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TEBA STAFF STAFF & CHURCH OPPORTUNITIES PASTORLESS CHURCHES

VOLUME 40

ISSUE 12

December 2015

THE WAY TO PEACE WITH GOD

THE PROBLEM: SEPARATION FROM GOD Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” THE RESULT: SPIRITUAL DEATH Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” GOD’S SOLUTION: HIS DEATH IN OUR PLACE Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” YOUR SALVATION: BY FAITH Romans 10:9 “If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mark your calendars!

December

The TEBA Ministry Staff prays you have a very

Merry Christmas!

Sr. Adult Christmas Party

December 7, 11:00 a.m.,

Spring Creek Bar-B-Que

Pastor/Staff/Spouse

Christmas Luncheon

December 10,

11:30 a.m., TEBA

Christmas Holiday

December 24 - Jan. 2

TEBA Closed

Part-Time Music Ministry Assistant needed at First Baptist Church Conroe. For more

information, go to www.fbcconroe.org/contact/job-openings and contact Tom Tillman at

936-756-6601 if interested.

Bi-vocational Student Minister needed at Lake Church in Montgomery.

Prefer at least a college upperclassman. If interested, contact the church at 936-588-

4975. For more information on the church go to www.lakechurch.com.

Bi-vocational Music Minister needed at New Hope Baptist Church, Cleveland. Blended worship style. If interested, send resume to 13200 FM 2025, Cleveland, Texas 77328.

Full time Staff Member needed at First Baptist Church Shepherd. The position is a multi-task position that includes music ministry and other associate pastor tasks. If interested please call 936-628-3130.

Part-time Music Minister needed at Drew ’s Landing Baptist Church, Sundays only. If interested, please contact Chad McCool at chad.mccool@icloud.com.

Part-time Music Minister needed at Calvary Baptist Church of Huntsville. Blended worship style and working with choirs and praise teams. If interested, send resume to secycbc@cbc-huntsville.org.

Wanted: 2008 Baptist Hymnals. If you can help, please contact Teresa Worley, New Hope Baptist Church, Cleveland, Texas 832-579-4985.

15 passenger van needed at Calvary Road Baptist Church in Willis to transport individuals to and from church. If you can help, please contact the church office at 936-856-7351 or Pastor Dale Inman at 281-460-4900.

Letters for sign needed at Pleasant Grove. If you can help them in any way, please contact Chad at 281-592-5874.

4 cafeteria tables (12' long, seats 12-16) available from The Woodlands FBC. Excellent condition. Selling for $750 each. Please email Callie Wolf at callie@thewoodlandsfirst.org if you are interested.

Free Adult & Children Literature Materials (“Open Windows,” “Daily Bread,” & Children in Action) available from FBC Groceville. If interested, please email Rose Marie Carter at rmcarter1945@consolidated.net.

Large Copier available, please contact Alana Lane Baptist Church at 281-292-6770.

Professional style video camera needed at Riverside Baptist Church. If you can help please contact Pastor Jim Newton at 936-594-6992.

Chairs needed at Caney Creek Cowboy Church for Worship Center, prefer stacking or connecting. Please contact cccowboychurchconroe@gmail.com if you can help.

6 cafeteria tables (each table seats 12) available from FBC New Waverly. Selling for $50 each. Please email James Weekley at j.c.weekley@hotmail.com if you are interested.

Roger Yancey, D.Min. ryancey@teba.org Executive Director Erin Frazier efrazier@teba.org Administrative Assistant Executive Director Natalie Bowman nbowman@teba.org Administrative Assistant

Center Hill Baptist* 16771 E FM 1097

Willis, 77378

FBC Conroe 600 N Main St Conroe, 77301

Harmony Fellowship 26811 FM 2978 Magnolia 77354

Iglesia Bautista Principe de Paz* 13601 FM 2432

Willis, 77378

North Woods Baptist 5803 Treaschwig Rd

Spring 77373

Rainbow Baptist P.O. Box 276 Rye, 77369

Allendale Baptist 14535 Allendale Ln. Conroe, TX 77302

Union Grove* 24380 FM 149

Richards, 77873

Drew’s Landing 1710 FM 223 Rd

Shepherd, TX 77371

Rural Shade 3304 CR 2274

Cleveland, 77327

FBC Cleveland 400 W. Hanson St.

Cleveland, TX 77327

North Cleveland Baptist

202 Elk St. Cleveland, TX 77327

RiverPointe Baptist PO Box 1425

Conroe, TX 77305

Unity Baptist, Cleveland

8904 FM787 West Cleveland, TX 77327

*Bi-Vocational Positions

7 Habits Training

January 11-13, TEBA

Tax Seminar

January 19, TEBA

Minister’s Conference

January 14, 11:30 - 1:00,

TEBA

Pastor Prayer & Planning

Retreat

January 25-28

Selah Springs Ranch,

Brady, TX

TEBA 11th Annual Golf

Tournament

April 25th, River Plantation

Country Club

2016 TAX SEMINAR January 19th

Led by Daniel Whitehurst

Please continue to be in prayer for our member churches as they seek

their future pastor.

Different by Design

Marriage Conference

January 23, Spring Creek

Baptist Church

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LEADERSHIP MATTERS by Roger Yancey, D.Min.

We are in a world that seems to demand that we live our lives out loud for everyone to see and hear. I resist that world as much as I can. I have a Facebook Page that I don’t update; a Twitter account that is DOA; an Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, a blog, and a host of other electronic places that lie dormant with only occasional glimmers of life. I am private by nature, and think what I had for lunch doesn’t matter to anyone other than my one friend who has the same commitment to finding the best BBQ in Texas. But many of you have been part of a prayerful journey with my family as our first grandchild was born this past September, and I wanted to thank you and let you know how he, his parents, and Pauline and I are doing. Jackson David Yancey was born on September 28, 2015. The prayerful concerns that earlier tests evidenced were found to be realized with a facial and cleft palate on the right side, with the right eye absent, with the orb present, and with most of his right ear and hearing canal not formed, as well as a portion of his right jaw. They called it “Craniofacial Microsomia.” We call him perfect. All the while, I would confess I have so much for which to be grateful. I’m grateful the cleft is not as severe as it could have been and that Jackson was able to accommodate a Nasal Alveolar Molding (NAM) device which will significantly improve what can be done in his first surgery this coming March. I’m thankful for the many doctors and nurses who provided such gracious care in the 40+ days he was in the NICU. I’m amazed at the way his parents have responded to skillfully caring for a child with a G-Tube and Tracheostomy while adapting well to their new normal. I’m so thankful that all of our families know and love Jesus and trust Him. Continue to trust Him.

I’m particularly grateful for the special gift of an amazing daughter-in-law. Hilary continues to be the blessing of a true daughter to our family and an outstanding wife and mom to Preston and Jackson. Upon deciding to move forward with Tracheostomy Hilary wrote the following words: “People will want to say you’re a kid with “special” needs. They might try to tell you or tell us that you’re so brave and we’re so brave, because we’re carrying all this extra stuff with us. But it’s not true. You are Jackson. Your needs are just your needs. And we love to make sure you have what you need.” “Today God reminded us that He gives breath to us. And for you, He is giving that gift through this trach for a while. But it is the same big, bold, wildly beautiful gift of life. And He is giving it to you no less miraculously or wondrously because He is giving it a different way.” So we will go hold you in a few minutes and tell you more about it. For now, I’m writing this down so that you know that from the first moments we decided, we knew that we were only making the path straight so that God could come give you what He longs to give you: lungs full

of His breath of life, and a heart full of His marvelous love.” So, in our family, we don’t see Jackson as “special,” “challenged,” “defect,” or a host of other descriptions that get assigned or labeled to children – he’s our Jackson, God’s perfect gift, reflecting the image of his creator and embodying the hope of renewed creation – just like we all are. For us this is not a matter of semantics, but theology. So, in this Christmas season where we gather in wonder at the miracle of the “Word became flesh and dwelt among us” I am reminded that each of us is part of a fallen creation and that we are a fallen people. Jesus came to us in the midst of our falleness, He “came into his own but His own knew Him not.” He came, He loved, He died, He rose again, He is coming back, and we are invited to join Him in relationship – the unholy with the Holy, the imperfect to the Perfect. They called it unbelievable. We call him Savior. In Kingdom service,

“Different by Design” Marriage Conference Event

January 23, 2016

Hosted by Spring Creek Baptist

Church

8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

in the Main Sanctuary $60 per couple

Registration fee includes conference, marriage survey, childcare and lunch

box from Chick-fil-a To register now, go to www.springcreekbaptist.org/upcoming events1 DIFFERENT BY DESIGN EVENT OVERVIEW Did you marry someone very different from you? Differences impact all areas of your marriage, from communication to parenting strategies, from spending to saving. God intends for these differences to unite two spouses, not divide them... for spouses to live as one, not two. The problem is that is until now, couples have not had a simple way to understand each other's unique strengths to build to meaningful oneness in marriage. EVENT FOCUS This event equips Christian couples like you to take this step - to discover and use your God-given strengths in your marriage, to value your spouse's strengths, and to blend. Your day will be filled with insightful teaching, experimental exercises, and

meaningful discussions that will strengthen your marriage relationship. WHAT COUPLES WILL LEARN Every Couple faces four inescapable areas of differences: problem solving, processing information, manage change and facing risk. These areas seam to drive a wedge in more relationships over time than any other. The conference will open your eyes to God's divine design or differences. Together you'll learn how to use your personal strengths to:

Design effective communication strategies

Problem solve more effectively

Exchange information that is meaningful and practical

Balance the scales of a transitioning home environment

Work together when making decisions

As part of your registration, you and your spouse will receive a short online assignment to fill out the Marriage Insights Profile questionnaire online. This assignment will take each of you about 8 - 10 minutes to complete independently, with no input from the other. After finishing, your responses will be instantly tabulated. You'll receive your personalized Marriage Insights Profile report online through your email inbox. Print a copy, review the results, and bring a copy to the conference.

Our Seminar Leader Rodney Cox

President, CEO and Founder Rodney Cox, one of the country's emerging

leaders in the strengths movement, is the author of such titles as Leading From Your Strengths

(three-book series), Love and Money, Different By Design, The Discovery Kit and “Incredible

Creatures Adventure Kit” (DVD Series), which have touched more than 425,000 church leaders, teams, couples

and children worldwide. He founded Ministry Insights International in 2001 to bring personality assessment tools to the Christian

market.