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.

See below for mapping information:

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.

Please pray for our mission team as they travel to Madison Wisconsin. We will be working at Midvale Baptist Church doing a soccer camp, some construction and also working with another church in the area doing more construction.

We leave at 8:00 am on July 17 and travel first to Cincinnati, OH. The next day we will be in Madison by the end of the day. We will work in the mornings at the camp, sharing Christ. Then in the afternoons we will do light construction work.

On Friday we will return to Cincinnati and to North Carolina on Saturday, July 24th. Come Sunday July 25th to hear about the trip that Sunday night at 6:00 pm.

This is here for our mission team to see and learn it.

If you want to help in Haiti, here is a good, tangible way to do so. Of course you can pray. Giving helps too. We have already received a lot of offering money via our regular offerings in addition to our church giving $5,000. But now the Baptist Men of North Carolina have started a new initiative called “Buckets of Hope”. To learn more about it, download the PDF file which gives the list of contents and instructions for packing it.

The essentials are that you buy a 5 gallon bucket with a lid. These can be  purchased locally at ACE Hardware or Lowe’s. Then fill it with the items listed in the PDF document. It includes things like rice, sugar, oil, flour, etc.. Then put them in the bucket and take it to a drop off point. In our area, the Catawba River Baptist Association is such a drop off point. You can find it on US HWY 70 between Morganton and Drexel on the south side of the road.

You need to follow the instructions in the PDF file so don’t just get the items and throw them together.

This is a great way to share the love of Christ in a tangible way. For more information you can go to the Baptists on Mission site.

The North Carolina Baptist Men are actively involved in the Haiti recovery effort. I received an email directed to all churches from our state Baptist Men leader, Richard Brunson.  Here is the content of that email:

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NCBM Medical teams are serving in Haiti, assisting a local burn clinic, children’s hospital and community hospital. A team of 7 (Team 1) arrived on January 15 by flying first to Santo Domingo, then taking a bus into Haiti. They began their work on Jan. 15 by assisting the burn clinic. On Jan. 17 they were able to support the hospital staff of Petionville Community Hospital, a 50 bed hospital seeing approximately 250 patients each day.

• Medical Team 2 arrived on Jan. 20, a team of 13 – some from US, some from Hungary. They continued the work started by Team 1 by supporting the work of the hospital and staff.
• Medical Team 3 had 14 people on it, including surgeons and additional medical professionals to assist with the many medical needs.
• Medical Team 4 has 17 people on it and continues to assist at the clinic and hospitals. They are seeing hundreds of people every day.
• Medical Teams 5 has 24 team members and leaves on Thursday, February 4 for Haiti. Teams 6, 7 and 8 are all medical teams and are currently being recruited. If you are interested click on the “volunteer now” tab and let us know of your skills.
  Please pray for the teams as they provide assistance for the medical needs.

NCBM sees this as a long-term ministry. We will be sending many volunteers (especially construction), however, we do not have a timetable established at this time. If you are interested in going please click on the “volunteer now” tab below.

We are collecting items for distribution at this time. Click on the “What can your church do” tab below for more information. The biggest need is for money for building materials. For $2,300 you can provide funds to build a house for a family. For approximately $12,000 you can provide funds to build a small church. We are also collecting “Buckets of Hope“. 

Scott and Janet Daughtry arrived in Haiti on February 2 and are serving as our long term coordinators in Haiti.

We will continue to gather information from the team and clinic.
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Thank you, In Christ,