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UPPER MARLBORO, Md.—The “ladies” dressed in formal wear are fine, poised and sophisticated. They know how to move and how to speak. It’s all part of an end of year pageant at Cornerstone Peaceful Bible Church to celebrate the graduates of the year’s “Amazing Grace” program for young women. The girls sing, do skits and speak to show their inward and out-ward beauty, and their style and their grace as they model godly character.

“The girls are so beautiful,” Tia Collins, Amazing Grace coordinator said.

The program runs September to May. Girls attend different classes based on their ages. The youngest girls, ages 9 to 12, go into the “God’s Precious Diamonds” class. “Daugh-

ters of Destiny” is for girls ages 13 to 15, and the “Sophisticated Ladies” is for older teens, ages 16 to 18.

About 30 girls participate each year. They attend classes dressed ap-propriately – no jeans, tennis shoes or sports clothing.

Each lesson has an objective and key Bible verse. Sessions include les-sons on social skills, modeling, taste-ful dress, public speaking, making choices and poise and posture.

“I loved the program,” ten-year-old Desiree Satchell said cheerfully.

Satchell can explain how to set a table for an informal dinner. She articulates herself in a clear, specific, mannerly way. She also knows what tasteful dressing is and what it is not.

“You shouldn’t wear things that show too much of your skin. Things like bikinis are not tasteful,” she said.

In conjunction with the lessons,

there are special events such as moth-er and daughter brunches, shopping trips and a dinner date with the dads.

The dinner date is special. It’s a catered event at a local Jaycees hall. There are linen cloths on the tables and flowers for centerpieces. The men dress in suits and ties and the girls in dresses. They eat together, play some games and the fathers get to share their thoughts about their daughters. There’s even a time for pictures under a decorated arch.

“I had a great time with my father, and he went up and said some beautiful things about me, and we had a fun time,” Satchell said.

“The main thing I get out of whole program is that it gives dads an opportunity to interact on a dif-ferent level,” Erick Satchell, Desiree’s

‘Amazing Grace Ministry’— young girls model beauty, poise and godly character

Amazing Grace Ministry participants (from left to right): Eboni Carson, Ashley Cobbs, Teneishia Ferrell, Creshel Farmer, Dasia Smith, Kayla Smith, Desiree Satchell, Alexandra Jeffers, Sydney Bard, Khadijah Givs, Chelsea Utley, Jasmine Dickens and Keishawna Proctor. Photo by Linda Shaw.

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By Sharon MagerBCM/D Correspondent

COLUMBIA, Md.–Eddie Scott is enthusiastic and driven to achieve excellence in his work for God. He doesn’t like to stay with the status quo if it isn’t working, and he isn’t afraid to take chances. He’s got a classic New Orleans accent, rich voice and an in-credibly infectious laugh.

“I am never completely satisfied with being good. Good can be the enemy to your best. I look at how good God has been to me. Just the fact that He saved me is enough, but He’s done much more than that - things I didn’t deserve. In return I try to give Him my best,” Scott said.

As BCM/D missionary for Bible teaching and discipleship, Scott will work in conjunction with the other leadership team members to encourage churches and provide resources to help them more effectively win souls for the

Kingdom. He will also be instrumental in helping to plant new churches, espe-cially African American churches.

BCM/D’s newest missionary is a “PK.” Scott’s father, Rev. Eddie Scott Sr., pastored the Law Street Baptist Church in the Ninth Ward of New

Orleans for over 35 years. When he was seven years old, the younger Scott felt God’s calling and walked down the aisle to give his life to Christ and his hand to his father, who began to cry. At the age of 18, though raised in a con-servative Christian home, Scott drifted away from God on the road with a band as a professionally musician.

“I went out there –way out there!” But God kept talking to the young mu-sician even though he vowed he would never be a preacher like his dad.

But then the day came when Eddie stopped and looked at his life and saw that it wasn’t what he wanted it to be, and it wasn’t what God wanted it to be. He went back to his home church in 1987, and rededicated his life to God. Eleven months later Eddie answered the call to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He then attended Union Baptist Theological Seminary, graduated in

Eddie Scott hired as missionary for Bible teaching & discipleship

Christian, Eddie and Wendy Scott

We are Baptists. We are

“people of the book.” We view the Bible as the Word of God. There are foundational doctrines taught in Scripture that are non-negotiables for Baptists. We are Southern Baptists. We are a “people

on mission.” No Protestant group has the missionary force and the missionary support system that we have through the Cooperative Program. We are Maryland/Delaware Baptists. The mission of

the BCM/D is clear. More than 500 congregations choose to cooperate, to intentionally assist in the starting and strengthening of congregations so that together we can fulfill Jesus’ command in Matthew 28:19-20 and Acts 1:8. Our vision is to have 600 congregations as partners in that mission by 2010. Our primary focus together centers on five strategic initiatives—church multiplication, church services, leadership development and support, Acts 1:8 missions involvement, and resource development.

You are a partner in accomplish-ing this mission and vision. As a partner, here are ways that you can become directly involved.

• Your state missionaries take the mission seriously. Pray for us. Please make that a regular part of your prayer time. Call on us. Let us help you and your church accomplish your Great Commission vision.

• Encourage your fellow church members to learn more about what God is doing in our multi-state convention. Pay a visit to www.yourbcmd.org for the latest information. Have a state missions emphasis in your church.

• Help us reach our State Missions Offering goal. Next to the Cooperative Program, this is the primary resource for funding our work. By giving, you will personally

help plant a church in MD/DE. You will be a direct partner in several key ministries that are dependent upon this resource.

Together, we are in the life transformation business. Ours is a disciple-making enterprise. We get our marching orders from the Word of God. The Commander-in-chief himself has clearly stated the mission.

What we have to offer the world is the love of God and transforming message of hope in Jesus Christ. God in his wisdom has placed Maryland/Delaware Baptists in the most strategic region of our world.

There is urgency about what we do. May we be found faithful?

The U.S. is the world’s third largest nation

in population with over 300 million people. Only China and India have larger populations. Of the 300 million people in the U.S., 213 million are lost. That’s a staggering statistic. Our North

American Mission Board says that if just our lost population was consid-ered, the U.S. would be the fourth largest country behind China, India, and Indonesia in numbers of lost people.

Wow! What a God-sized task. Even here in Maryland and Delaware the task is daunting. Our local popu-lation is over 6 million people, most of which are without the saving knowl-

edge of Christ.If Acts 1:8 means anything, it

most certainly means that we are commanded to go and fulfill the Great Commission locally, region-ally, nationally and internationally. The text actually means that we are to do all of these simultaneously. It’s true for individuals and it’s true for churches. That’s why only the power of God is able to accomplish it through us. God will do His part if we are willing to let Him empower us for a seemingly impossible task.

Having grown up in a pastor’s home, I recall the numerous times I heard preachers talk about giving “over and above” the tithe for mis-sions causes. Southern Baptist church-es have a great method of giving “over and above.” We do this for interna-tional missions through the Lottie Moon Christmas offering. Every dol-lar of this offering goes directly to the

international mission field. We do this for national missions through the An-nie Armstrong Easter offering. Every dollar of this offering goes directly to the North American mission field.

Baptists in Maryland and Dela-ware get the privilege and respon-sibility to help reach our two states through the State Missions Offering that is collected every fall. Every dol-lar of this offering goes to fund local and regional missions. Sadly for our region, only a small percentage of our BCM/D churches contribute to the State Missions Offering. I’m not sure why this is. I know over the years the name of this offering has changed a couple of times, but it is the same offering Baptists in Maryland and Delaware have supported for genera-tions.

Ken Hemphill, in his book entitled EKG: The Heartbeat of God, shares the following statistics about

American spending habits:• Domestic box-office receipts

topped $9 billion in 2002.• In 2000, Easter candy sales were

expected to exceed $1.8 billion.• In 2000 Americans spent $13 bil-

lion a year on chocolate.Hemphill then pointed out that

in 1999, overseas ministries income to more than 600 agencies, including denomination, interdenominational and independent agencies was only $2.9 billion combined!

The need is so great here in Mary-land and Delaware. I challenge you and your church to consider giving “over and above” to the State Missions Offering (SMO) this year. It is not only God-honoring, but it is a kingdom mentality. Statistics reveal how people invest their money. SMO is such a worthy kingdom investment. I urge you and your church to give gener-ously this year!

Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and

thirst for righteous-ness, for they will be filled.” Many of us have never expe-rience stomach-wrenching hunger. We eat three meals a day and snack as often as the urge strikes. Even as I write this article I

see the Tootsie Roll jar on my creden-za. I tell everyone it’s for the kids who come in my office, but we all know better than that. I confess. I sneak one or two occasionally.

As I approach my thirty-ninth birthday in October, I was encour-aged by my family doctor to keep an eye on my weight. That’s a nice way to preach a harsh sermon. He told me it wasn’t a big concern right now, but it could be if I wasn’t careful. So my

wife Lisa has been leading the charge to change our eating habits. I have exchanged my chocolate ice cream for the joys of low fat yogurt. I have kissed the pepperoni pizza goodbye and have said hello to salad. Depress-ing isn’t it?

I remember reading a line from a book about a circuit riding preacher. He said, “I had a horse and a message. I have killed the horse and can no lon-ger deliver the message.” I don’t want to lose my ride, so I am eating better and losing weight. The challenge is that I’m hungry. My stomach sings to me calling for its favorite treats.

There isn’t much joy in being hungry. Or is there? And while we are on this topic, let’s talk about being thirsty. The hot and humid dog days of summer around here can sure dry you out. There isn’t anything better than a tall glass of ice water to satisfy the thirst.

Riding in the back of a rented van in the desert of Qatar, I learned what it meant to be thirsty. Our mis-

sion team leader refused to allow us to drink our bottled water. He was trying to teach us a spiritual truth. I thought it was desert torture. After miles of driving in the blazing sun, he instructed us to drink. We did and he prayed something like, “Father, even as we drink to quench our thirst to-day, may the people in this land find the water of life?”

Are you hungry? What about thirsty? Jesus instructed that we

should hunger and thirst for the things of God. Perhaps we are snack-ing on the wrong things that will leave us empty at best. Tootsie Rolls won’t do the trick for long. Why would we ever snack when a ban-quet feast is available? Why sip from bottled water when there is a fountain so close? The deserts of life can dry us out quickly.

Anyone up for a yogurt?

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BL • November 2005 • 3AssociationLIFE comes primarily from church and association newsletters, bulletins, and written reports on events that are sent to Baptist LIFE. You may feel free to fax news to us at (410) 290-6627 or e-mail to Sharon Mager at [email protected]. Obituaries are edited due to space restrictions.

Arundel Association

Grace Church, Pasadena, will have its annual VBS fair on Aug. 4 featuring free hot dogs and snowballs, games, prizes, face painting, moon bounce and live music. The church’s evening VBS begins Sunday, Aug. 5 and runs through Aug. 10. They’re using the “Game Day Central” curricu-lum from LifeWay.

The church ordained Joshua Weimer as a deacon on July 15.

Youth from The Church at Severn Run ministered in Alaska from June 21-July 1. The team worked with the people of Nikiski, repairing homes, painting and working on roofs.

Baltimore Association

Colonial Church, Randallstown, had “Camp Colonial”, a day camp for children from June 25-Aug. 3. In addition to science, drama, cooking, arts and crafts, they included time for discipleship training. Kids also enjoyed field trips to local pools and an end of session trip to an amusement park.

First Church, Dundalk, had a busy July. A team of about 20 youth from First Church, Dundalk, trav-eled to Raleigh-Durham to work with World Changers the week of July 7.

On July 21, the church had a “Cel-ebrate Jesus” festival, kicking off the annual week-long VBS.

Tabernacle Church, Baltimore, will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a special service on Aug. 19 followed by an old fashioned church picnic.

Blue Ridge Association

William Cooper, youth pastor of Paramount Church, Hagerstown, recently received his doctorate of min-istry degree from Antietam Biblical Seminary.

Delaware Association

Greensboro Church will host the Delaware Association’s 40th an-niversary celebration on Oct. 5. Joe Paul Turner, former Delaware direc-tor of missions, and North American Mission Board representative, Hugh Townsend, Associational Initiatives Coordinator, will be the guest speak-ers. The phone number for the asso-ciation is (302) 741-2488.

Bill Archer, BCM/D’s music/wor-ship missionary, will lead an asso-ciational mass choir and orchestra. Churches interested in participating should call the DBA office, (301) 741-2488.

Mission Fellowship Church, Middletown, had a soccer/flag football sports camp with the help of about 20 mission team members from Fairfield Baptist Church in Mississippi.

Cody Whittaker, Delaware Asso-ciation’s new mission evangelism and family life director, worked with the church to help facilitate the camp. Whit-taker said the goal wasn’t to provide an intense sports training event, rather to provide an opportunity for the kids to have some fun and for the church to get to know them and their families.

Eastern Association First Church, Easton, youth have

been on the move this summer. They did a variety of servant evangelism projects in Pittsburgh, Pa., for a week, took a few days’ break then went to Easton, serving people by doing yard work, painting and other needed projects.

FBC members spent time at Ocean City working with international stu-dents at Ocean City Church in con-junction with the resort ministry.

First Church, Hurlock, has a fourth Friday ladies night. On the fourth Friday of every month the ladies

gather for food, fellowship and a Beth Moore book study.

Harvest Church, Salisbury, had a “faithbooking class.” It was a scrap-booking class that was designed to show a faith journey. The goal is to have a book that helps Christians have another opportunity to share their faith and to show what God has done in their lives. It is a visible witness to share with loved ones.

Mid-Maryland Association

The first through fifth grade Sun-day school classes at Elders Church, Sykesville, raised $120 to send to Samaritan’s Purse for 60 baby chick-ens, a three-week supply of milk, four blankets and 100 Gospel storybooks for needy families overseas.

Earlier this year the kids spon-sored a church-wide food drive, col-lecting two car-loads of food delivered to a Westminster women’s shelter.

Taneytown Church celebrated its 30th anniversary with a picnic in Taneytown Memorial Park on June 2. Members played horseshoes, softball and other games, ate lots of food and listened to local bands. David Lee, BCM/D’s executive director, preached for the special anniversary worship service on June 3.

The Taneytown youth raised $724 for a Guatemala mission trip through a free flea market.

Montgomery association

Kensington Church still has 85th anniversary cookbooks available. “Sharing Our Best” is a collection of

over 500 favorite recipes form KBC families and friends. Proceeds from the book will be used for hunger relief causes. The cookbooks are $15 each, or $12 for two or more.

Viers Mill Church, Silver Spring, hosts a Boy Scout troop. This year, two of the boys, prospective Eagles Scouts, used their required projects to benefit the church. David Van Tassell installed a new security fence around

the playground. Ellis Gardner installed a drainage system in the playground to keep the play area dry.

Potomac Association

A mission team of about 20 volunteers from Dunkirk Church are working in Wheeling, W. Va., distributing food and clothing to the needy, doing construction work and outreach ministry.

Last month the church helped out with the State Police’s annual “Cops Camp” for middle school students. The church members provided and prepared food for the camp. Marshall Coffman, associate pastor, taught Judo at the camp.

Dunkirk was also the sight for this year’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp.

James Fetty has resigned as pas-tor of Nanjemoy Church. Fetty has accepted a call to minister at Ebenezer Church, Naruna, Va.

Prince George’s Association

The women of Cresthill Church, Bowie, recently had a cancer aware-ness program. The ladies brought a

potluck brunch dish to share. The guest speaker was a representative from the American Cancer Society.

Maryland City Church, Laurel, will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Oct. 7. Several special events are being planned throughout the remainder of the year. Anniversary organizers are seeking old photographs or memo-rabilia of Maryland City Church. All photos will be returned.

For more information about the anniversary or about loaning photos or memorabilia, call (410) 498-3224 or (301) 725-0609 or email [email protected].

Susquehanna Association

Pleasant View Church, Port Deposit, had a women’s pampering night called “One Night as Queen” on July 14. Ladies gathered around the decorated “palace” as “Queen Esther” told her story. As the women listened, “servants” pampered the guests, with facials, makeovers, manicures and pedicures and plenty of good food.

The church sent a mission team of about 40 volunteers to Beckwith, W. Va. They partnered with a sister church to help with construction, open-air evan-gelism and puppet ministry.

Western Association

First Church, Cumberland is celebrating its 160th anniversary. The church had a special service on July 26 to commemorate the event. According to a history written by Tom Landaker, pastor of First Church, it was on that same date, in 1847 that missionary Benjamin Griffith and six other believ-ers met to organize the first Baptist church west of Frederick.

After Griffith left in 185l, 34 men have served the church as pastor of the church and four members were called to the ministry. One of those men, Wendell Gross, grew up in First Church and was ordained in 1957. Gross was the guest speaker at the an-niversary service.

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Eastern Association

By Bruce Revel, Director of Missions

Eastern Association (EBA) stretches across seven counties from just east of the Bay Bridge to the Maryland-Virginia border to the south and from the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay to the Atlantic

Ocean coast. It sits in the heart of “The Land of Pleasant Living.”A generation ago, the communities in Eastern Association were small

rural towns where everyone knew everyone else. That was also true in EBA churches.

It is not the case anymore. Delmarva is changing at an ever-increasing pace. People are moving onto the peninsula by the thousands, seeking to have a piece of “The Land of Pleasant Living” for themselves. Where once there were cornfields, now there are planned communities. As traffic be-comes heavier major highways like Route 50, Route 113, and Route 13 look more like Richie Highway and Rockville Pike. People from many countries and languages who have come for the jobs now call Delmarva home.

With these changes have come great challenges and greater opportuni-ties for the churches of Eastern Association. Some of the things the churches of EBA are doing:

• New churches are being planted to reach the growing population. Since 2001 there have been four primarily Anglo church plants, with several of them each averaging over 200 in worship. There have been three Hispanic church plants during that time as well. We have a Korean congregation that has started in Salisbury. Additionally this year the first Brazilian work on Delmarva began.

• Thousands of internationals, mostly college students, now work in the hospitality industry in the resort areas of EBA. We began a weekly ministry to them during the summer offering free dinners, Gospel materials, and a friendly smile in Jesus’ name each week. This year 12 EBA churches are tak-ing an active part in this ministry. This is an expansion of the already exten-sive resort ministry which has grown over the years.

• Many existing EBA churches are looking at how they can connect with their changing communities to more effectively share the Gospel. This has meant changing worship, music and ministry styles. Some of them are seeing renewed growth and vitality as they have greater impact in their communi-ties for Jesus Christ.

• Just as the world is coming to EBA, the churches of EBA are going to the world, which is a step of growth for us. Mission teams from EBA church-es have been or will be going to: Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Massa-chusetts, Nevada, Kenya, Scotland, Guatemala, Mexico, Turkey and Russia, just to name a few.

• The growing population on Delmarva makes the ministry of Disas-ter Relief even more important. Because of the peninsula’s vulnerability to severe weather coupled with our proximity to potential terrorist targets, EBA has made a major commitment to Disaster Relief. We now have a Feeding Unit capable of preparing 5,000 meals per day and a fully-equipped Recovery Unit. We have joined in partnership in this ministry with Delaware Associa-tion and Accomack Association on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Change is never easy but the Gospel requires it. The churches of Eastern Association are learning that seeing people brought into the Kingdom of God is worth the price of change.

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Obituary

Allen J. Beck died on July 3. Beck served BCM/D churches in many ca-pacities through the years. He was the convention’s first state Brotherhood director, serving part time from 1956-1960. He was elected full-time director in 1960 giving attention to Brother-hood and Royal Ambassador work.

In 1969, Beck began pastoring North Harford Church where he min-istered for 20 years. During that time he developed a heart for missions to Haiti, taking several mission trips to the country to help build churches and orphanages and encouraging oth-ers to be part of the outreach.

After retiring, he moved to Dallstown, Pa., and became a mem-ber, elder and Sunday school teacher at North Hills Bible Church until he became too ill to continue.

Beck is survived by his wife, Jean Evans Beck. The couple was married for 37 years. He is preceded in death by his first wife, Rebecca Beck who died in 1968. He is also preceded in death by his parents, Leroy Russell and Bertha Mae Hammann Beck, a daughter, Kathryn DeAra and a sister, V. Ruth Morrissey. He is survived by 11 children, sons-in-law and daugh-ters-in-law, 28 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to Baltimore Rescue Mission, P.O. Box 725, Baltimore, MD 21208 or to Grace Mission to Haiti, P.O. Box 211025, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33421.

By Wilfredo Rodriguez-Jiménez

I am very grateful for godly par-ents. They passed on to us a legacy—the collection of the fruit

of their labors—that will continue on, I believe, to their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I don’t exactly know when my parents dedicated their lives to the Lord. But I do know they loved God and desired from an early age to teach all four living children to do the same.

My parents became church plant-ers in Honduras, and I saw them work to win souls for Christ. They used the gift of friendship to bring others to the light of our Lord. With their farm, they offered help to people with mate-rial things, lending them equipment, or a little space to prepare their land, or a pair of animals to till the soil, or even a hand to sow the harvest. These were their methods to present Christ as Savior to others. My father used to say, “If we have more friends, then more people will be in heaven.” It was a principle we gave direction to all of our lives.

Why do I tell you all of this about my parents? Here’s why: today three of their sons, including me, are planting churches for Jesus. It is the legacy they have left us.

In Honduras my family and I worked to plant several churches. But God directed the heart of our at-tention to the United States, and we began to pray and to wait for Him to open the door of opportunity for us. When He knocked, we wanted to be ready to respond.

One day, we received a letter from Pastor Woody Crouse of Immanuel Church in Salisbury and immediately felt that his letter was an answer to our prayers. When he told me that he needed a church planter to work with a

congregation of some four people, my heart was filled of joy, for I would have to start from scratch. This was what God had called me to do, and how I knew that God wanted me to accept this task.

On our first Sunday, in addition to my family of five, we worshipped with another five people present. From that very moment God put in my heart a great joy as I recalled a very beautiful passage in Joshua 1:5 where it says: “Never will I leave you…as I was with Moses, I will also be with you.” Since then, God has been faithful every day and we have grown in number and commitment. He called us as a congregation to prayer, fasting and to intimacy with Him. Out of this intimacy, God led us to serve in other cities throughout the area. So in April of 2005 He called us to establish a mission in the city of Cambridge.

While we were in a time of dis-cipleship with the book, Experiencing God, we went to this city to attend an associational festival of songs and evangelism. God used this occasion to connect us with a Hispanic couple there, who had been praying for two years for someone to come and preach the Word of God in their own lan-guage. As a result, we established some meetings in their house each Saturday, and the group enlarged. The group became a mission of First Church of Cambridge and called itself the Road of Hope. We helped them find a new pastor, brother José Nater, and

his family, wife Mayra and their two children, to lead them. This congrega-tion, started simply in the home of a praying, committed couple, is today an extremely active congregation with a vision to reach out to other places close to their community.

By this time, some Brazilians were coming to our meetings in Salisbury on Sundays, and each time our hearts

would hurt for them. We knew that they only partially understood what we said, and this was not going to suffice in teaching them the entire Word of God. Again, we began to pray. Soon, through a dear lady in our church, we had an opportunity to meet a pastor who spoke Portuguese, Paulo Paiva. I sensed im-mediately that God

had provided this brother as an answer to our prayers so that we might reach those who speak Portuguese, mostly Brazilians, in our city. We asked him to pray with us about moving here from New York City to take up this min-istry opportunity. In response to our request, the call of God came quickly to Paulo, and on Dec. 25, 2006 he and his wife moved into the house of one of our members, sister Julia Foxwell, to begin this new work.

The congregation has taken up the responsibility of providing for the needs of the new Brazilian congrega-tion and for Pastor Paiva and his wife. The work has grown; he continues working with small groups during the week and on Sundays as they gather with us at the church building. We have begun to hold some conferences

for couples together with the pastor of the Brazilian congregation. The vision God has placed in our minds is that first we should fortify the marriages of the congregation by teaching them the biblical principles on which marriage should be founded. In this last confer-ence, we had 25 couples of different language groups present, and we are inviting even more for the next follow-ing event. The idea is to reach out to non-Christian couples under the Holy Spirit’s leadership. So far, the response has been positive.

The yearning that God has placed in our hearts as a family and a church is to continue expanding the Kingdom of God throughout this place and beyond, in different languages and dialects. I specifically say “dialects” because God has just revealed to us in our county a population of Guatema-lans who speak Aguacateco! This is another opportunity for us to pray and seek to reach them with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We already know that our brother, Antonio Garcia, and his family are qualified to initiate this work. As a result, we will begin evangelism in the town of Crisfield, where God has placed a burden on our hearts to estab-lish another new church in that place.

My desire and intent as a father is to leave a legacy for my children, so that they will continue this work until God our Father calls us into His pres-ence. I understand through the Word of God that I am building on a founda-tion started by my parents that they will have opportunity to do even better than I before them. As a family—and as a church—we must pass it on.

Wilfredo Rodriguez-Jiménez serves as the Hispanic pastor and planter of Im-

manuel Church, Salisbury, Md. He can be reached at (443) 366-9373 or by email at

[email protected].

‘Opportunity Knocks’ in church-planting legacy

August 2007

In the movie, Amazing Grace, Billy says to

Wilbur, “We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible; so we do them any-way.” Were my father still alive he would have said, “Billy must be related to my hard headed daughter, Gayla.”

In gymnastics when I was told 5’7” was too tall for aerial moves, I did them anyway. What did height have to do with it? When I learned to water ski on one ski, I was told we needed a ski rope with split handles. We didn’t have one so; I used our single handle and got up anyway. What did a handle have to do with it? Looking back, I see why my dad might have thought I was “hard headed.”

As believers we are challenged to grow and mature in our biblical knowledge and in our relationship with the Lord. There are hundreds of scripture passages backing up the challenge to grow. It is a lifestyle we should all embrace. But I wonder if there should also be little bit of Billy’s philosophy in us, too, “We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible, so we do them anyway.”

So, I’ve looked back through scrip-tures and found many who must have followed Billy’s line of thinking. Here are just a few:

“Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Gen. 18:14), the Lord said to Abraham. Isaac was born when Abra-ham was 100 years old!

When Elisha instructed Joram to dig ditches in the valley because God was going to fill them with water in

spite of a drought, Elisha assured the king, “This is an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord” (2 Kings 3:18). The next morning the waters came.

Jeremiah proclaimed, “Nothing is too hard for you” (Jer. 32:17). And God delivered His people from exile.

Nehemiah miraculously rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem with 50,000 of his countrymen in 52 days in the midst of intense opposition.

Esther went against protocol and went before the king in an effort to save her people. The king heard her plea and an entire people group was spared. Mordecei’s words rang true, “Who knows but that you have come into royal position for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14b)

The angel told Mary, “For nothing is impossible with God” (Luke 1:37). And a virgin gave birth to the Savior.

What if any one of these had said, “This can’t be done?” Isaac would not have been born; the ditches would not have been dug; the Israelites would remain in exile; the wall around Jerusalem would remain in ruins; Haman would have killed the Jews and Mary….well, it would certainly be different.

This past year GAs (Girls in Action) and CiA (Children in Action) have again proved that nothing is impossible with God. A plea was called out by a missionary in Croatia for goats. The coun-try had been so devastated by war the people had no way of supporting their

families. The missionary knew that if he could buy goats for a family they could begin a business that would bring income and food to the family.

Jean Cullen with Project MOST dreamed of raising $5,000 for the goat project. That goal was surpassed in just a few short months and raised to $15,000. Again the goal was surpassed. Over the past two years GAs and CiAs across America have raised $225,000. One group of 12 GAs challenged the church goal of $278, enough to buy two goats, and at the end of the four weeks raised $695; children providing goats in an effort to make a difference and giving missionaries the opportunity to give not only a goat but a copy of Scripture.

Through the efforts of Project MOST, a bunch of children and an ig-norance of “impossible” a country has been changed. “We are too young to realize that certain things are impos-sible; so we do it anyway.”

The Maryland/Delaware state mis-sions offering is just around the corner. The offering supports ministry in our states such as the Wilmington Games, the resort ministries of the Eastern

shore reaching people from around the globe, Annapolis Naval Academy ministries changing lives of those who serve our country and many more. But what is still out there? Do we consider it “impossible?” Is it impos-sible because of funding? How many people are we missing because we call it “impossible?”

Our state missions offering goal for 2007 is $250,000. Maybe we will take the challenge of my GA friends who bought thousands of goats and instead of thinking “this is impossible” we will think “nothing is impossible with God.”

“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible; so we do them anyway.”

If you would like more information about the goat project in Croatia or the new effort in Africa check out this web

site www.wmu.com/volunteerconnections/international, then click on Project MOST.

For information about the Maryland/Delaware state missions offering, check

www.yourbcmd.org.

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A Letter from Dr. David LeeExecutive Director of the Baptist

Convention of Maryland/Delaware

I believe that every believer receives multiple calls from God. The journey begins with a call to a

changed life, a call to salvation. This call comes to every person. It is God’s desire that all come to eternal life.

The cross stands as a beacon calling all people to a new life made possible by the sacrifice of our Lord and

Savior Jesus Christ.

The call to service accompanies the call to a new life. Much of the New Testament addresses how we,

as disciples of Jesus Christ, are to serve God by serving others. The foundation for that service is love - love for

God and love for people. That call to service will manifest itself in many ways depending upon the spiritual

gifts given to individual believers.

I also believe that God gives specific calls to us to do specific tasks in specific places at specific times.

It is a unique call designed just for you. You and I have the privilege of serving our Lord in the most strategic

region in our world. We are all called to share the gospel. We are all called to touch people’s lives with the

love of Christ. We are all called to bring hope and help to the hurting. We share that call, but we must also be

obedient when God delivers a specific assignment to us.

As Maryland/Delaware Baptists we have a wonderful opportunity to embrace God’s call and partner

with him to make a kingdom difference in this multi-state region. Please pray. To accomplish the task before

us, we need divine power. Please give. Through our cooperative giving effort we can resource the vision God

has given to us as a convention of believers. Please get involved. Personally go “on-mission.” Discover the joy

of touching a person’s life in the name of Jesus.

Let this be the year that we truly “embrace God’s call.”

Yours in Him,

David Lee

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Children’s LessonOutline 2007

I heard the Lord saying, “Who shall I send? And who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I send me.”Isaiah 6:8

A. I need to LISTEN for The Lord speaking to me.(Through the Bible, through prayer and through God’s family of faith)

Possible activity: Make two recordings for the children to listen to. One of some one they will NOT recognize and one of someone the children WILL recognize, someone they are familiar with, the Pastor, a Sunday School teacher, etc.

Have the children listen to the recording of the person they will not recognize. Ask the children whose voice it is, then ask why they don’t recognize the voice. (It’s hoped that they will respond that they have not spent time with the person, or something like that.) Then have them listen to the recording of the person they will recognize. Ask them whose voice it is that’s recorded. Ask them how they know that voice. (It’s hoped that they will respond that they know the voice because they have spent time with the person whose voice is recorded or something close to that. So we will see the need to spend time with the Lord in Bible Study and prayer to recognize His voice.) Don’t let them think that just be cause they are children God does not speak to them. In 1 Samuel 3: 1 – 10 we hear God speak to “the boy” Samuel.

B. The Children need to UNDERSTAND God’s Call to them.

1. A call to a personal relationship with God through Jesus as Lord. 2. A call of service to the Lord.

C. As the children listen to the Lord and understand His call they need to RESPOND to God’s call. Just as Isaiah did, “Here am I, send me”. Or as Samuel did, “Lord I am listening”. If there are children who sense God’s call to faith in Jesus lead them in responding to that call to salvation. Help the children understand they can have a part in God’s work in their neighborhoods and to the ends of the earth. Emphasis to the children that they can be a part of God’s desire to reach other children with the message of Jesus in Maryland and Delaware by giving to the State Missions Offering. (Part of this offering helps with VBS, Childhood Evangelism, Boy’s Camp and Girl’s Camp and more.)

State Missions OfferingPrayer Guide 2007

Day 1 “So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off. ( Acts 13:3 )*

Acts 13 begins with the commissioning of Paul and Barnabas to go to the mission field. The call they experienced so long ago continues today in the hearts of students across our two state convention. Students such as Julie Carr answer the call to summer missions; serving in Maryland. Others spend their summers in multiple areas of North America. Some spend summer fulfilling their call to summer missions on the other side of the world. Following the example set by Paul and Barnabas, our students are commissioned and sent out. In each place they go and serve, lives are changed and people meet Christ.

Prayer Focus:

Pray for summer missionaries to be able to complete the tasks to which they have been called.

Pray for them to keep the focus on God.

Pray for the people they will serve and minister to throughout the summer.

Pray for more students to answer the call to serve.

Day 2 “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20)*

When we think of reaching all the nations most of us think of going to the nations. But sometimes, the nations come to us. That is certainly the case in Ocean City during the summer months. People young and old come to the Eastern Shore to work or vacation. Languages from every tribe can be heard on the beach; many of whom have never heard the name of Jesus. During their days and weeks here, they have the opportunity to hear His name and to experience His love and grace.

Prayer Focus:

Pray for mission volunteers to establish relationships with internationals visiting the Eastern Shore.

Pray for mission teams to touch the lives of international students and help them develop a relationship with Christ.

Pray for the hearts of the international visitors to be open to the message of Christ.

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Sizang Burmese Mission Church GrowsBy Sharon Mager

Potomac, MD -The Sizang Burmese Mission Church started in May, 2006, when a group of Christians, all from the Chin State of Burma, began meeting together. They met in different homes and were led by the group’s moderator, Chairman of the Board, Khai Pau.

In August, the group contacted James Singzakhai a friend and member of their tribe from Burma, who lives in Pittsburgh, and asked him to come pastor the church. Singzakhai is a general physician, called to the ministry. He had started a flourishing church in Thailand, did medical missionary trips and delivered Bibles to restricted areas. The church knew Singzakhai. They had all come from the same small area, from the same tribe, in Chin. In fact, in some way, they are all related.

The church was doing well, Singzakhai said, but they needed a pastor. Within a short time, it began to grow. They began meeting in Seven Locks Church. Now the attendance averages 30 each Sunday.

“Some have become very enthusiastic. I could see changes. I can see an increase of spiritual hunger,” he said.

A recent anniversary celebration brought 150 people.

Burma, Singzakhai said, is very dialectic. “In Burma there are seven major states. In Chin

there are about 40 different dialectical groups. We are one of the very smallest groups,” he said.

Usually church services are held in their specific dialect, but when Burmese visitors from other groups attend, they use a common Burmese language.

Singzakhai said he’d like to see the church reach out more to other Burmese people throughout the Maryland/D.C. area.

They currently meet from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sundays at the church. On Fridays they have prayer meetings in members’ homes and on Saturdays they have Bible study and worship in homes.

Singzakhai said the church uses a mixture of contemporary Christian worship and traditional Sizang worship songs. He said they’re more like hymns, only a little more modernized. Many were written in the 70’s when there was a powerful revival in Burma, Singzakhai said. He mixes the songs up so

that they can “catch up with the flow of time.”“I tell them when we keep singing the old songs

all of our emotions and minds will go back to the past and not go forward, but at the same time, there’s a joy in it as the people sing the songs they grew with,” he said.

Members come from all around – Frederick, Columbia and Virginia. They have a website and they’re increasingly depending on it to keep in touch.

The Sizang Church is the only one of its kind in the Maryland/DC area.

“There are twelve Burmese people group churches in the D.C. area. There are three other different Baptist Burmese churches, but there’s no church by our group,” Singzakhai said.

Pray... That God will lead us and guide us to be sensitive to the leading of the Lord. Pray for revival, and that the church will step out of their comfort zone and reach all people.

Give... The church needs video equipment. They’re relying more and more on their website as a critical part of their communications.

Go... The church needs teacher training for those working with their children.

Day 1: Acts 13:3Acts 13 begins with the commissioning of Paul and Barnabas to go to the mission field. The call they experienced so long ago continues today in the hearts of students across our two state convention. Students such as Julie Carr answer the call to summer missions; serving in Maryland. Others spend their summers in multiple areas of North America. Some spend summer fulfilling their call to summer missions on the other side of the world. Following the example set by Paul and Barnabas, our students are commissioned and sent out. In each place they go and serve, lives are changed and people meet Christ.Prayer Focus:• Pray for summer missionaries to be

able to complete the tasks to which they have been called.

• Pray for them to keep the focus on God.

• Pray for the people they will serve and minister to throughout the summer.

• Pray for more students to answer the call to serve.

Day 2: Matthew 28:19-20When we think of reaching all the nations most of us think of going to the nations. But sometimes, the nations come to us. That is certainly the case in Ocean City during the summer months. People young and old come to the Eastern Shore to work or vacation. Languages from every tribe can be heard on the beach; many of whom have never heard the name of Jesus. During their days and weeks here, they have the opportunity to hear His name and to experience His love and grace. Prayer Focus:• Pray for mission volunteers

to establish relationships with internationals visiting the Eastern Shore.

• Pray for mission teams to touch the lives of international students and help them develop a relationship with Christ.

• Pray for the hearts of the international visitors to be open to the message of Christ.

Day 3: Philippians 3:13-14Paul makes many references to athletes in his writings. He talks about athletes staying focused, looking toward the goal, running to win the prize, conditioning, and all the other disciplines of training. Why the fascination with training? People understand the importance of focus, training, and endurance for the purpose of winning a game. We may not all be athletes but we are all spiritual athletes racing toward the prize of bringing a lost world to Christ. It requires focus (on Christ), training (study of Scripture) and endurance (not giving up when it gets hard). Our prize….laying souls at the feet of Jesus.Prayer Focus:• Pray for the Delaware association as

they prepare for the Wilmington Games.

• Pray for the number of volunteers that are needed.

• Pray for seeds to be sown and fruit to come from the evangelical efforts.

• Pray for sensitivity to opportunities that come during the Games.

Day 4: Ephesians 6:11From the days of David facing Goliath to modern day war, soldiers know the importance of the right gear. For David it started with a slingshot and progressed to a sword when he grew into a man. Today our military relies on sophisticated helmets, bullet proof vests, boots made of steel, and guns that fire with pin point accuracy. They know what it takes to win the battle. But do they know how to win the spiritual battle?Student ministers at the Naval Academy in Annapolis are reaching out to midshipmen: introducing them to the full armor of God. When it comes to spiritual battles, we all need to know the right gear; the armor of God!Prayer Focus:• Pray for God to soften the hearts of

the Midshipmen that have heard the Gospel but have not yet given their hearts over to the Lord.

• Pray for the student ministers that serve at the Naval Academy.

• Pray for open doors and new opportunities for reaching Midshipmen.

Day 5: Psalm 100:1Worship. It is an attitude of the heart. It happens in our quiet times. It can happen watching a sunset. It should happen every time we are in corporate worship.Men and women work tirelessly to bring well planned worship experiences to our weekly church services. Long hours of practice, choosing music, and preparing their own hearts are just a few of the activities in the week of a worship leader.We may not be a part of leading worship, but each of us should be a part of worshipping. God delights when His children worship. Join with the psalmist and worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness. Worship the Lord with gladness!Prayer Focus:• Pray for the leadership team of

WorshipExpo as they seek God for faculty selection.

• Pray for God to be glorified throughout the WorshipExpo experience.

• Pray for those who attend WorshipExpo to be refreshed, renewed, equipped, and inspired to lead boldly in worship in the churches in which they serve.

Day 6: Matthew 25:35-36, 40Looking at the social issues in our two state convention can be overwhelming. In spite of the enormity Christ still tells us to feed the hungry, take care of strangers (and immigrants), take care of the sick (even those with

HIV) and enter the doors of prison. This kind of outreach is rarely easy, never comfortable and always time consuming. But for some, in spite of the difficulty, it is their passion. That passion has birthed ministries such as Baltimore Inner Harbor Ministry, Disaster Relief, Migrant Ministry and more. Maybe it is time to join in and in so doing “whatever we do for one of these, we do for Christ.”Prayer Focus:• Pray for the staff and volunteers who

work in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor as they reach out in the city.

• Pray for the hundreds of volunteers who go at a moment’s notice in times of disaster to help those in need.

• Pray for the various migrant ministries as they seek to show Christ’s love within multiple cultures.

Day 7: Acts 2: 7b-8It is said that love transcends all language barriers. For those involved in teaching English as a Second Language they would agree that the love of Christ reaches beyond language barriers. There are internationals living in our state that speak little or no English. So how can we share God’s love? Acts of kindness still speak loudly and something we can all be a part of. For some, teaching ESL is an option. When an international learns how to speak and understand English, we have not only helped them survive in America, we have opened multiple doors of opportunity for hearing the gospel in their “own new language”.Prayer Focus:• Pray for more volunteers called to

teach ESL.• Pray for those who teach ESL to

demonstrate not only communication skills in English but the communication of God’s love.

• Pray for God to prepare the hearts of the many internationals attending ESL classes for hearing the gospel.

Day 8: Ephesians 6:19a-20 It seems odd that Paul, who was so bold, was asking for prayer to be bold. This is the man who went on multiple missionary journeys. And as he penned these words was in prison for sharing his faith. Yet, he still desired to do more.I wonder what would be different if we took Paul’s challenge and prayed to declare the message of Christ fearlessly. Perhaps our state statistics would look different. Perhaps our social issues would diminish. Perhaps our churches would be growing instead of declining. Perhaps “In God We Trust” would not be offensive.Prayer Focus:• Pray also for your name that I may

declare it fearlessly, as I should.• Pray for language church planters to

be bold in their areas of service.• Pray for new church starts to find

ways to reach the community.• Pray for revival and renewal to

come to the churches in Maryland and Delaware.

2007 Offering for MD/DE Missions: Prayer Guideavailable as a handout at www.yourbcmd.org/offering

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Contact a 2007 State Missions Offering Speaker to come speak to your congregation

August 2007

Dear Counselor:Many times my husband

comes home emotionally spent and exhausted from his day. Being a stay at home mom, I feel the same way when he gets home. What are some ways I can set the tone for a peaceful atmosphere rather than having two worn out, grumpy people in count down mode waiting for bed time?

—Minister’s Wife

(This question was one of a number of questions posed in a question and answer period at the recent Minister’s Wives Retreat on the theme of “Minimizing Emotional Exhaustion in the Minister’s Family.”)

Dear Minister’s Wife:Your question is an important

one not only for ministry families, but also for many families with children and even for couples without

children when each has a demanding job. The moment of re-engagement after an exhausting day carries the potential for connection or for conflict; for closeness or for distance.

While every couple will have an occasional bad day when the moment of re-engagement goes poorly, if this happens consistently there is usually a broader issue to be discussed. For that reason, I would suggest that the initial approach be considered not in terms of what can “I” do, but what can “we” do to solve the problem.

For instance, consistent re-engagement problems at the end of a day are often connected to a lack of respect for or understanding of the other person’s work. At other times, such problems are connected to a lack of scheduling and a consistent failure to find true “Sabbath-time” as individuals and as a family. Someone would need to take the initiative to

open up discussion in these areas on a regular basis (it does not have to be dealt with all at once), preferably when you are not tired and grumpy.

Most couples in our current culture need to discuss their calendar once a week in order to have clear expectations, make joint decisions, and plan for balance. Most couples also need regular conversations about how their lives are going, with one party always being an empathetic listener. If one or both parties refuse to participate in such discussions, it is indicative of deeper relational issues that may need outside help.

Often one will notice that the daily re-engagement problem disappears with discussions such as those just mentioned. With a different atmosphere, simple solutions are easily implemented or experimented with on a daily basis. With two parents at home, maybe

each could have a period of down time while the other takes over.

Looking at what needs to be done in the evening, decisions could easily be made about who does what. If certain roles come more easily for one person than the other, play to your strengths, but if this doesn’t work, try reversing roles some evenings. Some people need to process their day with the other person as soon as possible. Other people do not want to have to relive their day by talking about it. Often a balance of these positions works, as well as prayerfully thinking ahead about the moment of re-engagement.

—Tom Rodgerson

Questions may be e-mailed to [email protected] with the subject

line indicating, “Dear Counselor;” Or mailed to Tom Rodgerson, 8203

Harford Road, Parkville, MD 21234.

“Dear Counselor” with CentrePointe Counseling, Inc.

“Help! We are both so exhausted!”

English as Second Language teachers share ‘The Word’By Sharon Mager

BCM/D Correspondent

LAUREL, Md.—According to the North American Mission Board’s statistics, more than 500,000 immi-grants come to the United States each year. With the boom of government and high tech industry in the Balti-more/Washington corridor, the area has become a hub for this incredible influx. That provides a huge field ripe for planting and harvesting and Chris-tians are using English as a Second Language programs to extend a hand of friendship and love.

Norma Barkdull, a member of First Church, Laurel, is an English as a Second Language (ESL) trainer and a teacher along with her husband, Dan. She shows churches how to begin ESL programs in an effort to share a lan-guage as well as the Word of God.

It’s really been a wonderful thing,” Barkdull said. “There are sometimes ten different language groups in one class all eager to learn. And many are open to the gospel.”

Barkdull became involved in ESL in the 80’s.

“We had a custodian from Cambo-dia. We saw the need to start helping that little family to start speaking English,” she said.

The WMU provided babysitting for the children and hired a teacher

to help the young woman. When the teacher was no longer available, the church decided to do it themselves. They discovered ESL.

Then the Korean congregation that met at First Church, Laurel, began ask-ing the church for help with English, so more people became involved. When a Spanish Church began using the building, they too became involved in the ESL programs. Soon they were offering different levels of instruction to many more people day and night.

As Barkdull became experienced teaching, she moved into the Prince George’s Association position when the ESL director left in 1989. She was trained through the North American Mission Board and began teaching workshops to help churches begin their own programs.

Barkdull said that at First Church, Laurel, they have a devotional time after the classes, and they invite the students to an international Sunday school class to learn more. They also offer language Bibles that Barkdull said almost everyone gratefully accepts. The classes are comprised of people from many different religions, includ-ing Muslims and Buddhists.

“We leave it up to them if they want to stay for the devotion time. Most of them do.”

Now the church has 272 students enrolled from 43 different countries.

They’ve expanded into offering citizen-ship classes.

Betty Howell, a member of Geth-semane Church, Glenwood, is a trainer like Norma Barkdull as well as a mis-sionary for the Navigators. Howell said she is amazed at the opportunities ESL offers Christians and churches.

“The world has come to our back-yard. We have an opportunity to meet a need,” Howell said.

“I have had so many blessings from working with internationals. When you’re honest and share what’s going on in your life, like the death of parent or the birth of a grandson or a wedding, they want to know, and they’re excited, and they become part of your life.”

Through that, Howell said, you can share how Jesus is helping you through those crises and show how to live in day-to-day fellowship with Him.

Norma Barkdull said as ESL work-ers slowly communicate information, the Holy Spirit moves into some of the students’ hearts.

“We just do the task and share with them,” Barkdull said. “Who knows until we get to heaven if they’re going to be there with us?”

For more information about beginning an ESL program call Ellen Udovich, BCM/D lay mobilization missionary, (800) 466-5290, ext. 216 or email her at [email protected].

By Sarah Jackson

MIDDLETOWN, Md.—Hundreds witnessed a life changing weekend at Skycroft Conference Center, June 22-24. Kettering Church hosted a retreat that resulted in about 100 students, ages 11-18, giving their lives to Christ and about 25 rededications. Minister Colin Pugh of Kettering Church was attentive in sharing how God used him as a tool in the creation of this event.

He explained, “God gave me the vision. I let the ministry know the vi-sion.” Everything seemed to gain mo-mentum from there. They met every two weeks since August 2006 plan-ning an event that drew 335 people from 11 different churches, including a Lutheran church and a non-denom-inational church, and groups such as Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

The theme of the event was “Moving Past Salvation,” although officially the retreat was called

“Mountaintop Experience with 300 Youth Moving Past Salvation.”

It began with a worship service Friday night focusing on “Running Toward Salvation,” and was followed by a concert with Lecrae, 10 Com-mandments Gospel Go Go Band, and Out of the Box Mime Ministry. Sat-urday began with a corporate prayer and sessions on finances, sin, prayer and stewardship.

In addition, all students attended a session that discussed the topics of violence, anger, love, truth and re-spect. These were followed by leisure time, which the students spent play-ing sports or attending workshops, such as choir and dance.

Also on the schedule was a service about the “Reality of Hell,” which was the period Lamonica White, an 18 year old from Kettering Church, found most powerful.

Amidst other memories of that night, she affirmed that “Hell would not be a good place to go. Let’s live 100 percent like God wants us to.

We’ve just been giving him the half work.”

Before the night was over, Deven Turner held a concert. The final service Sunday morning was spent discussing “Requirements for Believ-ers” taken from Ephesians 4.

Throughout the entire event, items such as computers, televi-sions and cameras were given away. Though the final cost to the host church was tremendous, reaching around $15,000, they received use of Skycroft facilities at no charge. This, remarkably, was in fulfillment to a challenge that promised free housing and meals if 300 students decided to attend.

Lamonica White believes the event will have a lasting impact on those who attended. She shared that a member of Skycroft challenged the youth to “come back home and con-tinue spreading Christ.” Those who attended are in agreement: there has been a visible change in their friends since the retreat. Anthony Bill, 15, of

Kettering Church, said “Most people don’t listen to the music or talk the way they used to. And they’re start-ing to read the Bible more.”

Minister Colin Pugh described a further goal of the event. He realizes, “God is requiring us to do more. We wanted to give the small churches a chance to experience a youth retreat. It’s not only Kettering’s responsibil-ity… We’re all in this together. It’s not just your church and my church, it’s our church.”

He has no definite answer to whether the event will be held again. “Everyone’s asking… but God hasn’t spoken to me about next year.” The weekend closed with about 100 new Christians and 25 rededications, but Lamonica White found that God’s agenda included one more promising establishment. “It wasn’t just about learning the Word. We interacted with other churches and got to know other churches.”

Sarah Jackson is a guest writer on special assignment by BaptistLIFE.

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father said.“We’re family oriented, so we in-

teract all the time, but this is a one-on one thing with my daughter. With the everyday hustle and bustle, how often do you stop and say, ‘hey, my daugh-ter and I are going to do something?’”

Erick Satchell said that by taking his daughter out, dressing up and opening the door for her, and treating her respectfully through the evening, he’s modeling how a young man should treat a lady. It’s good practice for when she goes on dates. That will be in about 20 years, Satchell jokes, chuckling.

“We had a chance to go in front of the mike and say something about our daughters. The women who facili-tate the ministry said there was not a

dry eye in the room,” he said. Michele Satchell, Desiree’s moth-

er, started helping with the Amazing Grace program, assisting with the pag-eant practices, when she saw how much her daughter enjoyed the program.

“It reinforces some things we’re trying to teach at home,” she said.

Being a helper, it also reinforces to the leaders that they must be models to the girls, Satchell said.

Above all, the program encour-ages each girl to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

At the pageant, Desiree said all the girls wore church attire and they introduced themselves.

“I said, ‘Hello, my name is De-siree. I’m ten years old, and I love to dance, and I know that I am a pearl of great price in the Lord’s eyes.”

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‘Limited resources + increasing passion = exponential innovation,’ says noted pastor

1991, and later graduated from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 2005.

Eddie and his wife, Wendy, mar-ried in 1993. “She is the love of my life and the apple of my eye.” Wendy graduated from Harvard University, NYU Law School, and practiced law in New York for nine years. She taught for 18 years at Tulane University in New Orleans and has written textbooks and many articles for top ranked law reviews. The Scotts have an eight-year-old son, Christian, whom Scott says is both smart and handsome.

In 1996, the couple started a Bible study with ten people, which eventual-

ly evolved into Christian Bible Fellow-ship Ministries (CBFM) with over 600 members. Scott began working with the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans and the Louisiana Baptist State Convention specializing in planting new churches and assisting pastors and churches to be more effective Kingdom builders. He also led CBFM to plant two churches.

When Hurricane Katrina hit in Au-gust 2005, the Scotts lost everything. Their home was in seven feet of water on one side of the city, and the church was in seven feet of water on another side of the city. But what was most devastating was being separated from family, friends and church members

who were scattered across the country“We tried for ten months to

rebuild and reorganize CBFM. We had hundreds in church on Sunday mornings, but after Katrina about 15 members returned.” They used the church to distribute Bibles, food, water and other needed supplies to 60 to 100 local hurricane victims daily for five days a week.

Ultimately, the stress took its toll, so when North Carolina Central Law School offered Wendy a teaching posi-tion the family moved to Durham, N.C. in August 2006.

Wendy told her husband, the next time they moved, it would be when God was ready to move Eddie. And

now she is accompanying him to Maryland, where God has called him.

“Eddie Scott comes highly rec-ommended. He is passionate about discipleship and church growth. He also is a champion for the Coopera-tive Program,” Bob Simpson, BCM/D associate executive director/COO, said. “We are very excited to have Eddie on our staff to assist our churches.”

Eddie Scott hired as missionary for Bible teaching & discipleship

By Shannon BakerNational Correspondent

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The pastor of the recently voted Most Innovative Church in America believes that all churches can be innovative, regard-less of the size of the payroll or their budget.

“You have absolutely everything you need to reach the people that God wants you to reach,” said Craig Groeschel, senior pastor of the multi-site LifeChurch.tv, headquartered in Edmond, Okla.

He was one of the featured speak-ers of the second annual Buzz Confer-ence, held June 28-29 at the Phoenix Theaters at Union Station in Washing-ton, D.C.

“When you don’t have what every-one else has, you have this formula,” he told the nearly 300 pastors and church leaders present. “Limited re-sources plus increasing passion equals exponential innovation.”

Named this year the most innova-tive church in the nation by Outreach magazine, Groeschel’s LifeChurch.tv, is a group of almost 20,000 people who gather each week at 11 different loca-tions across the United States, includ-ing an internet church, where partici-pants gather in “church lobby” chat rooms and log on to hear the messages and worship.

Satellite broadcasts enable all of the church’s locations to be connected as one. Each LifeChurch.tv campus receives the same relevant message ev-ery week, yet has its unique attributes, including live worship, a campus pastor and team of staff members and

volunteers dedicated to ministry at the local level.

Groeschel, author of “Confessions of a Pastor,” reminded participants of the Acts 3 story of Peter and John, who were approached by a crippled beggar.

“Peter and John had limited re-sources, but what they did have, they offered to the man,” he shared, point-ing where the disciples offered healing in the name of Jesus.

“If [the beggar] had got what he thought he really wanted, he wouldn’t have gotten what he really needed,” he said. “It’s about having the eyes to see what God can do. Innovative leaders ‘see’ what God can do.”

Groeschel described four qualities of innovative leaders.

First, innovative leaders “heal the sick.”

“Jesus displayed increasing pas-sion for those who were on the outside, broken, in big, big trouble,” he said. “In order to reach those who no one else is reaching, then we have to do what somebody is not doing.”

He pressed, “When is the last time you’ve had a non-believer in your home?” He added, “We need to not just go after ‘the lost’ but after people with specific names.”

He challenged, “Who is God call-ing you to reach who no one else is reaching?”

Secondly, innovative leaders see beyond organizational boundaries.

To illustrate the atypical patterns of innovative leaders, Groeschel used the example of NASCAR drivers, who “go straight and turn left, go straight and turn left, go straight and turn left...”

He countered, “Innovative leaders turn right! Whatever everyone else is doing, turn right and do it in a differ-ent way.”

Reminding everyone that today’s contemporary is tomorrow’s tradi-tional, he admonished the group to re-member that reaching people with the Gospel has to take precedence over everything else, including organiza-tional paradigms and procedures.

Groeschel noted that he fasted from Christian books and conferences for two years, saying he needed to stop hearing what everyone else was doing so that he could hear what God wanted him to do.

He challenged, “What is God call-ing you to do that no one else is doing?”

Thirdly, innovative leaders of-fend people who value “religion” over spiritual transformation.

There were several occasions in which Jesus offended the religious people of the day, Groeschel noted, pointing in particular to when Jesus healed on the Sabbath.

The things that are closest to the heart of God often challenge those who have a vested interest in perpetuating a religious system, Groeschel shared. He also acknowledged that some of what is accepted methodologically today within the church was often op-posed years ago.

“Don’t worry when they criticize you,” he said, urging graceful response when being criticized. Rather, he suggested, that church leaders should worry more when our values and behavior fail to challenge the “way we’ve always done it.” “Worry because you are blending in, you are becoming complacent.”

He challenged, “What new thing will God call you to create that will be embraced tomorrow?”

Finally, innovative leaders rede-fine success.

Pointing to John 3:30, he advised, “We must become less, and let Jesus become more.”

We are a microchurch with a megavision, the megachurch pastor clarified. “Look at how many people are yet to be reached!”

Success is not getting voted into the Top 10 of a magazine that only Christians read, he added. “Success is getting out of the church and into the world to share Jesus.”

LifeChurch.tv’s senior pastor, Craig Groeschel

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT - Bethel Baptist Church is seeking a full-time Administrative Assistant to work 35 hours per week. Resumes may be sent to: [email protected], FAX to 410-465-6101, or Bethel Baptist Church, 4261 Montgomery Rd., Ellicott City, MD 21043.

ASSOCIATE PASTOR – Hughesville Baptist Church is seeking applicants for a full-time Associate Pastor respon-sible for outreach and discipleship. A Bachelor’s degree/Seminary is pre-ferred. More information is available at www.HughesvilleBaptist.com. Send resumes to HBC, 8505 Leonardtown Road, Hughesville, MD 20637, ATTN: Chairman Associate Pastor Search Committee. Phone: (301) 274-3672.

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC — (part time position) Colesville Baptist Church in Silver Spring, Md., is looking for a spiritually mature believer to lead the church’s music ministries. Qualities looked for include: ability and aptitude to plan and lead worship for a diverse congregation with a blended worship style; ability and aptitude to develop the potential of the individuals who com-prise the music ministries at the church. Please inquire at (301) 384-9153.

FULL TIME YOUTH PASTOR - Dunkirk Baptist Church (Dunkirk, Md.) is seeking a full time Youth Pastor to join the pastoral staff. The ministry emphasis is middle and high school

students with direction given to College and Career and Children’s Ministries. The purpose for this position will be to lead students to develop an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, build in-tentional relationships with others, and communicate God’s love through mis-sions and ministry. A ministry position description and qualifications criteria can be viewed at www.dunkirkbaptist-church.org and go to “about us” and click on “staff.” Send resumes to 11275 Southern Maryland Blvd. Dunkirk, Md. 20754, or email [email protected] by Aug. 30, 2007.

HISTORY TUTOR — History tutor needed for 2007-2008 Christian home-school tutorial in Pasadena/Severna Park area. This is a one-day a week classroom situation. Tutor will teach l-l/2 hour lesson and assign work for the week. Education, significant knowledge and/or experience required. For more information call Sharon Mager, (410) 544-3848 or email [email protected].

PART-TIME MINISTER OF MUSIC—We are looking for a part-time minister of music to lead the church to accom-plish its mission through a music min-istry that strengthens worship, leads people to experience worship, wins people to Christ and encourages evan-gelism and outreach. The position has benefits and the possibility of becoming full time. Send resumes to Faith Baptist Church, 2212 Jefferson Pike, Knoxville, MD 21758. Attention: Fred Barnette.

Visit our website at www.Faithsbc.org; phone: (301) 834-7755 or (301) 834-7669.

PASTOR — Bethany Baptist Church of Wilmington, Del., is seeking a pastor to lead our Southern Baptist church of 142 active members. Our mission is to glorify and praise God, reach others for Christ, affirm and care for others, culti-vate relationships and equip people for God’s service. We are seeking the man God has called to Bethany to lead and shepherd God’s people and teach His Word. Candidate should be ordained, with experience in leading a congre-gation. A Masters of Divinity degree (M.Div.) is preferred. Send your resume with references to Bethany Baptist Church, 410 Denver Road, Newport, DE 19804, Attn: Chairman Pastor Search Committee. www.bethanydelaware.org.

WORSHIP LEADER — (part-time) New Hope Community Church of Pasa-dena/Baltimore, Md., seeks an experi-enced worship leader to lead contempo-rary, artsy worship services on Saturday nights. The successful candidate will love the Lord, first and foremost, and will seek to lead others into a lifestyle of worship. Contact Senior Pastor Larry Baker at (443) 463-7102 for more infor-mation or visit online at www.yourne-whope.org.

YOUTH DIRECTOR - Seven Locks Baptist Church in Potomac, Md., is seeking a part-time youth director. The position will require approximately

20 hours/week, with some work hour flexibility. We currently have 17 youth. As we build our youth ministry, it is anticipated that this position will go to full-time. Resumes to: C. Baxter, Seven Locks Baptist Church, 11845 Seven Locks Road, Potomac, MD 20854-3340, or e-mail to: [email protected].

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2-5 Boys Camp at Wo-Me-To for grades 1-6 (ext. 215)

4 and 18 English as a Second Language: 16 hour basic workshop at Baptist Mission Resource Center (BRMC) (ext. 216)

5-8 Mission X at Skycroft for families (800-536-6759)

12 On Mission Together: Praying for Students (SBC)

September

9-16 Week of Prayer for Maryland/Delaware State Missions (ext. 231)

15 Discovery Day for potential chu rch planters at BMRC (ext. 225)

17-18 Language Leadership Retreat at Skycroft Conference Center (ext. 221)

19-22 North American Baptist Women’s Union, Arlington, Va. (ext. 231)

21 Children’s Ministers Seminar at BMRC (ext. 233)

21-22 Deacon’s/Pastor’s Retreat at Skycroft Conference Center (ext. 218)

28-29 ‘Uncommon Community’ Small Group Conference at New Hope Community Church (443-463-7102)

29 KIDIOTIC children’s event at FBC, Laurel (ext. 224)

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