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CARROLL-BENTON BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONAL
FBC Huntingdon
Sunday, April 14
Registration at 1:30 pm
Drills begin at 2:00 pm
The Regional Bible Drill will be at FBC Milan on Saturday, April 27
Registration at 9:30 am
Drills at 10:00 am

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

CBBA Executive Board Meeting
Tuesday, April 2
Prospect Baptist Church
Hollow Rock
Meal at 6:15 pm
Meeting at 7:00 pm

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

Carroll-Benton Baptist Association

Blane DeLoach
Director of Missions
fatherisfaithful@gmail.com

March/April 2019

Suzanne Cunningham
Ministry Assistant
carrollbenton1@gmail.com

Inside this
issue:
Bro. Blane’s 1
Article
Reaching Kids 2
In Your Zip
CBBA VBS 3
Leadership
Training
Carroll-Benton 4 Baptist
Associational
Bible Drill
Regional Bible 4 Drill
RENOVATE 4
CBBA Executive 4
Board Meeting

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I pray that this newsletter finds you experiencing the "peace that passes all
understanding" through our Lord Jesus Christ. As I sit at my office desk to begin
typing this letter, my heart is both saddened yet joyful. I am joyful to be living in a country where religious freedom is a reality for now. How true it is that in so many countries Christianity is outlawed. While in Cambodia as a missionary, we would travel into Vietnam and have to smuggle Bibles into the country in-between our blue jeans and t-shirts. I remember going over at one time into Vietnam and teaching at a Bible School that disguised itself as a flower shop. They were flowers all over the sidewalk, which they actually sold to make money for the family in whose home the Bible School operated. There were so many flowers that they covered the entire front door, and when you looked behind you after reaching the door it looked like a jungle. However, as you entered the front living room desks were set up for twenty eager
students who couldn't wait to learn more from God's Word. Some had just arrived
after a 24 hour bus trip from their village in the mountains into Hanoi where the school was located. What dedication and desire those dear Vietnamese saints had for Jesus!
I am thankful that we, as Americans, don't experience this same type of scrutiny.
Fortunately, we are able to gather in our houses of worship each Sunday to seek the face of God in worship and have the freedom to hear the Word of God preached. For those of us called to the ministry, may we fulfill our calling "in season and out of
season", when times are good and times are bad. What our world so desperately needs to hear is the gospel of Jesus Christ. And if we as believers don't share the gospel, our world (our friends, neighbors, and family members) will remain lost and may never know the sweetness of God's grace, mercy, and love. It saddens me that so many live life dead. I had a friend who use to say, "If you aren't born again, you're dead". His theology was straight on point. At any moment one of those we love the most, who hasn't heard a clear presentation of the gospel, may step over into eternity and come face-to-face with a holy and righteous God. Scripture says that it's "God's desire that none may perish, but that all may come to repentance" and have life through Jesus Christ our Lord. If God's own Son came to "seek and to save that which was lost" let us not take salvation lightly. With our whole heart may we desire the salvation of all men. And with our whole heart may we go to all men and share the grace of God. May we be a people found faithful, and may we one day hear the words "Well done thou good and faithful servant". May God pour out his richest blessings upon you in the months ahead!
For God's Glory,
Blane DeLoach
DOM, CBBA

FBC McKenzie
Tuesday, April 30
6:30-8:45 PM
Reaching KIDS in Your ZIP is designed to equip church staff and volunteers with strategies for reaching unchurched kids and family members in their community.
This FREE training will benefit all children’s leaders regardless of the curriculum used.
NEW THIS YEAR: A special track will be offered for emerging student leaders.
Bring your youth and youth leaders who will be working with kids through Mission Trips, VBS, Backyard Kids Club and VBS this summer.
Training Topics Include:
10 Things You Need to Know about Working with Kids
Sharing the Gospel with Kids and Unchurched Family Members
Expand Your Reach through Student Leaders (Discover ways to invest, equip,
and mentor young leaders.)
Reaching Your Community through Backyard Kids Club
Developing a Prayer Strategy for Reaching Your Community
Follow-Up that Makes a Difference
Keeping Your Ministry Safe and Secure
Sponsored by the TBMB Childhood Ministry

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Monday, April 8
Carroll-Benton Baptist Association
Vacation Bible School Leadership Training
First Baptist Church, Huntingdon
This conference will provide specific training for those using
Lifeway’s In the Wild: Amazing Encounters with Jesus curriculum.
The schedule for the evening:
5:30 – 6:00 Meal in the Family Life Center Pat Wright (Huntingdon)
6:15 – 6:30 Opening Rally in Worship Center David Boyd (Camden)
theme song, door prizes, and directions for conference attendance
6:30 – 8:15 Conferences
Directors (for all directors and pastors) Mark Coggins (Sugar Tree)
Preschool (teachers of children birth – K) Lisa Boyd (Camden)
Grade 1 & 2 leaders Angie Moore (Trezevant)
Grade 3 & 4 leaders Cathy Coggins (Sugar Tree)
Grade 5 & 6 leaders (VBX) Linda Furr (Trezevant)
Music rotation leaders David Boyd (Camden)
Mission rotation leaders Gisela Hodges (Huntingdon)
Craft rotation leaders Robin Bost (Huntingdon)
8:15 – 8:30 Open house & snack display
Please call 986-8818 for supper reservations by April 5 for the In the Wild training.

Calendar of Events
March 11 - Pastor’s Meeting
10:30 am, CBBA Mission Center
March 15-16 YEC, Nashville
March 25 - Pastor’s Meeting
10:30 am, CBBA Mission Center
April 8 - Pastor’s Meeting
10:30 am, CBBA Mission Center
April 22- Pastor’s Meeting
10:30 am, CBBA Mission Center

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Bethel $ 1373.65
Bruceton FBC $ 535.75
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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
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Hopewell $ 299.32
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This reflects the receipts
That were received by
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