LAKE CHARLES – Carey Baptist Association’s multi-housing ministry expanded recently to include Lake Charles bus stops.
Grace Ministries passes out evangelistic tracts and New Testaments, and “cold stuff” provided by the Sale Street Baptist VBS team.
BOGALUSA – Westside Emmanuel Baptist, where Marcus Rosa is pastor, hosted two block parties in June, when a large group of students and adults was in from Indiana to rebuild hurricane-damaged homes in the Bogalusa area.
Block party activities included two moon bouncers, carnival-type games, sno-cone and popcorn machines, food and drink for several hundred, and much more, according to the Westside Windowchurch newsletter.
MONROE – Lakeshore Baptist celebrated Pastor William L. Smith’s 30th anniversary and the church’s 53rd with a joint celebration July 1. A covered dish luncheon was to follow the 10:45 a.m. worship service, during which Vernon Stephenson was to be guest speaker. About 200 people regularly attend Sunday worship at Lakeshore.
LAKE CHARLES – First Baptist is to host a “Keenagers” Senior Adult luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, July 19, in the family ministry center fellowship hall. The Blount Sisters are to provide entertainment. Cost: $4/person.
BLANCHARD – At First Baptist’s recent Sportsman’s Expo, 22 people made professions of faith, 22 more, rededications, and three others indicated they wanted to know more about salvation.
“It was probably our biggest evangelistic outreach effort for the entire year,” wrote Pastor James Hill in a recent issue of the Lifeline church newsletter.
BOGALUSA – First Baptist returns to cable television sometime in July, reports The Bulletinnewsletter.
“After almost two years of absence, we will soon return to broadcasting our morning worship services on a tape-delayed basis,” the newsletter reports. “Due to some generous gifts from kind people and the availability of Channel 17, we will broadcast” at 9 a.m. Sunday mornings.
The church – Bob Adams is pastor – plans to reenter its educational building the weekend of July 22. Special services of Re-consecration are planned for July 20-22.
First Boga started Part II of Empowering Kingdom Growth in early June. This is the Acts 1:8 emphasis. Throughout the summer, adult and youth Sunday school classes are opening with a five-minute devotional reading “designed to help us focus on God’s call that we minister to the world around us – and beyond,” the newsletter reports.
BATON ROUGE – Melva Bell at First Baptist asks everyone to bring in Campbell’s Soup labels forFirst Baptist Deaf Church in Baton Rouge.
First Baptist Deaf is short about 5,500 coupons from its target, which would give them a long white table and camera. Frances McCord started the project. Burn Page is pastor of First Baptist Baton Rouge.
ALEXANDRIA – Baptist Temple’s annual offering for world hunger was gathered June 17. “Around the world, 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year from hunge-related causes,” reports Temple Topicsnewsletter. About $750 was received for world hunger, Interim Pastor Kelly Boggs said.
The church also was involved in June with a missions trip to Clarksdale, Miss. Members beforehand gathered items for health kits to be passed out to the people there: Band-aids, cotton balls, Q-tips, alcohol wipes and several more.
PONCHATOULA – Teen girls at First Baptist during Sunday nights this summer are studying six major battles they face: conformity, true self-worth, sexual purity, modesty, relationships with guys, and girl politics.
Fathers of teen boys are studying “Becoming a man,” to help their sons develop a realistic, God-centered view of manhood. Participants – dads and sons – are learning about the four faces of manhood.
And on Wednesday nights, teens all together are exploring “the mysteries of our faith” – The Mystery of Truth, Gospel, Heart, God, Redemption and Heaven. Jay and Michelle Baker work with youth; he’s youth pastor; Jake Roudkovski is senior pastor.
Men of the church offered a free oil change June 16 to widows, single moms and seniors in the Ponchatoula area.