made at the church. You also can access the Prayerways at mobap-tist.org I also would encourage you to check out the E-Encourager online at northgrandriverbap-tist.com. You can sign up by emailing the office or calling Debbie. Your church may have a sign up list available in the foyer or the church office.

The NGR Mission’s Commit-tee is planning a trip on July 29-31, 2016 to Lennox, Iowa. They are encouraging any-one in the association to be a part of this ministry. You can

contact Maeanne Browning for more infor-mation. The final meeting will be on July 25th at 7:30 pm.

MISSION TRIP

Alpha– We will have revival with Richard Green on August 10th - 14th at 7:00 pm nightly and 10:30 am Sunday. We will have an anniversary service Sunday at 1:30 pm. This is our 170th anniversary.

Edinburg– We are getting ready for VBS, as are

many of the churches. We are having a weekend

VBS, Submerged in fun and learning. The dates

are July 22nd from 6:00-8:00 pm, July 23rd from

9:00 am-3:00 pm, July 24th from 6:00-8:00 pm.

We hope to have a great turn out.

We have worked on our yearly calendar, budgets

and new officers, so it has been a busy month for

the church.

Our church had an empty table ceremony per-

formed by the VFW of Trenton, on memorial Sun-

day. This was a very nice way to help us remem-

ber those of the military who have given the ulti-

mate sacrifice for our freedom and those who

have gone before us in our own families and are

missed by their loved ones. Thanks to those who

performed that special event.

The annual fish fry had a terrific turnout of 59.

Our next monthly event is the children’s church

social, with homemade ice cream and hot dogs

on July 10th, and then looking forward to a spec-

tacular VBS that month. Our new pastor is head-

ing up many wonderful ideas to promote growth

in our church and to meet and greet the neighbor-

hood. We are also in prayer for our Youth camp

at Grand Oaks this month. Our Sunday School is

at 10:00 am and Church at 11:00 am. Sunday

night services are at 6:00 pm with Wednesday

Bible Study at 7:00 pm. Come join in if you don’t

have a church home.

Gallatin– The Keenagers will meet on Thursday, July 7th for their monthly noon luncheon.

Gallatin FBC VBS will be held July 10th-15th. We will kick off our Vacation Bible School with a workers luncheon Sunday, July 10th after the morning worship, and VBS begins Sunday evening. Registration forms will be forward several weeks before VBS, with informational VBS Parent letter. Please drop your registration forms off at the church prior to July 10th if at all possible. If your child is not pre-registered, please come at 5:00 pm Sunday evening. There will be no meal served the first night of VBS (Sunday evening), however we will be serving snacks. An evening meals will be served Tuesday through Thursday for the children and workers from 5:30 to 5:50 pm. Family Night will be Friday evening, and there will be a meal and festival. Also, the VBS children will also be sharing some of their songs dur-ing morning worship on Sunday, July 17th.

VBS 2016

Submerged in the Word of God Submerged in the Word of God Submerged in the Word of God Submerged in the Word of God

(Under the Sea)(Under the Sea)(Under the Sea)(Under the Sea)

Psalm 139:23Psalm 139:23Psalm 139:23Psalm 139:23----24242424

August 1August 1August 1August 1----5555 (Campers who have

finished

3rd grade—6th grade)

Camp Fee- $95 Late Fee $130 FORMS DUE JULY 1ST to

NGR Office by 4:00 pm

Volunteers Needed!

Medicine Valley Community Ministry needs volunteers to help with the preparation and distribution of the Food Pantry Ministry

July dates to help with food

distribution at Medicine Valley Community

Ministry July 19th– Prepare Boxes at

Newtown Baptist Chapel– 9 am to noon

June 21st– Food Distribution

Princeton FBC- We welcome back Ty Berry and his wife Judy as our Interim Pastor. Please continue to pray for us as we seek God’s plan for our church. We had youth to attend camp at Grand Oaks in June. We will be having VBS on July 5th-8th from 5:30-8:00 pm. Our theme is “Submerged”.

Trenton FBC- Summertime ministries at First Baptist are in full swing now. Friday, July 1st at 6:00-8:00 pm will be a VBS Block party at the Gottman’s (Parsonage). Vacation Bible School will be July 10th-14th from 6:00-9:00 pm. We will be having a two day soccer camp on July 21st-22nd. Need info? Contact Shawn at 359-3898. The Brotherhood of our church led the morning worship service on Father’s Day. Alan Fergu-son was the song leader and David Hogan was the speaker. Our Canada mission team left on June 24th, to minister to the First Nation people in Grassy Narrows, Canada. Our Nicaragua mission team will be a part of the Chillicothe team which will leave to go to Nica-ragua July 9th-16th. They hosted a taco/nacho meal on June 26th to raise funds to help build a house there.

Princeton July 5-8 at 5:30-8:00 pm

Gallatin July 10-15

Trenton FBC July 10-14 at 6:00-9:00 pm

Tenth Street July 10-14

Modena July 16

Coon Creek/Union July 17-23

Edinburg July 22-24

NGR Annual Meeting Saturday, September 10, 2016

Princeton First Baptist Celebrating NGR 175 Years & Seminary Extension– 50 years

June 9-13, all four of our Summer Missionaries joined over 200 other college students from all over the country to partner with church planters throughout the metropolitan area of St. Louis in a missions project called “For St. Louis”. Each night church planter, Mark Sikma, preached convicting words from God’s Word,

exhorting students to embrace the challenge to boldly, with love, share Jesus’ story with hurting peo-ple. Our team of 9 spent Friday working with church planter, Kenny Petty, helping his church family to clean and ready their renovated sanctuary for their 1st official worship service that weekend. Sat-urday we engaged in meeting people cultures world-wide, from Ethiopia to Vietnam and the Congo to Croatia. That night, at McDonalds, Trey was prompted by God to give to a homeless man of 25 yrs, Trey’s summer missions back-pack. Trey had noticed that the man was carrying everything he owned in the world in 2 plastic Walmart bags. Sunday our team worshiped with another church plant, Mid-Cities Church, located in a inner city strip-mall, and then from 3pm-9pm our college students very efficiently registered 2,025 messengers plus hundreds of guests for the Southern Baptist con-vention.

Monday, the last day, our students worked with “Church at the BEVO”, Andrew Hicks, and Oasis International, delivering furniture to displaced refugees from the Congo and Pakistan. In each home we were met with warm welcomes and deep gratitude for helping make their living environ-ment just a little bit easier. At the end of delivering to the first family of 8, Melissa realized that their food supplies was very sparse. Since our team had been fed at Oasis International earlier, we were able to give the family our 9 sack lunches, providing them with a supper meal.

The following are testimonies from some of our students: “This is just a summary of my ex-periences at #ForStl2016 … It was one of the best 5 days (June 9-13) of my life. I grew spiritually and socially. I learned a lot not only from the nightly sermons but also from the numerous hands-on activities I got to experience and the different places I visited. I met some wonderful people whom I wouldn't have otherwise met and gained friends. I am empowered to carry out all that I have learned with greater confidence, strength and social support. God is awesome, and I am consistently amazed at His faithfulness and the snippets of His greater purpose for me which He so graciously reveals along the way. I am wiser because of it. I will live my life on mission obeying the Great Com-mission and making better decisions. Thank you Jesus! By: Lincoln U student, Chevar Carr. Melissa Chisenwa, NCMC posted: “It was so rewarding & inspiring working for the Lord in For STL16...I am

definitely looking forward to the rest of the summer & the many cool people I am going to meet �...

#summermissions #blessed”. Andrew Hicks, pastor, said of our NCMC students: We had an amaz-ing time yesterday serving across South City with the young men and women from North Central Missouri College BSU! From planned furniture deliveries, to unplanned conversational encounters, to persevering through the heat, to praying in the homes of new friends from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Pakistan, they were true and humble servants of the Most High God! Honored to have worked in the fields of the Father with them.

Continue to pray for our summer missionaries during the rest of this summer as 2 serve as leaders at Super Summer, and the other 2 serve as group leaders at Grand Oaks Youth Camp this week.

HE is Worthy to Receive the Rewards of His Sacrifice— Souls Diann Barnes

Let’s praise God for the reason we celebrate the fourth of July. Also what a praise to see and hear Maerissa Knapp at the Ladies Program and Lunch-eon. Maerissa is teaching at a Christian school in Nairobi Kenya. We were blessed to hear her share how great God is and how faithful He has been to take care of her in an distant land. We were also blessed to see through a video how God is ministering through her to the people there. Thanks again to Maerissa, her grandparents and her sister for being with us. Shelly was on a medical missions trip to Haiti and unable to be with us. We have 2 other ladies from our group that are preparing for mission’s trip this

summer. Ladies there will be no Program and Luncheon in July and August. Information about the Septem-ber program will be announced later. “And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” Phil. 4:19

Bev Martin Assistant WMU Director

2016 GA Retreats

“Planted in Missions”

October 14-15

Grand Oaks Baptist Assembly in Chillicothe

DEADLINE: August 31,2016

Drawings will be Chosen for: Banners,

Retreat Bookmark, Program Cover, Retreat T-Shirt

Artwork Guidelines Must be drawn by girls on 8 1/2 by 11

Copy paper. No computer designs. Simple 2-3 color design, avoid small detailed drawings. Print

name– church– city on back. Include leader name and phone number on back.

Sent Artwork to: Teri Broeker,

26973 275th Ave Ewing, MO 63440

Registration— $36.00 per person

October 4th Deadline Shirts available for

$7.00 through 9/30/16