| In this issue: Let’s Celebrate Women’s Breakfast Upcoming Opportunities Family Pine Car Challenge Calling All VBS Workers Socks and Underwear Collection for Feb.-Deadline Thursday Last Chance to RSVP for Women and Girls Trip to Ducktown, TN Save the Date Senior Adult Luncheon Resource of the Week Church News Partner News Opportunities for Family and Children’s Leaders Regional Rallies Christ-Centered Exposition Workshop |
| Let’s Celebrate Women’s Breakfast  Thank You for a Wonderful Mission Breakfast! A heartfelt thank you to Zion Baptist Church for graciously hosting the Mission Breakfast for women and girls last Saturday. The food was delicious, and the hospitality was truly exceptional.We also want to extend our gratitude to our incredible Women’s Ministry Team for their dedication in planning and executing this beautiful event. It was truly inspiring to see over 100 women come together, sharing God Stories and discovering how to live on mission for Christ. To God be the glory! Upcoming Opportunities Pine Car Challenge  Calling All VBS Workers  Choose your Date: March 8, 29 April 5 May 3,10Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Make VBS unforgettable this year! Vacation Bible School is many churches’ largest evangelistic ministry. As you plan and prepare for God to do amazing things, join the NCVBS Training Team for a free Regional Training! This training equips your volunteer team to gain valuable Biblical learning, direction in VBS administration, insight into children’s learning levels, cost-effective decorating ideas and more. A bilingual training is also available! No matter which VBS curriculum you choose, experience fun and engaging breakouts that will generate renewed excitement and vision for Vacation Bible School. Sign your team up today! Socks and Underwear Collections Due Feb. 27th  We are still collecting new socks and underwear for all sizes- men, women, and children. Please bring all donations to the CRBA by Feb. 27 for our Women’s Mission Group to deliver. If you are interested in participating in the mission trip to deliver these supplies on March 7-8, please call 828-437-0137 for more details and to sign up! Mission Trip for Women and Girls- Last Chance to RSVP  Join us for a meaningful mission trip to the Copper Basin Crisis Center, where we’ll distribute the socks and underwear collected by the CRBA! This is a wonderful opportunity for mothers and daughters, a Girls’ Sunday School class, or a women’s group to serve together. The group will depart on Friday, March 7, at 12:00 PM. If you’re interested in making a difference, we’d love for you to join us. Please call the CRBA office to RSVP by Feb. 27th. Save the Date Senior Adult Luncheon Resource of the Week  Your CRBA has hopping Balls available for your ministry events. If you would like to reserve any CRBA resource please call 828-437-0137 or email admin@crbanc.org. News from our CRBA Churches Burkemont- would like to invite anyone who sews or would like to learn to sew to join them for their Sewing Seeds of God’s Love where they work together to sew for ministry purposes.  First Hmong-  High Peak- has closed our church library. We have commentaries, fiction, and non-fiction books that we are giving away free to anyone interested. Please contact Rev. Shane Ramsey (704-430-9955) or Reba Berry (828-569-4663) to obtain the books!!! Zion Baptist Church-invites you to join them for a Chicken Tender Dinner to raise money for their Wyoming Mission Trip.  Partner News Opportunities for Family and Children’s Ministry Leaders  Parents are called to pass faith on to their children but often feel ill-equipped for this God-given mandate. This is evident in the number of young adults walking away from the church and their faith. It is time to change the Scorecard!Join us for this 3-hour training to learn how to incorporate family ministry into the DNA of your church to equip parents to confidently disciple their children and teens. This event will be hosted at four different locations throughout the year. The event is $15 dollars per person, max $50 dollars per church. Here is our scorecard link as well as access to the registration. This event is being held at 4 different locations: – March 1st, Sanford NC – March 22nd, Charlotte NC – September 6th, Black Mountain NC – October 18th, Raleigh NC Preaching Workshop offered by Southeastern Seminary On March 20th, our office is hosting a preaching workshop focusing on the book of Joshua on the campus of Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. This workshop is designed to help pastors become more effective communicators and expositors of God’s Word. Specifically, this workshop will cover how to preach through the book, how to deal with issues of interpretation, and how to preach Christ from the book of Joshua. Workshop Details: Date: March 20, 2025 Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm, with lunch included Tickets: $25, plus taxes and fees Location: SEBTS campus Each participant will receive: A copy of Christ-Centered Exposition: Exalting Jesus in Joshua Book of Joshua scripture journal Decisional Preaching by Jim Shaddix Lunch This year our featured speakers include: Dr. Robert Smith Jr. (Author of Christ-Centered Exposition: Exalting Jesus in Joshua)Robert Smith, Jr., served as professor of Christian preaching at Beeson for more than 25 years and held the Charles T. Carter Baptist Chair of Divinity. Previously, he served as the Carl E. Bates Associate Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Allan Moseley Dr. Allan Moseley is the Senior Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Since 2010, Dr. Moseley’s work at Southeastern has been exclusively teaching courses in Old Testament and Hebrew. In addition, he serves regularly as an interim pastor, and for ten years was the pastor of Christ Baptist Church in north Raleigh. Dr. Jonathan Akin Dr. Jonathan Akin is the Vice President for Church Relations and Campus Ministries at Carson-Newman University. He also serves as the Director of a pastor training program for the North American Mission Board called “Leadership Institute” and as an adjunct Old Testament professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. |
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