Mobile Baptist Association

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

MBA NEWS ALERTS

• PREPARING FOR WHAT'S NEXT (GETTING READY TO REOPEN)

• WORSHIP DURING THE PANDEMIC - A WORD FROM DR. MACK MORRIS

• MINISTERS' WIVES CONNECTION WITH PAM LANCE VIA ZOOM MAY 13, 2020

• 8TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES BENEFIT GOLF TOURNAMENT JUNE 20, 2020

• CAMP WHISPERING PINES SUMMER CAMPS INCLUDING RETURN OF HOOPLA DAY CAMP FOR KIDS

• MBA IS COMMITTED TO YOU AND YOUR CHURCH - UPDATED 4.4.2020

• CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) PANDEMIC RESOURCES UPDATED 5.11.2020

• 2020 CENSUS PART-TIME JOBS AVAILABLE

• TASK FORCE STUDY OF MBA CHURCH DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY

Preparing for What's Next (Getting Ready to Reopen)

Preparing for What's Next (Getting Ready to Reopen) - Your Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions has developed a document that will help you ask the right questions, consider helpful suggestions and access a variety of resources as you begin to prepare for the process of reopening your church facilities. Click here to download a pdf or visit alsbom.org/reopen.

Worship During The Pandemic - a word from Dr. Mack Morris

Linked here are some observations from Dr. Mack Morris that may be helpful as each of us consider the new role of televangelist. They are good discussion starters and may apply to your setting too. Click here for the  

Ministers' Wives Connection with Pam Lance via Zoom May 13, 2020

Encouragement. Prayer. Community.

Join Pam Lance, wife of ALSBOM executive director Dr. Rick Lance, and Alabama WMU for a time of encouragement, prayer and connection with other ministers' wives.

This gathering will take place for all Ministers’ Wives on Wednesday, May 13 from 2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. To join this Zoom gathering RSVP through this form. This gathering is hosted by Alabama WMU.

For information and to RSVP visit https://mailchi.mp/a274ba3d35b0/ministers-wives-connection.

8th Annual International Ministries Benefit Golf Tournament June 20, 2020

Donations, Sponsors & Team Reg Form

Camp Whispering Pines News and Events

MBA is Committed to You and Your Church

The MBA continues to monitor conditions and recommendations as the current pandemic unfolds. As information and resources become available, we are doing our best to get them to you via mobilebaptists.org/coronavirus, facebook.com/mobilebaptistassociation and twitter.com @mobilebaptists.

5.4.2020 - With the current statewide Safer at Home Order, the MBA office is again open and staff are working in the office again with reduced hours, Monday - Thursday, 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Resources

Updated 5.11.2020

Follow us on facebook/mobilebaptistassociation and these weekly email news alerts for updates and observations on how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

What churches meeting in person again looks like?

Guidelines for Places of Worsip from alabamapublichealth.gov

Preparing for What's Next (Getting Ready to Reopen) - Your Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions has developed a document that will help you ask the right questions, consider helpful suggestions and access a variety of resources as you begin to prepare for the process of reopening your church facilities. Click here to download a pdf or visit alsbom.org/reopen.

Governor Ivey's current Safer at Home Order Amended May 8, 2020

          Click here to read the full order.

3. Non-work related gatherings. Effective May 11, 2020, all non-work related gatherings of any size that cannot maintain a consistent six-foot distance between persons from different households are prohibited.

Organizers of religious gatherings are strongly encouraged to read and implement the Alabama Department of Public Health’s “Guidelines for Places of Worship,” available at
https://alabamapublichealth.gov/covid19/assets/cov-sah-worship.pdf.

Coronavirus Resources for You and Your Church:

4 Ways to do VBS this Summer - Visit vbs.lifeway.com

In these new and uncharted waters, we are all looking for resources to aid us in ministering to our church families. LifeWay is hoping to help you do that, especially as so many churches will not be gathering together for a few weeks. In order to make it as easy as possible for you, LifeWay has compiled all of our Free COVID-19 resources onto one webpage. Here is the link to the page: lifeway.com/coronavirus

Church, Family Resources Made Available In Response To COVID-19

Online Resources for Small Groups

COVID-19 & Teaching Remotely

Check out this linked article that includes several ways of online methods to reach church members, as well as several FREE digital training and teaching materials from LifeWay for adults and kids.

Ken Braddy - Encouraging & Equipping Sunday School & Small Groups

Ken Braddy Jr. is LifeWay's Director of Sunday School, Manager of LifeWay Christian Resource's Adult Ongoing Bible Studies & Adult Trainers, education pastor 20+ years, author, conference leader, and blogger. 

Click on this link which include studies from Explore the Bible, Bible Studies for Life, and The Gospel Project.

Free Bible Study Resources:

LifeWay provides a Kids-At-Home resource for families to use for Sunday School / Bible Study - accessible at http://digitalpass.lifeway.com/, and they have also added LifeWay Preschoolers-At-Home.

LifeWay Kids at Home which allows parents to log-in and have access to Bible Studies For Life’s Lesson Video, Missions Video, Gospel Presentation Video, and an Activity Page and Parents’ Conversation Page.

Free Access to Online Sunday School Curriculum: The Gospel Project, Explore the Bible, and Bible Studies for Life, available for all four age groups (Preschool, Kids, Students, and Adults) in a digital format for your use. Lead  classes remotely with this material (or for you to give access and/or activity pages to your church families). - https://curriculum.lifeway.com/

Free Training Tools - lifeway.com/coronavirus

Read more

2020 Census Part-Time Jobs Available

Although they have suspended all operations to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, we are still taking applications for their part-time jobs.

Once it has been determined the virus issue is under control, they will begin calling applicants again. Where else can you make this kind of money part-time with such flexible hours and be doing your community a service at the same time?

If you know someone who has been interviewed and hired by the Census Bureau, please tell them they are still selected for the position offered and the Bureau will get with them as soon as they are able to go back to work.

These jobs are temporary and can last from a few weeks to several months, depending on the specific job. Most jobs have flexible hours and all employees are paid weekly in the $18 an hour range. We try to keep each employee as close as possible to their own community, since people tend to work better in a familiar environment. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, be a U.S. citizen, have access to reliable transportation and have a social security number. Anyone interested in these jobs can simply apply online at www.2020census.gov/jobs.

David Hurst, Recruiting Assistant
U.S. Census Bureau
Field Division, Recruiting
franklin.d.hurst@2020census.go
2020census.gov/jobs

Task Force Study of MBA Church Development Ministry

As you may know, Chuck Davis has served faithfully for 30 years and is retiring from the Mobile Baptist Association as the Church Development Director. A Task Force is in the process of recreating the job description for the position for the future. Your feedback through this short survey would be very helpful.

Click here for the survey