TIDINGS

Boones Creek Baptist Association Serving, Encouraging and Supporting Christs Churches

Bro. John Ryder-Director of Missions Angel Kane, Secretary Floyd & Gale Holbrook-Camp Manager Office (859) 744-0037 Fax (859) 744-1069 E-mail: boonescreekbapti@bellsouth.net Web-Site-www.boonescreekbaptistassoc.com Printed Aug, 2011, Volume 44, issue 8 Deadline for next Issue: Sept. 15, 2011

A Note to you, -We have moved the association office upstairs at the mission house. Thanks to the executive board for the approval to move upstairs. -Thanks to the following folks who helped us move: Floyd Holbrook, David Shepherd, Ed Shepherd, Dennis Whitaker, Cecil Sheffield, Adam Sea, Earnest Christopher, and Gary Willoughby. -Welcome to new pastors: Bro. Jeff Ryder at Williams Memorial and Bro. Bill Meese at Providence E.C. and Interim Pastor: Bro. Tim Christopher at Heritage Baptist. -Remember in prayer our association churches that are without pastors: Central, Heritage, Jeffersonville, Reid Village, and Spears Mill. - The fall semi-annual associational meeting will be October 10 at Irvine First Baptist Church in Irvine. The date was moved from September to give the association churches more time on the annual church profiles. -Plan on attending Super Saturday September 10 at Porter Memorial Baptist Church in Lexington. Registration begins at 8:00 A.M and the sessions will be complete at 3:30 P.M. Cost is $25 per person if registration is completed by Tuesday September 6. Cost is $35 at the door. -The next executive board meeting for the association is September 12 at Howards Mill Baptist Church in Mt. Sterling. Food For Thought: Rev. R. G. Lee, former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church of Memphis, Tennessee, said, So long as Southern Baptists have a passion for the salvation of sinners everywhere, there is little danger of our drifting into materialism ... But if we give up our position as an evangelistic storm center and court riches and court fashion and court friendships of self-elected scholars with bloodless gospels. We shall not be found following in Christ's train. In these days of molluscous liberalism, of self-satisfied complacency, if we emphasize little the old familiar notes of Calvary, of hell, of sin, and take up the merely tender note of humanitarian philosophy, we sound our death knell, dig our grave, write our epitaph. And he said, You can count on me until my tongue is silent in the grave and until my hand can no longer weld a pen to keep my unalterable stand for the Bible as the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God giving rebuke to and standing in opposition to all enemies of the Bible, even as I have done for 50 years. May more of us be willing to take the same stand. Yours in Christ,

Bro. John Ryder

NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS from the Association and our CHURCHES CAMP REPORT-One retreat in Aug. and 2 swimming parties. Planning on closing down the pool Sept. 1st. Projects still need to be done. EX. BOARD REPORTBill Barker, Appalachian Regional Ministries spoke. Business: Facilities Committee proposed moving the association office upstairs in the mission house, It was approved. Revised Financial policy and procedures given to the executive board for study, will be voted on at September Executive board meeting, ALLANSVILLEWe are collecting items for Christmas in Aug. to send
to a North American Missionary here in KY. BEECH GROVE Old Fashion Day- 8-28-11 BOONES CREEK-All ladies are invited to our Womens Retreat Sat. Oct. 1, 2011 from 8:30am to 3:30pm. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. CALVARY-We are a prayer partner church to Emily McGuire, who will be going to Kenya as an IMB Journeyman Missionary: Kristen Brinegar Blankenbecler did a presentation of her medical mission trip to Cambodia. Our youth took their trip Gatlinburg Tenn. A longtime members Edra Eckler and Ballard Miller went to be with our Lord and Savior. Our 90th Anniversary Homecoming will be Aug. 21, 10:30 am speakers will be Bro. Ray Wilson, Bro. Ron Doss, Bro. Max Hester and Bro. Keith Sands.

CENTRAL-A team from Central went on a mission trip to Ecuador in July. On Fri. July 29 we had a Sunday School Appreciation Cookout at the Fish and Game Club. Appalachian Dawn, a movie of Clay Countys effort to rid their county of drugs, will be shown at Central on Sunday evening, Aug. 28 at 5:00 p.m. Also, there will be a special service at Central on Sun. Sept. 11 at 3:00 p.m. to emphasize drug problems in Clark County. Featured speakers include Mayor Ed Burtner, Coroner Robert Gayheart, and Steve Humble of the Drug Coalition. Our church will have Church Under the Bridge in Lexington on Sun. Sept. 4 at 2:00 p.m. We will have our Annual Labor Day Picnic on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 4 at East Kentucky Power. CLAY CITYBro. Scott Rogers, (Pastor of Friendship) will be conducting the Revival Sept. 18th thru the 21st. The Sunday Service will be at 11 am the Evening Service will be at 6 pm all other service will start at 7 pm. CORINTH-Sun. Aug. 28th, Youth-Led Service at 6:30pm. Aug 29th-31st Community Dinners, 5:30pm 7 pm. Aug. 17th Work Day at the Church 10am2pm. Sept. 9th- Hot Dog Roast at Robert and Lena Durbins. Sept.11th -Pack-a-Pew Sunday. COW CREEK-VBS average attendance was 84 Our Homecoming is Aug. 28th, 2011. EMMANUEL-NO REPORT EPHESUS-Completed VBS with 2 professions of faith!. Collecting items for our Mission of the Month in Aug., Pilot View Elementary School. Began the More for Christ emphasis with a 4-part sermon series dealing with attendance, giving, serving, and witnessing. Studying Core Convictions: Foundation of Faith on Sunday evenings based upon the book by Ken Hemphill. Church-wide trip to Creation Museum planned Aug. 27. TNT (Tuesday Night in Town) Aug. 30, 6:30pm at Fazolis. New Sunday School year begins Sept. 4 with membership class EBC 101 taught by Bro. Todd. 3 members participating in MissionFest Sept. 10-17 in Bell County. FAITH-Had Bro. Todd Blevins appreciation for Pastor, church gave him a memory quilt. Revival begins Aug. 24-27, Bro Todd Blevins evangelist. Special singing each night, Homecoming Sept. 18, 2011 FRIENDSHIPHad VBS and cook-out. Ice Cream Social on Aug. 27. Finishing several work projects. GREENBRIARPastor Harry Revel visited and preached on 7-17-2011. VBS July-20-21-22. We had our first VBS in quite awhile. It was a huge success. We avg. 18 kids every night, 9 helpers, 7 adults from church every night (very rewarding!!!)

Sept. Birthdays: Frankie Muncy 9-27, Aaron Wilson 9-10 Isabelle Short 9-16, Anniversary: Cheryl Stepp 9-21, James & Pauline Bingham 9-24, Daltin Smith 9-26. HEIDELBERGWe are having our Homecoming Sept. 4th, 2011 with our guest Preacher Bro. Harold Hayes. Bro. Doug Canter has invited everyone to come and fellowship with us. Plans are in the making for our revival. HERITAGE-Carpenters for Christ will be in Winchester Sept. 27 to put the Heritage Baptist Church building under roof. HOWARDS MILL-Members purchased school supplies, hygiene products, clothing and many other items for Appalachia Our Reach (Inez). This will be delivered before school starts. Two cooling and heating units were stolen and a third damaged. The replacement cost of these was estimated at $10.000. IRVINE FIRST-VBS was held July 24th-27th-had a great turnout. On the last day was enjoyed by all with the Waterslide and Dunking Booth (Pastor Chris Winkle got dunked by the boys). We also had a slush machine and popcorn. The teachers worked hard to teach about the heros of the Bible. The women really served good food every night. Jeremie Michael was our director, he had every thing organized and the music for the children couldnt be topped. He agreed to do it next yr. because he enjoyed it so much this year. Elizabeth Pigman was a big help in working out the programs and deserved a big thanks too. Every Wed. night is Pray meeting. Aug. 17th Sunshine Ladies Mtg. at 5:30 pm-come and have a great time. Then Prayer Mtg. at 7 pm. 26th-5th quarter-after the Football game for all high school. Big thing are being planned for this first 5th quarter. Sept. 2ndsecond. 5th Quarter with more details coming soon. Please come to the first and find out about this one. IVORY HILL-We passed Approx. 40 bags filled with school supplies at our church and in our community. Our Revival starts Sun. Sept. 25th and ends on Thurs, Sept 29th. Our annual Homecoming will be on Sunday Oct. 2nd. JEFFERSONVILLE-July has been a very active month. The July 4th celebration was wonderful. We all enjoyed the fireworks and cookout. Thanks to Jason & Kim Lee and all who helped. VBS was a great success this year! We had 176 in attendance for commencement and we averaged 125 nightly. Great job to VBS Director Randy and Heather Taylor and all our teachers. God is calling Bro. JT and Sue Rafferty in a new and exciting direction. We love them and will miss them. We pray God blesses all they do. Aug. 14 we had a dinner in honor of JT and Sue after the PM service. Homecoming will be Sept. 11. Rev. Greg Waltermire will be our guest speaker. The Mountain Top Singers will be there also. Morning service are to be followed by dinner. Everyone Welcome! Sept 18 New Jerusalem Singers will be performing during Sunday night service. KIDDVILLE-Homecoming set for Sept. 25th. MACEDONIA-Youth hosted a cook-out and fireworks show at our grounds on July 3rd. We sponsored 17 kids to attend Boones Creek Baptist Camp. The Signs of Faith performed at the Harrison Co. Fair on July 10th. The staff at Boones Creek Baptist Camp presented a program on July 24th. Our men attended the Promise Keepers Mtg.. in Ohio Aug. 19-20. Bro. Kevin resuming the New Testament Bible Study in Sept. MEANS-Making plans for homecoming Sept. 18th with former Pastor Bro. John Ryder preaching. MT. OLIVE-NO REPORT NEW COVENANT REFORMED-NO REPORT NEW HOPE VBS combined with Grace Baptist all total there were 300 children attended. Improvement by adding pre-school and kindergarten to the Loving Touch Day Care.

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Building Fund For The Camp You can donate to the Boones Creek Baptist Association in MEMORY or in HONOR of a Love One. Please write on your check memo: Building Fund.

Best Wishes to Sept. Birthdays: 1-Ron Montgomery-Pastor-Emmanuel 13-Nancy Rader-Pastors Wife-Ephesus 13-Nora Lee Hockensmith-Retired Pastors Wife 24-Shirlene Ronk-Pastors Wife-Panola 25-Andrea Coates-Pastors Wife-Allansville Best Wishes Sept. Anniversary: 4-Bill & Shelia Meese-Providence E. C. 17-John & Phyllis Runyon-Spring Street

MISSION OPPORTUNITIES 1. Disaster Emergency Relief Volunteers Needed 2. Go Metro USA and Find It Here 2012. Contact the association office for more information

CHURCH BUILDING RAISING Heritage Baptist Church is starting on their church building structure Sept. 2-7. It is located at 4369 Lexington Road, Winchester. If anyone can help, please call Bro. Frank Johnson at 859-771-2108. PARSONAGE ADDITION EPHESUS Ephesus Baptist Church is starting on their parsonage building addition. If anyone can help, please call Bro. Floyd Holbrook at 859-771-0067, Bro. Steve Billings at 859-842-3781 or Bro Todd Rader at 859-595-9949

3. Kentucky Missionsfest-Sept. 10-17 2011. Pikeville/Middlesboro area. Registration packets are available at wmu.com/trips or by calling 205/991-4097.

University of the Cumberlands Offers Courses for Credit or Audit through Winchester Extension Center Fall Schedule Tuesdays, Sept. 6-Dec 13, 2011 Elementary Greek (3 sem.hrs.) 6:00-8:45 pm Thursdays, Sept. 1 Dec. 15, 2011 Life and Letters of Paul (3 Sem. Hrs.) 6:00-8:45 pm Costs:$125.00 per course, plus books Register now by calling 859/749-5327 or 606/663-7870 Need a minimum of 10 students

New Beginnings Pregnancy Center in Winchester has an ongoing need for baby wipes, diapers (sizes 4, 5, 6) and formula (Good Start in green and orange cans), as well as continued financial support. Churches are encouraged to support local Pregnancy Centers in honor of Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, Jan. 16, as well as throughout the year. Please call 859-7445988 with any questions or to arrange drop-offs.

September Calendar
4-Single Adult Sunday 5-Labor Day-Office closed 8-Camp Meeting 7pm (at the camp) 10-Super Saturday-Porter Memorial Baptist, Lexington 11th-18th-Season of Prayer for State Missions & Eliza Broadus Offering 11th-17th-Church Music Emphasis Worship Music Week 12-Ex, Board Mtg. Howards Mill BC-7pm 15-Pastors Prayer Fellowship-11:30am Golden CorralWinchester 17-Workday at camp 9am till ??? 17-Super Saturday-Owensboro & Somerset 18-Anti-Gambling Sunday 19-Discipleship Rally 28 thru Nov. 2nd-Adult KY Changers East-Louisville, KY

OCTOBERFEST Sept. 30th thru Oct. 2, 2011 Providence Baptist Church in Winchester, KY is having an Octoberfest. We are getting quotes for some inflatable games like bouncers, slides, etc. They are asking if there are any of the churches in our association that have such items and are willing for Providence to borrow or rent. Please contact Gail Varner859-745-9675 or fax 859-737-6047

TO THE CHURCH DIRECTORS OF VBS.

Please send in your VBS report in to the Association Office as soon as you can. Thank you.

In This Issue look for:

1Sept. Birthdays and Anniversaries
2-Building Fund 3-CALENDAR 4-Disaster/ Emergency Relief 5-To all Churches in the Association 6-New Beginning Pregnancy Center 7-Missions Opportunities 8 DOM (A note to you) 9-Universary of the Cumberlands 10-Church Building Rising

Disaster Emergency Relief Volunteers Needed

The disaster emergency relief committee needs volunteers. The vision for the committee is: An Association church has a problem that it needs help with, i.e. electrical, plumbing, etc. It needs help because it doesnt have funds or manpower to deal with the problem. This committee will utilize available resources (manpower) to correct the problem. If you would like to volunteer to help out, please contact your pastor or the association office for a volunteer sign up form.

11-Octoberfest

TO ALL CHURCHES IN THE ASSOCIATION: The Disaster Emergency Relief Committee is available to the churches for projects that require manpower. Call the Association Office 859/744-0037 if you need help.

II Corinthians 8:20-21
20-Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: 21-Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS from the Association and our CHURCHES (Continued)

NORTHSIDE-We sponsored and supported 7 youth to attend camp. Our New Beginnings Baby Bottle Ministry ended with $646.00. Some or our youth wanted to help their friends family during a difficult time. A love offering of $627.00 was taken up. They received a blessing by sharing their faith when they took the money to the family. The Wed. night youth and children classes attendance has been down due to the vacations but we are still average25-30. God is good. PANOLA-Discussing building a picnic shelter for our church. Gods blessing on one new member, Keith Romans. Homecoming-Sept. 25, 2011, special music & guest speaker. POWELLS VALLEY-We had a carnival on the 9th with 125 kids in attendance. Our Food Ministry prepared and delivered 200 meals on the 30th. The 5th Sunday Hymn Sing was great! We plan on starting RAS, GAS and Acteens on Wed. night beginning in Sept. PROVIDENCE, C.C.Conducted VBS week of Jul. 25-29.Conculed with program by children and hot dogs and ice cream sundaes. Sep. 30, 7:00 pm, the Tribute Quartet will be at the church. Oct. 1-planning a community activity for families on that day. PROVIDENCE, E.C. We had a back to school event where approx. 60 children were given school supplies, we had a church wide breakfast the men did the cooking and cleaning up. Everything was very good, we hope to do this again soon, We will be having homecoming the 4th of Sept. at 11 am. That will also be the first Sunday our new Pastor Bro. Bill Meece from Somerset. We are excited about what the Lord has planned for Providence. Please continue to remember us in prayer and all the other churchs without Pastors. We would like to thank all the men that has filled our pulpit for the past few months while we have been searching for the man of God to become our new pastor. REID VILLAGE-Our 5th Sunday Hymn sing was a great night of praise and worship. We delivered supplies to the New Beginnings Pregnancy Center.

We had a cookout and enjoyed good food and fellowship. We are having Christmas in Aug. for the Dessie Scott Childrens Home by collecting school supplies and personal items to be delivered the first of Sept. Our church had used Sunday School material that we will donate to any church with a need. SALEM-34 bags of school supplies, provided by the women of the church, were given to the students (K-12) at Salem during a Back-to-School-Party. Planning our annual Give-a-Way Mon. Sept. 5 (Labor Day) Everything is free. SPEARS MILL-VBS was a great success with 105 enrolled & 78 average each night ending with family night the last night. Had 1 Baptist in July. What a blessing. In Aug. WMU is sponsoring a booth at Family Fun Day at North Middletown Community Park and the Choir will be singing also. This is a community by all the churches in the community. Come join the fun! A couple in our church was surprised with a surprise Sunshine Basket from the whole church. Again this year we are working toward Samaritans Purse Christmas Child Shoe Box. Plans in the making for our 100 yr. celebration Sept. 18th. Love to have you come join us in celebration of history, food, sing and fellowship. Please continue to pray for Spears Mill and the pulpit committee as they continue searching for the man God has chosen to serve our church. SPRING STREET-NO REPORT THOMAS-VBS was a success w/35 students participating & 18 adults. Homecoming Services planned for Sept. We have had 4 weddings in our congregation this yr. 1 in Feb., 1 in June and 2 in July. Our Youth Group enjoyed a trip to Natural Bridge on Sat. 13th. Our Homecoming has been rescheduled to Sun. Sept 18th. VALLEY VIEW-NO REPORT WM. MEMORIAL-We were blessed as Bro. Jeff Ryder began serving as our Pastor. We had a short VBS during the month and baptized 1 young lady. We celebrated the end of the month with a salad supper. We had a very good month.