Upcoming

Events

February

13 — NBA Executive Board Supper

Meeting, 6:30 PM @ Snow Hill

FBC

15 — Newsletter Deadline

21 — Minister’s Lunch Mtg., 10AM @

LaPaz Goldsboro

27 — VBS Jumpstart Conference, 7PM @

RTC

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Website: www.nbachurches.com

Email: dom@nbachurches.com

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Phone: 252-566-9478

Facebook: Neuse Baptist Association

Clayton Sutton, Pinkney — 1 year

David Sawyer, Snow Hill FBC — 1 year

Brad Parker, New Hope — 2 years

Kang Kuk Lee, Goldsboro Korean — 2 years

Berk Tinsley, Annointed Vision — 16 years

February Ministry

Anniversaries

NEUSE NEWS February 2017

www.nbachurches.com Pastor Rick Rigney, Seven Springs — Feb 02

Pastor Jimmy Millard, Pikeville — Feb 28

Pastor Jon Campbell, Immanuel — Feb 10

Fundraiser for Kennedy Home

Seven Springs Baptist Church

invites you to come enjoy The Grand

New Opry on Saturday, March 4 at the

church. This is their third annual fund-

raiser for Kennedy Home. The doors

will open at 6PM for early seating and

refreshments. Tickets are $10 and can be

purchased at the door or from the church

by calling 252-569-6401.

LET ALL THAT YOU DO

Love. 1 CORINTHIANS 16:14 NKJV

BE DONE WITH

Neuse Notes from Jon

February is known as the month to accent LOVE, with Valentine’s Day being on the 14th. I love my job as your DOM and love each of our 45 churches and 100 ministries. In these last days of temporal life it is very important for us to do all that we can to pray for each other intelligently knowing the facts! This can be complicated at times as we each get absorbed in our own schedule. But we need to strive not to be single-value ori-ented but care for each other daily. Time restricts us from being at every Associa-tion-wide function, but prayer does not. Please do all that you can to lift up your brothers and sisters and their ministries.

This past year (2016), I am pleased to announce that for the past 18 years we have ended the fiscal year in the black. Making budget is not our most important goal but it is an asset and al-lows us to keep our credit reference strong in our community. We were able to do this despite five churches not donat-ing to their Association and six churches cutting back on their giving and no churches giving to the October Love Of-fering requested by our Association’s Constitution. Thankfully, not all of our line items were exhausted and many of you donated services “in kind” to us.

May our God continue to show His great love to you and your ministries as you serve Him in 2017.

Neuse Association Executive Board Supper

Meeting Monday, February 13

6:30PM Snow Hill First

(509 Kingold Blvd, Snow Hill 28580)

Dinner: $3/person

A word from our Moderator: Happy New Year! I have the privilege and

honor to serve as NBA Moderator, and like

my predecessors, I want to do the very best

that I can. With this in mind, if you would help

me by letting me know in advance that you

have something to share during our called

meetings I would appreciate it very much as I

would like to have an agenda for each meet-

ing. You can reach me via phone (252) 286-

9618 or e-mail, dave.fishman@att.net. Thank

you for helping me do a better job within

our Neuse Baptist Association. I hope to see

you at our meeting on February 13th at Snow

Hill First Baptist Church.

— Dave Fishman

Your mission: Host a successful VBS.

Here’s how.

Like a meteor on its way to earth,

we’re moving fast toward VBS 2017.

With only a few months until im-

pact, it’s time to tackle the task of

planning to help kids discover the

God of the universe and His desire

for a relationship with them.

Join us as we scope out the mate-rials available to help your church

have a stellar Vacation Bible School this year.

The Sky’s the Limit with VBS 2017!

PASTORS AND VBS DIRECTORS

Point your telescope toward our:

JUMPSTART PLANNING CONFERENCE

Resource/Training Center

February 27, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.

Interested in a Pinewood Derby?

If any of our churches are interested in

participating in an Association-wide

Pinewood Derby to be held by the end of

February, please contact Paul Bollin, RA

Director at Mount Nelson, at 919-922-0535.

Association Van Use Policy Change

Beginning January 1, 2017 please note that

drivers must not be younger than 25 years of

age in order to operate the NBA vehicles.

This change in policy comes upon the

recommendation of our insurance provider.

In light of this change in policy, we encourage

our churches to plan accordingly when

reserving and signing out vehicles from the

RTC, as no vehicle will be released to a driver

younger than age 25.

Ed Schwartz,

NBA Vehicle Committee Chair

Dec 16 2016

Neuse Baptist Association

ADAMSVILLE 3333.32 10833.30

BETHEL 1792.20 9345.02

CABIN 700.00 3123.00 CALVARY GOLDSBORO 0.00 825.00

CALVARY KINSTON 25.00 75.00

DAVIS GROVE 0.00 371.12 DEEP RUN FIRST 0.00 5647.00

EMMAUS 528.80 3143.42

FALLING CREEK 816.74 6660.48 FREMONT 0.00 500.00

GLEN RAVEN 0.00 0.00

GOLDSBORO FIRST 482.00 2147.35 GREATER VISION 250.00 1000.00

GRAINGER 0.00 2000.00

IMMANUEL 250.67 1640.97 JORDANS CHAPEL 0.00 1640.97

KINSTON FIRST 1477.43 5284.60

LA GRANGE FIRST 0.00 2323.00 LOVE MEMORIAL 749.94 4822.26

MADISON AVENUE 1333.34 8100.01

MOUNT NELSON 3888.69 20317.24 NEUSE 1156.00 9003.32 NEW HOPE 0.00 1000.00

NEW LIFE 582.00 3827.50 NORTHVIEW 400.00 800.00

PIKEVILLE FIRST 0.00 1142.56

PINEVIEW 159.12 976.56 PINKNEY 146.18 840.80

RIVERMONT 630.81 4207.49

ROSEWOOD FIRST 506.67 2755.45 SANDY BOTTOM 541.67 3458.37

SEVEN SPRINGS 0.00 3000.00

SNOW HILL FIRST 741.95 7874.71 SPILMAN MEMORIAL 166.66 999.96

TRINITY 0.00 4425.17

UNION 400.00 1600.00 1st HISPANIC/KINSTON 0.00 0.00

KOREAN, GOLDSBORO 0.00 0.00 HOREB INTERNATIONAL 0.00 0.00

FIRST HISPANIC/LA GR. 147.50 2291.29

COMMUNITY/SAULST. 327.30 1910.72 NEW BEGINNING/GRIFT. 0.00 0.00

ANOINTED VIS./GOLDS. 0.00 400.00 Total CHURCHES 21533.99 139472.67

Guest Speakers Include:

John Ortberg, Senior Pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church; author of The Life You’ve Always Wanted.

Anne Graham Lotz, Award-winning author of Just Give Me Jesus. Presi-dent of AnGeL Ministries.

Gary Chapman, Author of The Five Love Languages. Director of Marriage & Family Life Consultants, Inc.

Jennifer Rothschild, Bestselling author of Lessons I Learned in the Dark.

Music & Worship will be led by spe-cial guests, Annie Moses Band.

2017 Missions Conference, Sponsored by NC Baptist Men

March 17-18, 2017 at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC

Conference includes worship, general sessions, breakout sessions, missions fair exhibits, missions testimonies, volun-teer supper and more! Registration Deadline: March 3

$20 per person - Registration (Includes program fee, materials, all general sessions, breakout sessions and your Saturday lunch)

$8 per person - Friday Night Supper

NBA Church News

News As Reported By Our Churches

Adamsville (Dave Karn) Dixie Melody Boys concert was January 20. Kyle Bel-lamy led the service and accompanied with guitar at the January Brookdale ser-vice. Trent Miller presented program in-cluding pictures on Spain, where his fam-ily is preparing to serve as career mission-aries.

Deep Run (Dave Fishman) Youth and friends enjoyed a ski retreat to Winter-place, WV Jan 26-29. On Nov 3, Senior Members Iris Aldridge and Leah Harper received special recognition for their ser-vice and faithful giving from the Wounded Warriors Project at Camp Lejeune. Church will be ministering there again Feb 9. Church was blessed to help with Angel Tree as well as al ocal family during the Christmas season. 5th Sunday Night Sings started Jan 29 and will continue each quarter. Wednesday evening Bible Studies have resumed with a verse-by-verse look into Paul’s letter to the Romans.

Falling Creek (Kenneth Benton) Soup & sandwich night was held Dec 11, with a time to honor the Birthday of pastor’s wife Betty. A total of $3,200.00 was col-lected for LMCO.

LaGrange First (John Wiggins) Men’s Fellowship hosted the annual Ladies’ Christmas Dinner on Dec 13, with enter-tainment provided by The Casey Family. Members of the church enjoyed Christmas caroling at the Veteran’s Home in Kinston on Dec 21, followed by soup and sand-wiches at the church. Pastor Appreciation Day with luncheon was held Jan 15; the pastor was also honored for his Birthday on January 5. Church started GriefShare on January 10; meetings are open to the public and will be held through April 4th from 6:30-8:30pm at the church.

Love Memorial (Richard Toler) Several from the Young Adults group attended PASSION 2017 in Atlanta, GA Jan 2-4. The Children’s Department is collecting boxes of candy for Kennedy Home kids and will include “LOVE” notes when they deliver these items to Kennedy Home. Transformed Student Ministries (TSM) attended Winter Jam in Raleigh on Jan 22. LMBC Ladies will begin the study, “Breathe” by Priscilla Shirer on Feb 7. TSM will have a Pancake Breakfast on Feb 25th at Hwy 55 Restaurant in Mar-Mac to raise money for this year’s mission trip.

Madison Avenue (Bob Fulkerson) An “ICU” training session was held Jan 10 at the church. This was a discipleship train-ing seminar focused upon improving skills as believers in helping people through cri-sis situations. Sessions included minister-ing at a time of death; ministering to mili-tary families; ministering to those in Hos-pice; ministering to those incarcerated; and ministering to the Hospitalized.

Northview (Ronnie Weaver) A Chr ist-mas luncheon with special guest, Santa Claus, was held Dec 11 after the morning worship service.

Pineview (Mike Willard) Church will host Second Edition Quartet on Feb 12 at 6pm; a love offering will be taken, all are invited to attend. Pineview had their first NAMB Awaken Renewal Weekend on Jan 19-22. The 3-D teen and college ministry attended Big God Conference in Myrtle Beach over New Year’s weekend. While there, one from Pineview renewed their life with Christ and over 250 other students were saved during the event. Church is still hosting the Weaverland Disaster Service, a service of the Weaverland Conference Mennonite Churches, who are serving local area homeowners who were affected by Hurricane Matthew.

Rivermont (Luis Miranda) Youth Sun-day was observed Jan 29th with the Youth leading the morning worship. Church ex-ceeded their goal of $2,000 for the LMCO. Church will enjoy the movie, “Risen” on Jan 29th during the evening service.

Rosewood First (Mike Collier ) The Youth will enjoy a Ski Trip Feb 17-20. A Valentine Celebration at the House of Ford-ham is planned for Feb 12. The Youth & WMU are holding a Valentine Balloon and Candy Fundraiser, with delivery in the Goldsboro and Rosewood area included. Orders will be collected through February 9. A group from the church attended Win-ter Jam on Jan 22.

Snow Hill (David Sawyer) Church will host the NBA Executive Board Meeting on Monday, Feb 13 at 6:30PM.

NBA Calendars Available!

We have a generous quantity of 2017 NBA calendars left over from the Annual Meeting in October. Feel free to stop by the RTC and pick up one (or ten!) Thank you!

Please note, the WMU/Women’s Min-istry Spring Meeting will be held at Trinity Baptist Church in Goldsboro on Monday, April 17 at 6:30PM. The loca-tion for this event was not confirmed at the time our 2017 calendars were print-ed.

Grenada Mission Trip Opportunity

A group from Rivermont, under the di-

rection of Pastor Luis Miranda, will be

going On Mission to Grenada June 24-

July 1, 2017. An information meeting

will be held February 1st at the church.

Individuals interested in this trip are en-

couraged to contact Pastor Luis for

more information, at 919-223-2172.