Update on Pastor Terry Glover

Dear Pastors,

We are pleased to pass on good news regarding Pastor Terry Glover.  His back surgery went well on Tuesday.  Today (Wednesday) the physical therapist put a back brace on Terry and got him up and walking -- successful morning!  Terry was able to walk some and sit in a chair for about an hour.  His return to home is scheduled between 3-5 days depending on his progress.  Please continue to pray for Terry and his family as he goes through this recovery period.  We are so grateful that God does answer prayer!!

Rita A. West

Ministry Assistant, MVSBA

1363 Fifth St., Clovis CA 93612

PH: 559-297-5550

mvsba@yahoo.com

Weekly Update - 12/07/06

Prayer Requests

• Pastor Terry Glover of FSBC Coalinga - Terry is in the hospital with severe back pain.
• Ron Climer - he will have surgery on Monday, Dec. 11
• Alan McWhorter
• Alan Greaves
• Pray for Ray and Penny Young, our IMB missionaries in Spain. Pray they will be abel to find ways to develop relationships with the Basque people.

Mission Mobilization

Can churches have a presence in public schools? Yes! Aaron Kellar of Grantland Avenue Baptist Church leads several Good News Clubs on school sites. He is available to show MV churches how they can start a Good News Club in their local schools. Contact Aaron at 276-0097 or at akredeemed@gmail.com

Liferock Baptist Church Parlier - Pray for Pastor George Sanchez and the leadership of Liferock Baptist Church in Parlier as they work to plant this new church. Liferock began meeting in the elementary school in Parlier in April. A cluster of churches support the new work: Annadale Baptist Sanger, FSBC Sanger, FSBC Reedley, and FSBC Selma.

Mid-Valley Missions Team Meeting - January 11, 2007, 6-8pm at Copper Springs Church, Clovis. This is open to all church mission leaders who want to connect with other church mission leaders to do mission more effectively together. Please bring a dish to share for dinner.

Juvenile Hall and Boot Camp Christmas Parties 2007 - God did a great work over the last three nights at Juvenile Hall and Boot Camp. Carol Climer reports the following totals for all three night:

• 17 Mid-Valley churches were involved
• 289 volunteers
• 472 youth minterested to
• 111 staff ministered to
• 177 professions of faith
• 105 rededications

Carol writes: "This is Amazing Grace!! Thank you for all that you have done and will continue to do for the troubled youth in Fresno County." Special thanks to Ron & Carol Climer for the countless hours of preparation, prayer, and coordination. Thanks also the team leaders and volunteers for loving threse youth enough to communicate Christ's love to them face to face. Finally, thanks to the staff at the institutions that literally open their doors to us for this ministry. The was the 33rd year that MV churches have led this high impact effort. See all the reports here .

Leadership Development

Lunchtime Leadership Series 2007
What: Willow creek Leadership Summit - DVD followed by group discussion.
Time: Thursday from 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
Place: Crosspoint Church, 2518 N. Cedar, Fresno (in the Green Room)
Registration: None required, bring own lunchWho: Pastors, staff, lay leaders will benefit
Dates:

• January 25, 2007: The Life Cycle of a Leader, by Bill Hybels
• February 8: Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars, by Patrick Lencioni
• February 22: Dead Leader Running, by Wayne Cordiero
• March 8: Focused Leadership - My Best Leadership Decision, by Andy Stanley
• March 22: Tribal Warfare, by Peg Neuhauser
• April 12: When Business Thinking Fails the Church, by Jim Collins

Series

Seminary Extension Classes for 2006-2007 -- Please call Rita at the MV office 297-5550 to register. Class fees are due on the first day of class.

1. Baptist History: Jan. 23 - March 20, 2007. Teacher: Wendell Foss
2. Book of Acts: March 27 - May 22, 2007. Teacher: Pastor Jeb Bonine

Equip Bible Institute Classes

1. New Testament Survey 104 Mondays: 6:30 pm, begins Jan 8, 200710 sessionsInstructor: Sean PeiferLocation Grace Community Church, Madera.
2. Theology and Life 107 Mondays, 6:30 pm, begins Jan. 8, 200710 sessionsInstructor: Tom SimsLocation: Baptist Temple, Fresno.
3. Tentative Course, Spanish Speaking, Old or New Testament Survey call Philip Aaron at 646-0228 for more information.

Fellowship/Networking

Minister's Breakfast Next Week.... Each Tuesday morning at Country Waffle, Blackstone & Dakota, 8:00 - 9:30 am. the speaker on Tuesday, Dec. 12 will be Richard Vera. Topic: Multi ethnic evangelism.

Pastors Prayer Cluster - All Mid-Valley pastors are invited to a weekly Pastors Prayer Cluster. We meet every Thursday at 10:00 am, Crosspoint Church. Join us as we pray for our churches and community. For further information, please contact Pastor Johnny Mendez at 227-5366 or 824-4821.

Tsunami Student Conference, Long Beach, December 28-30, 2006.Tsunami is a statewide 3-day student event that focuses on growing as Christians and learning how to tell others about Jesus. This is a high energy, high impact event that challenges every student to make life-changing commitments. As of this week over 2,500 are registered. Hotel rooms are still available. Reserve your room here.

Childrens Camp 2007 - New format, new activities, exciting music, challenging recreation, mission project, reduced price!!! Two great camping opportunities for 2007:

1. 6th through 8th Grade Camp - June 17-20, 2007 - God's Purpose, Plan, and People
2. 3rd through 5th Grade Camp June 20-23, 2007 - Bible Bee: Discovering God's Word in God's Creation Location: Camp Sierra.Lee Yarbrough, Camp Director.

Check here for updates, program collaboration, and fund-raising ideas to send kids to camp.
Church News

The Temple Skate ChurchSundays, 3:00 pm at Baptist Temple, 4141 N. Fresno Street, Fresno. Check it out here.

Looking for a Popcorn machine? Call Herman Christensen at Woodward Park Baptist Church, 298-7087. This is a commercial size machine. WPBC will give it free to a church who can use it. Please call before Dec. 20th.

Cornelia Avenue Baptist Church reached around the world with 102 Operation Christmas Shoeboxes that were mailed to boys and girls in countries like the Sudan. Many volunteers from Cornelia also participate in the Juvenile Hall/Boot Camp Christmas parties.

Boot Camp - Wednesday Night Praise Report

From Carol Climer:

Team Leaders!!!

Thank you for hosting another successful party!!!! The event at Boot Camp (for those of you who have never been to the party) is very different than Juvenile Hall. The cadets come into their cafeteria and stay seated at tables. The only time they can get up is to go through the food line. Also, the cadets cannot receive gifts. We are on a strict time limit and the cadets march out by 8:00 p.m.

Last night Jason Oxford (Cornelia Avenue Southern Baptist Church) led the group in singing Christmas Carols. He does a great job moving around the room and inner acting with the boys. Tom Sims (pastor of Baptist Temple) tells the Christmas story in a very unique way and then finishes with a beautiful solo (if you have never heard Tom sing you have missed a blessing). The boys are spell bound when he sings. Randy Maynard (pastor of Cornelia Avenue Southern Baptist Church) then read the Christmas story from the Bible. He has a unique love for these cadets and communicates that very effectively as he talks to each boy personally.

The boys then go through the food line (twice!!!). Our volunteers mingle with the boys as they eat and share one on one with them.

I want to take this opportunity to personally thank Janice Oxford (Cornelia Avenue) organizing this party - this one is not easy. She also prepares all the refreshments for the outside staff at Juvenile Hall - beautifully packaged.

The stats are as follows:

6 Churches with
25 Volunteers - ministered to
136 Cadets and
12 Officers with
63 Professions of Faith and
32 Rededicaitons

Grand Total for Three Nights:

17 Southern Baptist Church Involved with
289 Volunteers - ministered to
472 Youth and
111 Staff with
177 Professions of Faith and
105 Rededications

This is AMAZING GRACE!! Thank you for all that you have done and will continue to do for the troubled youth in Fresno County. The prayer requests that the boys and girls wrote down are being typed up (not an easy job) by Dee Ann Douglass (Baptist Temple). Her goal is to get them to you by Saturday so your group and/or church will have the opportunity to continue to pray for the kids you ministered to.

Thank you again for your hard work - which paid off without any incidents of any kind - for the 33rd year!!!!

May God bless you all for the masterpiece you participated in - in changing the lives of those incarcerated.

Covered by His grace,
Carol

Juvenile Hall - Tuesday Night Praise Report

Team Leaders!!!

What a great time we had on the commitment side tonight! You are all to be congratulated on the great parties you hosted. Thank you for leading and enlisting servant volunteers.

Stats for Tuesday Night:

8 Churches participated with
121 Volunteers present (a total of 154 signed up)

149 Incarcerated youth received gifts and a party with
41 Staff attending the parties

33 Youth accepted Christ
42 Made rededications

Totals for Both Nights

18 Churches participated (some did parties both nights)
264 Volunteers attended
306 Youth were ministered to (with 30 in lock down - ministered to one on one)
99 Staff attended the parties
459 Gift bags were given to the youth and staff
114 Youth made professions of faith
73 Youth made rededications

Note to Entire Monday and Tuesday Group: I applaud each and everyone of you and your groups. Ronnie and I were so proud of the way you handled your units. Thank you for the food and drinks you provided to the kids and staff. The staff just could not say enough good things about the parties. They said you are great people and that it was a pleasure for them to work with you.

Tonight we had a small challenge with our high security unit but Northpointe stepped up to the plate and made it work. They had to divide their group into two parts and conduct two simultaneous parties with programs and refreshments being in separate rooms.

I want to personally thank First Southern, Sanger - First Southern, Reedley - and Lifeway for going the second mile in hosting parties for both nights. Tonight they hosted the SAU (substance abuse unit) and 29 visiting parents. These churches provided food for 100 (lots of staff in this area). We were able to give an ornament and a bag of candy (Janice Oxford from Cornelia Avenue bagged these) to each parent as they left the facility.

I'm asking that you share the results with your pastors and church leaders. We are so proud of Southern Baptists and the ministry they provide with this event each year. Thank you for your faithfulness. Please be in prayer as we take in approximately 40 volunteers from 7 churches to host one huge party at Boot Camp for 205 cadets and staff tomorrow night.

Standing in awe of His grace,

Carol Climer

Juvenile Hall - Monday Night Praise Report

From: Carol Climer

To: Team Leaders

Thank you for your hard work!!!!!! Tonight was truly a time to give God all the glory. He touched this event with His hand of grace!!!

I've just finished adding all the numbers and wanted to give you the results of the Monday night party. This is also being sent to those of you who will be leading the Tuesday night party.

Keep in mind that this event is put on totally by Southern Baptists:

13 Churches Particiapted with
143 Volunteers Present (a Total of 176 signed up)

157 Incarcerated Youth Received gifts and a party with
58 Staff attending the parties

22 Incarcerated Youth were locked down for security purposes and did not have a party but gifts were placed in their property - they will receive the gifts when they are released or change units

210 Bags of gifts were given tonight - 179 given to the youth on the detention side with the remaining 31 to be given to the next 31 kids incarcerated

The reason for the parties is to lead these young people to the saving knowlege of Jesus Christ or to strengthen them in their walk with the Lord through a rededication. Keep in mind that Ron works with 17 chaplains to minister to these kids on a daily basis - so your efforts and results tonight are a huge blessing and will require lots of hours of follow up - praise God!!!!

81 Youth accepted Christ
31 Made Rededications

And the majority asked for prayer. One of my volunteers will be typing up the decision sheets and you will be emailed your groups decisions and prayer requests (hopefully this week).

The staff praised all of you!!!! They were so pleased with your smiles, attitudes, and your preparations for the kids with absolutely no problems in the units. Thank you for your sweet spirits in the units tonight.

We want to especially thank Alma Bray and her team from Sierra Heights for their understanding attitude and gracious relocation. For those of you not present tonight - Alma's group has done the high security unit for 32 years - tonight her unit - for the first time was locked down - so we reassigned them to work with another group. No complaints - just a willingness to serve!!!!

You left your fingerprints in the hearts of young people tonight that God will nurture for the rest of their lives. Thank you for sharing your love and truth of our Saviour with these young incarcerated youth.

In awe of God's grace,
Carol