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Churches in Christian, Stone and Taney Counties working together to extend the Kingdom of God February 2017
During the last week of January, a team from Tri County churches traveled to Woodward, Oklahoma and endured near-zero wind chill temperatures to share Christ’s love by assisting homeowners recover from the recent ice storm. Tom and Peggy Anderson, TCBA Disaster Relief directors and members of Union Ridge Baptist Church in Stone County, report: “Once again, we were blessed with a great, hardworking team! Several members on our team had not been on a call out at all, and others had not been on a chainsaw call out. Thank you to those who gave up their week to spend time working hard in the cold wind. We hope we were able to be as much a blessing to the homeowners as they were to the team! There are so many ways to serve our Lord and this is one of them!” Although the work is done entirely by volunteers, your gifts to TCBA provided equipment and help with the team’s expenses while on call-out. To learn more about how you can be a part of this ministry either by giving or going, contact us at TCBA (417) 725-8825.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Teams pray with homeowners before leaving a clean-up project... a thank-you note from “Shirley and Barney”... dressed in the familiar “Disaster Relief yellow,” Tri County volunteers always work in pairs to help avoid on the job injuries.
VBS Preview for pastors and directors
TCBA is your source for information about
TCBA is partnering with First Baptist Church of Kimberling City to invite you to
Monday, February 20 6:30 pm at TCBA office
VBS Clinic for all VBS workers
Monday, April 24 6 pm at FBC Nixa
ORDER EARLY through Tri County and Lifeway will send TCBA funds that we use to assist churches do VBS.
Concert is free. INFO: (417) 739-4736 2 Lakeshore Drive, Kimberling City
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION Permit #33 Nixa, MO 65714
TRI COUNTY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION PO Box 370 239 E Downing Street Nixa, MO 65714 Phone:417-725-8825 Fax: 417-725-8835
Return Service Requested
STAFF: REV. PHILLIP SHUFORD, Director of Missions [email protected] 417-597-0084 REV. BOB LONG, Associate Director of Missions [email protected] 417-463-6547 MELETA GETMAN, Financial Secretary/ Ministry Assistant [email protected] 417-827-2558 DR. KYLE RAPINCHUK, Campus Missionary College of the Ozarks [email protected] 417-598-0823
connect with Tri County Phone: 417-725-8825 Fax: 417-725-8835 www.tcsba.com
OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Friday: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tri County Southern Baptist Association
PARATROOPER, POLICEMAN, PASTOR One of the joys of my ministry is spending time with the dedicated men that pastor the churches in our Tri County region. I love to hear their stories, especially how God called them to ministry and what He’s doing in their lives. Dave Bowden, pictured above, tells some fascinating stories...which is to be expected, I suppose, from a guy who once worked as a Special Forces paratrooper (“jumping out of perfectly good airplanes!”) and as a beat cop in St. Louis and Springfield. As you talk to him, though, you get the sense that Dave’s greatest adventure—and greatest honor—is to serve as bi-vocational pastor of Pleasant View Baptist Church (located in northern Stone County.) Dave started preaching there a couple of years ago as a supply preacher...to 7 faithful people. God has used Dave’s humble, loving heart and now the church has more than tripled in size. Dave is quick to give God the credit (where it belongs), but I suspect that in Dave Bowden, God found a “man after His own heart”—who with no pretensions of greatness just loves his flock and feeds them the true spiritual milk of the word of God. I’m thankful that through TCBA, your church is part of providing leader training and resources to Pleasant View as God is doing “a new thing” there. It’s the “power of together”—working and witnessing until Jesus comes!
UPCOMING EVENTS Kathy Troccoli Concert:
Feb. 14, FBC Kimberling City VBS Preview: Feb. 20, TCBA office TCBA Evangelism Conference: March 11-14, Hopedale Baptist Church VBS Clinic: April 24, FBC Nixa RENOVATE Missouri—Church Revitalization Conference: May 6, FBC Branson TCBA Secretaries and Administrators Lunch: May 17, TCBA office
PRAY FOR OUR CHURCHES BETWEEN PASTORS
Chadwick FBC, Chestnutridge, Ozark Mountain Community, North Nixa (transitional pastor), Crane FBC (interim pastor), Morning Star (interim pastor), Shady Grove (interim pastor), Rocky Ledge
PASTORS AND CHURCH STAFF BREAKFAST & PRAYER FELLOWSHIPS rd
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3 and 4 Thursdays and the 3rd Saturday at 8 a.m.
Phillip Shuford Director of Missions
3rd Thursday in Ozark: Village Inn 4th Thursday in Branson: Golden Corral, (motor coach entrance) 3nd Saturday in Spokane at Gateway Cafe
STAFF CHANGES Rev. Bob Long to Billings FBC as pastor. Rev. Larry Kackley retired from Rocky Ledge Baptist Church.
PASTOR SEARCH Tri County assists pastorless churches discover the man God has chosen to lead them. To learn more and for resources: www.tcsba.com/#/kingdom-leaders/ pastor-search
DID YOU KNOW? Through gifts from TCBA churches to the Missouri Missions Offering last year, Tri County recently received almost $2,000 to do ministry in Christian, Stone and Taney Counties. Thank you for giving to MMO!
Thank you for giving to local missions through TCBA! Monthly budget requirement: $21,000.00 Received this month: $24,930.74 “They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.” Philippians 4:18
During the last week of January, a team from Tri County churches traveled to Woodward, Oklahoma and endured near-zero wind chill temperatures to share Christ’s love by assisting homeowners recover from the recent ice storm. Tom and Peggy Anderson, TCBA Disaster Relief directors and members of Union Ridge Baptist Church in Stone County, report: “Once again, we were blessed with a great, hardworking team! Several members on our team had not been on a call out at all, and others had not been on a chainsaw call out. Thank you to those who gave up their week to spend time working hard in the cold wind. We hope we were able to be as much a blessing to the homeowners as they were to the team! There are so many ways to serve our Lord and this is one of them!” Although the work is done entirely by volunteers, your gifts to TCBA provided equipment and help with the team’s expenses while on call-out. To learn more about how you can be a part of this ministry either by giving or going, contact us at TCBA (417) 725-8825.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Teams pray with homeowners before leaving a clean-up project... a thank-you note from “Shirley and Barney”... dressed in the familiar “Disaster Relief yellow,” Tri County volunteers always work in pairs to help avoid on the job injuries.
VBS Preview for pastors and directors
TCBA is your source for information about
TCBA is partnering with First Baptist Church of Kimberling City to invite you to
Monday, February 20 6:30 pm at TCBA office
VBS Clinic for all VBS workers
Monday, April 24 6 pm at FBC Nixa
ORDER EARLY through Tri County and Lifeway will send TCBA funds that we use to assist churches do VBS.
Concert is free. INFO: (417) 739-4736 2 Lakeshore Drive, Kimberling City
NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION Permit #33 Nixa, MO 65714
TRI COUNTY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION PO Box 370 239 E Downing Street Nixa, MO 65714 Phone:417-725-8825 Fax: 417-725-8835
Return Service Requested
STAFF: REV. PHILLIP SHUFORD, Director of Missions [email protected] 417-597-0084 REV. BOB LONG, Associate Director of Missions [email protected] 417-463-6547 MELETA GETMAN, Financial Secretary/ Ministry Assistant [email protected] 417-827-2558 DR. KYLE RAPINCHUK, Campus Missionary College of the Ozarks [email protected] 417-598-0823
connect with Tri County Phone: 417-725-8825 Fax: 417-725-8835 www.tcsba.com
OFFICE HOURS: Monday - Thursday: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Friday: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tri County Southern Baptist Association
PARATROOPER, POLICEMAN, PASTOR One of the joys of my ministry is spending time with the dedicated men that pastor the churches in our Tri County region. I love to hear their stories, especially how God called them to ministry and what He’s doing in their lives. Dave Bowden, pictured above, tells some fascinating stories...which is to be expected, I suppose, from a guy who once worked as a Special Forces paratrooper (“jumping out of perfectly good airplanes!”) and as a beat cop in St. Louis and Springfield. As you talk to him, though, you get the sense that Dave’s greatest adventure—and greatest honor—is to serve as bi-vocational pastor of Pleasant View Baptist Church (located in northern Stone County.) Dave started preaching there a couple of years ago as a supply preacher...to 7 faithful people. God has used Dave’s humble, loving heart and now the church has more than tripled in size. Dave is quick to give God the credit (where it belongs), but I suspect that in Dave Bowden, God found a “man after His own heart”—who with no pretensions of greatness just loves his flock and feeds them the true spiritual milk of the word of God. I’m thankful that through TCBA, your church is part of providing leader training and resources to Pleasant View as God is doing “a new thing” there. It’s the “power of together”—working and witnessing until Jesus comes!
UPCOMING EVENTS Kathy Troccoli Concert:
Feb. 14, FBC Kimberling City VBS Preview: Feb. 20, TCBA office TCBA Evangelism Conference: March 11-14, Hopedale Baptist Church VBS Clinic: April 24, FBC Nixa RENOVATE Missouri—Church Revitalization Conference: May 6, FBC Branson TCBA Secretaries and Administrators Lunch: May 17, TCBA office
PRAY FOR OUR CHURCHES BETWEEN PASTORS
Chadwick FBC, Chestnutridge, Ozark Mountain Community, North Nixa (transitional pastor), Crane FBC (interim pastor), Morning Star (interim pastor), Shady Grove (interim pastor), Rocky Ledge
PASTORS AND CHURCH STAFF BREAKFAST & PRAYER FELLOWSHIPS rd
th
3 and 4 Thursdays and the 3rd Saturday at 8 a.m.
Phillip Shuford Director of Missions
3rd Thursday in Ozark: Village Inn 4th Thursday in Branson: Golden Corral, (motor coach entrance) 3nd Saturday in Spokane at Gateway Cafe
STAFF CHANGES Rev. Bob Long to Billings FBC as pastor. Rev. Larry Kackley retired from Rocky Ledge Baptist Church.
PASTOR SEARCH Tri County assists pastorless churches discover the man God has chosen to lead them. To learn more and for resources: www.tcsba.com/#/kingdom-leaders/ pastor-search
DID YOU KNOW? Through gifts from TCBA churches to the Missouri Missions Offering last year, Tri County recently received almost $2,000 to do ministry in Christian, Stone and Taney Counties. Thank you for giving to MMO!
Thank you for giving to local missions through TCBA! Monthly budget requirement: $21,000.00 Received this month: $24,930.74 “They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.” Philippians 4:18
