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2019 Christmas Banquet: 4

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KCSBA Annual Meeting 2019 5-7

Pastors Breakfast 8

Churches that Generously Gave 9– 10

For September & October 2019

Acting Out One’s Faith By Dr. Randy L. Bennet

Kern County Director of Missions

Acting out on one’s faith comes in many shapes and sizes. Moses lifted his staff and the Red Sea parted so that the people of God could escape a sure massa-cre by the Egyptian army.

Elijah called down fire from heaven that consumed the water drenched altar. Jesus healed a man born blind. Paul healed a young man who had fallen to his death during a worship service. The Bible is filled with hun-dreds and hundreds of faith experiences by His people.

Acting Out One’s Faith Continued from page 1

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Faith & Perseverance Have you done anything recently that took faith and perseverance? I did. I set up an online registration account for our 2019 Christmas Banquet. It won’t show up on blog or be recorded for posterity. And yet, it took a lot of faith and perseverance to even try. It took faith to deal with multiple challenges.

Taking on the Challenge Every easy-to-use program I’ve used has had hidden difficulties, un-stated expectations and unstated re-quired skills. This program is no different. I faced three or four basic

challenges: 1) Choosing the best online registration for purposes; 2) Updating our database of email addresses; 3) Transferring email addresses to the program. The last two challenges were the hardest. In our little world of one thousand or so people, keeping our database up-to-date in terms of phone numbers and email addresses is almost next to impossible. The program required me to use MS Excel to transfer the addresses to the program. Not only do I not use Excel on a regular basis, I actually dislike using Excel. I had to set up the spreadsheet according to the registration program’s expectations. And then I had to narrow down my contact list from 765 to 125 who were to receive an invitation to the banquet.

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No wonder my blood pressure was sky high when I went to my car-diac rehab last Wednesday.

A Little Help Boosts Faith

Fortunately, I don’t work alone. Rose Asuncion who is helping us out during Dawn Passmore's recovery is really good at Excel. I made good use of the intercom function of my phone: “Rose, can you come in here!” She patiently helped set and configure the spreadsheet and showed me how to delete addresses.

Lessons Learned After days of active faith I was able to send the invitations out last

Thursday. Whew! So far the site seems to be working well. We’ve been receiving online registrations just as we hoped. Is there a lesson here? Yes. It takes active faith to try new things, both personally and corporately. Each new project or endeavor will require the development of new skills and the help of people with special skills. And don’t forget to celebrate the positive outcome.

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Your Missionary,

Dr. Randy L. Bennett

Your presence matters. Be blessed and be a blessing!

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81st Annual Meeting November 4, 2019 marked the

Annual Meeting of Kern County

Southern Baptist Association. It

was held at the Multipurpose Hall

of Valley Baptist Church where

pastors, their wives and church

leaders assembled to listen to

encouraging messages and be

informed about the association’s

status and affairs as well as plans

and goals for next year.

The Moderator is Pastor Mitch Min-

son of Daybreak Baptist Church

who is reelected as such for 2020. The theme for this year tackles on

“A Vision for Church Planting in

Kern County.” Dr. Phil Neighbors

on Matthew 6:10 stressed that we

should focus our prayers more on

“Thy kingdom come” rather than

“give us our daily bread.” He

shared this vision of expanding

God’s kingdom by reaching out to

the ever-growing Hispanic commu-

nity in Bakersfield & Kern County.

DOM Dr. Randy Bennett receives a gift from host Dr. Phil Neighbors as Moder-

ator Pastor Mitch Minson looks on

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God is moving. Pastor Phil shared about the

movement happening with the

Hispanic ministry of Valley

Baptist Church. Pastor David

Quiroa now shepherds in two

campuses at Fruitvale and Mt.

Vernon.

How Does It Work?

The ministry envisions to

create new Hispanic churches

by using modern technology:

1. Pastors would make

available existing facilities in

their own church for potential

Hispanic worship services.

2. A live worship team would

lead in gathering and singing

during the time of worship to

have a personal connection

with the visitors and attenders.

3. Preaching of the Word in

the Spanish language will be

provided via pre-recorded

video feed.

SET FREE MINISTRIES

Pastor Mike Salazar also

shared his vision for the

expansion of God’s kingdom.

He is in charge of an intercity

mission called Set Free

Ministries. Currently, he is

in partnership with Valley

Baptist Church.

Set Free aims to minister

to what he calls the

‘whosoevers’ - people in

Pray for this Exciting

Opportunity

While the ministry is in its

early stages, Pastor Phil

invites churches who would

like to partner with Valley in

this vision. He calls pastors

to pray for and help explore

the many

possibilities

on how they

can minister

to the growing

population of the Hispanic

community. Amen!

homes, gang members,

prostitutes and other

neglected segments of our

society, and help them

become model citizens. As

Pastor Mike used to be one of

them and God transformed

him by His mercy and uncon-

ditional love, so he would like

to pay it forward.

He shared that Set Free

Ministries even go into the

neighborhoods “where the

pizza man can’t go anymore.”

They bring the gospel to

prisons and juvenile halls.

Now God has opened doors

for them to witness to people

in the processing centers of

Immigration. He reports that

he was able to baptize 77 men

in the last three months!

Pastor Mike calls onto the

churches to have partnership

with them and help train more

pastors who will reach more

“whosoevers.” Amen!

Ptr. Mike Salazar

Pastor David Quiroa

This article is prepared & co-written by

Rose Asuncion, Interim KCSBA Secretary

& Pastor Dennis Asuncion of the Filipino

Ministry of Valley Baptist Church and

KCSBA Nominating Committee Member.

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David Whitehead, NAMB

Church Planting Catalyst

Sandra Hughes, Women’s

Missionary Union

Vice President

Dr. Jonathan Jarboe,

President-elect, Baptist

Foundation of CA

Mike McCullough, CSBC

Associate Executive

Director

Pastor Jonathan Morgan,

Nominating Committee

Head presenting the 2020

KCSBA officers

Rose Asuncion, filling in

for Dawn Passmore for

the 2020 Calendar &

Financial Reports

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CONTRIBUTING

KERN COUNTY

CHURCHES in

SEPTEMBER 2019

Buttonwillow Church - Buttonwillow

Columbus Street Baptist Church

Country Oaks Baptist Church - Tehachapi

Crossover Church of Rosedale

Daybreak Baptist Church

Fairfax Baptist Church

Fairview Southern Baptist Church

Fellowship Baptist Church

First Baptist Church - Edison

First Baptist Church - Kernville

First Baptist Church - Lake Isabella

First Baptist Church - Tehachapi

First Southern Baptist Church - Porterville

First Southern Baptist Church - Taft

First Southern Baptist Hispanic Church

Golden Valley Christian

Grace Baptist Church

Griffith Ave Baptist Church - Wasco

Harmony Southern Baptist Church - Lamont

Height Street Baptist Church

Mt. View Southern Baptist Church - Lake Isabella

New Life Community Church

Primera Iglesia Bautista - Wasco

Redemption Bible, Inc.

Resurrection Church

Rising Star Baptist Church

Sherwood Ave Baptist Church - McFarland

Valley Baptist Church

Vision Plus Church

Weldon Baptist Church

God is faithful in blessing our churches with both ma-

terial and spiritual gifts. We had a substantial increase

in giving as we encourage our people to be more com-

mitted to share their blessings with joy as the verse

above says. The Lord indeed loves cheerful givers!

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CONTRIBUTING

KERN COUNTY

CHURCHES in

OCTOBER 2019

Country Oaks Baptist Church - Tehachapi

Crossover Church of Rosedale

Daybreak Baptist Church

Fairfax Baptist Church

Fellowship Baptist Church

First Baptist Church - Edison

First Baptist Church - Kernville

First Baptist Church - Lake Isabella

First Baptist Church - Tehachapi

First Southern Baptist Church - Porterville

First Southern Baptist Church - Taft

First Southern Baptist Hispanic Church

Golden Valley Christian

Grace Baptist Church

Griffith Ave Baptist Church - Wasco

Harmony Southern Baptist Church - Lamont

Height Street Baptist Church

Mt. View Southern Baptist Church - Lake Isabella

New Life Community Church

Northside Church

Primera Iglesia Bautista - Delano

Primera Iglesia Bautista - Wasco

Resurrection Church

Rising Star Baptist Church

Set Free Christian Fellowship

Sherwood Ave Baptist Church - McFarland

Valley Baptist Church

Vision Plus Church

Praise God for all our faithful churches’ continuous

love and generous offerings! As the verse above tells

us, God is more than capable to provide for us as we

continue to accomplish His kingdom plans!

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