The association is a cooperative connection of churches that
strengthen churches and to advance the message of Christ to all peoples. How can we be more effective in accomplishing
this mission?
The three C's of Mid-Valley missions are Cooperation, Collaboration,
and Communication. These are the key
strategies that will propel our local mission efforts going forward. The Association Executive Board met this
month and affirmed these key strategies of doing local missions together. None of these is new. All of them need more focused attention.
Mid-Valley Association is focusing its efforts for 2012 and
beyond on:
- Strengthening
Mid-Valley churches - With about 70 congregations partnering together, we
have the resources among our sister churches to help sister churches be more
effective. Together, Mid-Valley churches
baptize about 500 people each year. Church
to church connections can help each church multiply its effectiveness.
- Extending
the gospel to unreached peoples and communities in the Mid-Valley - There
are about 900,000 people in the Mid-Valley who do not yet follow Jesus
Christ. There are eight valley cities
with no ongoing Southern Baptist witness.
The need among the Hispanic communities is even greater. Fifteen valley cities have significant
Hispanic population, yet have no ongoing Southern Baptist witness. Also, many of the unreached communities are
not geographic, but represent an ethnic or language group living in many
neighborhoods.
What do the three Cs mean?
- Collaboration - Partners
work jointly to create something new. Each
partner has equal ownership of the problem and the solution. We collaborate to strengthen churches and
extend the gospel.
- Cooperation - The
co-action of partners with a common goal.
Cooperation has been the hallmark of Southern Baptist relationships since
1845. Cooperation will be central to our
future mission efforts. We cooperate to
strengthen churches and extend the gospel.
- Communication - Exchanging
information among partners. Cooperation
is based on communication and trust. Trust
is built and strengthened though effective communication. The most effective communication is face to
face, heart to heart. These
conversations should be supplemented though every other means available. We communicate to build trust toward
strengthening churches and extended the gospel.
Please pray for the MV team for 2012. These are the ones who will be working among us
to strengthen churches and extend the gospel through though cooperation,
collaboration, and communication.
- Association Missionary - Rich Johnstone
- Fellowship/Networking - Tom Sims
- Ministry Training Events - Beverly Regensberg
- Counseling Resource Center and related
ministries - Ron and Carol Climer
- Hispanic Church Planting - Alci Rengifo
- Mission Mobilizer Consultant - Ray Young
- Church to Church Connections -
For Christ!
Rich Johnstone, Director of Missions
do something more for his community than farm labor. Mr. Singh and his wife are learning English at the Kerman Friendship Center. Please pray for Don Fisher and the volunteers from FSBC Kerman who are providing citizenship classes and English conversation classes.
rch members. See you there!
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Alci Rengifo is now serving Mid-Valley Association as our Hispanic Church Planting Consultant. Alci will be developing partnerships among Mid-Valley churches in support of new churhces in unreached communities. He will also be discovering and enlisting church planters. Alci is serving as pastor of Central Baptist Church of Riverdale as well as the president of the Central Valley Hispanic Fellowship. He is maried to Carolina. Contact Alci to discover how to engage in significant mission work among our Hispanic friends. Phone 867-3063, email 