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- Forgiveness/Restoration Ministry
- 1. Georgia Baptist Convention Annual Meeting Luncheon
- 2. Georgia Baptist Ministers’ Wives Winter Retreat
- CHURCH PLANTING MINISTRIES
- The college and university students of today will be the leaders of, and missionaries from, our churches within a generation.
- Statewide Collegiate Events
- International Student Events
- Collegiate Missions
- Reducing “lostness” in Georgia is something about which we are all concerned.
- CONFERENCES CENTERS
- 5 Stone Personal Retreat
- Georgia Baptist Conference Center – Norman Park
- COOPERATIVE PROGRAM/STEWARDSHIP
- Cooperative Program Speaker Requests
- Mission Georgia Emphasis 2014
- Stewardship Leadership Ministries
Conflict Mediation: When ministers and/or churches find themselves in conflict, we are available for counsel, mediation and arbitrations. Our office is available to help both churches and ministers. This year 10 Georgia Baptist churches contacted our office for assistance related to conflict. Counseling Services: In 2014, the Georgia Baptist Convention, partnering with The Georgia Baptist Health Care Ministry Foundation, provided professional counseling services for Georgia Baptist ministers and their immediate family members. Last year we had 15 reported cases of Georgia Baptist ministers and family members that were helped through counseling with the Convention’s co-payment totaling $3659.00 for 109 counseling sessions. The Convention’s co-payments apply only to qualified ministers, and their immediate family members. Local churches are encouraged to utilize these counseling services for church members and others in the community. A list of Christian Counselors is available through the Church-Minister Relations website. Our office also has a partnership with the “Clergy in Crisis” program of The Pastoral Institute of Columbus, Georgia. Forgiveness/Restoration Ministry: Moral and/or ethical failure in the life of a minister, a key church leader, or a member of their family has a great impact upon the total life of a church and its witness. A good biblical model for a restoration ministry in these types of crisis is essential. Our office provides counsel and resources in these areas. Ministers’ Wives Mary Cox, State Missionary http://gbmw.org
The Annual Meeting Luncheon is used to encourage and inspire Georgia Baptist ministers’ wives. The speakers and worship leaders bring messages that focus on their calling as a Christian woman and ministers’ wife. The theme for 2014 was ‘Live out your Legacy’. Our guest speaker was, Mrs. Julie Hadden, (wife of Mike Hadden, on staff at Mabel White Baptist Church) and our special music was presented by Eden of Glen Haven Baptist Church. We were blessed to have over 154 in attendance at our luncheon. 2013-2014 Officers 2015-2016 Officers President- Mrs. Carrie Morton President- Mrs. Julie Paysen Vice President- Mrs. Sheila Davis Vice-President- Mrs. Meredith Bennett Secretary/Treasurer-Mrs. Chris Westray Secretary/Treasurer- Mrs. Kristie Quick 2. Georgia Baptist Ministers’ Wives Winter Retreat The Ministers Wives Winter Retreat is held every January and is a time of resting, relaxation, and renewing of mind, body, soul and relationships. In 2014, we enjoyed the company of 128 ladies at the Georgia Baptist Conference Center in Toccoa, GA. Our theme was Live out your Legacy Galatians 6:9. Our guest speakers were Mrs. Jan Morton, Mrs. Cindy Evers, Mrs. Shelia Davis all Georgia Baptist ministers’ wives. Mrs. Heather Richardson led the special music. Friday afternoon was a personal time of rest that included a spa day, breakout sessions and a time of self-care that included health screenings. Each evening was filled with Worship and encouragement through God’s word. Staff: Marcus Merritt, State Missionary 770-936-5260 Robert Anderson, State Missionary 770-936-5279 Marty Youngblood, State Missionary 770-936-5243 Mary Cox, State Missionary 770-936-5253 Laura Simms, State Missionary Support 770-936-5362 Ruth Smith, State Missionary Support 770-936-5362
Butch Butcher, State Missionary bbutcher@gabaptist.org As partners with churches and associations, Church Planting Ministries serves to fulfill the Great Commission by planting culturally relevant, healthy-kingdom, English speaking, reproducing churches in Georgia. During the year 2014, we assisted with planting 42 new churches, of which 25 were Anglo congregations and 17 were African-American congregations. Our work can be divided into four areas:
It is our task to assist Georgia Baptists to become more aware of the lostness of the population in Georgia and how planting contextual and culturally relevant churches among the English speaking population can penetrate that lostness with the Gospel of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Readiness includes spiritual preparation, understanding the cultural diversity of our population, identifying people groups and their receptivity toward the Gospel.
It is our task to recruit and enlist individuals and churches and associations to participate in the ministry and mission of planting contextual and culturally relevant churches among the English speaking population in Georgia. Enlistment includes enlisting Georgia Baptist churches and leaders to sponsor and partner with church planters and new church plants. It also includes identifying and raising-up leaders who will become involved in church planting as planters, staff members, coaches, strategists, small group leaders, team members and soul-winners. These leaders may be vocational, bi-vocational, and/or volunteers. We are looking for missionary-minded servants who are committed and “called of God” to the church planting arena.
It is our task to equip and encourage church planters and church planting teams, sponsoring churches, strategists, coaches and other leaders and partners in the church planting effort. Equipping also includes financial support available through the Cooperative Program ministry of the Southern Baptist Convention. Financial support is available in the form of Start-up Funds and Church Planter Assistance. Equipping and encouraging opportunities and events include: Church Planter Orientation Assessment Event GBC Church Planting School Conferences Coaching
The multiplication and reproduction vision and strategy includes promoting and assisting churches to be strong, healthy kingdom churches that are reproducing new believers, disciples, leaders, planters and planting teams for the planting of new churches. Multiplication includes an intentional and strategic commitment to evangelism and discipleship/leadership development. It focuses on a strong missions focus recognizing the more and more diverse and secular orientation of our state population. This focus demands a Gospel sowing and missionary sending effort in all communities and areas of our state. The idea is simply to make disciples who make disciples and to plant healthy kingdom churches that plant healthy kingdom churches. COLLEGIATE MINISTRIES Joe Graham, State Missionary jgraham@gabaptist.org
There was a total of 1,203 people who professed faith in Christ over the past year as a result of Georgia Baptists’ investment in Collegiate Ministry. This means for every 5 students involved in our ministry, one new Christian found faith in Christ. 5 to 1 is an outstanding ratio and Georgia Baptists can be proud of their campus ministers and students. They work every year to make this ratio even smaller. COMMUNICATION SERVICES Mark Strange, State Missionary mstrange@gabaptist.org
CONFERENCES CENTERS Bill Wheeler, State Missionary bwheeler@gabaptist.org
The Georgia Baptist Conference Center in Toccoa serves associations and churches by providing a retreat facility where people can “seek Jesus.” Toccoa offers a serene mountain and lake setting where both the body and soul can be nourished and renewed. Comfortable accommodations, delicious meals, ample meeting facilities, and the natural beauty of God’s creation at Toccoa combine to create a tranquil atmosphere for fellowship, relaxation and spiritual renewal and growth. We were blessed to be able to serve more than 19,000 guests in 2014. The center includes 240 guest rooms, 1000-seat auditorium, 300-seat chapel, 42 meeting rooms, the Higher Grounds Coffee Shop, the Service Station Snack and Gift Shop and the Lakeside Dining Room with southern cooking at its finest.
Call us to book your personal, complementary, 2 day, 1 night Spiritual Renewal retreat in Toccoa. Let us assist you as you seek how God wants to use Spiritual Renewal, Kingdom Generosity, Church Revitalization, Church Planting, and Authentic Evangelism to support the vision of your association or church. The conference center assists churches by:
The existence of this life-changing ministry can only continue with special care and devoted support. Prayer, Cooperative Program gifts, and State Missions Offerings are vital for Georgia Baptists to continue to see lives refreshed and God’s Kingdom increased as people are saved at this beautiful retreat center retreats. The Conference Center underwrites daily operating expenses through fees charged; however, capital improvements and facility development can only happen through the support of Georgia Baptists. Toccoa: contact Bill Wheeler 706-886-3133
Georgia Baptist Conference Center – Norman Park The Georgia Baptist Conference Center in Norman Park serves associations and churches by providing a retreat facility where people can “seek Jesus.” Norman Park offers an antebellum atmosphere where both the body and soul can be nourished and renewed. Comfortable accommodations, delicious meals, ample meeting facilities, and the natural beauty of God’s creation at Norman Park combine to create a tranquil atmosphere for fellowship, relaxation and spiritual renewal and growth. We were blessed to be able to serve more than 8,000 guests in 2014. The center includes 200 guest rooms, 800-seat auditorium, multiple 200-seat chapels, 39 meeting rooms, a full-size indoor gymnasium, a 13-foot deep swimming pool, a snack shop, and our large dining hall with southern cooking at its finest. 5 Stone Personal Retreat Call us to book your personal, complementary, 2 day, 1 night Spiritual Renewal retreat in Norman Park. Let us assist you as you seek how God wants to use Spiritual Renewal, Kingdom Generosity, Church Revitalization, Church Planting, and Authentic Evangelism to support the vision of your association or church. The conference center assists churches by:
The existence of this life-changing ministry can only continue with special care and devoted support. Prayer, Cooperative Program gifts, and State Missions Offerings are vital for Georgia Baptists to continue to see lives refreshed and God’s Kingdom increased as people are saved at this beautiful retreat center retreats. The Conference Center underwrites daily operating expenses through fees charged; however, capital improvements and facility development can only happen through the support of Georgia Baptists. Norman Park: contact David Denis, 229-769-3011
COOPERATIVE PROGRAM/STEWARDSHIP Buck Burch, State Missionary bburch@gabaptist.org The Cooperative Program, Stewardship and Mission Georgia Development Office has as its purpose “to enlist and partner with churches to effectively meet their needs in educating, assisting and encouraging them to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus by developing biblical stewards and missions support.” The Cooperative Program allows the member churches of the Georgia Baptist Convention to extend their witness for Jesus Christ throughout our state, nation, and around the world. That witness takes place as Georgia Baptists join with Southern Baptists to reach a lost world through a variety of ministries at home and abroad, which include church strengthening ministries such as Sunday School, discipleship, college and theological education, and numerous other avenues of Christian witness and ministry. As Cooperative Program produces natural relationships among individuals, churches, associations, and the varied regions throughout Georgia, this past year has brought about several exciting connection points:
The Cooperative Program begins in the hearts of individual believers who are committed to reaching the world for Christ. As they give through their local church, the church then determines what portion of its receipts will be channeled through the Cooperative Program. These funds are sent to the State Convention, where they are divided between Georgia Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist Convention causes. Georgia Baptists continue to be one of the leading conventions in both percentage and total dollar giving through the Cooperative Program. Stewardship Leadership Ministries Scott M. Preissler, State Missionary Stewardship Leadership Ministries provides a specific portfolio of services to Georgia churches. These services are both educational equipping and leadership support services. These equipping and leadership support services are consistently updated to remain always current. These always current resources and guided services, directly respond to Georgia pastors and stewardship leaders who we understand and who must respond for, react to, and lead-out ministry in local Georgia churches. The results, are annually assessed and monitored delivery of “stewardship helps” for Georgia pastors. Since research almost annually shows that the local church pastor is not seminary-educated nor equipped for typical church steward leadership duties, GBC Stewardship Ministries mobilizes dependable help pastors can count on, with tactical and low-cost- if not free resources. Guidance and counsel are at the ready to share varieties of inspiration models with the most current tools – easily adaptable from church to church. Much planning and intervention has been made in 2013 & fully through 2014 to assure that the best resources and stewardship creativity in the nation are typical for Georgia leaders. A strategic partnership was confirmed with the following top shelf leadership partners as helps stemming from Georgia Stewardship Leadership Ministries for our pastors. These partnerships are unique to and exclusively available now to Georgia churches: The Kingdom Generosity Collection - the largest experiential education collection and expression of historic and current Christian and Baptist biblical giving artifacts, resources, and artistic models. This collection provides over 10,000 square feet of self-education paced information to shore up Smooth Stone #2’s statement of GBC’s 5 Smooth Stone Mission: Kingdom Generosity. A vast array of art, artifacts, and the largest library on this subject tracks back usable knowledge for our current time from the past 700 year to 1,900 years. The Collection is being set up now throughout the entirety of the Georgia Baptist Missions and Ministry Center designed for pre-arranged, visiting guests with a visible, tangible resource right here at the Duluth Missions and Ministry Center. SDA: Stewardship Development Association – released a new combination video and materials resource entitled TouchStones. This current audio visual and in print resource is the 8th new resource in the same number of years available in sample sets free to Georgia pastors. The full product line is now available on line through the GBC E-Store online at the www.gabaptist.org website tab under Stewardship Ministries. All Georgia Baptist churches are highly encouraged to maintain a fresh and inspirational stewardship emphasis year-round. A now vast array of materials is readily available in sample packet form to send out, or completely viewable on-line. As always, personal counsel for ideas, models, and resources is at the ready to be called on for customized service. Should a personal visit or seminar, or anything A to Z be requested in an on-site format, our team stands ready to engage all requests and lead-out a complete portfolio of services for any Georgia Baptist church. We invite you to call us at 770.455.0404 (800-RING-GBC), ext. 349, or peruse our resources at www.gabaptist.org. Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2015 2015 -> Police Militarization 2015 -> 2015 ihbb championships: hs history Bowl Round 4 – Prelims First Quarter 2015 -> Wrtp/big step · 3841 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, wi 53208 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 December 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Darton College 2015 -> Training Workshop on Planning and Implementation of Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MsDP) in Bihar Date : 6th 2015 -> Rao bulletin 15 June 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 September 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 August 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Science, and transportation united states senate Download 304.47 Kb. Share with your friends:
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