WEST MONROE – McClendon Baptist offers English as a Second Language
classes at 5 p.m. Sundays. Activities not happening until September:
Wednesday night meals, twice-weekly exercise classes, and women’s
ministry gardening club. But the praise team, band and their spouses
are starting an eight-week study, Hunger for the Holy, by Calvin
Miller. Church stats for May 20: 433 in Sunday school; 206 in
contemporary worship and 215 in traditional worship. Tithes and
offerings: $13,886.72. Rick Crandall is pastor.
HODGE – The Hodge Herald makes note of several missions and ministry opportunities for the people of Hodge Baptist:
1. Hearts of Light needs help filling a playpen for a baby boy due in early June.
2. Members of the church are part of a team from
Jackson Baptist Association going to Sioux Falls, S.D. in August.
3. People are needed to lead worship Sunday mornings at Jimmy Davis State Park.
4. Rolling Hills Resort ministry needs help providing for an outdoor Bible school at a recreational area.
5. The Coalition of Christian Churches in Jackson
Parish is asking for help buying school uniforms for the 2007-08 school
year.
6. Disaster Relief training for those interested in this ministry is set for June 16 at Temple Ruston.
Church stats for May 20: 134 in Sunday school; 18 in Discipleship Training. Offering: $3,731.57.
MINDEN – First Baptist plans a parenting workshop for 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 12 in room E107 of the church. “Dressing to Lure or Be
Pure: Teaching your children modesty.”
For parents of children, preteens and teenagers. A light dinner is to
be provided. Reservations required. Call 318.377.4434. Minister to
Students Becky Wilson is to lead the class.
Church stats for May 20: 622 in Sunday school. Tithes and offerings: $50,039.53. Wayne DuBose is pastor.
MONROE – North Monroe Baptist members are receiving empty baby bottles
at church, which they are taking home and filling them with change
they’re giving to Life Choices, an agency that “works primarily with
unwed, young mothers in preserving and nurturing the lives of these
mothers and babies,” according to the North Monroe newsletter.
“Life Choice provides free resources and services,
such as pregnancy tests, all types of counseling, material assistance,
ultrasound, Medicaid application and abstinence education. They also
share the gospel of Jesus Christ and pray with their clients. Life
Choices is one of two pregnancy centers in Northeast Louisiana, and
covers more than 15 parishes.”
Trinity Heights in Shreveport is another Louisiana
church that is doing this drop-your-change-into-a-baby-bottle-ministry.
Bill Dye is senior pastor at North Monroe; David Worthington, minister of spiritual development.Lane Moore is interim pastor at Trinity Heights.
WINNFIELD – In a repeat performance, the sanctuary choir at First
Baptist and the chancel choir at First Methodist are to perform Liberty, a patriotic production, at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 1 in the worship center of First Baptist.
BATON ROUGE – CrossPoint collects pocket change each week throughout
the year “to see what God will do with it through the ministry of Claud
and Mary Crosby in Africa,” according to The Connection newsletter. “There is a collection jar in the worship center.” Landon Dowden is pastor.
ZWOLLE – Seen in The Banner, newsletter for First Zwolle: “Be ye fishers of men – you catch them & He’ll clean them.”
BOGALUSA – The Lydia Sunday school class at Superior Avenue Baptist
sent a gift to the Greensburg, Kan., relief fund.
This is the town that was obliterated recently by a
tornado. Southern Baptists are starting a church there. They’re
bringing in a mobile worship center until such time as a growing
congregation will build a permanent structure. The Mobile worship
center then will be moved to a new location to continue in ministry. Clay Norwood is pastor.
BAKER – A couple went to the pastor’s office at First Baptist recently
and gave him a check for $10,160, to be used for a new sign for the
front of the church. A new electronic sign will cost about $27,000, the
pastor wrote in a recent issue of the church newsletter. The church
recently received as a gift a new surveillance system, and as he was
writing his pastor’s column, people were painting walls in the church’s
gym.
MINDEN – The offices of the Webster-Claiborne and Bienville Baptist
Associations are doing quadruple duty these days. The 1408 Sibley Road
location is the center for missions and ministry in both associations,
and it serves as a missions incubator that provides for two fledgling
congregations.
Terry Johnson
is pastor of the Upward to Jesus Baptist Church, an African American
congregation. They meet for Sunday school and worship on Sundays, and
for Bible study on Wednesdays.
Primera Iglesia Bautista de Minden is the name of
the new Hispanic congregation that meets Sunday afternoons and Thursday
evenings. This congregation is being supplemented by gifts from the
Louisiana Baptist Convention.
English as a Second Language classes are being planned for this fall. Randy Hales is director of missions.
PATTERSON – First Baptist plans its vacation Bible school for June 18-20.
COLFAX – Bethel Baptist plans a tailgating party from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday, June 23, to kick off the church’s week of vacation Bible
school. Sports-related games, inflatable jumper, prizes, face painting,
free hot dogs and much more, plus pre-registration for VBS.
FORT JESUP – Evelyn (Mrs. George) Treutlein
was killed in an auto accident May 30. A vehicle behind them lost
control and knocked the Treutlein vehicle off the road and into a tree,
according to information received from Director of Missions Lee Dickson.
The Treutleins had just moved to a new pastorate at
First Baptist Fort Jesup, about five miles east of Many in North Sabine
Association, from Tullos Baptist, near Jena.
George Treutlein was treated and released from the
Natchitoches hospital. Other survivors include two grown children, a
son in the Middle East and a daughter in Missi-ssippi.
BIG CANE – Big Cane Baptist plans a VBS for June 10-14. Preregistration was promoted through a movie June 3: Facing the Giants.
STATEWIDE – Send in photos of your summer activities to info@baptistmessage.com