This week at The Toy Store we saw over 40 people come to know Christ as Savior and we gave out hundreds of toys to dozens of families. Please pray for these new believers and their children. Also pray that our area churches will follow up with them and help them to get into a church that can love them and care for them.

Here are some scenes from the Toy Store.

Christmas with the Kranks Bible Study

Starting Wednesday night at 7 PM we will begin a three week study using the movie Christmas with the Kranks as our discussions starter. This is a funny look at what it would be like if an empty nest couple decided to forgo Christmas for a cruise since their only child won’t be home for the first time.

Each week we’ll look at a new theme using ideas introduced in the movie. This seek we will talk about who we often let other people set the agenda for our lifestyle, beliefs and ways of celebrating things like Christmas. The other two weeks will center around commitment and forgiveness.

Come and enjoy some light desert refreshments compliments of Kevin and Barb. This is our way of saying thanks to the church for all you do for us.

West Virginia Mission Trip

A team of people from our church will leave Friday to do ministry in West Virginia, giving away gifts for Christmas to the people there. Michael Roberts leads this team which will be in WV overnight. I won’t try to name all of them since I’m likely to forget someone. Please pray for them and we look forward to hearing a testimony next Sunday of how the trip went.

Christmas Parade

The Valdese Christmas Parade takes place this Saturday. Our children will ride in it. If you want your kids in the parade have them at church at 8:30 AM.

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions will be collected during December. This week we will collect the first of two special offerings during the worship service. To read more about the offering see the International Mission Board’s website.

Please consider taking the time to view the great videos about missionaries around the world. If you were at our adult missions study, this page has the videos I tried to show but couldn’t due to technical difficulty. The one below we saw part of during the study. Note that the video will be slightly cut off. You may want to click on the button to show it full screen in your web browser.

Christmas Play Practice

The Christmas program is December 18 at 6PM. Some of our youth and children will take part so they need to practice again at 4PM this Sunday.

THRIVE Team Subset Meeting

Our THRIVE Team won’t meet again as a whole team until January. However, a small group has been appointed to do some work on a Purpose/Mission/Vision Statement. They meet Sunday morning after the worship service. Please pray for them. They are:

• Scooter Farley
• Barb Purcell
• Kim Stamey
• Britt Abernathy
• Kevin Purcell

Here’s what’s happening at High Peak Baptist Church!

Thanksgiving Service at Amherst Baptist Church

7:00 pm @ Amherst Baptist Church

Our annual community Thanksgiving worship service will be held at Amherst Baptist Church with Pleasant View Baptist Church also taking part with us. Our three choirs will sing together and we will collect non-perishable food items for the food ministry that Amherst supports, which also happens to be the Pleasant View ministry. I will be preaching the message this week from Psalm 95.

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No Regular Wednesday Worship or Activities

Regular Wednesday activities are cancelled because of the Thanksgiving service and the holiday the next day. The youth will be going to work at Samaritan’s Purse and some of the children and younger youth will work at the Outreach Center on Tuesday.

Missions Study

5:00 pm @ High Peak

The International Missions Study will be focusing on London, England. We will start at 5:00 pm and go till 7:00 with a meal midway through at 6:45 for everyone. We have a children’s class, a youth class, and an adults class.

Come hear missionary Dennis Conner, a church planter in Arizona, but originally from North Carolina. He will speak in the Sunday Night worship service.

Dennis Conner with his beloved vehicle

Dennis and I met one another at the Greensboro Southern Baptist Convention. He stuck up a conversation withe me and we’ve been partners in the ministry ever since. I pray regularly for his work and I know he prays for us here at High Peak. I’m glad to finally invite him to come speak to us since he was already going to be in North Carolina.

You can meet a real live missionary at 6 PM Sunday, September 18th. And if you want to join us for something to eat afterward, I’m guessing we’ll be going out for a bite!

This Friday more than a dozen people from our church will be going to WV to do two block parties, hand out school supplies and share the Gospel. Please be in prayer for this trip and all who will be going.

A shot from the 09 December WV Mission Trip

Sunday Morning we will hear from the team as they share their testimonies about the trip. Come and celebrate what we know will be a great trip.

This post is for live mission trip updates. After the updates I will edit it to have videos below of what we share with you. Come back often to learn about our live updates.

To use this, when we go live it will just show up below. Then the videos will be at the bottom where it says “Media Stream”.

Below, I will post the videos of the trip each night. Also, as I post pictures, they will show up to the left.