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| October 14, 2026 | |
 Click any title to jump to that section. | Let’s Celebrate Baking for Babies Timothy Project Upcoming Opportunities: Coats for City Collection Momentum Youth Rally Fall Meeting and Celebration with Joint Worship Gospel Legacy Senior Adult Training Pray for our CRBA Pastors of the Week More CRBA Calendar Events Resource of the Week Church & Ministry Partner News |
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 10.11.2026Michael Preaching at Catawba Valley Baptist Church Pray for Catawba Valley Baptist Church as they continue their Senior Pastor Search Process. In the service, they honored Jim Smith for faithfully serving at CVBA. They had a lunch immediately after the service as a Pastor Appreciation time.  Pregnancy Care Center Day of Life Event – Burkemont Thank you CRBA Churches for so beautifully representing your stance for life by supporting this great work in our county! Even though the rain came down, the people showed up! | Preparing to Gather at our Annual MeetingIn just a few days, we will gather together at Mount Home Baptist Church for our Annual Meeting. Our Ministry Teams, host church, and office has been busy working to prepare for this annual gathering. Our last association wide gathering happened at our Praise & Prayer on the Square – a wonderful time of combined worship and witness. Now, we gather to celebrate all that God is doing in and through our churches. As I have been preparing for our gathering, I’ve been praying through the markers that will guide our cooperative efforts for the upcoming year. Here’s a preview of what you will see in our handout on Sunday. This captures “7 Markers of Meaningful Progress.” 01 | MORE CHURCHES PURSUING RENEWAL. Engaging more congregations in honest, hopeful conversations about church health, revitalization, and renewed Great Commission effectiveness. 02 | BETTER, NOT JUST BUSIER. Continually evaluating and refining our existing ministries to ensure that our efforts and resources are serving churches effectively and advancing our shared mission. 03 | EQUIPPED TO GO. Equipping more believers to share their faith through practical evangelism training and intentional opportunities to engage the lost. We are praying for the highest baptism numbers to occur in 2027. This goal (03) connects with the new ReachNC initiative at the state level. 04 | STRENGTHEN AND START. Pursuing church planting and replanting opportunities while remaining deeply committed to strengthening and supporting our existing congregations. 05 | ALL IN. TOGETHER. Cultivating a broader participation culture where more CRBA churches actively share their wisdom, resources, gifts, and encouragement with one another. We want to see more investing in CRBA work. 06 | NO CHURCH STANDING ALONE. Proactively identifying churches facing challenges and connecting them with the relationships, resources, and practical assistance needed to move forward in ministry. 07 | GOSPEL FIRST. ALWAYS. Keeping the message and mission of Jesus Christ at the forefront of every ministry, partnership, investment, and initiative we undertake. — Our measure of progress is not simply how much the association does, but how effectively our churches are strengthened, our leaders are encouraged, and the gospel advances through our collective efforts. |
 | Coats for the City – COLLECTION POINT Our Annual Meeting is a collection point for the “Coats for the City” project. We will have collection boxes available at Mount Home for you to drop off coats. Note: Coats are to be new (or like new) and suitable for a cold, New York climate. We have a team of CRBA volunteers going to assist with this project in NY. |
 Take a Thursday BreakBe equipped and encouraged. | Pastor’s Luncheon Thursdays – 12noon “Strengthen what Remains” An interactive conversation on renewal. Building on the conversation led by Terry Long two weeks ago, let’s gather to consider what it means to Strengthen what Remains. Just over a month ago, we traveled to Sardis in Revelation 3. Let’s revisit this text and have a brief, practical discussion of our next steps of renewal and revitalization. Discussion will be led by Michael Hodge |
| Let’s Celebrate | ||
Timothy Project We are so excited for the work God is doing in the lives of these young people, raising up church leaders! Thank you to David Mills for sharing this month on Church Conflict and Resolution. If you have a student interested in vocational ministry, please get them connected with Timothy Project! | Baking for Babies | |
| Upcoming Opportunities | ||
 The CRBA Youth will gather at 4:15 for pizza and fellowship at Burkemont Baptist Church. 5:00 will begin the joint youth worship service with Guest Speaker Jesse Carr. | .jpg?__nocache__=1) Joint Worship Celebration at 6pm at Mount Home Baptist Church with a combined CRBA choir. Don’t miss it! | |
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| Praying for our CRBA Pastors | |
 Churches Without Senior Pastors Bethlehem Community Missionary FBC Connelly Springs FBC Morganton Catawba Valley Silver Creek | Each week, we feature several of our Pastors who faithfully serve in our CRBA churches. We are providing a contact email for encouragement purposes. Action Step: Pray for these churches and pastors – then send an email of encouragement and support! Featured Pastors for this Week(We continue to pray for Lakeview as they remember Pastor Kenny Baker who passed away recently)Mission Church (Pastor Billy Glosson- billy@coramdeonc.com) Missionary Ridge Baptist Church (Pastor Darren Browning- browning262@bellsouth.net)Morganton First Deaf Mission (Pastor Larry Barnes- larrybarnes74@gmail.com) Mount Calvary Baptist Church (Pastor Stephen Collins- pastor.mtcalvaryvaldese@gmail.com) Mount Home Baptist Church (Pastor Ethan Cromer- ethan@mounthomebaptist.org)CRBA Churches Seeking Staff Please be in prayer for our churches seeking to fill staff positions. When we have a new position posted it will appear in this newsletter for a few weeks, but all our positions are always available to view on our website. Burkemont Baptist Church is seeking a Promotion Assistant. To see job description plese go to our website. If interested contact llane@burkemontbaptist.org |
| More CRBA Calendar Events | ||
 | October Coats for the City Collection 18- Fall Meeting @ Mt. Home @ 4:30 and 6pm worship 18- Coats for the City Donations due at Fall Meeting 18- Momentum Youth Rally @ Burkemont @ 4:15 19-20- CRBA Youth Fall Mission Trip- Helene Rebuild 27- Gospel Legacy Training for Sr. Adults @ 10am November 3- Ministry Wives Event 8- Timothy Project 9- Men’s Rally @ Hopewell 21- NC Baptist Marriage Conference with Gary Chapman @ Burkemont December 1- Pastors and Wives Christmas Dinner 3-6- Coats for City Trip to NYC 7-10- Toy Store | |
| CRBA Resource of the Week | |
 | Your CRBA has a portable sound system available for you to check out for your winter events. Checking out any resource is free of charge to all our CRBA churches. If you would like to reserve any CRBA resource, just call (828) 437-0137. |
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 NC Faith and Freedom Coalition invites all Pastors to a free Lunchwon at the Morganton Community House on Oct. 23, 2026 from11:30-1:00. Use QR code to RSVP. |  Fall Revival at Pleasant Hill Oct. 25-27 Sunday 10:30 am and nightly at 6pm Guest Speaker Dr. Michael Hodge Worship Leader Daniel Hodges |
 |  High Peak Youth RallyDec. 12 6-8pm Churches call 864-510-4135 to register |