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Kansas City Kansas Baptist Association
10101 W. 87th Street, Suite 200
Overland Park, KS 66212
913.599.4455
www.kckba.org
info@kckba.org
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Monday, June 17, 2013
He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." Luke 10:2 (NIV)
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Important Reminder!
KNCSB LISTENING SESSIONS
All are Invited!
Tuesday, June 18, 6:30 p.m.
Fellowship Baptist Church
1325 South Ridgeview Road, Olathe, KS
Monday, June 24, 6:30 p.m.
Parkway Baptist Church
12320 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, KS
KNCSB Executive Director Bob Mills appointed a Future Directions Task Force to study how our state convention (KNCSB) and local associations can be most effective in serving the local churches. The Task Force has met quarterly for the last two years reviewing our past, defining our current reality, and looking into the future. This Task Force wants to meet with interested pastors, staff, and church members to give a brief report and then listen to gather input from you.
Two Listening Sessions have been scheduled in which KCKBA church members may meet with representatives from the Task Force and Bob Mills. You will hear about the new direction and plans of the North American Mission Board and how they will affect the Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists and the Kansas City Kansas Baptist Association. There will also be a time for you to ask questions and share your thoughts with the Task Force. The sessions will be Tuesday, June 18, 6:30 p.m., at Fellowship Baptist Church of Olathe, and on Monday, June 24, 6:30 p.m., at Parkway Baptist Church of Kansas City, Kansas. Make plans to attend one or both of these.
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Click icon above for latest news from the Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists
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Please give us the opportunity to pray and celebrate with you how God is working in your church and community. Send your information to info@kckba.org.
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Kansas City has been selected by the North American Mission Board as a Send City. The emphasis is for churches to partner with one another to plant new works and helping struggling churches to be revitalized for Kingdom building. Click on the icon above to learn more about ways you can help in the Send City process and about the upcoming Send City conference in Dallas. Pastors, staffs, and members are invited to attend.
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Saturday, September 14
First Baptist Church
Raytown, Missouri
9:00-11:30 a.m.
Choose 2 of 21 topics
For teachers of all ages, deacons, pastors, staff
Cost: $5/person
($50 maximum/church)
Go to www.kcmalt.info for course descriptions or to make free child care reservations.
Sponsored by
Blue River-KC, Clay-Platte & KCK Baptist Association
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BLUE VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH has VBS DECORATIONS AND SUPPLIES they are willing to pass on to any other church who can help take them down and pick them up on Friday, June 21. Contact JWes Crocket (JWes.Crockett@bluevalleybaptist.org or 913.897.9669) for more details.
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Click on the logo above for a list of KCKBA Churches VBS Dates.
Contact information is included for each VBS. If you have materials and decorations that you can pass on to another church, please make the contact directly with that VBS Director through the links on the spreadsheet.
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Telling Secrets
- Frederick Buechner
As I see it . . .God acts in history, including our brief human histories, not as the puppeteer who sets the scene and works the strings but rather as the great director who, no matter what role fate casts us in, conveys to us somehow from the wings how we can play those roles in a way to enrich and ennoble and hallow the whole vast frame of things including our own small but crucial parts in it. He does this if we have our eyes, ears, and hearts open and sometimes even if we don't.
In fact, I am inclined to believe that God's chief purpose in giving us memory is to enable us to go back in time so that if we didn't play those roles right the first time around, we can still have another go at it now. We cannot undo our old mistakes or their consequences any more than we can erase old wounds that we have both suffered and inflicted; but, through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time, we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt both us and other people resulting in our stunted growth as human beings.
Perhaps another way of saying it is that memory makes it possible for us both to bless the past, even those parts of it that we have always felt cursed by, and also to be blessed by it.
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Romans 12:1-3
- The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life -- your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life -- and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.
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Kansas City Kansas Baptist Association
10101 W. 87th Street, Suite 200
Overland Park, KS 66212
Phone: 913.599.4455
www.kckba.org
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