Mobile Baptist Association

"Serving Together to Make an Eternal Difference"
A Fellowship of 109 Southern Baptist Churches in
Mobile County

Upcoming Events

EPOCH Missional Church Strategy Training May 15
Wondering how to grow a church in Mobile County?  This training is for you.  EPOCH is igniting passion in pastors to help every follower of Jesus Christ to live as local missionaries along the Gulf Coast.  Mobile County and the Gulf Coast have changed.  There are new businesses, multiple religions, over 42 language culture groups, anti-Christian bias, urbanization, and over 200,000 lost people in Mobile County.  “The world as you know it no longer exists.  The world you will know is unlike anything you’ve ever seen” (Eric Miller, The 189 Most Important Trends of the 1990’s).  What should our response be?  We must learn to live as missionaries.  What is the heart of EPOCH?  It is a process.  Better yet, it is a lifestyle directed by the Spirit and marked by a passion to make disciples and gather them together for His worship and glory.  It is everyday followers of Jesus living as missionaries in their communities.  For more information and to register, please contact State Missionary Otis Corbitt in the Office of Associational Missions and Church Planting at 1-800-264-1225, ext. 332, ocorbitt@alsbom.org, or Douglas Beck, 251-433-7853, imc@mobilebaptists.org.

Youth Pastors Network Meeting May 15
The next Youth Pastors Network Meeting will be held Thursday, May 15, 6:30 p.m. at First Baptist North Mobile.  All Student and Youth Ministers are invited to come enjoy a time of fellowship between Student Ministers in the Association, sharing what is happening in your Student Ministry, swapping ideas and gaining encouragement in your ministry area; gaining prayer support in and for your ministry; and discussing opportunities and upcoming events you are providing.  Please R.S.V.P. by contacting Lori Nall, 679-3266, or lnall@fbnm.org.
 

Welcome Missionaries in Residence Gerald and Brenda Burch

We are thrilled the Lord has brought Gerald and Brenda Burch from Japan to be our first MBA Missionaries in Residence (MIR). He will help provide leadership of our Partnership Missions emphases. Please provide him opportunities to speak or promote our MBA Partnership Missions. Church members who want more information about serving with the International Mission Board or North American Mission Board in long term and short term missions options will benefit from visiting with them. Gerald also will be helping Doug with language church starting. You may contact Gerald via e-mail burch.gerald@gmail.com, or phone at the MBA office, 661-7111.
 

International Ministries Center Growth

Allows More Opportunities to Serve

The IMC needs additional host churches to participate in foreign missions at home.  Your group can pick one evening a month to bring food, drinks, and devotions for the Seafarers.  You will have many opportunities to share the Gospel and make lifelong friends with the Seafarers.  Please present this local missions need to your Sunday School class, Missions Committee, or Small Group.  Our growth presents the need to add Mondays to the current three day schedule listed below. Your students also can come any night to play volleyball and basketball with the Seafarers.  Please contact Doug Beck at 433 – 7953, or imc@mobilebaptists.org. 

We also are blessed to have volunteers from MBA churches who serve as drivers and Missionary Evangelists to the Seafarers.  Jerry Betts from Sage Avenue, Dan Brown from Fulton Road, and Bill Wood from Moffett Road serve weekly as drivers for the Seafarers.  We could not function effectively without their faithful service.  We need additional van drivers once a week or once a month to pick up the Seafarers in the port, bring them to the IMC, and take them shopping.

Mondays

1^st       Open

2^nd       Open

3^rd       Open 

4^th       Open

Tuesdays

1^st       Government Street Baptist

2^nd       Open                                                             

3^rd       East Point Baptist  

4^th       Open                                               

Thursdays

1^st       Dauphin Way Baptist & Woodridge Baptist
2^nd       Union Baptist                                                                                         

3^rd       Sage Avenue Baptist  

4^th       Forest Lawn                                    

5^th       Dayspring                                                                

Fridays

1^st        Satsuma Baptist 

2^nd       New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist                                 

3^rd       Dauphin Island Baptist

4^th       Open                                          

International Ministries Center
Christmas Celebration Summary

MSC Missionary, Harold Reagan, and Sonnie
Beck distribute gifts to some International children

The East African choir sang for our Seafarers
and other Internationals

Please contact Doug Beck, imc@mobilebaptists.org, to schedule a time for your youth, senior adults, or other local ministry/missions teams to visit, work, or serve in the International Ministries Center.  We are looking for volunteer drivers, volunteer English teachers, and volunteers and donations to paint the exterior of the building in addition to other needs.

CWP and IMC Katrina Repair updates

MBA Staff Positions available

Upcoming Training Events
MBA Newsletters and resources
Executive Committee Report

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of Undesignated Church Receipts for
Associational Missions Support.

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