News from Mid-Valley Southern Baptist Association

Mid-Valley Southern Baptist Association News and Notes June 26, 2008 Pastor's Fellowship Breakfast Tuesday mornings, 8:00 - 9:30 am, Country Waffles, Dakota/Blackstone. Promise Keepers - Manhood '08 Woodward Park Baptist Church has extra tickets for $65 each. Call the church office at 298-7087. Church News... Are you planning to purchase fireworks to celebrate July 4th? If so please visit one of the following locations hosted by Mid-Valley churches: Crosspoint Church Booth location:2518 N. Cedar Ave (across from McLane High School) Dates: June 28th - July 2 (1 pm - 10 pm) July 4 (10 am - 12 midnight w/free snow cones!) July 5 (1 pm - 5 pm) Benefits: Students attending 2008 Tsunami State Youth Conference First So. Baptist Church Sanger Booth location: Jensen & Academy in Sanger Dates: June 28-July 4 Benefits: FSBC Sanger Youth Group Woodward Park Baptist Church Booth location: Herndon & Blythe on Spaatz (near Northpointe Church) Dates: June 29 - July 4 Benefits: WPBC Youth Ministry Fellowship of Christian Atheletes Booth location: NE corner of Chestnut & Butler (Vallarta Market shopping center across from Seminary @ Fresno Pacific) Dates: June 29 - July 4 Benefits: Fellowship of Christian Atheletes Cornelia Avenue Southern Baptist Booth location: on church property at SW corner of Cornelia and Clinton Aves Benefits: Youth Group and AWANA Ministries Copper Springs Church Clovis Booth location: on church property at 1363 Fifth St, Clovis (Fifth/Sunnyside) Church News..... Vacation Bible School.......Several Mid-Valley churches have been busy this past week with VBS: FSB Selma, FSB Hanford, Copper Springs, NewLife, Trinity SB. We will try to get pictires posted next week. Woodward Park Baptist Church is conducting Rock Your World, a week long ministry to children and their families. They started out with 250 children. Look here for pictures. News from Pastor Moises Cabrera of Iglesia Bautista Central: Nueva Iglesia en Corcarán Estamos orando para iniciar una nueva iglesia bautista hispana en Corcoran, estamos haciendo todos los ajustes y planes para iniciar el día primero de julio, 2008. Se ha llamado al hno. Jorge Cortez como pastor de la nueva congregación. El hno. Cortez es ciudadano Salvadoreño, residente en los Estados Unidos desde hace 8 años. Hoy vive en Arizona, donde pastorea. Hermanos sigamos orando para que todo marche bien y pronto llegue a California a plantar la nueva congregación. Pastor Marvin Davis of Grace Community Baptist Church Fresno has posted over 30 sermons on YouTube. You can check out the latest sermon here. Upcoming Events ESL Training: Grace Community Church in Madera will be hosting Evangelistic ESL Ministry training September 4-6. The training is open to anyone interested in starting an ESL ministry at their local church. Monta Jo Erickson, California Literacy Missions Coordinator, will be training us using TELL the Good News (Teach English Language Learners). For more information please contact Mark Lacaze at 674-1172. Dates/times: Thrusday, Sept 4, 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm Friday, Sept 5, 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm Saturday, Sept 6, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Mid-Valley Association Golf Tournament September 6, 2008, 8:00 am Fresno West Golf Course (7 miles west of Kerman on Hwy 180) Create your own foursome $40/person includes cart, 18 holes of golf, pre-golf menudo, lunch, prizes Register your foursome by August 25. Send a check to MVSBA along with the names of the players. Mail to Mid-Valley Association, 825 W. Ashlan Avenue, Ste 101, Clovis 93612. Tournament Director: Alan Hix, 441-3690. Disaster Relief help needed The Disaster Relief assessment team has been to the Santa Cruz area checking on properties destroyed by recent fires. They currently have 7 requests for clean-up and are expecting more requests. The need trained disaster relief workers as well as un-trained volunteers. Please contact Renee McKinley at c-r.mckinley@sbcglobal.net and let her know if and when you can help and if you are trained or untrained in disaster relief. Un-trained volunteers will be provided on-site training. This is a good opportunity for us to show our Christian love by helping people in the Central Coast Association. Clovis World Changers 275 students from across America are in Clovis this week to communicate the love of Christ by refurbishing 27 homes. Mid-Valley churches and other sister evangelical churches have adopted work crews and are providing lunches for them daily. The California Baptist Foundation has also adopted two work crews. Dave MacNiell of Clovis Hills is directing this largest-ever effort. Terry Maldonado, also of Clovis Hills, and Bill Jones of FSBC Sanger, are the Mid-Valley Association coordinators. All are invited to the closing celebration tomorrow night at 7:30 pm which will be held at Clovis North High School. Pictures here.

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