On Saturday, January 21, 2012 we have our first association meeting of the year.   We welcome Pastor Paul Berthiaume of Jacob’s Well Church in Eau Claire to teach in this meeting.   Paul is the founding pastor of Jacob’s Well Church which started in 1999.

Paul has seen God’s many blessings at Jacob’s Well as their church has grown to more than 1,500 people in attendance for weekend services.    Paul will be teaching on leadership principles that he has learned over the years through prayer and experience.

All pastors and leaders from churches are encouraged to participate in this meaningful time.     Gospel Baptist Church will be the host for this quarterly meeting.     Gospel Baptist Church is located at 1700 W. Wisconsin Street in Sparta, Wisconsin next to the Wal-Mart.

 

 

Schedule for the Day:

8:00 a.m.  – Registration and Refreshments
9:00 a.m. – Leadership Development with Paul Berthiaume
10:30 a.m. – Break
11:00 a.m. – Winter SWBA Quarterly Meeting
12:00 p.m. – Lunch
1:00 p.m. – Dismiss

 

Every year in the life of Southern Baptist churches we have the opportunity to give to the international missions offering.    The offering is named after Lottie Moon who was a missionary in China.     Here are some facts that help provide motivation in giving to this cause for world missions:

* Over 3 billion people still have limited access to the gospel.
*4,880 of our missionaries are funded through this offering each year.
*Our missionaries helped to start 29,237 churches this past year.

Your offerings and prayers mean a great deal to sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with all nations around the world.   For more information you can go to www.imb.org on how to give and promote the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering in your church.

The Southern Wisconsin Baptist Association annual meeting was held this past Saturday in Stevens Point.  Pastor Trey Turner was the host church for the SWBA working with First Baptist pastor Kelly Knauss and Tapestry Chruch pastor Robert Terrell of Steven Point.   Highlights of the meeting included guests coming from Texas to present checks to the United Hmong Baptist Church in Sun Prairie and La Crosse Hmong Mission Fellowship.

Many thanks goes to Mark Snowden who came from the North American Mission Board to conduct a one day Bible Storying Immersion workshop.    Mark has conducted in 54 countries around the world and is the co-author of Truth That Sticks with Avery Willis.   The teaching done on Bible Storying was very well received and the messengers were challenged to accurate with the Scriptures as they teach in story format.

Some statistics that came to us in the teaching include that there are more than 6,900 known languages known in the world today but only 457 of them have a complete written Bible.    A great deal of the world lives in the context of oral culture including many Americans.    We thank the Lord for bringing this training to our association and we pray that this time together will help us be better communicators of God’s Word.