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shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we As you read this, we have embarked upon the New Year. The calendar of 2008 closed with some political and economic issues that would seem to give a shaky “jump start” to a brand new year. Please note the word "seem". We are not a people that pin our hopes on cur- rent events. We believe that nothing escapes the scrutiny of our God, and no event or circumstance is outside His control. Therefore, as your Interim State Missionary, let me encourage us all to continue our journey in 2009 with confidence, hope, and a future full of the goals that God wants us to achieve. Once again, examine the power in 1 John 3:1-3, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we A PUBLICATION OF THE MINNESOTA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION January 2009 Volume III, Issue 1 North Star Update Calendar January 12: 10 a.m., MBA Executive Committee Noon, MBA Full Board January 19: 11 a.m., PBBC Full Board on Cam- pus February 6-7: State Men’s Fellow- ship at Prior Lake March 20-21: State Ladies Fellow- ship at GBC, Owatonna Deckerts at Pine Island 2 Granite City Baptist 2 MBA Ladies Fellowship 3 Flincks Commissioned 3 New Pastor at First, Morris 3 Orval Byrd with the Lord 4 Inside This Issue: State Men’s Fellowship, 2009 Fellowship Foundations By: Rev. Robert Fuller, Sr., MBA Interim State Missionary Continued page 4
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By: Rev. Robert Fuller, Sr., MBA Interim State Missionary As you read this, we have embarked upon the New Year. The calendar of 2008 closed with some political and economic issues that would seem to give a shaky “jump start” to a brand new year. Please note the word "seem". We are not a people that pin our hopes on cur- rent events. We believe that nothing escapes the scrutiny of our God, and no event or circumstance is outside His control. Therefore, as your Inside This Issue: 3
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shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we
As you read this, we have embarked upon the New Year. The calendar of 2008 closed with some political and economic issues that would seem to give a shaky “jump start” to a brand new year. Please note the word "seem".
We are not a people that pin our hopes on cur-rent events. We believe that nothing escapes the scrutiny of our God, and no event or circumstance is outside His control.
Therefore, as your
Interim State Missionary, let me encourage us all to continue our journey in 2009 with confidence, hope, and a future full of the goals that God wants us to achieve. Once again, examine the power in 1 John 3:1-3, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we
A PUBLICATION OF THE MINNESOTA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
January 2009 Volume III, Issue 1
North Star Update
Calendar January 12: 10 a.m., MBA
Executive Committee Noon, MBA
Full Board January 19: 11 a.m.,
PBBC Full Board on Cam-pus
February 6-7: State
Men’s Fellow-ship at Prior Lake
March 20-21: State
Ladies Fellow-ship at GBC, Owatonna
Deckerts at Pine Island 2
Granite City Baptist 2
MBA Ladies Fellowship 3
Flincks Commissioned 3
New Pastor at First, Morris
3
Orval Byrd with the Lord 4
Inside This Issue:
State Men’s Fellowship, 2009
Fellowship Foundations By: Rev. Robert Fuller, Sr., MBA Interim State Missionary
Continued page 4
The year 2008 brought Wayne and Ruth Deckert back to Minne-
sota. Many of us know Wayne as our science teacher at Pillsbury from years past and Ruth as our book store manager who sold us textbooks. After over 40 years of teaching at the collegiate level, most recently at Clearwa-ter Christian College, Wayne has retired and begun to minister in the areas of creation science and Christian bioethics.
Wayne has an upcom-ing series of meetings at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Pine Island, Minnesota. He will be conducting a Creation
Theology Conference at Cornerstone beginning Sunday morning January 18, continuing that eve-ning, and again on Sun-day evenings, February 1 and 8, 2009.
If you would like to have Wayne and Ruth minister in your church for a series of meetings, they are available and would love to serve. Please call them at their Rochester home. Their telephone number is (507) 288-5402 or you can reach them by e-mail at [email protected].
with two bap-tisms scheduled to date. Also, the students are pre-paring for the Patriotic Pro-gram at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb-ruary 22. You are invited to come for the up-lifting vocal/instrumental music, and the Fred Pass-more play, “The Wrap Group.”
Granite City Baptist Church had an exciting December. There were a good number of visitors for the Academy Fall Pro-gram on December 14, with a positive response to the play, Mourning at Moorcroft by Denise Busenitz. The Lord con-tinued to bless with new visitors for the Sunday-school Christmas Pro-gram and the cantata, Re-joice Believers! We look forward to January 25
Events at Granite City Baptist, St. Cloud
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Wayne and Ruth Deckert back in Minnesota Ministering in Creation Science and Christian Bioethics
By: Pastor Tim Graham, Cornerstone Baptist, Pine Island
The MBA Ladies Re-treat this year will be at Grace Baptist Church in Owatonna, Minnesota. The changes at Pillsbury College have made it nec-essary for this change in location and will defi-nitely take us out of our "Comfort Zone." Mrs. Ruth Huffman will be our keynote speaker. She is
the wife of Pillsbury's President, Dr. Greg Huff-man, and has spoken to ladies across the country. You will not want to miss this great time of spiritual refreshment and fellow-ship. Registration will begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 20 with the eve-ning session beginning at 7:30 p.m. The sessions
and workshops will begin on Saturday morning at 9 a.m. ending in mid-afternoon. Information about lodging at local hotels will be provided. The ladies of Grace Bap-tist are excited to be able to host this meeting. We hope to see you all there.
First Baptist Church of Morris has called a new pastor. Pastor Elmer Cox is from Paris, Illi-nois.
MBA Ladies at Grace Baptist, Owatonna This Year By: Deb Boldt, Ladies Fellowship President
New Pastor at Morris
Flincks Commissioned at Berean Baptist, Brooklyn Park
South America, who gave the charge to the church; and Dr. Cary Flinck, pas-tor of Berean Baptist Church, who gave the commissioning message. There were approximately 110 in attendance from supporting churches, fam-ily, and friends.
The Flincks will be serving in a church plant-ing ministry in Chile with Gospel Mission of South
America. David and Kristi’s departure date for their first term in Chile is January 12, 2009.
B e r e a n B a p t i s t Church of Brooklyn Park held a commissioning service for David & Kristi Flinck on Saturday, Janu-ary 3, 2009. Speakers for the service included Prof. Neal Cushman, Director of Missions at Northland Baptist Bible College, who gave the charge to the candidates; Rev. Terry Thompson, Director of the Gospel Mission of
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great privilege of attend-ing the Pillsbury Board Meeting, and the Christ-mas at Pillsbury Concert and events on December 5 and 6. On Sunday, De-cember 7, I preached and led the Sunday School at my home church, Coon
shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”
Due to some surgery, my activities were some-what curtailed in Decem-ber. However, I had the
Rapids Baptist. Rhoda and I wish for
you an exciting year in 2009, looking for His Re-turn.
Fellowship Foundations, continued from page 1
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MBA Contacts
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Dr. Julian Suarez, President
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Pastor Orval Byrd With The Lord Rev. Orval Byrd went
to be with his Lord Octo-ber 25, 2008. He pas-tored the First Baptist Churches of Luverne and New Ulm, Minnesota. He was very active in the early years of the Minne-sota Baptist Association,
tinues to be a faithful member there and resides at 10110 Broadway, Indi-anapolis, IN 46280.
as well as Pillsbury Col-lege. He went on to pas-tor churches in Olney, Illinois as well as Indian-apolis, Indiana. After his retirement he became ac-tive at Colonial Hills Bap-tist Church in Indianapo-lis. His wife, Edith, con-
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