TEXAS STATE MISSIONS REPORT FOR MARCH 2006
Beginning Balance - $250,538.89
Offerings - $25,237.52
Designated/LaMarque - $250.00
Missionaries Salaries - $17,200.00
Adm. Salaries and Expense - $3,287.85
Ending Balance - $255,038.56
Thank you to each church and individual who continues to support State Missions both financially and prayerfully. Please do pray for each of our eight State Missionaries as they seek to do the work God has given them. They are working to establish more New Testament Churches that more people can hear the gospel and be saved. I appreciate your support of them.
There have been a number of invitations from churches to visit for the purpose of representing State Missions. I am thankful for each invitation and we enjoy every visit we make. If your church would like a visit, just let me know.
"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest."KEVIN BOLDING
SUGAR LAND
Souls Saved 2 Baptisms 0 Letter 0 Statement 0
Sunday School 8 Morning Worship 9 Evening Worship 7
Total Church Offering $845.00 Gave To Missions $90.00 Paid For Rent $875.00
March was another great month for Emmanuel Mission. We held a joint outreach emphasis day with our sponsoring church and were able to reach numerous souls with the Gospel message. We set a new high attendance record of 12 for the morning worship on March 19th and have had two families begin attending services regularly. The Lord truly blessed us in March. We ask for your prayers as we continue searching for a more suitable meeting place. The ones we have found so far have been either too small or cost way too much to rent. We were blessed to have Bro. Jerry Smith come to make a video for us. The video shows some of Sugar Land and I hope shares the great need of a church in this fast growing city. I would love to send a copy of this video to any who would like it. We will also have copies available at the messenger meeting in Daytona Beach in June. We thank all who are praying for us and also all who are supporting us financially.
LARRY CHALKER
IRVING
Souls Saved 5 Baptisms 2 Letter 0 Statement 0
Sunday School 25 Morning Worship 31 Evening Worship 8
Total Church Offering $1,705.00 Gave To Missions $100.00
New faces are showing up each week. We are using Sunday afternoons for outreach. The highlight of this month was baptizing two ladies. Even though we are very busy with discipling our new members, God seems to be working things out at Northgate. We are looking forward to our Faith Promise Missions Conference in April. Bro. David Smith will be our speaker. Come and enjoy the fellowship with us.
JOEL CLAY
LAMARQUE
Souls Saved 5 Baptisms 4 Letter 0 Statement 4
Sunday School 75 Morning Worship 170 Evening Worship n/a
Total Church Offering $12,283.31 Gave To Missions $1,166.44 Paid For Rent $0
"If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you." John 15:7 Greetings to all of our Brothers and Sisters in the Lord! While sports enthusiasts were concentrating on "March Madness" and the college basketball playoffs, the Hopewell family was celebrating this month of March with gladness. There were five that accepted Jesus as Lord and eight new members. Praise God! Four of those receiving salvation came during a Wednesday night Bible study. That night we had an attendance high of 109 for Bible study.The month began with our Women's Auxiliary hosting an inspiring, as well as enlightening, prayer breakfast. There were nearly seventy women in attendance and the women of Hopewell, along with their guests, had a wonderful time. The food was equally good.
The month of March also had our Youth ministry hosting their first youth lock-in. What an exciting time for our children, as well as the adults who participated. We began with a praise and worship period followed by a video of Bible Man projected on a big screen. Then came pizza, fellowship, crafts, Bible trivia, and many more fun activities. We had a great time and are already looking forward to the next one. There were over 40 children and 12 adults present. Awesome!
We were also blessed to have Bro. Jerry and Sis. Susan Smith visiting with us. Bro. Jerry, as many of you already know, is an awesome videographer. He was able to capture many of our activities on video and we will have them available soon. Thank God for the Smiths and the excellent job they do with the missionary videos. We were truly blessed by their presence.
Our 2006 building fund campaign is well underway. Thanks to those who contribute regularly, as well as the one-time donations. Please continue to partner with us financially and prayerfully as we endeavor to reach our new goal of 100K. The Lord provides!
As always, I am grateful to Mission Bend BC of Houston, Calvary MBC of Baytown, Unity MBC of Richwood, Florida Avenue BC of Beaumont and Baker Drive BC of Dickinson for your continued support. I want to thank you for making this Mission possible. Without you, and others like you, without the monetary gifts and prayers for this Mission, we could not do the work that we do for Christ. I say this with much love and an abundance of blessings.
LARRY FRYE
DENTON
Souls Saved 2 Baptisms 2 Letter 0 Statement 0
Sunday School 15 Morning Worship 16 Evening Worship 20
Total Church Offering $1,189.47 Gave To Missions $688.95 Paid For Rent/Property $1,300.00
Greetings from North Lake Baptist Mission. We had two saved in Denton while door knocking.
One was a seventeen year old boy named Joshua. This was on a Tuesday with Bro. Chalker. The other one was on Sunday visitation. His name is Marvin. There was also two young Hispanic boys saved in Irving while door knocking with Bro. Larry Chalker. Bro. Larry and I are sure enjoying our visiting together. I would suggest this to any preacher that might be ministering close to each other. It takes me about 45 minutes to get to Irving. The difference is worth the distance.
Edward and Peggy Morris joined us by baptism. They are a great couple. They are both already working in the Mission. I did not lead them to the Lord; someone else did. I Cor. 3:6 says, "I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase." I believe that God might have a good plan there, don't you? I think I might just stick with it and continue to plant and water. We just might end up with a better church if God does the increasing. God must give the increase or it won't work right.
I shared with you in my last report about the Hispanic group that I had met while door knocking. They are now sharing our building. We are having Sunday School while they are having Worship Service and then we have Worship Service while they have Sunday School. We just started it this past Sunday and it worked great. These are some wonderful people! Their doctrine is exactly like ours. I am praying that they will become an ABA Mission. They do not have any ties to anyone right now. Please keep this in your prayers. This could be a blessing to the furtherance of the Gospel among the Hispanic people in Denton. It is greatly needed.
The water line has been passed by the City. Now we must get written permission to come across three property owners. I have one of those permissions. I still lack two. It is closer than it was. Praise the Lord.
Bro. Jerry Davis from Davis Excavating in Sheridan, AR has been here to look at what we have and he is going to try to bring a man or two and help me get the dirt work done. We don't know that dates yet. I will let you know when. Praise the Lord for Bro. Jerry.
Thanks once again for all that you do. We had several new churches come on board this month. Please continue to pray for this work. That is more important than anything else. Thanks again and may the Lord bless you.
MARVIN GARDNER
TYLER
Souls Saved 0 Baptisms 0 Letter 1 Statement 0
Sunday School 30 Morning Worship 43 Evening Worship 33
Total Church Offering $7,382.48 Gave To Missions $887.70 Paid On Property $3,333.00
The Lord continues to bless our church with visitors. We had one addition by letter. Our averages were down in March because of Spring Break. We have several families with school age children and they enjoyed some time off causing our attendance to be lower.
Bro. Charles Williams accepted the Pastorate at Alto MBC. We didn't like losing them as members but we are happy for their decision. We pray they will have a good ministry together.
Please continue to pray for the work in Tyler and look us up on the web at www.vbctyler.com.
RICKEY PAYNE
WILLS POINT
Souls Saved 2 Baptisms 1 Letter 0 Statement 0
Sunday School 52 Morning Worship 60 Evening Worship 35
Total Church Offering $2,400.00 Gave To Missions $200.00 Paid On Property $462.00
Greetings from Meadowbrook. We were blessed this month when we held our first Mission Revival. Bro. David Smith with Global Xtreme Ministries started it off. We had a solid seven days of awesome preaching! We had Bro. Bill Pinnell, Missionary to the Ukraine; Bro. David Helmick, Missionary to Kosovo and Bro. Jason Clark, Missionary to France. Our congregation has spent one week in March traveling the world without leaving Texas. We thank God for these fine men. Our members had an opportunity to hear how our Lord Jesus is moving in the hearts of people around the world. We were blessed by a young man in our church who has trusted Jesus as his Savior and was baptized. Praise God that His Word is still changing lives right here in Texas. We thank everyone for their prayers and support. God bless you!
CRAIG RODGERS
GRAPEVINE
Souls Saved 3 Baptisms 3 Letter 0 Statement 0
Sunday School 46 Morning Worship 46 Evening Worship n/a
Total Church Offering $5,399.00 Gave To Missions $1,000.00 Paid For Rent $550.00
The Lord continues to bless the work in Grapevine. We had the wonderful privilege of baptizing three in March. We have another baptism service scheduled in May with four expressing the desire to be baptized. The Lord is blessing!
We are excited about the month of April as we continue to develop our small groups. We currently have three small groups. Our small group director, Bryan Easterling, has many exciting plans as he prepares the vision for our efforts to transform lives for Christ.
We are making final plans for the messenger meeting in June. We look forward to seeing everyone at our booth. Please stop by and say hello.
At this time we are available to share the work with your church. Our biggest need is prayer as we seek a new meeting location and building funds. We are nearing capacity. By mid-summer we hope to be moving to a new rented location.
W. S. TAYLOR
FORT WORTH
Souls Saved 0 Baptisms 0 Letter 0 Statement 2
Sunday School 27 Morning Worship 38 Evening Worship 18
Total Church Offering $5,590.60 Gave To Missions $160.00 Paid For Rent $1,600.00
We are thankful for the Lord's blessings during the month of March. Benny and Beverly Townsend moved into one of the new homes in the addition. They came from Arlington. That now means the families who live in the nearest proximity to the church attend. A young man with a Missionary Baptist history is attending some with his wife and two sons. He has circumstances such that I know he would desire the prayers of many of our people.
I am grateful for the Lord's blessings on our finances - the Mission people averaged giving almost $1,400.00 weekly in March With about $600.00 more per month, the Lord would have us self-
supporting. Thank all of you for prayers and offerings. It is helping us to get there. In addition to salary help from the MBA and Central of Bedford, we received $1,059.00 from sister churches for the Mission.
Central BC of Bedford, our sponsoring church, has formally requested the 3rd quarter funds from Texas Mission Development to finish out a down payment for the work to start as soon as possible on the permanent building.
Some of you know that Bro. Larry Huffman is working with us. He and his wife, Becky, live in Alvarado, just south of Fort Worth. He teaches a class, leads music and gets to preach nearly every month. If someone would like for him to fill the pulpit for you, he would love to do it.
God bless you all. We could not do it without you. We are increasingly heartened that it is getting done. Please lift us up in prayer.