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The Messenger December 2019 Cumberland Plateau Baptist Association “The Cumberland Plateau Baptist Association is a network of Churches committed to evangelizing, teaching and ministering to our World.” "Serve the Lord with gladness. . ." Psalm 100:2 "For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves." Luke 22:27 "Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve. . ." Matthew 20:28 "For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another." Galatians 5:13 Have you ever watched someone serve in the game of tennis? The server tosses a ball up into the air and then hits it into his opponent's court. Sometimes the server will toss the ball too high and as he swings he com- pletely misses the ball. Swoosh! Other times the server will hit a perfect serve to his opponent and the ball lands in the court before he can return it. Ace! Many times we are like the tennis player when it comes to serving God and others. There are always opportu- nities to serve tossed our way. How will we respond to them? Will we continually just sit at the table or will we get up and serve? I love serving and helping others to serve. Recently, our association had the opportunity to serve others. As you'll see in the pictures that follow this article, we worked on several roofs and did some rebuild in North Carolina. The roof jobs were both at S2L, Spring To Life Recovery. We helped those who serve young men in recovery from drugs and alcohol. Then, several from our association returned to the area devastated by Hurri- cane Florence over a year ago. On this particular trip, we served the Jones family by finishing several jobs at their home. When we left, they were ready to move back into their home after waiting over 14 months for their home to be repaired. These are just a few of the opportunities that our association has offered up to help you serve. If you missed out, keep an eye and ear to coming opportunities for you to serve. Remember, the ball is in your court. Will you make one big Swoosh! and miss out on serving? Or, will you take the opportunity to make an ACE! We used to sing the hymn by B. B. McKinney, "Serve the Lord with Gladness." Let me encourage you with the last line: "We gladly serve Him, His great love proclaim." It's your serve, Kirk
Transcript of The Messenger December 2019 · S2L lodge before new shingles. S2L lodge after new shingles....
The Messenger
December 2019
Cumberland Plateau Baptist Association
“The Cumberland Plateau Baptist Association is a network of Churches committed to evangelizing, teaching and
ministering to our World.”
"Serve the Lord with gladness. . ." Psalm 100:2
"For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves." Luke 22:27
"Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve. . ." Matthew 20:28
"For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for
the flesh, but through love serve one another." Galatians 5:13
Have you ever watched someone serve in the game of tennis? The server tosses a ball up into the air and then hits it into his opponent's court. Sometimes the server will toss the ball too high and as he swings he com-pletely misses the ball. Swoosh! Other times the server will hit a perfect serve to his opponent and the ball lands in the court before he can return it. Ace!
Many times we are like the tennis player when it comes to serving God and others. There are always opportu-nities to serve tossed our way. How will we respond to them? Will we continually just sit at the table or will we get up and serve?
I love serving and helping others to serve. Recently, our association had the opportunity to serve others. As you'll see in the pictures that follow this article, we worked on several roofs and did some rebuild in North Carolina. The roof jobs were both at S2L, Spring To Life Recovery. We helped those who serve young men in recovery from drugs and alcohol. Then, several from our association returned to the area devastated by Hurri-cane Florence over a year ago. On this particular trip, we served the Jones family by finishing several jobs at their home. When we left, they were ready to move back into their home after waiting over 14 months for their home to be repaired.
These are just a few of the opportunities that our association has offered up to help you serve. If you missed out, keep an eye and ear to coming opportunities for you to serve. Remember, the ball is in your court. Will you make one big Swoosh! and miss out on serving? Or, will you take the opportunity to make an ACE!
We used to sing the hymn by B. B. McKinney, "Serve the Lord with Gladness." Let me encourage you with the last line: "We gladly serve Him, His great love proclaim."
It's your serve,
Kirk
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Tennessee Baptist Convention Association of Leaders Leadership
Team. Spring to Life (S2L) Christian Recovery Center.
S2L offices before new shingles. S2L offices after new shingles.
Volunteers working on S2L office (Pastor Doug Elders up
top). Moving on up the roof jacks.
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S2L lodge before new shingles. S2L lodge after new shingles.
Starting on the S2L lodge. Moving up the A-frame with roof jacks.
Kirk Casey working very carefully. Almost finished, those toe boards look high.
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Rebuild work in Wallace, NC at the Jones house.
Volunteers discuss their progress. Finishing flooring down the hallway.
Mike from SVBA working on the bathroom. Young volunteer from Sequatchie Valley Baptist Association
(SWBA).
Dave Mulligan hanging doors.
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Prepping a bedroom for new flooring. Bob Christian laying flooring in the kitchen.
A finished bedroom . The finished bathroom.
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Pastoral Counseling Center of the Cumberland Plateau Submitted by Carolyn Scott,
Pastoral Counselor December 2019
Christmas Peace
How is it with you? When you lay your head upon the pillow Christmas night, will you
have peace with God? Perhaps down deep you may experience a guilty conscience, and
satan will be telling you everything is fine; after all, nobody’s perfect. This is like cer-
tain ones in the Bible who said, “Peace, peace,” when there was no peace (Jeremiah
6:14). No counterfeit peace will take care of guilt. We are all dead in trespasses and sins
and have all done wrong. That is what brings guilt to our conscience and robs us of
peace with God.
But there is a remedy for this problem. In the same chapter we read that even
though we once were far away from God, we can be “made nigh by the blood of
Christ” (Ephesians 2:13). How can we apply this to ourselves? Romans 5:1 says,
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ.” Faith is believing and doing what God says. One important thing is to admit
that we have sinned. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). Thank God, the guilt of
sin can be removed from us, and we can experience true peace with God.
Maybe you have been a Christian for a long time, but you discover that your
peace with God has been lost. Then you need to search your heart to find the problem.
Do you have a secret attitude of bitterness? Is there an unforgiving spirit or some hid-
den sin? If we are willing to follow God’s remedy for any sin, we can be assured of
finding true peace with God.
Let’s all remember that true peace comes only from God. God loved you so much
He gave His only son for you! Jesus is not waiting for you to play your best drum for
him; He’s waiting for you to accept Him into your heart so that you may know the real
peace of Christmas this year!
If you are in need of counsel, please contact 931-787-9033. Have a merry Christ-
mas!
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Submitted by Yolanda Heuser
“Need it be said why the week before Christmas is chosen? Is not the festive season, when families and friends ex-
change gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the redemption of the human race, the most
appropriate time to consecrate a portion from abounding riches and scant poverty to send forth the good tidings of
great joy into all the earth?” Lottie Moon
picture courtesy National WMU
Merry Christmas to our IMB Missionaries
2020 WMU Missions Emphasis Meetings
► MARCH 12TH.
► JULY 16TH, @ FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH FAIR-FIELD GLADE– 130 Town Centre Way, Fairfield Glade, TN 38571
► NOVEMBER 19TH.
MEETINGS START AT 6:00 PM…
ALL MEETINGS ARE 60/65-EAT MEETINGS- [last no longer than 60/65 minutes, then we EAT.] MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN ARE WELCOME..
The long awaited and much anticipated Fall Mission Emphasis meet-
ing was one for the record books. We had over 70 attendees, that
braved the rain, wind, cold and fog! We had a delicious meal with
choices of soups and sandwiches and oh so many desserts to choose
from. So why was it one for the books? First, we had the meeting
and the meal in a beautifully decorated meeting hall. I ask Brother
David Mahan if we could hold the meeting in one building and it
worked perfectly. Once everyone was inside we did not have to
transfer from one building to the other. We had the meal, the meet-
ing , and the WorldCrafts market place as well as the food drop off
all in one building. It worked perfectly and may be a new a concept
to adopt at our future meetings-at the very least it is something to
consider. Our speaker, Linda Cooper did an amazing job and gave us
some great ideas on how to share the gift of kindness. The offering
was $401.00, the most ever!!! You brought in 85 jars/cans of pasta
sauce, 84 boxes/bags pasta, 65 jars of peanut butter. Yes, what a
meeting; I knew it would be great-but it exceeded all my expecta-
tions. Thank you to everyone that braved the weather and came to
support the meeting.
“what a meeting; I knew it would be great-but…”
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We picked the gift cards for the Get-Together & Connection Silent Auction Baskets. The following were CHOSEN Cracker Barrell, Bed Bath & Be-yond, Dunkin’ Donuts, Hobby Lobby, Belk’s, Wal-greens, Bass Pro Shop, McDonalds, Olive Garden, Tractor Supply.
AVAILABLE: Dollar Tree, Dollar General Store, Kohl’s, Burkes, LifeWay, O’Charley's, Red Lobster, Staples, Lowes, Home Depot, Wendy's, Walmart, Target Steak and Shake Kroger Big Lots, Sonic Cheddars, Logan's, Longhorn, Papa John
Please, call or text me with the gift card/cards your church would like to purchase to support the Silent Auction at this year’s Get-Together & Con-nectin in Gatlinburg, March 20-22. The TN WMU Annual meeting will be March 21st.
LOOKING AHEAD….
ALL MEETINGS ARE 60-65/EAT MEETINGS @ 6:00 PM
MISSIONS EMPHASIS MEETING 2020
MARCH 12th.
JULY 16th @ Fairfield Glade First Baptist Church, 130 Town Centre Way, Crossville, TN 38571
NOVEMBER 19th
PLEASE, PRAYFULLY CONSIDER HOSTING ONE OF THESE MEETINGS.
The leadership team will meet in December and have all the details for each of the meetings and the quarterly mission pro-jects as well as our Annual Mission Project.
May each of you have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas, and have time from the hustle and bustle of the season to re-flect on just what Christmas means to each of us-our Savior was born!!!
EVENTS…..
DEC 2019
► 1-8 Week of prayer for international Missions/LMCO
► 10 Scholarship applica-tions must be post-marked by this date
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God has turned a sewage spill disaster into some-
thing beautiful. Our basement remodel is now com-
plete with a new kitchen (including a new stove and
refrigerator) and updated meeting space.
Thank you to all those who
provided prayers and dona-
tions to make it all happen. We are still accepting do-
nations to finish paying for tables and appliances.
Please stop by and tour our new facilities.
OUR GOD IS SO GOOD!
MISSION OPPORTUNITY….
HELP BELIZE BAPTIST CONVENTION BUILD A CHURCH!!
Spring 2020 Mission Trip
Approximate dates are February 22-March 7. The exact dates within this time
span are to be announced.
Approximate Cost is $1,000.00
For further information, contact Kirk Casey,
931-787-6565 or 931 484 1858
Associational Directory
Office Hours Mon.-Thurs.
9:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m.
Email– [email protected]
Web: www.cpbaptistassociation.com
Kirk Casey, Associational Missionary
Cell: 931-787-6565
Alta Wagner, Ministry Assistant
Office: 931-484-1858
Fax: 931-484-0203
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Carolyn Scott, Pastoral Coun-
selor, PCCCP Counseling
Phone: 931-787-9033
CUMBERLAND PLATEAU BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
291 Sparta Hwy
P. O. Box 2508
Crossville, TN 38572
December 1-7 Week of Prayer for Lottie Moon Offering
December 2 Pastor’s Conference 10:00 a.m.
December 2-3 Love Packages Mission Trip
December 9 Pastor’s Conference 10:00 a.m.
December 16 Pastor’s Conference 10:00 a.m.
December 23 Pastor’s Conference 10:00 a.m.
December 25 Christmas Day—Office closed
December 30 Pastor’s Conference 10:00 a.m.
