Mother’s Day!

This Sunday is the day to honor Mom! At High Peak we will honor our mothers and worship God so I hope all of you will be there. We won’t meet Sunday night so you can spend the day with mom.

Purpose Statement

The following Sunday our Thrive Team will present our church’s proposed Purpose statement which says:
Our Purpose is to Honor God, Grow in His Word and Love as Christ Loves Us as we Reach for the Peak of God’s Glory!

We hop you will be on hand to vote on this statement.

Catawba River Baptist Association Week of Prayer

The Sunday after Mother’s Day will also kick off Associational Mission Emphasis. We will pray for the Catawba River Baptist Association and all of its wonderful ministries, like the Toy Store, training ministry and the support they give our church.

As we move into May families with kids await the coming of summer and everyone enjoys the warmer temperatures and brighter days. At High Peak we’re enjoying the renewed Spirit of God’s presence. Our worship services lately have been filled with a sense of joy and celebration that excites me. Think about inviting someone to come experience the wonder of being in God’s presence along with His people!

On Purpose

We’re in week four of our series on the Purpose of High Peak Baptist Church.

Our purpose at High Peak is to

HONOR God!
GROW in His Word!
LOVE others as Christ loved us!

… as we reach for the Peak of God’s glory!

We talked about Honoring God with a sense of excitement and celebration when we meet together and a sense of awe and wonder as you meet with God by yourself. We talked about Loving people in fellowship and service both inside the church and outside the church. We experienced that loving fellowship in two wonderful ways last week – when we prayed over our brother and sister in Christ Tommy Auton and Martha Rector and when we gathered around the supper table that night.

Go and make disciples of all nations ... (Matthew 28:19)

This week we’re going to talk about Making Disciples! Look at Matthew 28:19-20 and ask yourself if you’re a disciple maker.

Events This Week

We have a regular schedule of activities this Sunday:

9:45 – Sunday School
11:00 – Worship
5:00 – Choir, Children and Youth Discipleship Classes
6:00 – Worship

Deacons Meeting at 7 PM Monday

Wednesday at 7PM

• Footsteps for Preschools
• Children In Action
• Youth Classes for boys and for girls
• Singles
• Adult Bible Sunday

Thrive Team Meeting after classes and worship!

Mother’s Day

We will honor our moms and then let you have the evening off with no evening activities!

Here’s what’s going on this week @ High Peak

Our purpose at High Peak Baptist Church is to

as we Reach for the Peak of God’s Glory!

Why are we here? What is our purpose, mission and what is the vision you have of our future?

What is the Purpose, Mission and Vision of High Peak Baptist Church

That’s what I plan to share with you Sunday as we worship together. This Sunday we begin the process of studying our THRIVE team’s purpose statement for the church. Please plan to attend for the next four weeks. This may be the most important four weeks of preaching I will ever do at our church. That’s not an understatement.

I asked our church’s Facebook group members to pray for some specific things. Here is the post I wrote there:

This Sunday is an important one in the life of our church. Our THRIVE Team has been working for months on a purpose statement for our church. During my Sermon I will begin to share with the church our results. You need to be there this week and for the next four weeks so you will know what it is all about. Please share this with family and friends who are not on Facebook that are part of our church or love High Peak. Pray for the following during this process.

1. Wisdom for our church
2. Harmony and unity
3. Understanding of what his purpose is for our church

Thanks and God bless you all! See you tomorrow!

I look forward to seeing you Sunday as we worship and hear from God about our church’s future!

This Sunday we celebrate Easter! Remember that Thursday was the day Jesus and his disciples celebrated the Passover and Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper. That evening he took his disciples out to the Garden of Gethsemane and he prayed. His emotions were strained as he considered the great event coming the next  day.

Early in the wee hours of Friday morning he was arrested, tried illegally, beaten and forced to carry his cross the Golgotha. He was nailed to the cross and hung there suffering for hours. At 3:00 pm, the same time the priests sacrificed the Passover Lamb in the temple, Jesus died. His disciples scattered in fear. They collected in an upper room and waited. When the Sabbath ended, they planned for the first day of the week when the women went to the tomb to do final burial preparation. They were not sure how they would get inside. They didn’t need to!

Jesus is alive!

I hope you will celebrate with us. Come for Sunday School and Worship at their normal times. We won’t have evening services or activities so you can spend the holiday with family.

The Nelons will be in concert at High Peak Baptist Church Saturday, March 10 at 6:30 PM.

We enjoyed hearing them sing for us last year. The trio recently performed with the Guy Penrod at Tent Revival Homecoming, which you can watch and hear below from YouTube.

The concert is free of charge. We will take up a love offering during the concert.

This is a great opportunity, so please help us get the word out about this concert. Invite friends and family!

We are proud to announce that we will be showing the film Courageous on January 22 at 5 PM. The movie will be seen in the Sanctuary and is open to all ages free of charge. Please invite family and friends to come see this important movie about the courage of being a faithful father and husband.

My sons and I have seen the movie and it will challenge you, entertain you and hopefully make you think. We laughed harder at this movie than we have in a long time. I hope you plan to come and be sure to bring your friends.

Courageous Paying January 22 at 5 PM

Here is the movie trailer for the film:

Merry Christmas!

It’s almost here. As we come into the final days before Christmas, remember that the very word means Worship Christ – Christ Mass! We will do that starting with our Christmas Candlelight Communion service tonight at 7 PM. Come and enjoy some Christmas carols, the Lord’s Supper and we will do it all by the glow of candles and just a few lights in the sanctuary. We will sing some Christmas carols and I will share a message to hopefully inspire you in your worship of Christ.

Sunday morning we will only have worship service at 11 AM. No Sunday School or Evening activities! No meetings! Just a simple time of worship with singing and the message. Come as you are. I won’t be wearing a tie. We want you to be comfortable, bring your family, and have the rest of the day for your Christmas celebration.

I’ve been asking the question, Why Christmas? We looked at Why did God choose Mary, Joseph and why did he choose to have Jesus crucified. This week will be the final massage, Why Christmas. We will look at the final character in the Christmas story. Come find out who.

Looking forward to next week, I will be taking some time off and Dennis Hamrick will lead Wed services. Our Singles will have a New Year’s Eve Party, so see Michael Roberts if you are interested. And on New Years Day we will only have Sunday School and Worship. No evening activities!

Starting August 8th and going through the beginning of September at High Peak have been emphasizing prayer on our 30 Days of Prayer campaign. The goal is to help people be more focused in their prayer life for our church, but also for your personal needs and areas of influence. Here is last weeks message about Praying People in case you missed it. Come next Sunday as we continue for two more Sundays mornings.

Watch live video from High Peak Baptist Church on Justin.tv

If you haven’t been to our Sunday Night services we are in the middle of a 6 week DVD study called When God’s People Pray with some very inspirational teaching and testimonies from Jim Cymbala and the his church The Brooklyn Tabernacle. Be sure to come and be inspired.

Maple Sally was with us hist past week and the concert was a resounding success. We had a great crowd who enjoyed hearing them lead us in worship. The fellowship afterwards drew us closer to one another. Here is a sample of the music. I wish I could provide a sample of the home make ice cream but technology hasn’t found a way yet.

You can hear the whole thing on our Justin.TV site.