August 2015 - Cana Baptist Church
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August 2015 - Cana Baptist Church
VISION Vol. 15 No. 8 August 2015 Cana exists to glorify God by fulfilling the five-fold purpose of the church: • • • • • Cana’s Annual Music Camp Presentation Worship Discipleship Ministry Fellowship Missions & Evangelism Sunday, August 9 6:00 p.m. Visit our website! www.canachurch.com Inside this issue: Search Committee 2 Discipleship Ministry 3 Worship Ministry 3 Student Ministry 4 Children’s & Preschool Ministry 4 Calendar 5 Ministry Schedules 6 College Age Singles & Deaf Ministry 7 Women’s Ministry & Men’s Ministry News 8 Family News 8 Stats page 9 Personnel News Mission News 9 New Members 16 August 23! Children’s Department and Youth will promote up! Meet in your new Sunday School Classes! Sunday, August 23 We will have lunch immediately following at noon! Church will provide the meat and drinks, you brings the fixins’! If your last name begins with: A-H bring Veggies I-P bring Desserts Q-Z Salads Come let us fellowship together! VISION VOL. 15 NO. 8 Cana’s Annual Fall Faith in Action Outreach to our Community From My Heart to yours, What an incredible journey is ahead for all of us at Cana Baptist Church! We begin our journey together on August 9th and it is my privilege to be serving with you as interim pastor. Carol Ann and I are really looking forward to this time of transition. This church has such a remarkable past! The leadership of Charles Stewart is a wonderful foundation upon which to continue to build. Your love for your pastor and your support for his leadership is a key to moving forward. The best is yet to be! This time of transition to a new pastor is a great opportunity for all of us. This is not a time to sit back and coast. It is a time to aggressively move forward. There are lives to be touched, souls to be saved, ministry to be done and mission to be accomplished. God does not take time off and neither should we. The assignment given to this church has not changed. We are to faithfully preach, teach, serve and share with all our hearts in a world that is desperate for hope and meaning. We have the message of the Good News of the Gospel and we have the spirit and unity to share that message with all in this community and around the world. We are part of the greatest ministry/mission coop in the world as Southern Baptists. We could never fulfill the commission our Lord has given to us by ourselves. But together with other likeminded churches we can. What a significant door is open to Cana Baptist in these days! Thank you for allowing us the great privilege and blessing of being with you during this time. Let me encourage you to invite and bring your friends and neighbors to church with you. Let us aggressively reach out to all around us to encourage them to be part of Cana Baptist. This time of interim can be a time to tread water, or it can be a time to grow and do more than ever before. Let’s make it a time for growth and ministry and mission together to the ends of the earth! Looking forward to this time with you. Pray for us and know that we love and appreciate you and are so grateful for the opportunity to share these months with all of you! PAGE 2 Date: Saturday (not Sunday), September 19, 2015 Projects: Each Sunday School class will find, lead, and gain volunteers to support their own project within the community. Projects deadline August 2! Childcare: For preschool aged children, childcare will be available from 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. on September 19 at the church only if reservations are made with Julie in advance. T-shirts: If you do not already have a Faith in Action T-shirt, they can be purchased for $8.00 each ($9.50 for XXLs). Deadline to order shirts is August 2. The Pastor Search Committee has received over 40 resumes. We will continue to receive resumes, but are waiting to seriously review them until the end of September. All resumes that have been received to date have been notified by letter that we will begin the review process at the end of September. We are arranging a meeting with Scott Whitson, our Director of Missions for the Southwest Metroplex Baptist Association, to come and talk to us and give us insight on the pastor search process. In His love, Please continue to pray for us as we actively seek God’s leadership during this time. Jimmy Draper Rusty Freelen VISION VOL. 15 NO. 8 Discipleship & Missions Ministry _|yx Adult PAGE 3 Brian Tullos [email protected] Ministry Jeff Kimes [email protected] John 10:10 “...I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” Embracing the Moronene As you read this newsletter we are preparing for our next trip to Indonesia. The team will consist of myself, Mike Keller, Erika Mercer, Tommy and Carol Ann Kiker. We will spend some time teaching some of the Christian Mononene, following up on the contacts that Collin and Tyler made this summer and sharing the Gospel with the lost. We leave August 3 and return August 15. Please commit to pray for the group as we travel and engage in ministry. Young @ Heart August 6 at 6:30 p.m., will be the next Young at Heart Bible study and fellowship. Andy Arnold will be bringing the message. Bring a side or dessert to share and join us for a great time of food, fellowship and God’s word. Jeff MUSIC CAMP 2015 Music Camp is quickly approaching! As of today, we have 73 campers! We are looking forward to another exciting week. We have lots of helpers (as usual), youth and adults. We could not pull off such an amazing week without lots of help. Thank you to all of you who are helping this year or have helped in the past. We recognize that Music Camp would not be what it is without faithful workers! The week will begin on Monday, August 3, and will conclude on Sunday evening, August 9, at 6 PM with the presentation of the musical “In the Big Inning.” This is a great musical with a baseball theme (as I’m sure you’ve already figured out) and it speaks of many Bible characters who demonstrated a lot of faith. It will be a great week and the kids will be exposed to some great Bible teaching, a fun music rotation, recreation, and snacks in addition to learning a great musical and (of course) getting to hang out with the Minister of Worship! Pray for all of those who are helping this year! Please pray especially for Missy as she gives direction to the camp and all of the zillion details! Pray for those campers who are coming who need to invite Jesus to be Savior and Lord. We have several unchurched kids coming this week. Watch for the Fall Brochure of new L.I.F.E. classes! Please plan to be here on Sunday, August 9, at 6 PM for the presentation of “In the Big Inning.” You will enjoy the musical even if you do not have a child or grandchild participating. VOL. 15 NO. 8 VISION Senior High & Middle School Ministry Derek Kimes [email protected] PAGE 4 Children’s & Preschool Ministry Julie McClure [email protected] Hello Church Family, The Summer is winding down and we are focusing our ministry before the school year begins. The summer is a great time for students to grow and mature spiritually. This means we have to prepare your students for the school year and all the temptations, busyness, and other relationships they will begin again. We have spent this summer teaching our students how to live counter to the culture they are living in. Please join me in praying for our students as the busy school year begins with all the school activities they will participate in. Pray for them to have the boldness to speak up and the courage to share the gospel with the lost in their schools. Promotion Sunday is August 23. We are excited to have a new class of sixth graders joining us in the youth ministry. Each year to kick of the school year, we have a Back-To-School Luau. This is a fun Sunday evening party for all the students from 5:308:00pm. If you have any children, or grandchildren that are 6th to 12th grade we would love of them to join us. I know school is right around the corner but we are going to squeeze as much summer as we can into the month of August. August 3-7 Music Camp August 9 Music Camp Share August 16 Back-to-School Bash 5:00-7:00 p.m. August 19 Peter Piper’s Pizza 5:00-7:00 (small cost) August 23rd-Promotion Sunday and Awana Kick Off For more information on these events please see the Children’s Bill Board in the Children’s wing or contact me. Serving the Savior, Julie 1 Timothy 4:12 Derek Kimes Beginning Sunday, August 23rd 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Our Cana Awana Clubs is open to children who are 3 years old by September 1st through 5th grade. Awana is a Biblecentered children’s ministry that seeks to reach children with the gospel of Christ and train them to serve Him. It is a real blessing to work with our children in this program. Our Awana schedule is set up so that you can come listen to our clubbers say their verses or help as a line leader with the games AND still attend Sunday evening service. This year we are also looking for a new Sparks Director to work with our K-2nd Grade Club. Awana uses uniforms and handbooks in the program and we ask parents to purchase these and also contribute a “dues” amount twice a year. The handbooks are $10. Cubbie and Sparkie Vests (3 years thru 2nd Grade) are $11. The uniforms for T & T (3rd-5th Grade) are $16. September dues are $15 for the first child and $7.50 for each additional child from the same family. Scholarships are available to help cover these costs. Our August Awana themes are: August 23 Round Up Night (Dress Western) August 30 Kick Off! Contact Peggy Seay at [email protected] or Julie McClure at the Church Office for additional information. VISION VOL. 15 NO.8 2015 PAGE 5 Church Calendar www.canachurch.com Promotion Sunday & Round Up Sunday August 23 Lunch @ noon! This Month’s Focus: Youth! Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Committee Nite! 6:10 p.m. Prayer Mtg. 6:45 p.m. TeamKid CSM Youth, LIFE Groups FIA Projects Due! 6:30 p.m. Y@H Bible Study/ Covered Dish Guest Speaker Andy Arnold 9:00 a.m Quilters Parlor Music Camp August 3-7 EMBRACE Trip August 3-15 9 10 11 8:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. Music Camp Musical 13 12 @Cracker Barrel 14 15 6:10 p.m. Prayer Mtg. 6:45 p.m. WoW Children CSM Youth, LIFE Groups Youth G.A.G Night EMBRACE Trip August 3-15 17 18 19 9:30 a.m. Women’s Bible Study 5:00 Children’s Pizza Party @ Piper’s Pizza 6:10 p.m. Prayer Mtg. 6:45 p.m. TeamKid CSM Youth, LIFE Groups 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 Promotion Sunday! BISD Begins 26 9:30 a.m. Women’s Bible Study 5:00 Dinner 6:00 p.m. Children’s Preshcool Choir 6:10 p.m. Prayer Mtg. 6:45 p.m. TeamKid CSM Youth, LIFE Groups Adult Choir 16 Children’s Back-to-School Bash Round Up Sunday! Lunch 5:30 p.m. Youth Luau 30 31 6:00 p.m. Quilters Parlor Uruguay VOL. 15 NO.8 PAGE 6 VISION DEACON/WATCHMAN SCHEDULE Time August 2 Area August 9 Area (SE=Sunday Evening duty also) August 16 & 30 Area August 23 Area 9:00 David Johnson 1 Steven Polino 1 Steve Malley 1 Benny Jenkins 1 a.m. Larry Scott 3 Hank Dews 3 Chuck Snay 5 Jim Liggett 3 Gary Jenkins 5 Bob Widener 5 W.D. O’Donnell 3 Bill Stanford 5 Ken Jurica 2 Tom Wallace 2 Todd Block 2 Dan Stanley 4 Gary Smith 4 Tom Shackford 4 6 James Robinson 6 6 2 Bob White 4 6 10:25 Scott Studebaker 1 Tony Warenskjold 3 Drew Smith 1 Lana Tadsen 1 a.m. Jay Kniffin 2 Scott Nordblom 1 Rusty Freelen 3 Mike Tadsen 5 Bud Lewis 3 Chris Barnes 5 Alan Anderson 5 Tony Warenskjold 3 Cody Davenport 6 2 Jordan Freelen 2 Paul Hendon 2 Roger Nordblom 4 4 Chris Ells 4 Rose Woods 4 Todd Harden 5 6 Thomas Phelps 6 Ron Lairamore 6 Tom Zarbo NURSERY SCHEDULE USHER SCHEDULE August 2 & 16 August 2 - Team 1 Chip Bates Doug Newman Tony Warenskjold Lon Cockerham Jack Gandy Roger Rupe Tom Shackleford 9:00 A. Barnes/L. Taylor - SI 10:25 A. Barnes/L. Taylor - SI a.m. a.m. Rusty Freelen Nancy Green Shari Freelen April Karr Christa Brewer 8/2 Anna Palmer Sarah McCraw 8/2 Cyndi Grace 8/16 Olivia Taylor 8/16 August 9 - Team 2 August 9 & 23 W.D. O’Donnell James Robinson Chris Ells Bob Widener 9:00 R. Latigo - SI 10:25 J. Latigto- SI Larry Scott Gary Jenkins a.m. a.m. Jerry Scott Tharon Connally Carl Lacy Tommy Kiker Jackie Seay Donna Sims K & S Wimberly Anna Reed K Block & E Austin 8/9 Rachel Kimes Victoria Boterf 8/23 August 16 & 30 - Team 3 Rhea Jones Bill Jones Scott Nordblom Jim Liggett Paul Hendon Ken Jurica Kevin Killgore Tom Shackleford Fifth Sunday - August 30 Debbie Bartlett LuAnn Britt GREETER SCHEDULE 8:55 a.m. August 2 & 30 S. & B. Nordblom C.A. Kiker August 23 - Team 4 Billy Swan Chuck Snay Don Trimble Bill Stanford Darin Gilligan Jerry Scott S. & B. Nordblom G. Kimes & R. Woods T. & C.A. Kiker August 9 T. & D. Warenskjold August 16 D. & D. Gilligan Cory Bills 10:25 a.m. D. Zarbo August 23 P. Hendon R. & S. Freelen T. & D. Warenskjold L. Tadsen & B. Lewis T. & D. Zarbo P. Hendon R. & S. Freelen VISION VOL. 15 NO. 8 PAGE 7 The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Ministry Bro. Jack Earwood [email protected] College and Career Singles Ministry Dennis Partrich [email protected] LIVING IN THE PRESENT First, it was studying hard in high school in order to get into a good college. Then it was doing my best in college to get a good job. Next came performing well at my job so that I might someday be promoted. And all was done in the hopes of one future day making a larger salary. As with so many others, my life was lived for tomorrow. I never found contentment in today due to a constant striving for the future. Little did I heed the words of the Teacher: “Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart for it is NOW that God favors what you do.” (Ecc. 9:7). For true health and vitality in our relationship with Yahweh, it is required that we appreciate our God in the moment. The time to proclaim the mighty works of our Heavenly Father is now. The time to bring our burdens to Him is now. The time to minister to Him is now. Yesterday cannot be recovered to be re-done. And tomorrow may never come. The only thing we are promised by our God is this moment. Seek and find Him in the present. Revel in Him right now. Submit yourself to His authority immediately. For Yahweh strongly desires to relate to you not in the past nor in the future but rather in this present moment. “The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; They shall put their hand over their mouth; Their ears shall be deaf.” (Micah 7:16 NKJV) In this verse, the prophet Micah had a vision of the future when all the previously powerful nations shall witness the power and glory of the Kingdom that the Lord Jesus Christ shall establish. Putting their hands over their mouths and having deaf ears means they will be quiet and no longer hear their boasting in comparison with the might of the Lord. In today’s world, we see and hear people of many nations act and speak in defiance to God. When the Lord comes again in all His power, they will be silent and put to shame. We as Christians face many challenges to our faith in our nation and around the world. Praise the Lord that He is still in control and His people will prevail! May the Lord grant us courage to stand firm in our faith. In His Service, Brother Jack Wednesday Night Dinner 5:00 p.m. Adults: 18+ $4.00 Children: 4-17 $2.50 Children 3 & under Free Please call the church office Mondays to make your reservations! TRANSFORMING NOT CONFORMING August 26 Mexican Night!! VOL. 15 NO. 8 PAGE 8 VISION Cana Women’s Ministry News Men’s Fraternity will return in the Fall. Ladies Bible Studies Wednesday Morning The Wednesday morning Precept class will study The Book of Acts this fall. We will meet August 19 at 9:30 a.m. to pass out workbooks. We will start lesson 1 on August 26. We meet from 9:30-11:30 a.m. There is childcare available. There are 2 workbooks at a cost of $18 each. Please let Jeff or Nelda know asap so they can order workbooks. For more info contact Nelda Hendon 817-648-4737. Wednesday Evening Ladies 6:45 p.m. Will resume in the fall! Watch for details! Thursday Morning Ladies Starts September 10 9:30 a.m. “Jesus the One and Only” Beth Moore Teacher - Sharon Lewis Childcare is available Watch the newsletter and bulletins for start date and time! Christian Sympathy is extended to: Mary Sifford and Family Cana Friends & Family At the death of her husband And our Brother Nolan Sifford 06/30/15 Cindy Nimpfer and Family Cana Friends & Family At the death of her Husband And our dear Brother Doug Nimpfer 07/01/15 Elwood Fuller and Family Cana Friends & Family At the death of his Wife And our Sister Wanda Fuller 07/02/15 Congratulations to: Chris & Adrianne Barnes At the birth of their son Caden Kyle Barnes Born: 07/20/15 Weight: 8 lbs., 7 oz. Length: 21.25 inches Proud Siblings: Cohen & Madden VOL. 15 NO.8 VISION “FORCOLUMBUS” COLLEGIATE CROSSOVER SEES STUDENTS LIVING GOSPEL By Meredith Yackel (NAMB) COLUMBUS, Ohio – Members of the millennial generation don’t always have the best reputation, and they know it. When Jon Shah, pastor of H2O Church on The Ohio State University’s campus, asked a group of over 400 collegiate students participating in ForColumbus how they thought people perceived them, they answered with terms like lazy, impatient, entitled and emotional. “I don’t actually believe that,” said Shah. “I believe they are made for a grand purpose, and nobody has invited them to it. They have no idea what it is, and when the gospel gets a hold of someone’s life, and they believe it, they get touched with the purpose they were made for.” ForColumbus, a new collegiate 10-day extension of Crossover, saw over 500 collegiate participants serving June 7-17 around the city. Students from across the southeast, Arizona, Ohio and Quebec, Canada, are participating in key initiatives throughout Columbus. Student activities included city beautification initiatives, people-group mapping prayer-walking, gospel sharing at Ohio State and creating gardens in abandoned lots to provide healthy food options in under resourced areas. While working on their projects each day, students and their leaders were challenged to have at least three gospel conversations with residents. “The idea of ForColumbus came from building upon what Crossover has been the past several years,” said Kevin Stacy, a collegiate project specialist with the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and strategic organizer of ForColumbus. Rebecca Fountain, shared that this was her first-ever mission trip. “I was a little nervous about the trip, but I have been praying that God would work through me and I wanted to see His work in action,” Fountain said. “I got to see God work through little Ali,” she said of an 11-yearold boy who had been coming to the backyard Bible club they hosted. “The first day we taught on creation and the second day, when we taught about the fall, he accepted Christ. He had never even heard of Jesus before. After we took some time to speak with him about his decision, he threw his hands in the air and yelled ‘Jesus!’ “Before ForColumbus I was not intentional about sharing the gospel,” said Fountain. “I can say I feel really comfortable doing that now.” “The ForColumbus project emerged from the Baptist Collegiate Ministry Network (BCNet) church planting team,” said Brian Frye, National Collegiate Strategist for NAMB. “Ultimately, the goal of ForColumbus is to see students become life-long, fruit-bearing disciple makers--to become students who make disciples who make disciples in order to plant churches that plant churches. “Our ask of every students is to leverage their lives for the gospel and to give their first two years after college to serve alongside a planter/pastor to start churches,” said Frye. PAGE 9 Stacy shares Fountain’s enthusiasm. The students were introduced to the 3 Circles: Life Conversation Guide, along with other training during the week. Stacy is also encouraged by the focus he has seen on church planting in Columbus. “When you look at what has happened in Columbus from 11 years ago, having only 54 churches to119 now because of how many churches that have been planted. If you look at the number of people who are accepting and following Christ, it has been exciting to realize that tremendous impact happens when churches work together, but even more because we serve a big God,” said Stacy. Along with God’s Spirit and church cooperation, Stacy also credits prayer for the renewal. “We have been praying that students who come in will see how God is already working in Columbus and then join Him in that,” said Stacy. “We have specifically been praying for 10 percent of the students who participate in ForColumbus to come back and plant their lives and help plant churches here.” “Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; His understanding is beyond measure.” Psalms 147:5 LOVE SIGNS S.S. Attendance Cana July 5 July 12 July 19 July 26 247 268 308 291 Keene Huguley Worship Attendance Worship 9:15 a.m. 165 202 203 188 Worship 10:45 a.m. 124 161 146 129 Worship 6:00 p.m. n/a 70 153 56 Wednesday Evening 68 23 50 n/a Sunday’s Offering $21,338.60 $18,393.67 $19,336.00 $18,291.75 Annual Budget: $1,325,100.32 Total given to Date: $ 548,938.82 Cana’s Building Expansion Fund Extra Mile Loan Balance: $1,377,586.51 Cana Baptist Church B U R L E S O N · T E X A S 2309 E. RENFRO STREET BURLESON, TEXAS 76028 CHURCH OFFICE (817) 295-3891 Email: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Worship Schedule Sunday 9:15 a.m. First Sunday School & Blended Worship 10:45 a.m. Second Sunday School & Contemporary Worship 6:00 p.m. Evening Worship 5:00 p.m. Awana Club 8/23 Ages 3 - 5th grade 5:30 p.m. Youth Small Groups and S.N.A.C. Wednesday 5:00 p.m. By Letter Tommy & Joy Hudspeth Shawn & Tina Young By Baptism Noah Ball Michael Harlow Fellowship Meal 8/26 6:00 p.m. Children’s & Preschool Choirs 8/26 6:10 p.m. Prayer Meeting 6:45 p.m. WoW! Age 4 - 5th Grade CSM Youth Bible Study L.I.F. E. Groups Adult Choir 8/26 Celebrating God’s love, goodness, and mercy Accepting one another in Christian love Nurturing one another toward Christ-likeness Assisting one another to fulfill our life mission How can we pray for you today? Prayer Line 817-295-3891 #103 Go to www.canachurch.com Click on “Sermons”