Mobile Baptist Association

Please include the news and opportunities presented here in your bulletins, church newsletters, or on your bulletin boards.

MBA NEWS ALERTS

• SATURATE MOBILE

• DISASTER RELIEF NEEDS

• CHALLENGER BASKETBALL LEAGUE COACHES AND LEADERS MEETING OCTOBER 14, 2019

• WALK FOR BIBLES AND INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES OCTOBER 19, 2019

• SENIOR ADULT FALL FISH FRY FELLOWSHIP OCTOBER 31, 2019

• CHRISTMAS BACKPACKS

• CAMP WHISPERING PINES - BOYS CAMP OUT AND GIRLS WINTER WEEKEND NOVEMBER 1-2, 2019

• CWP DIRECTOR PRESS RELEASE

• EFFECTIVE EVANGELISTIC INVITATION OCTOBER 28, 2019

• BAPTIST WOMEN'S WORLD DAY OF PRAYER NOVEMBER 5, 2019

• SECRETARIES/MINISTRY ASSISTANTS LUNCHEON NOVEMBER 7, 2019

• INTERIM PASTOR NEEDED

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• Sign-up - Choose a zip code from the list below and choose if you want to be a Host Church or a Participating Church.

• Adopt - if you are a host church, go to saturateusa.org and adopt the zip code you chose. (Participating Churches will contact the Host Church to let them know they will help.)

• Receive - Saturate USA will send the Host Church materials for FREE! The Materials will include: door hangers, gospel tracts, multi-language Jesus films, maps of the zip codes (Including carrier routes), and other helpful information. 

• Assemble - Host churches will cooperate with the Participating Churches to assemble packets and devise a strategy to cover the adopted area. Include information about your church in each packet. INSERT CHURCH INFO CARD

• Saturate - Go out and deliver saturate packets to your entire area. This can be done in a couple weeks, or an entire year, depending on your goals and schedule.

• ReportHost churches report When the coverage is complete. Mark it completed on the zip code you adopted at saturatemobile.mobilebaptists.org, and do the same at saturateusa.org. Also, report any testimonies, pictures or videos.  

 

Special note:  Because many churches did not hear about this outreach until the annual meeting (October 6, 2019), we ask Host churches to give a few weeks after the annual meeting before they assemble and distribute material, giving the other churches in the same zip code time to sign-up.

 

Fill out and submit the form below to sign-up.

Read more

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DISASTER RELIEF NEEDS

Can your church help?

The following items are needed to stock the Disaster Relief Trailer to be ready to deploy:

• 24” bolt cutters

• Oxy-Acetylene Torch

• 2 - Hack Saws with extra blades

• Box #12 Nails

• Box Roofing Tacks

• Box #8 Nails

• 200’ ½” Rope

• 2 - 36” Levels

• 2 - 25’ Tape Measures

• 7 ¼” Circular Saw

• Sabre Saw

• 2 - Nail Pullers

• Set of 1/2” Drive Sockets

• Snips Aviation

• 5 ½” Jaw Vice

• Wheelbarrow

• 24” Pipe Wrench

• 20’ 3/8” chain

• Try-Square

• 100’ Tape Measure

• ¾ hp Reciprocating Saw

• 3 – Wrecking Bars

• Disc Grinder

• Battery operated drill kit

Also needed: someone to repair 5 chain saws.

To donate, contact Carolyn Battle via email or 251-643-3053.

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Challenger Basketball League
Coaches and Leaders Meeting


Monday, October 14, 2019
6:30 p.m.
MBA Office
(616 Azalea Road)

This meeting is for those anticipating involvement in the Challenger Basketball League during the 2019-2020 season. You will learn the league rules and team requirements. You will also learn pertinent information for Challengers to advance through the leagues. Derek Blackmon, Challenger Director for the MBA, will lead the meeting.

If you have any questions please email derekblackmon@yahoo.com or contact the MBA office at 661-7111, or via email.

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You and your church can make Christmas brighter for children living along the Mississippi River who are among some of the poorest in the U.S. Generation after generation in the region live without basic human necessities.

Review the information at alabamawmu.org/christmasbackpack
for the guidelines and basic information. Then register your participation at alabamawmu.org/christmasbackpacks.

The Alabama WMU has a goal of collecting 9,500 backpacks! Our Associational WMU Leadership Team has a goal of collecting 100. Bring completed and labeled/banded backpacks to the MBA office by Thursday, October 24.

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Come home to YOUR
Camp Whispering Pines!
(251)866-7868
campwhisperingpines.com 

 

Serving Christ by Serving Others,
Serving Others by Sharing Christ

 

Boys Camp Out and Girls Winter Weekend November 1-2, 2019

for all boys and girls in grades 1-6
These events are open to anyone.

Visit campwhisperingpines.com or call 251-866-7868.

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The MBA Personnel Committee (JT Wright, chair) has released the CWP Director press release and job description. Please be in fervent prayer and share with your contacts. Note the release sends people to the CWP site for information. It is also posted on the MBA site.

Send resumes to Mike Bedford, CWP Committee chair, by October 15, 2019, mrbedford@bellsouth.net.

Let us see what the Lord has in mind.

Camp Director Job Description

 

CWP Director Search Press Release
Seeking Full-Time Camp Director

Camp Whispering Pines, a 265-bed ministry of Mobile Baptist Association in Citronelle, AL is accepting resumes for Camp Director. Seeking a gifted administrator who is committed to evangelistic ministry preferably with SBC seminary degree and minimum three years camp management experience. Visit campwhisperingpines.com for job description, candidate requirements and additional information. Email resumes before October 15 to mrbedford@bellsouth.net.

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West Mobile Baptist Church is accepting resumes for interim pastor. Deadline is November 30, 2019. See the link below for the job description.

http://wemochurch.org/interim-pastor-job-description/