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.

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,