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Calendar of Events
August 13- CBBA Pastor’s Conference
at 10:30 am
August 14 - Sunday School Conference
FBC Huntingdon
August 26-29 Faith Baptist Church
Revival

Churches, please don’t forget to turn in your VBS reports! I hope to get the ACP’s out to all the churches by the end of July. I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer.
Praying for all the teachers, parents, and students as they begin to get ready to go back to school!
Blessings!
Suzanne

Carroll-Benton Baptist Association

565 High Street
Huntingdon, TN 38344

Phone and fax:
731.986.8818
carrollbenton1@gmail.com
www.cbba1.com

The mission of the Carroll-Benton Baptist Association is to encourage fellowship & equip churches to carry out the Great Commission

Revival: Faith Baptist Church, Hollow Rock
August 26-29
Sunday 10:30 am and 6:00 pm
Mon.-Wed. 7:00 pm
Evangelist: Bro. Skip Youngcourt
Music: Bro. David Boyd
Lunch following AM service on Sunday and Finger Foods on Wednesday after service.
Special Music Each night.
Everyone is Invited
2018 Gods Day
is set for July 21 from 10 am-2 pm in
Huntingdon!!!!!! Gods Day will be at the park across from the high school.
Free food, games, live music, jumpers, and crafts for the whole family. This is a
community event so we hope to see you there!!
Sponsored by Eastview Baptist Church

Carroll-Benton Baptist Association Permit No. 49
565 High Street Non Profit Org
Huntingdon, TN 38344 U.S. Postage Paid
Huntingdon, TN 38344

The Link

Carroll-Benton Baptist Association

Blane DeLoach
Director of Missions
fatherisfaithful@gmail.com

July/August 2018

Suzanne Cunningham
Ministry Assistant
carrollbenton1@gmail.com

Inside this
issue:
Bro. Blane’s 1
Article
West TN 2
Bible Institute
Sunday School 3 Conference
Direct Missions 3
Fund
Revival at 4
Faith
God’s Day 4
Calendar of 4 Events

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
As I sit in my office this morning my mind reflects back upon my first year as the Director of Missions of the Carroll-Benton Baptist Association. There are so many good memories of good times shared with good pastors and good church members that bring a large smile to my face. From the first time I met the Godly people of the CBBA, and waited in the hallway of FBC Huntingdon as the Executive Committee voted on the sanity of a guy considering
leaving the sand-swept beaches of Hawaii to accept a position in West TN, I fell in love with the members of the churches I now help serve.
As an association we have enjoyed many wonderful times together over this past year. I have gratefully been given the privilege of preaching in many of your churches and enjoyed
numerous church potlucks (I’ve actually had to loosen my belt 2 notches in just 1 year… if I keep up this pace, I’ll have to loosen my belt 10 notches in just 5 more years… probably not a great thing for my cholesterol, haha). I also reflect back upon our Sunday School and
Discipleship training events, as well as the “3:16 Challenge” Evangelism Rally led by Dr. David Leavel, new Tennessee Baptist Mission Board President. And then perhaps the
highlight of the year, our “CBBA Women’s Christmas Banquet”! Many ladies worked
diligently behind the scenes for months to help put this together. A delicious meal was served by the kitchen crew of FBC Huntingdon and served by our pastors and men’s group (proud of you guys) to the ladies of our churches. We were then led to the sanctuary to hear the incredible testimony of my beloved wife, Sarahn. Her family escaped the harsh brutality of the “Killing Fields” of Cambodia and came to know Jesus as Lord and Savior when a Southern Baptist church in Memphis embraced the Cambodian community and shared with them the love and compassion of Christ. What an incredible night that was for the women of the CBBA! In fact, I still overhear ladies speak of how much they loved the Banquet.
As part of our mission to equip, assist, and encourage churches as an association, please see the inside portion of our newsletter. There’s a note about the West Tennessee Bible Institute. It will be the first institute of its kind in the state. It’s a Bible College experience for the
average man in the pew, plus those serving as bi-vocational, interim, or supply pastors. It will also be a great discipleship tool for church lay leaders (deacons, youth leaders, etc.) and those who may want to be groomed to help serve in one of our more needful churches in the association.
Please know that those of us here at the CBBA office are so grateful for your churches
support and for you individually. To be a part of an association like ours where we cooperate with one another and help and assist one another is truly something special. The saying,
“We are better together than we are alone”, is so true. May we as an association of Southern
Baptist churches continue to be all about Jesus: pleasing, honoring, and exalting Him!
May God’s richest blessings be yours,
Bro. Blane DeLoach

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August 14 at First Baptist Church Huntingdon
5:30 – 6:30 Meal
6:30 – 8:00 Age-group Conferences
Adult Leadership:
Ben Adkison - Church Planting Strategist – Nashville Baptist
Association
Student Leadership:
Jay Barbier – Evangelism (student evangelism) – Tennessee Baptist
Mission Board
Children’s Leadership:
Ken Hindman – Pastor, Children – Bellevue Baptist Church Cordova
Preschool Leadership: TBA
Please make meal reservations by August 6 by contacting Suzanne at the CBBA office. This event is sponsored by Carroll-Benton Baptist Association and First Baptist Church Huntingdon.
Direct Missions Fund
It is that time of year for a gift of $10 from each individual member of your church to give to the CBBA
Direct Mission Fund. The impact of such a small amount of each member’s offerings could change someone’s eternal destiny. This year $7,800 has been given to help groups and individuals go on mission trips. Our Direct Missions fund is extremely low at this time, we only have $217. We want to make it
possible that everyone who plans a mission trip receives some type of help with their financial needs this year. Thank you for your contribution to this worthy cause.
So That All May Hear: how your $10 gift to the Direct Mission Fund makes a difference in reaching the nations for our Lord Jesus Christ. (Each of these members and churches received financial help from what you gave to the Direct Mission Fund)
John Reed, member, First Baptist Church, Camden, TN: “On our churches mission trip to Belize we worked with
Mennonites which included VBS with 110 children. The highlight of the trip for me was the pure joy of looking in their eyes
and understanding for the first time they could have a heart relationship with Jesus and not just a head relationship”.
Hunter Jones, Pastor, Eastview BC, Huntingdon, TN As of 2014 Eastview had never taken a mission trip outside the walls of Huntingdon. However, as of 2018, the church has embarked on 7 trips and have sent over 60 different people into different parts of the world…This would not have been possible without the help and support of the missions fund through our association. At Eastview, we teach the importance of being farmers in this world, seed planters. The opportunities that missions allow is exactly that”.
Ladona Herrin, member, First Baptist Church McKenzie, Associational Director of the WMU: “We received funding to take the gospel of Jesus to Malta where there are only 400 believers out of a population of 420,000. Our first trip was in 2012 when we started a Women’s Retreat. We have done one each year since then. We have begun to turn the planning over to the Maltese ladies so that they may disciple others, planting their own seeds, and watering them with their tears. There is no doubt that in years to come the church in Malta will look back on the Carroll-Benton Baptist Association and credit our efforts as
having played a big part in the spiritual growth of the Maltese churches.”
Matthew Greer, Pastor, Missionary Grove BC, Camden, TN: “The Direct Mission Fund has benefitted us greatly. We have taken 5 trips to Honduras, 1 to Trinidad, and are going back to Honduras in October. We have people in our church who could not have gone on these trips without the benefit of the Fund. Because of the Direct Mission Fund of the CBBA we have seen souls saved and sins forgiven!”

Atwood FBC $ 1337.88
Bethel $ 1373.65
Bruceton FBC $ 535.75
Camden FBC $ 4579.79
Chalk Level $ 1030.85
Concord $ 80.00
Coopers Chapel $ 0
Eagle Creek $ 300.00
East Side $ 408.00
Eastview $ 487.94
Eastwood $ 0
Enon $ 240.00
Eva $ 1251.60
Fairview $ 60.00
Faith $ 168.79
Grace $ 300.00
Holladay $ 450.00
Hopewell $ 299.32
Howse $ 719.73
Huntingdon FBC $ 5998.38
Liberty Hill $ 36.86
McKenzie FBC $ 6208.20
McLemoresville $ 687.92
Missionary Grove $ 1063.50
Mt. Nebo $ 906.03
Natchez Trace $ 481.66
Prospect $ 75.00
Republican Grove $ 150.00
Sugar Tree $ 369.65
Tennessee River $ 102.00
Trezevant FBC $1127.75
Union Academy $ 346.00
$31176.25
For the 2nd Quarter 2009

This reflects the receipts
That were received by
June 30, 2009