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Summer misisonaries and summer misison teams are great ways for you to add energy to your church. At the same time, you can help young women and men fulfill the call that God has on their life. Right now is the time to act for next summer as most churches plan a year in advance. The deadline for requesting summer missionaries is August 1,2006.

To request mission teams, go to www.thebridge.namb.net and register your church. To obtain summer missionaries, you can call the North American Mission Board and talk to the Missionary Mobilization department.

What can mission teams do? Mission teams can help you with construction, sports camps, Vacation Bible School, Backyard Bible Clubs, drama, surveying, and a host of other projects. I encourage you to vist www.thebridge.namb.net and check out all the projects that are being done around the country.

A summer or semester misisonary can help strengthen a church. Many summer misisonaries work in the area of children’s ministry and youth ministry. There are a lot of other ministries that college students can help in your church. Because most college students are eager to serve, they bring a great deal of spiritual energy and excitement.

Please pray about what God may have you do next summer!

One of the best web sites that has a lot offer for both a church planter and a pastor is The Church Planting Village found on www.churchplantingvillage.net. This web site contains a number of valuable tools for both church plants and existing churches. On this web site you obtain the nuts and bolts of how to set up church. You can get help with everything from working with the web site to setting up your consitution.

I encourage you to put this site on your Favorites list and to access it as you have need. Because there is so much involved in the organizaton of church, it is very helpful to have a site that contains so much and is free of charge.

Partnership is a key element of our work in the Central Baptist Association. Whether you are a church in our associaiton or a church many miles away, please know that we welcome your partnership. There are three basic ways you can partner with us:

1. Prayer – We believe the work of God starts with the heart of God. Please be sure to put the churches of our the Central Association on your prayer list.

2. People – You can send people to us in the form of mission teams, summer missionaries, summer missionaries, Mission Service Corps personnel, church planters, and many other ways.

3. Provisions – You can give financially and tangibly to the work here. Because most of our churches in our the infancy stage, there are many resources needed.

Feel free to contact us in the office at 608-825-9946 to find out ways you can partner. May God bless you for your interest.

I am starting this blog to make you aware of the move of God here in the Central Baptist Association here in Wisconsin.

Here are some news items taking place in the Central Baptist Association:

– Congratulations to Amanda and Derek Miller in the birth of their baby boy, Ethan.

– July 11th Officers’ meeting

-August 5th – Executive Board Meeting at Trinity Baptist in Reedsburg

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