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Trinity River Baptist Association

P.O. Box 1269

Liberty, TX 77575

Address Service Requested

Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage

PAID Liberty TX

Permit No. 38

Receipts December 2015

Trinity River Baptist Association February 2016

Sat, February 6 AM Mendoza & Longoria PM Dosier & Skinner Sun, February 7 AM Hinch & Gault PM Snell & Catching Sat, February 13 AM Thomas & Clark PM Hortmans Sun, February 14 AM Presnulls PM McGuires

Sat, February 20 AM Goff & Davis PM Garvins Sun, February 21 AM Shaws PM Baldridges Sat, February 27 AM C. & G. Theis PM Nichols & Kinney Sun, Feb 28 AM Smarts PM Herring & Moralas

Family Visitors’ Center Schedule

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 6-9 pm Pastor Essentials

2 6:30 pm

Gideons

3

4 10:30 am Pastor Prayer

Fellowship

5

6

7


9 6 pm

TRBA Ex Bd

Hardin Baptist 6:30 p.m. Heart for

Missions

Banquet

Hardin Baptist

10 11 10:30 am Pastor Prayer

Fellowship

12 13

14 15 6-9 pm Pastor Essentials

16


Fellowship

19 20

21


23


Fellowship

26

27

28


Dec 15 Jan-Dec 15

Batson Prairie 0.00 874.00

Berean Tabernacle 100.00 1,300.00

Calvary, Dayton 0.00 5,500.00

Calvary, Liberty 181.00 2,769.44

Center, Thicket 67.00 692.00

Central Daisetta 0.00 879.12

Central, Liberty 89.96 1,479.32

Covenant 0.00 718.14

Eminence 0.00 378.00

First Anahuac 833.33 9,999.96

First Batson 150.00 1,900.00

First Concord 0.00 93.99

First Daisetta 598.00 3,341.00

First Dayton 1,119.28 10,825.87

First Devers 358.25 4,476.39

First High Island 0.00 1,328.00

First Hull 0.00 1,867.72

First Liberty 1,295.71 16,370.16

First Saratoga 536.17 5,120.23

First Sour Lake 1,119.05 11,120.62

Grace Community 1,000.00 7,350.00

Grayburg 0.00 600.00

Gum Grove 52.89 446.44

Hardin Baptist 1,371.09 15,529.01

Heights 922.51 8,559.94

House of Living Waters 0.00 0.00

Kenefick Southern 973.86 10,924.63

Mt Calvary 0.00 5,311.92

North Main 1,275.98 12,883.89

Nuevo Amanecer 0.00 0.00

Oak Island 65.36 435.67

Old River 1,166.67 14,000.04

Pathways 105.00 1,334.00

Primera Dayton 75.00 825.00

Smith Point 36.87 565.04

South Dayton 50.00 600.00

Sweet Home 0.00 0.00

Trinity 100.00 1,200.00

West End 545.00 5,521.00

Whispering Meadows 251.25 2,966.42

Wild Country Mission 0.00 1,513.00

Interest 12.33 104.49

TOTAL 14,451.56 171,704.45

NEWSPLASH

February

February

20162016

2401 Grand Ave., Liberty, Texas 77575 936-336-9232 David Williams, Director of Missions

A Heart for Missions

Banquet features oil field chaplains

“Two weeks before the class began, we had five men enrolled,” said David Williams, TRBA director of missions, speaking of the year-long Pastor Essentials class that began on Monday, Jan. 18. “I had hoped for more,” he said. “The first class in 2015 started with 12 enrolled and graduated eight. But we were glad to have the opportunity to impact the lives of five more men called to ministry this year.” By the day of the class, the number of students had grown to 10. That afternoon it climbed to 11. Before the first session

The co-founders/directors of Oil Patch Chapel Ministries, will tell about their grow-ing ministry to oil field workers at this year’s A Heart for Mis-sions Banquet. The banquet will be at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Hardin Baptist Church. The TRBA Executive Board will meet at 6 p.m. Special music will be provided by the Hardin Quartet. Cost of the Haidusek-catered fish dinner is $12 and the reservation deadline is Feb. 3. Call 936-336-9232. Those coming will have the opportunity to contribute to a money tree for Oil Patch Chapel Ministries. When Hollas Hoffman retired in 2013 after more than 30 years as a pastor, he and his wife Nelda felt God calling them to serve as chaplains in the oilfields of South Texas. They established Oil Patch Chapel Ministries and became the first oil field chaplains en-dorsed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Since then they have recruited about 60 volunteer chaplains. The current decline in the oil industry has increased the need for ministry to oil field workers. "The telephone calls have increased," Hoffman recently told the Houston Chroni-cle. "As they lose their jobs, we get calls. I get calls from people who just want to talk. You can tell they're crying. I get calls from wives, I get calls from men. Marriage break-ups are fairly common. We've had suicidal calls. We just try to respond to whatever they call about." The annual A Heart for Missions Banquet is sponsored and led by the TRBA Women’s Missions and Ministries Team.

Great turnout for Evangelism Rally — Setting a record attendance for a TRBA event, 463 people gather

for the Jan. 24 Evangelism Rally at Old River Baptist Church, to hear Dr. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First

Baptist Church in Dallas. (More photos on page 3.)

HOLLAS AND NELDA HOFFMAN

Eighteen enroll in 2016 Pastor Essentials Class

ended, there were 13. “We put in rush orders for more books and thanked God for the sudden increase,” Williams said. The next day a 14th student enrolled. By the time the class met for its second session, there were 18. “The Lord has surprised us and amazed us,” Williams said. “It is exciting to see how He is calling out men in our area at the same time that He is providing this local, excellent, contextualized training for them right here in Liberty, Texas.”

Preparing Men Called by God — 18 students and four trainers dialogue during Pastor Essentials Class.

In God We Trust — Admiring the new “In God We Trust” decal they have just put on a

Liberty County Sheriff’s Office vehicle are, left to right, Sgt. Brett Audilet, Officer Sheila Ray,

Rodney Sellers, Sgt. Bubba Pearson, and Sheriff Bobby Rader. Rader ordered the decals

for all 60 LCSO vehicles after the state attorney general ruled last November that it was alright for emergency vehicles to display the national motto. Sellers, youth minister of

Mount Calvary Baptist in Marysee, was organizing donations to pay for the decals, but the

decal company decided to donate them. Photo courtesy of the Cleveland Advocate.

What keeps a pipeline from flowing? Sometimes the

pipeline is clogged with muck or debris. Sometimes there

is a break in a pipe. But sometimes the only problem is that nothing is going into

the pipeline. That is the problem we are seeking to address here in our associa-

tion with our Church Planting Pipeline. If we are going to see new church starts

come out of the Pipeline, then we must see three things go into the Pipeline: Men

Called by God, Churches Led by God, and People Loved by God.

Mission JourneyMission Journey

Through our 2016 Pastor Essentials Class (see story on page 1), we are continuing to prepare Men Called by God, an emphasis we began last year. This year we are adding a focus: equip-ping Churches Led by God (to start new churches). Jan. 12-14 eight of our pastors and one layman joined me for a Churches Planting Churches training event at the TRBA office. As a part of that training, each of us was challenged to develop our own Church Planting V-I-P Presentation, telling what our vision is for church planting (that’s the “V”), what our personal involvement will be (that’s the “I”), and what our plan is for carrying out that vision (that’s the “P”). We were to develop our presentation for our own church or ministry, so each would be different. The one I developed for Trin-ity River Baptist Association is in the right column of this page. It is a work in pro-gress, but it will give you a good idea of where we are going, how we plan to get there, and what I will personally be doing to help us move forward in that plan.

I wish all of you could have been in that Churches Planting Churches training event. Here are some important “take-aways” from the conference:

The most effective strategy for reaching the world for Christ is church planting.

The most biblical strategy for reaching the world for Christ is church planting.

In the U.S., more than 200 million people do not have a personal relationship with Christ. Since only China and India have total populations larger than this, that makes the U.S. the third largest mission field in the world.

In order to become a church-planting church, a congregation must have a bur-den for lost people, a willingness to step out in faith, a vision for a region, a spiri-tual maturity, a generous spirit, and a kingdom mindset.

The idea of church planting is always met with resistance, but that can be over-come with sharing information, answer-ing objections, time, and prayer.

Praying for partners in planting, David Williams

Pray for our pastorless churches First High Island, since November 2015 Steve Collazo, interim First Devers, since October 2015. Send resumes to: [email protected]. Wild Country, since May 2015 First Hull, since February 2014 John Guedry, interim First Concord, since January 2014 Richard Stidham, interim Oak Island, since December 2012

Churches Planting Churches — Nic Burleson, church planter and pastor of Timber Ridge Church in Stephen-

ville, Texas, trains Trinity River Baptists on the who, what, when, where, why and how of church planting.

VISION Develop a Church Planting Pipeline that results in a continuous flow of new church plants started by the churches of Trinity River Baptist Association.

INVOLVEMENT Prepare Men Called by God •Facilitate Pastor Essentials class •Encourage nomination of men to class •Maintain resume file of potential pastors •Encourage those looking for pastorates to consider church planting •Provide assessment of potential planters •Provide coaching/mentoring for planters

Equip Churches Led by God •Cast vision and seek to create a culture of church planting within the association •Promote the need for church planting •Encourage each pastor to consider lead-ing his church to plant a new church, or to partner with another church in planting •Provide Church Planting 101 event for churches considering planting •Partner with planting churches •Provide quarterly church planting lunch-eons

Discover People Loved by God •Encourage churches to lead their people to participate in Pray 4 Every Home initia-tive •Invite state conventions to lead us in probes of our area to find unreached peo-ples •Survey communities to find pockets of people not reached by existing churches •Study demographics to find ethnic/language and other groups that need churches

PLAN 2014 – Cast vision 2015 – Begin Pastor Essentials class to prepare men called by God 2016 – Begin Church Planting 101 to equip churches led by God – Begin Pray 4 Every Home emphasis 2017 – Begin probes/surveys/studies to discover people loved by God

Rallying for evangelism — Left, Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist

Dallas, tells Trinity River Baptists how they can be sure they are saved

and have eternal life. Below, Joe Horan and the choir and praise team

of Old River Baptist Church lead attendees in a time of musical wor-ship. Inset, Old River Vocal Band sings a special during the offering.

Pastor Essentials Class — Above, those completing the Pastor Essentials Class in 2015 are awarded their

certificates at a special Graduation Dinner at Novrozski’s. Left to right are Omar Cantu, Tim Gruver (trainer),

Dennis Odell, Bob Hammond, Michael Mitschke, Bob Tarwater, Ken Davis (trainer), Jerry Owens, Byron Sanford

(trainer), and David Williams (trainer). Graduates not pictured are Lee Weaver and Freddie Villarreal, Jr.

Below, 18 men are enrolled in the 2016 year-long Pastor Essentials Class. Left to right are, front row, Brent

Quinn (Kenefick), Israel Guia (Primera Liberty), Sam Flores (Temple Bautista, Beaumont), Ryan Claussen

(Hardin). Second row, Dave Merrell (North Main), Michael Meligan (Kenefick), Joe Strong (Pathways), Robert

Aragon (Wildwood, Spring), Joel Guia (Primera Liberty), Len Hughes (First Anahuac). Third row, Luis Montano

(Primera Liberty), Alan Diaz (Grace Community), Frankie Sanchez (Victory Outreach, Houston), Aaron Durham

(First, Tatum), Robert Wingate (Northside, Baytown), Matt Watson (Cedar Bayou, Baytown), Robert Bowden

(Second, Baytown), and Brett Falkenstine (Providence, Pasadena).

Kim Percival, pastor of Pathways, gathers the

younger congregants for a children’s sermon.

Jail ministry needs workers Both men and women are needed as volunteers to take the Good News of Jesus to inmates of the Liberty County Jail. Men visit male inmates Thursday eve-nings; women visit female inmates Satur-day mornings. Volunteers usually serve once a month. Preachers/speakers and singers/musicians are needed for each visit. For more information, contact R.N. Smart, 936-336-3370 or 936-334-4888.

Trinity River Baptist Association

P.O. Box 1269

Liberty, TX 77575

Address Service Requested

Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage

PAID Liberty TX

Permit No. 38

Receipts December 2015

Trinity River Baptist Association February 2016

Sat, February 6 AM Mendoza & Longoria PM Dosier & Skinner Sun, February 7 AM Hinch & Gault PM Snell & Catching Sat, February 13 AM Thomas & Clark PM Hortmans Sun, February 14 AM Presnulls PM McGuires

Sat, February 20 AM Goff & Davis PM Garvins Sun, February 21 AM Shaws PM Baldridges Sat, February 27 AM C. & G. Theis PM Nichols & Kinney Sun, Feb 28 AM Smarts PM Herring & Moralas

Family Visitors’ Center Schedule

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat


2 6:30 pm

Gideons

3

4 10:30 am Pastor Prayer

Fellowship

5

6

7


9 6 pm

TRBA Ex Bd

Hardin Baptist 6:30 p.m. Heart for

Missions

Banquet

Hardin Baptist


Fellowship

12 13

14 15 6-9 pm Pastor Essentials

16


Fellowship

19 20

21


23


Fellowship

26

27

28


Dec 15 Jan-Dec 15

Batson Prairie 0.00 874.00

Berean Tabernacle 100.00 1,300.00

Calvary, Dayton 0.00 5,500.00

Calvary, Liberty 181.00 2,769.44

Center, Thicket 67.00 692.00

Central Daisetta 0.00 879.12

Central, Liberty 89.96 1,479.32

Covenant 0.00 718.14

Eminence 0.00 378.00

First Anahuac 833.33 9,999.96

First Batson 150.00 1,900.00

First Concord 0.00 93.99

First Daisetta 598.00 3,341.00

First Dayton 1,119.28 10,825.87

First Devers 358.25 4,476.39

First High Island 0.00 1,328.00

First Hull 0.00 1,867.72

First Liberty 1,295.71 16,370.16

First Saratoga 536.17 5,120.23

First Sour Lake 1,119.05 11,120.62

Grace Community 1,000.00 7,350.00

Grayburg 0.00 600.00

Gum Grove 52.89 446.44

Hardin Baptist 1,371.09 15,529.01

Heights 922.51 8,559.94

House of Living Waters 0.00 0.00

Kenefick Southern 973.86 10,924.63

Mt Calvary 0.00 5,311.92

North Main 1,275.98 12,883.89

Nuevo Amanecer 0.00 0.00

Oak Island 65.36 435.67

Old River 1,166.67 14,000.04

Pathways 105.00 1,334.00

Primera Dayton 75.00 825.00

Smith Point 36.87 565.04

South Dayton 50.00 600.00

Sweet Home 0.00 0.00

Trinity 100.00 1,200.00

West End 545.00 5,521.00

Whispering Meadows 251.25 2,966.42

Wild Country Mission 0.00 1,513.00

Interest 12.33 104.49

TOTAL 14,451.56 171,704.45

NEWSPLASH

February

February

20162016

2401 Grand Ave., Liberty, Texas 77575 936-336-9232 David Williams, Director of Missions

A Heart for Missions

Banquet features oil field chaplains

“Two weeks before the class began, we had five men enrolled,” said David Williams, TRBA director of missions, speaking of the year-long Pastor Essentials class that began on Monday, Jan. 18. “I had hoped for more,” he said. “The first class in 2015 started with 12 enrolled and graduated eight. But we were glad to have the opportunity to impact the lives of five more men called to ministry this year.” By the day of the class, the number of students had grown to 10. That afternoon it climbed to 11. Before the first session

The co-founders/directors of Oil Patch Chapel Ministries, will tell about their grow-ing ministry to oil field workers at this year’s A Heart for Mis-sions Banquet. The banquet will be at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Hardin Baptist Church. The TRBA Executive Board will meet at 6 p.m. Special music will be provided by the Hardin Quartet. Cost of the Haidusek-catered fish dinner is $12 and the reservation deadline is Feb. 3. Call 936-336-9232. Those coming will have the opportunity to contribute to a money tree for Oil Patch Chapel Ministries. When Hollas Hoffman retired in 2013 after more than 30 years as a pastor, he and his wife Nelda felt God calling them to serve as chaplains in the oilfields of South Texas. They established Oil Patch Chapel Ministries and became the first oil field chaplains en-dorsed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Since then they have recruited about 60 volunteer chaplains. The current decline in the oil industry has increased the need for ministry to oil field workers. "The telephone calls have increased," Hoffman recently told the Houston Chroni-cle. "As they lose their jobs, we get calls. I get calls from people who just want to talk. You can tell they're crying. I get calls from wives, I get calls from men. Marriage break-ups are fairly common. We've had suicidal calls. We just try to respond to whatever they call about." The annual A Heart for Missions Banquet is sponsored and led by the TRBA Women’s Missions and Ministries Team.

Great turnout for Evangelism Rally — Setting a record attendance for a TRBA event, 463 people gather

for the Jan. 24 Evangelism Rally at Old River Baptist Church, to hear Dr. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First

Baptist Church in Dallas. (More photos on page 3.)

HOLLAS AND NELDA HOFFMAN

Eighteen enroll in 2016 Pastor Essentials Class

ended, there were 13. “We put in rush orders for more books and thanked God for the sudden increase,” Williams said. The next day a 14th student enrolled. By the time the class met for its second session, there were 18. “The Lord has surprised us and amazed us,” Williams said. “It is exciting to see how He is calling out men in our area at the same time that He is providing this local, excellent, contextualized training for them right here in Liberty, Texas.”

Preparing Men Called by God — 18 students and four trainers dialogue during Pastor Essentials Class.

In God We Trust — Admiring the new “In God We Trust” decal they have just put on a

Liberty County Sheriff’s Office vehicle are, left to right, Sgt. Brett Audilet, Officer Sheila Ray,

Rodney Sellers, Sgt. Bubba Pearson, and Sheriff Bobby Rader. Rader ordered the decals

for all 60 LCSO vehicles after the state attorney general ruled last November that it was alright for emergency vehicles to display the national motto. Sellers, youth minister of

Mount Calvary Baptist in Marysee, was organizing donations to pay for the decals, but the

decal company decided to donate them. Photo courtesy of the Cleveland Advocate.

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