Friday, September 24, 2010
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
2010 THANKSGIVING CONFERENCE
56Th ANNUAL THANKSGIVING MISSIONS CONFERENCE
November 22-24, 2010 | New Hope Baptist Church
Dearborn Heights, MI | Pastor Terry Adkins
Conference Theme: "HIS WORK IS HONORABLE AND GLORIOUS..." Psalm 111: 3
Sister Sue Jones will be conducting a Bible study during each session of the conference for children ages 3 thru 10. Please bring your children.
Everyone is invited to sing in our Conference Choir on Monday evening at 6:45.
For directions to New Hope Baptist Church
and/or information on lodging please contact:
Pastor Terry Adkins (313) 562-5579
MONDAY EVENING
5:00p.m. Dinner
6:30p.m. Music
6:45p.m. Singing
7:15p.m. Message: Pastor George Sled
Jordan Baptist Church, Sanford, FL
8:00p.m. Singing
8:25p.m. Message: Pastor Denny Herndon
Immanuel Baptist Church, River view, MI
TUESDAY MORNING
9:15a.m. Music
9:30a.m. Singing
9:45a.m. Message: Pastor Jonathan Turner
Southside Baptist Church, Winter Haven, FL
10:25a.m. Singing
10:30a.m. Message: Judson Hatcher
Missionary, Manaus, Brazil
11:10a.m. Break
11:15a.m. Message: Nathan Radford
Missionary, Kitale, Kenya
12:00 Noon Lunch
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
1:30p.m. BFM advisory meeting (everyone is invited to attend)
TUESDAY EVENING
5:00p.m. Dinner
6:30p.m. Music
6:45p.m. Singing
7:15p.m. Message: Pastor David Pitman
Addyston Baptist Church, Addyston, OH
8:00p.m. Singing
8:25p.m. Message: Pastor Bobby Creiglow
Lexington, KY
WEDNESDAY MORNING
9:45a.m Music
10:00a.m.
Singing
10:15a.m. Message: Pastor Louie Carver
Simpsonville, SC
11:00a.m. Singing
11:15a.m Message: Evangelist Bob Jones
Clay Mill Road Baptist Church, Lexington KY
12:00 Noon Thanksgiving Lunch
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
AUGUST REPORT
THIS UPDATE ALSO POSTED AT www.baptistfaithmissions.org
“MILES FOR MISSIONS”
If you look into the August issue of the Mission Sheets listings of the General Fund offerings, you will note an offering from First Baptist Church, Alexandria KY for $15,849.85.
Let me tell you the story behind that offering. In the beginning of this year, Pastor Ron Duty began corresponding with me about their church’s regrettable decisions concerning their overall financial cutbacks. The economic conditions affecting us all had impacted First Baptist Church, and they were necessarily reducing their ministry budgets across the board. They held off cutting their missions giving as long as they could. But, inevitably, their missions budget suffered as well.
So, they decided to give more creatively. They support several missionaries including BFM missionaries through the General Fund. They committed themselves to designating a special offering every other month to a specific missionary they support with the goal of still raising enough funds in that one special offering to at least match the annual total they had been giving that missionary during a typical whole year.
Their budgeted giving to BFM’s General Fund, though, was $1000.00 per month from their missions budget. So, they knew that matching that total annual giving in one offering would present some unique challenges.
Here’s what they did: Pastor Ron is an avid runner. Last year, he ran a Half Marathon competition in a Cincinnati event, and this year, he decided to go for the full Marathon [for the unitiated, that means 26 miles!].
Many of the participants in the Marathon race raise money through pledges for special personal causes. That’s how the “MILES FOR MISSIONS” project was inspired.
As Pastor Ron tells it, “The plan was simple: to promote the “MILES FOR MISSIONS” among our church members, other Christian friends, and even non-Christian family encouraging them to give a pledge of their own choosing towards “MILES FOR MISSIONS”. They could pledge a set amount or a per-mile amount. We promoted primarily through Facebook and had a signup list at First Baptist for encouraging all to make a pledge of some size.”
Well, Pastor Ron did, indeed, “run with endurance the race” that was set before him – ALL 26.2 miles of it! Six hours after the starting gun, he crossed the finish line – with his 10-year old son, Eli, running the last 100 yards alongside him. When all the personal commitments and per-mile pledges had been received, THE FINAL GIVING WAS $15,849.85! [Pastor Ron confesses he was shooting for $1000-1500 – but, you can’t outgive God!]
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3.20-21
Thank you, Lord!
Thank you, Pastor Ron and First Baptist Church!
And, THANK YOU, ALL OUR GIVING FRIENDS!
-________________________-
GENERAL FUND NEEDS FOR FURLOUGH TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES
One of the great needs we have this year is for offerings to cover furlough transportation expenses for our missionaries coming to the States for scheduled furloughs. Transportation costs continue to skyrocket, and we have at least 4 missionary families who are either coming or returning during 2010. Our total disbursements for Furlough Transportation will be around $20.000.00. These expenses are paid from our General Fund.
WILL YOU HELP US WITH THIS SERVICE FOR OUR MISSIONARIES?
-________________________-
2010-11 THANKSGIVING OFFERING | GOAL: $100,000.00
We are making every effort to budget and stretch last year’s THANKSGIVING OFFERING to supply our many commitments and services for our missionaries until the end of the year.
But, we will need to re-supply for next year’s expenses with the upcoming THANKSGIVING OFFERING.
Our 2009-10 THANKSGIVING OFFERING total is now $92,179.01. THANK YOU, EVERY GIVING FRIEND! We are just as thankful for the $.01 as we are for the $92,179.00!
Pray, Plan, and Prepare ahead of time for another generous, abundant THANKSGIVING OFFERING!
Please pray over 2 Corinthians 8 and Philippians 4.19 – and the many other exceedingly great and precious promises from our Provident God as you give!
“MILES FOR MISSIONS”
If you look into the August issue of the Mission Sheets listings of the General Fund offerings, you will note an offering from First Baptist Church, Alexandria KY for $15,849.85.
Let me tell you the story behind that offering. In the beginning of this year, Pastor Ron Duty began corresponding with me about their church’s regrettable decisions concerning their overall financial cutbacks. The economic conditions affecting us all had impacted First Baptist Church, and they were necessarily reducing their ministry budgets across the board. They held off cutting their missions giving as long as they could. But, inevitably, their missions budget suffered as well.
So, they decided to give more creatively. They support several missionaries including BFM missionaries through the General Fund. They committed themselves to designating a special offering every other month to a specific missionary they support with the goal of still raising enough funds in that one special offering to at least match the annual total they had been giving that missionary during a typical whole year.
Their budgeted giving to BFM’s General Fund, though, was $1000.00 per month from their missions budget. So, they knew that matching that total annual giving in one offering would present some unique challenges.
Here’s what they did: Pastor Ron is an avid runner. Last year, he ran a Half Marathon competition in a Cincinnati event, and this year, he decided to go for the full Marathon [for the unitiated, that means 26 miles!].
Many of the participants in the Marathon race raise money through pledges for special personal causes. That’s how the “MILES FOR MISSIONS” project was inspired.
As Pastor Ron tells it, “The plan was simple: to promote the “MILES FOR MISSIONS” among our church members, other Christian friends, and even non-Christian family encouraging them to give a pledge of their own choosing towards “MILES FOR MISSIONS”. They could pledge a set amount or a per-mile amount. We promoted primarily through Facebook and had a signup list at First Baptist for encouraging all to make a pledge of some size.”
Well, Pastor Ron did, indeed, “run with endurance the race” that was set before him – ALL 26.2 miles of it! Six hours after the starting gun, he crossed the finish line – with his 10-year old son, Eli, running the last 100 yards alongside him. When all the personal commitments and per-mile pledges had been received, THE FINAL GIVING WAS $15,849.85! [Pastor Ron confesses he was shooting for $1000-1500 – but, you can’t outgive God!]
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3.20-21
Thank you, Lord!
Thank you, Pastor Ron and First Baptist Church!
And, THANK YOU, ALL OUR GIVING FRIENDS!
-________________________-
GENERAL FUND NEEDS FOR FURLOUGH TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES
One of the great needs we have this year is for offerings to cover furlough transportation expenses for our missionaries coming to the States for scheduled furloughs. Transportation costs continue to skyrocket, and we have at least 4 missionary families who are either coming or returning during 2010. Our total disbursements for Furlough Transportation will be around $20.000.00. These expenses are paid from our General Fund.
WILL YOU HELP US WITH THIS SERVICE FOR OUR MISSIONARIES?
-________________________-
2010-11 THANKSGIVING OFFERING | GOAL: $100,000.00
We are making every effort to budget and stretch last year’s THANKSGIVING OFFERING to supply our many commitments and services for our missionaries until the end of the year.
But, we will need to re-supply for next year’s expenses with the upcoming THANKSGIVING OFFERING.
Our 2009-10 THANKSGIVING OFFERING total is now $92,179.01. THANK YOU, EVERY GIVING FRIEND! We are just as thankful for the $.01 as we are for the $92,179.00!
Pray, Plan, and Prepare ahead of time for another generous, abundant THANKSGIVING OFFERING!
Please pray over 2 Corinthians 8 and Philippians 4.19 – and the many other exceedingly great and precious promises from our Provident God as you give!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
JULY REPORT
THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
We thank God for every one of you who gives the offerings which supply the financial necessities our missionaries have to conduct their daily ministries. Humanly speaking, you are the means by which they continue to serve.
And, ESPECIALLY TO YOU WHO CONTRIBUTE MONTHLY TO OUR GENERAL FUND! The General Fund is the “common storehouse” from which we disburse the monthly maintenance commitments we have made to our missionaries.
THE ‘ESSENTIAL MONTHLY TRANSACTIONS’ [EMT or Tier 1 General Fund Disbursements] WE MAKE TO OUR MISSIONARIES WITHOUT FAIL EACH MONTH [as the Lord provides through you] CONTINUE TO EXCEED $42,000.00 PER MONTH.
{These standard commitments and disbursements are besides the other more periodical commitments/disbursements we make to them during the year AS NEEDED [PRN or Tier 2 General Fund Disbursements]. FOR EXAMPLE: we will disburse about $17,000.00 over the course of 2010 for Furlough Transportation expenses for our missionaries who are due scheduled furloughs.}
Included in these standard ESSENTIAL MONTHLY TRANSACTIONS are:
$20,426.00 for salaries
$10,950.00 for standard monthly expense accounts for housing and ministry expenses
$1662.50 to publish their newsletters and reports in these Mission Sheets
$9245.94 for hospitalization premiums.
THAT AMOUNT FOR HOSPITALIZATION PREMIUMS REFLECTS A RECENT 10% INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR – AND WE ARE PLANNING TO ADD ANOTHER ONE OF OUR FAMILIES TO THE PLAN WHICH WILL INCREASE THE MONTHLY PREMIUMS BY ANOTHER $1000 PER MONTH. That means we will be paying more than $10,000 every month just for hospitalization premiums.
This month’s General Fund offerings are down from previous months’ offerings. This month, General Fund offerings are a little less than $25,000.00.
If we don’t have enough funds remaining in last year’s Thanksgiving Offering to supply that deficit and still hold us over to the end of the year, we will need to begin making deductions in the missionaries’ monthly deposits to meet that monthly deficit in the upcoming months.
WE NEVER WANT TO OVERLOOK THE FACT THAT REGARDLESS OF THE CONTINUOUSLY ONGOING NEED TO INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS – YOU WHO DO GIVE...ARE GIVING TO PROVIDE WHAT WE HAVE! And, for that, we bless God and thank you!
We are always calling on God, trusting God, and expecting God to provide the needs His servants have – but we also want to keep you informed how each of us can respond to His grace by giving back to Him! Grace to you all!
We thank God for every one of you who gives the offerings which supply the financial necessities our missionaries have to conduct their daily ministries. Humanly speaking, you are the means by which they continue to serve.
And, ESPECIALLY TO YOU WHO CONTRIBUTE MONTHLY TO OUR GENERAL FUND! The General Fund is the “common storehouse” from which we disburse the monthly maintenance commitments we have made to our missionaries.
THE ‘ESSENTIAL MONTHLY TRANSACTIONS’ [EMT or Tier 1 General Fund Disbursements] WE MAKE TO OUR MISSIONARIES WITHOUT FAIL EACH MONTH [as the Lord provides through you] CONTINUE TO EXCEED $42,000.00 PER MONTH.
{These standard commitments and disbursements are besides the other more periodical commitments/disbursements we make to them during the year AS NEEDED [PRN or Tier 2 General Fund Disbursements]. FOR EXAMPLE: we will disburse about $17,000.00 over the course of 2010 for Furlough Transportation expenses for our missionaries who are due scheduled furloughs.}
Included in these standard ESSENTIAL MONTHLY TRANSACTIONS are:
$20,426.00 for salaries
$10,950.00 for standard monthly expense accounts for housing and ministry expenses
$1662.50 to publish their newsletters and reports in these Mission Sheets
$9245.94 for hospitalization premiums.
THAT AMOUNT FOR HOSPITALIZATION PREMIUMS REFLECTS A RECENT 10% INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR – AND WE ARE PLANNING TO ADD ANOTHER ONE OF OUR FAMILIES TO THE PLAN WHICH WILL INCREASE THE MONTHLY PREMIUMS BY ANOTHER $1000 PER MONTH. That means we will be paying more than $10,000 every month just for hospitalization premiums.
This month’s General Fund offerings are down from previous months’ offerings. This month, General Fund offerings are a little less than $25,000.00.
If we don’t have enough funds remaining in last year’s Thanksgiving Offering to supply that deficit and still hold us over to the end of the year, we will need to begin making deductions in the missionaries’ monthly deposits to meet that monthly deficit in the upcoming months.
WE NEVER WANT TO OVERLOOK THE FACT THAT REGARDLESS OF THE CONTINUOUSLY ONGOING NEED TO INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS – YOU WHO DO GIVE...ARE GIVING TO PROVIDE WHAT WE HAVE! And, for that, we bless God and thank you!
We are always calling on God, trusting God, and expecting God to provide the needs His servants have – but we also want to keep you informed how each of us can respond to His grace by giving back to Him! Grace to you all!
Thursday, June 24, 2010
LOUIE CARVER | 2ND HEART ATTACK
I apologize for the tardiness of this report. We have been conducting Vacation Bible School all this week and have been absorbed by the activities of planning and preparation – and then conducting it this week. [dsp]
24 June 2010
FROM: Dave Parks | Executive Secretary, Baptist Faith Missions
RE: PLEASE CONTINUE PRAYING FOR LOUIE CARVER
I talked with Mary Carver on Saturday, 19 June.
She told me that Brother Carver had another heart attack on Wednesday, 16 June. He began to experience distress, so they took him to the ER.
After examination, they admitted him and implanted a stent in one of the veins in his lower heart region.
However, they also received more discouraging bad news. When they performed the heart cath to determine the source of this new occlusion, the surgeon who performed his 6-bypass surgery back in January discovered to his dismay that 5 of the 6 bypasses have failed.
They are all devastated by this news, and especially the surgeon. He cried when he relayed this news to them. He told them that in his 25-30 years of practicing heart surgery, this kind of failure has happened only one time previously.
But, Brother Carver’s heart is that badly diseased and deteriorated. The surgeon has ordered him to take at least the next two weeks of absolute rest – doing nothing.
The coronary damage may not be reparable. Brother Carver may be required to just moderate and accommodate his physical activity to what his heart will allow.
I hope you will continue to name them and intercede for them to the Lord.
You may contact them directly:
Louie and Mary Carver
259 Finley Hill Court
Simpsonville SC 29681
864.458.9919
wlc1939@att.net
24 June 2010
FROM: Dave Parks | Executive Secretary, Baptist Faith Missions
RE: PLEASE CONTINUE PRAYING FOR LOUIE CARVER
I talked with Mary Carver on Saturday, 19 June.
She told me that Brother Carver had another heart attack on Wednesday, 16 June. He began to experience distress, so they took him to the ER.
After examination, they admitted him and implanted a stent in one of the veins in his lower heart region.
However, they also received more discouraging bad news. When they performed the heart cath to determine the source of this new occlusion, the surgeon who performed his 6-bypass surgery back in January discovered to his dismay that 5 of the 6 bypasses have failed.
They are all devastated by this news, and especially the surgeon. He cried when he relayed this news to them. He told them that in his 25-30 years of practicing heart surgery, this kind of failure has happened only one time previously.
But, Brother Carver’s heart is that badly diseased and deteriorated. The surgeon has ordered him to take at least the next two weeks of absolute rest – doing nothing.
The coronary damage may not be reparable. Brother Carver may be required to just moderate and accommodate his physical activity to what his heart will allow.
I hope you will continue to name them and intercede for them to the Lord.
You may contact them directly:
Louie and Mary Carver
259 Finley Hill Court
Simpsonville SC 29681
864.458.9919
wlc1939@att.net
Thursday, June 10, 2010
JUNE UPDATES
WANDA TURNER SUFFERS A STROKE
Richard and Wanda Turner served the Lord in partnership with Baptist Faith Missions in Brasil for 16 years. Brother Richard is in Heaven with the Lord. Wanda is living in the Lynchburg VA area near her children. She suffered a stroke on 1 June and has been hospitalized since as of this writing [10 June].
I hope you will pray for her and catch up on the history and latest updates on her condition posted elsewhere on this blog.
Her home mailing address is: 20 Jesup Way / Apt. 205 / Lynchburg, VA 24502.
Her home number is: 434-239-0457. Her email address is: twanda2010@aol.com
She is a faithful servant of the Lord, and I hope you will do what you can to encourage her.
-________________________-
THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS!
We bless God for each of our Giving Friends – we thank God for you without ceasing. The Lord has blessed you and us this month with a good offering to our May General Fund. We thank God for EACH one of you...and EVERY offering you give to supply our missionaries’ needs – but the General Fund supplies their MAINTENANCE NEEDS each month and enables us to meet the standard commitments we have made to them.
-________________________-
LABOR DAY CONFERENCE
Make your plans now to attend the Labor Day Missions Conference hosted by the East Keys Baptist Church in Springfield IL over Labor Day weekend / Monday. You may contact James Hicks for more information about the Conference at 217.816.9361 or email: jimbo61976@yahoo.com
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
WANDA TURNER SUFFERS A STROKE
Wanda Turner is the widow of Richard Turner, and they faithfully served the Lord as missionaries in Brasil for 16 years in partnership with Baptist Faith Missions. I hope you will fervently pray for her - and for her family as they care for her. dsp
From: Jonathan Turner
pastorjturner@gmail.com
June 1, Tuesday
Hello Bro. Dave,
Today, Mom had to be rushed to the hospital, Lynchburg General, in Lynchburg, Virginia. She evidently suffered a stroke sometime mid-morning. She talks out of the side of her mouth and her speech is slurred. Her arm, I am not sure which, is also numb. She also is having trouble swallowing.
Late this afternoon she got choked and could not stop. She coughed up huge amounts of blood. So they also are now looking at her throat and, along with all the other tests to find out more about the possible stroke, they also will be doing tests to find out where the blood is coming from. The CT scan they did this afternoon did not show any hemorrhaging in the brain.
Rich and Kim, my older brother and sister, were up at the hospital with her all day. Mom is very nervous about cancer and obviously very tired after everything she has been through today. Please get this out to as many people as you can.
She really needs God's people praying for her.
I will continue to update you as I learn more.
Thank you Bro. Dave.
Jonathan Turner
June 2, Wednesday
Hello Bro. Dave,
I sent you an earlier e-mail about Mom and I wanted to send another giving you an update.
Mom is at Lynchburg General in Lynchburg, Virginia. Rich and Kim live close by. Her room # is NEO 3.
The MRI showed definitely that it was a stroke. It affected the part of her brain that controls things like swallowing. IF I understood correctly the stroke happened at the back and base of her brain. She currently has a feeding tube up her nose and down into her stomach and cannot speak clearly or loudly.
I do not know anything else about the coughing up of blood.
Please be praying that among other things her swallowing ability comes back quickly. The neurologist said it could be a matter of days or weeks, but that he believed it would come back.
Her home address is 20 Jesup Way, Apt. 205, Lynchburg, Virginia, 24502.
Her home number is 434-239-0457.
twanda2010@aol.com
I don't think she will be going home for several days. Her right arm continues to be numb, and when she tries to talk her speech is slurred and only half her mouth works.
If you could Brother, please get this information out. I would really appreciate it.
Jonathan
Saturday, 5 June
FROM JONATHAN TURNER / pastorjturner@gmail.com
Bro. Dave,
Thank you for sending Mom's information out. I know that you have so much on you, and so I really appreciate you doing this. You have contact with folks that I have only heard of over the years that know Mom and Dad or that I have never met and much less heard of.
It was made possible by my church and some folks in my church for me to fly up yesterday to Lynchburg. I will be here till Wednesday.
This is the latest on Mom. The feeling is returning in her arm. The side of her mouth is not drooping as bad as it had been. Kim, my sister, told me it seems to get a little bit better every day. She still cannot swallow. She is still coughing up lots of mucus and other stuff, but no more blood in the past 36-48 hours. IF the swallowing does not return by Monday she will have to have surgery to put the feeding tube, currently in her nose, into her stomach. Mom does not want to go through that and so we are asking for God to intervene and give her her ability to swallow back before Monday. If God chooses to allow her to have surgery they will go down her stomach.
Mom is very worried what they might find....in other words, cancer. She has a long of history of severe acid reflux disease and with the recent coughing up of blood she is fearing the worst. If she does have to have the surgery pray that there would be no cancer.
Sometime next week she will be moved to the other hospital in Lynchburg - Virginia Baptist - where she will begin intense therapy to regain her ability to swallow.
Please continue to pray for Mom. She's a fighter, but more importantly, God is the Great Physician. I will do my best to keep you all updated.
Jonathan Turner
MONDAY, 7 June, Noon
Hello,
I apologize if you already saw this on facebook or if you get this message more than once.
God is working in Mom's body.
She has made some significant improvements over the past 48 hours.
She was able to pronounce an high pitch "e" sound this morning. This is one of the exercises she has to do to strengthen her throat muscles. Yesterday no sound would come out.
Her speech therapist came in this morning and Mom was able with some help able to eat ten ice chips. She did not get choked.
Tomorrow morning they are planning on doing the procedure to move the feeding tube to her stomach. Pray the procedure is a success.
Pray that they do not find anything serious in her throat and stomach when they look around
Pray that the right side of her body continues to get stronger.
Finally, pray that a bed opens up over at Virginia Baptist Hospital so that she can be transferred and begin the intense therapy that she needs to fully regain her ability to swallow.
Jonathan Turner
17 June Update from Jonathan Turner
I apologize for going several days without sending an e-mail update. We had our Bible Conference among other things that kept me from sending out e-mail updates.
Here is the latest about my mother.
Kim and Rich got things straightened out at the nursing home/rehab. facility. They have stayed on top of the people there to make sure Mom's room is cleaned everyday and that Mom is properly taken care of.
Mom has made good progress with her rehab. I spoke to her briefly on the phone last night before church and she now has sound to her voice. She does not have it completely back, but I would say it has returned 60 to 70 percent.
Her swallowing is coming along each day. Monday, my brother Rich told me she was able to swallow 10 times on her own when she turned her head to the left or looked straight ahead. Yesterday, Mom told me she was now swallowing the ice chips without letting them melt completely. We praise God for small victories.
Also, Rich told me yesterday that the 45 minutes he was there with Mom during his lunch hour she did not have to cough up her saliva and other material even once which says that she is swallowing some.
She has agreed to move to a first floor apartment which will save her from having to walk up and down so many steps.
I appreciate everyone praying for her. She still needs God's people praying for her. Thanks.
Pastor Jonathan Turner
From: Jonathan Turner
pastorjturner@gmail.com
June 1, Tuesday
Hello Bro. Dave,
Today, Mom had to be rushed to the hospital, Lynchburg General, in Lynchburg, Virginia. She evidently suffered a stroke sometime mid-morning. She talks out of the side of her mouth and her speech is slurred. Her arm, I am not sure which, is also numb. She also is having trouble swallowing.
Late this afternoon she got choked and could not stop. She coughed up huge amounts of blood. So they also are now looking at her throat and, along with all the other tests to find out more about the possible stroke, they also will be doing tests to find out where the blood is coming from. The CT scan they did this afternoon did not show any hemorrhaging in the brain.
Rich and Kim, my older brother and sister, were up at the hospital with her all day. Mom is very nervous about cancer and obviously very tired after everything she has been through today. Please get this out to as many people as you can.
She really needs God's people praying for her.
I will continue to update you as I learn more.
Thank you Bro. Dave.
Jonathan Turner
June 2, Wednesday
Hello Bro. Dave,
I sent you an earlier e-mail about Mom and I wanted to send another giving you an update.
Mom is at Lynchburg General in Lynchburg, Virginia. Rich and Kim live close by. Her room # is NEO 3.
The MRI showed definitely that it was a stroke. It affected the part of her brain that controls things like swallowing. IF I understood correctly the stroke happened at the back and base of her brain. She currently has a feeding tube up her nose and down into her stomach and cannot speak clearly or loudly.
I do not know anything else about the coughing up of blood.
Please be praying that among other things her swallowing ability comes back quickly. The neurologist said it could be a matter of days or weeks, but that he believed it would come back.
Her home address is 20 Jesup Way, Apt. 205, Lynchburg, Virginia, 24502.
Her home number is 434-239-0457.
twanda2010@aol.com
I don't think she will be going home for several days. Her right arm continues to be numb, and when she tries to talk her speech is slurred and only half her mouth works.
If you could Brother, please get this information out. I would really appreciate it.
Jonathan
Saturday, 5 June
FROM JONATHAN TURNER / pastorjturner@gmail.com
Bro. Dave,
Thank you for sending Mom's information out. I know that you have so much on you, and so I really appreciate you doing this. You have contact with folks that I have only heard of over the years that know Mom and Dad or that I have never met and much less heard of.
It was made possible by my church and some folks in my church for me to fly up yesterday to Lynchburg. I will be here till Wednesday.
This is the latest on Mom. The feeling is returning in her arm. The side of her mouth is not drooping as bad as it had been. Kim, my sister, told me it seems to get a little bit better every day. She still cannot swallow. She is still coughing up lots of mucus and other stuff, but no more blood in the past 36-48 hours. IF the swallowing does not return by Monday she will have to have surgery to put the feeding tube, currently in her nose, into her stomach. Mom does not want to go through that and so we are asking for God to intervene and give her her ability to swallow back before Monday. If God chooses to allow her to have surgery they will go down her stomach.
Mom is very worried what they might find....in other words, cancer. She has a long of history of severe acid reflux disease and with the recent coughing up of blood she is fearing the worst. If she does have to have the surgery pray that there would be no cancer.
Sometime next week she will be moved to the other hospital in Lynchburg - Virginia Baptist - where she will begin intense therapy to regain her ability to swallow.
Please continue to pray for Mom. She's a fighter, but more importantly, God is the Great Physician. I will do my best to keep you all updated.
Jonathan Turner
MONDAY, 7 June, Noon
Hello,
I apologize if you already saw this on facebook or if you get this message more than once.
God is working in Mom's body.
She has made some significant improvements over the past 48 hours.
She was able to pronounce an high pitch "e" sound this morning. This is one of the exercises she has to do to strengthen her throat muscles. Yesterday no sound would come out.
Her speech therapist came in this morning and Mom was able with some help able to eat ten ice chips. She did not get choked.
Tomorrow morning they are planning on doing the procedure to move the feeding tube to her stomach. Pray the procedure is a success.
Pray that they do not find anything serious in her throat and stomach when they look around
Pray that the right side of her body continues to get stronger.
Finally, pray that a bed opens up over at Virginia Baptist Hospital so that she can be transferred and begin the intense therapy that she needs to fully regain her ability to swallow.
Jonathan Turner
17 June Update from Jonathan Turner
I apologize for going several days without sending an e-mail update. We had our Bible Conference among other things that kept me from sending out e-mail updates.
Here is the latest about my mother.
Kim and Rich got things straightened out at the nursing home/rehab. facility. They have stayed on top of the people there to make sure Mom's room is cleaned everyday and that Mom is properly taken care of.
Mom has made good progress with her rehab. I spoke to her briefly on the phone last night before church and she now has sound to her voice. She does not have it completely back, but I would say it has returned 60 to 70 percent.
Her swallowing is coming along each day. Monday, my brother Rich told me she was able to swallow 10 times on her own when she turned her head to the left or looked straight ahead. Yesterday, Mom told me she was now swallowing the ice chips without letting them melt completely. We praise God for small victories.
Also, Rich told me yesterday that the 45 minutes he was there with Mom during his lunch hour she did not have to cough up her saliva and other material even once which says that she is swallowing some.
She has agreed to move to a first floor apartment which will save her from having to walk up and down so many steps.
I appreciate everyone praying for her. She still needs God's people praying for her. Thanks.
Pastor Jonathan Turner
Saturday, May 8, 2010
MAY UPDATES
NEW AND IMPROVED WEBSITE: www.baptistfaithmissions.org
If you haven’t been to our website lately, you need to go back, bookmark it, and go back often. It has been in a neglected and inactive condition for some time, and we apologize for that. But, it is being renovated and re-launched as we speak.
I am still making updates on this blog but I will move our FaithWorks updates to the new website shortly. It is still under construction, so bear with us while we ‘revive’ it – but we want our website to become our Information Exchange Central.
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SPRING CONFERENCE REPORT
The Lord blessed our Spring Conference services with good fellowship, challenging messages from God’s Word, and a continually increasing interest in the ministries of Baptist Faith Missions. Pastors and members have gone back to their churches and either started supporting Baptist Faith Missions for the first time – or increased their giving, especially for our much-needed GENERAL FUND.
We heard these preachers faithfully proclaim ‘FILLING THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY’ messages: David Pitman, Kenny Hurst, Doug King, Larry Wilson, Edward Overbey, Wayne Brickner, Terry Adkins, Ben Glover, and Bobby Creiglow. All of these brethren and all their messages had the Glory of God burning in their hearts and glowing on their lips as they called us all to partner together to take and send the Good News of God’s Glory to everybody in the world.
There were 45 pastors/preachers who attended our services over the course of the Conference. We want to thank everyone who attended – and we continue to pray that God will inspire us all together to FILL THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY.
-________________________-
SPRING CONFERENCE OFFERING
We designated the Spring Conference Offering to help Louie and Mary Carver with extraordinary medical expenses they have incurred especially since January. Brother and Sister Carver are veteran missionaries in partnership with Baptist Faith Missions. They served the Lord in Korea and Philippine Islands. Brother Carver also served as BFM’s Field Representative and liaison between the missionaries and the churches for several years.
They relocated to South Carolina during 2009, and then on January 15, Brother Carver suffered a massive heart attack. He underwent a 5-bypass surgery, and then suffered pulmonary complications during his recovery. He spent several days in the ICU – and three weeks in the hospital. Then on the Friday [5 February] after being discharged home on the previous Tuesday, he suffered a stroke and was re-hospitalized. He is still rehabilitating from the effects of the stroke.
So, we wanted to help them with the mounting medical expenses they were incurring. The total Conference offering was $3,030.54. Brother Carver has responded in an email: ‘Dear Bro. Dave, Thank you so much for the generous offering. You truly have no idea at what a time it has come. God is so good.’ Of course, he is thanking all of you who gave the offering.
-________________________-
PASTOR EDWARD OVERBEY RESIGNS AS DIRECTOR
Brother Overbey has served as a Director of Baptist Faith Missions for probably 43 years or more. Even he doesn’t remember the year he became a Director. But, as the son of our founder [Hafford Overbey], Brother Ed has supported BFM from its inception. Brother Overbey contributed to the very first offering given to support Brother Brandon back in 1942. Brother Overbey doesn’t remember whether he gave 50 cents or $1 – but the total offering was around $15.00. He has been a true GIVING FRIEND ever since – from day one. He also served as our Executive Secretary from 1981-1995, after succeeding his father into that service. We wish to thank and commend Brother Edward Overbey for his lifetime of service to Gospel missions – and his 40+ years serving Baptist Faith Missions.
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LABOR DAY CONFERENCE
The East Keys Baptist Church in Springfield IL has hosted the Labor Day Missions Conference in the interests of Baptist Faith Missions for several years. They are planning their 2010 Labor Day Conference for Labor Day Weekend. We hope you will make plans to attend.
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GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY
WE CONTINUE TO NEED IMMEDIATE INCREASED OFFERINGS FOR OUR GENERAL FUND. We really need to receive $50,000 per month FOR THE GENERAL FUND in order to maintain our monthly commitments and other disbursements we make to our missionaries as they come up over the course of the year.
For example: FURLOUGH EXPENSES
We have 4 missionary families due for furloughs during 2010 and they are requesting transportation funds. Airfare expenses for furlough transportation could be as much as $16,000+ before the year is over – and most of this will be one-way fares because it is next to impossible to purchase round-trip tickets when they can’t set a precise date for their return next year.
Also: HOSPITALIZATION PREMIUMS INCREASES
We have received notice that beginning in June, our missionaries’ hospitalization premiums will increase by 13%. We will be disbursing $9500 per month for their hospitalization premiums.
$43,000 per month needed for their Essential Maintenance Transactions
There are four disbursements we make each month to our missionaries just to maintain their essential support: [1] Salaries [2] Standard Monthly Expense Allowances [3] Hospitalization premiums [4] Mission Sheets printing and mailing. THESE ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE TRANSACTIONS TOTAL MORE THAN $43,000 EVERY MONTH.
Then, there are the OTHER monthly General Fund disbursements to maintain the support services we provide for them.
First 5 months 2010 average GF Offerings
During April, we gave $30,438 to the GENERAL FUND. Over the first 5 months of this year, we have averaged $34,738 per month to the GENERAL FUND.
BE A ‘GIVING FRIEND’!
If we don’t increase our monthly offerings for the GENERAL FUND, we will necessarily have to begin reductions from our missionaries’ monthly deposits in order to make the remaining 2009 Thanksgiving Offering last until the end of 2010.
THE ONLY WAY TO STABILIZE OUR BUDGETING TO ALLOW FOR ANY KIND OF GROWTH OR INCREASES FOR OUR MISSIONARIES’ ESSENTIAL NEEDS IS TO INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GIVING TO OUR GENERAL FUND.
WILL YOU ASK THE LORD OF THE HARVEST WHAT YOU CAN DO –
AND WHAT HE WILL ENABLE YOU TO DO?
If you haven’t been to our website lately, you need to go back, bookmark it, and go back often. It has been in a neglected and inactive condition for some time, and we apologize for that. But, it is being renovated and re-launched as we speak.
I am still making updates on this blog but I will move our FaithWorks updates to the new website shortly. It is still under construction, so bear with us while we ‘revive’ it – but we want our website to become our Information Exchange Central.
-________________________-
SPRING CONFERENCE REPORT
The Lord blessed our Spring Conference services with good fellowship, challenging messages from God’s Word, and a continually increasing interest in the ministries of Baptist Faith Missions. Pastors and members have gone back to their churches and either started supporting Baptist Faith Missions for the first time – or increased their giving, especially for our much-needed GENERAL FUND.
We heard these preachers faithfully proclaim ‘FILLING THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY’ messages: David Pitman, Kenny Hurst, Doug King, Larry Wilson, Edward Overbey, Wayne Brickner, Terry Adkins, Ben Glover, and Bobby Creiglow. All of these brethren and all their messages had the Glory of God burning in their hearts and glowing on their lips as they called us all to partner together to take and send the Good News of God’s Glory to everybody in the world.
There were 45 pastors/preachers who attended our services over the course of the Conference. We want to thank everyone who attended – and we continue to pray that God will inspire us all together to FILL THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY.
-________________________-
SPRING CONFERENCE OFFERING
We designated the Spring Conference Offering to help Louie and Mary Carver with extraordinary medical expenses they have incurred especially since January. Brother and Sister Carver are veteran missionaries in partnership with Baptist Faith Missions. They served the Lord in Korea and Philippine Islands. Brother Carver also served as BFM’s Field Representative and liaison between the missionaries and the churches for several years.
They relocated to South Carolina during 2009, and then on January 15, Brother Carver suffered a massive heart attack. He underwent a 5-bypass surgery, and then suffered pulmonary complications during his recovery. He spent several days in the ICU – and three weeks in the hospital. Then on the Friday [5 February] after being discharged home on the previous Tuesday, he suffered a stroke and was re-hospitalized. He is still rehabilitating from the effects of the stroke.
So, we wanted to help them with the mounting medical expenses they were incurring. The total Conference offering was $3,030.54. Brother Carver has responded in an email: ‘Dear Bro. Dave, Thank you so much for the generous offering. You truly have no idea at what a time it has come. God is so good.’ Of course, he is thanking all of you who gave the offering.
-________________________-
PASTOR EDWARD OVERBEY RESIGNS AS DIRECTOR
Brother Overbey has served as a Director of Baptist Faith Missions for probably 43 years or more. Even he doesn’t remember the year he became a Director. But, as the son of our founder [Hafford Overbey], Brother Ed has supported BFM from its inception. Brother Overbey contributed to the very first offering given to support Brother Brandon back in 1942. Brother Overbey doesn’t remember whether he gave 50 cents or $1 – but the total offering was around $15.00. He has been a true GIVING FRIEND ever since – from day one. He also served as our Executive Secretary from 1981-1995, after succeeding his father into that service. We wish to thank and commend Brother Edward Overbey for his lifetime of service to Gospel missions – and his 40+ years serving Baptist Faith Missions.
-________________________-
LABOR DAY CONFERENCE
The East Keys Baptist Church in Springfield IL has hosted the Labor Day Missions Conference in the interests of Baptist Faith Missions for several years. They are planning their 2010 Labor Day Conference for Labor Day Weekend. We hope you will make plans to attend.
-________________________-
GENERAL FUND MONTHLY SOLVENCY
WE CONTINUE TO NEED IMMEDIATE INCREASED OFFERINGS FOR OUR GENERAL FUND. We really need to receive $50,000 per month FOR THE GENERAL FUND in order to maintain our monthly commitments and other disbursements we make to our missionaries as they come up over the course of the year.
For example: FURLOUGH EXPENSES
We have 4 missionary families due for furloughs during 2010 and they are requesting transportation funds. Airfare expenses for furlough transportation could be as much as $16,000+ before the year is over – and most of this will be one-way fares because it is next to impossible to purchase round-trip tickets when they can’t set a precise date for their return next year.
Also: HOSPITALIZATION PREMIUMS INCREASES
We have received notice that beginning in June, our missionaries’ hospitalization premiums will increase by 13%. We will be disbursing $9500 per month for their hospitalization premiums.
$43,000 per month needed for their Essential Maintenance Transactions
There are four disbursements we make each month to our missionaries just to maintain their essential support: [1] Salaries [2] Standard Monthly Expense Allowances [3] Hospitalization premiums [4] Mission Sheets printing and mailing. THESE ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE TRANSACTIONS TOTAL MORE THAN $43,000 EVERY MONTH.
Then, there are the OTHER monthly General Fund disbursements to maintain the support services we provide for them.
First 5 months 2010 average GF Offerings
During April, we gave $30,438 to the GENERAL FUND. Over the first 5 months of this year, we have averaged $34,738 per month to the GENERAL FUND.
BE A ‘GIVING FRIEND’!
If we don’t increase our monthly offerings for the GENERAL FUND, we will necessarily have to begin reductions from our missionaries’ monthly deposits in order to make the remaining 2009 Thanksgiving Offering last until the end of 2010.
THE ONLY WAY TO STABILIZE OUR BUDGETING TO ALLOW FOR ANY KIND OF GROWTH OR INCREASES FOR OUR MISSIONARIES’ ESSENTIAL NEEDS IS TO INCREASE OUR MONTHLY GIVING TO OUR GENERAL FUND.
WILL YOU ASK THE LORD OF THE HARVEST WHAT YOU CAN DO –
AND WHAT HE WILL ENABLE YOU TO DO?
Thursday, May 6, 2010
PRAYER REQUEST FOR HAROLD DRAPER
6 May 2010
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Prayer Request
HAROLD DRAPER / hmdubdbr@yahoo.com
Brother Draper suffered some kind of mild heart attack early Wednesday morning [around 4am]. He was driving back home – after already driving all night – and suffered chest tightness and pains. Drove himself to Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. They have already conducted stress tests and other exams and tell him that his heart is sound – but that he has suffered arrhythmia, but doctors think it is from prolonged stress and exhaustion. He hadn’t slept much for the previous two nights and had been driving most of that time. They have told him he needs to rest for the next 2-3 weeks. I talked with him around 11am this morning and he is very weak, but thinks he is OK and stable. They are planning to discharge him home this afternoon. Please commit them to the Lord in prayer.
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Prayer Request
HAROLD DRAPER / hmdubdbr@yahoo.com
Brother Draper suffered some kind of mild heart attack early Wednesday morning [around 4am]. He was driving back home – after already driving all night – and suffered chest tightness and pains. Drove himself to Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. They have already conducted stress tests and other exams and tell him that his heart is sound – but that he has suffered arrhythmia, but doctors think it is from prolonged stress and exhaustion. He hadn’t slept much for the previous two nights and had been driving most of that time. They have told him he needs to rest for the next 2-3 weeks. I talked with him around 11am this morning and he is very weak, but thinks he is OK and stable. They are planning to discharge him home this afternoon. Please commit them to the Lord in prayer.
PRAYER REQUEST FOR MARY CARVER
6 May 2010
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Prayer Request
MARY CARVER / wlc1939@att.net
Brother Carver called me yesterday [Wednesday] to tell me that Mary was involved in a one-car accident on Tuesday afternoon. She apparently passed out for some reason. According to a witness who was behind her, she suddenly veered out of her lane, crossed the other lane, and off the road. From what I understand from Brother Carver, she may have overturned the vehicle. He said she was hanging upside down by her shoulder straps and had to be cut out of the vehicle. She was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital. He didn’t know at that time how extensive the injuries are. He did send me a brief email last night: “God is so good. I...appreciate all the prayers for Mary in the trauma that she has suffered. God performed a miracle now we wait to see if her back elbow and leg are broken. Continue to keep us in your prayers.” The ‘miracle’ to which he refers is the protection the Lord gave her from any more serious injury than she has suffered. Please continue praying to God for their many needs from the several adversities they have suffered, especially since January with his own heart attack and stroke.
UPDATE: Friday evening / 7 May
Brother Parks,
Good evening. First, the Carver family appreciates all the continued prayers that have been lifted on our behalf. It has truly been a roller coaster, but through it all, our family has drawn closer and closer. Mom came home from the hospital this afternoon with no broken bones, no fractures, sprains, etc. She is getting along pretty well. Dad is hanging in there; however, he did state this evening that the physical therapist told him, either today or yesterday, that if he doesn't slow down and stop doing so much that he is going to suffer another heart attack. Please pray that he slows down.
Again, we all appreciate your prayers.
Sincerely, The Carver Family
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Prayer Request
MARY CARVER / wlc1939@att.net
Brother Carver called me yesterday [Wednesday] to tell me that Mary was involved in a one-car accident on Tuesday afternoon. She apparently passed out for some reason. According to a witness who was behind her, she suddenly veered out of her lane, crossed the other lane, and off the road. From what I understand from Brother Carver, she may have overturned the vehicle. He said she was hanging upside down by her shoulder straps and had to be cut out of the vehicle. She was taken to Greenville Memorial Hospital. He didn’t know at that time how extensive the injuries are. He did send me a brief email last night: “God is so good. I...appreciate all the prayers for Mary in the trauma that she has suffered. God performed a miracle now we wait to see if her back elbow and leg are broken. Continue to keep us in your prayers.” The ‘miracle’ to which he refers is the protection the Lord gave her from any more serious injury than she has suffered. Please continue praying to God for their many needs from the several adversities they have suffered, especially since January with his own heart attack and stroke.
UPDATE: Friday evening / 7 May
Brother Parks,
Good evening. First, the Carver family appreciates all the continued prayers that have been lifted on our behalf. It has truly been a roller coaster, but through it all, our family has drawn closer and closer. Mom came home from the hospital this afternoon with no broken bones, no fractures, sprains, etc. She is getting along pretty well. Dad is hanging in there; however, he did state this evening that the physical therapist told him, either today or yesterday, that if he doesn't slow down and stop doing so much that he is going to suffer another heart attack. Please pray that he slows down.
Again, we all appreciate your prayers.
Sincerely, The Carver Family
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
MARCH SECRETARY'S REPORT
SPRING MISSIONS CONFERENCE / 12, 13, 14 APRIL
It still isn’t too late to plan to join us for our SPRING MISSIONS CONFERENCE. The program, travel directions, and motel accommodation recommendations are all posted on FEBRUARY ARCHIVES.
Our purpose for all our Conferences is to stir up mutual participation in our missionary fellowship. FELLOWSHIP is mutual INTEREST, INVESTMENT, and INVOLVEMENT in a common activity. That is what Baptist Faith Missions is.
We will also give you the latest updates and reports concerning our missionaries’ ministries and needs and how we can all work together to strengthen their hands and encourage them.
-________________________-
2009-10 THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
God bless each one who has given – and you who continue to give – to our THANKSGIVING OFFERING. With the offerings reported this month [$1638.00 – see the Offerings Report pages in this issue], our new updated total to $91,960.01.
We are praying and hoping that still others of you will contribute over the weeks to come and that we can reach our $100,000 Goal!
THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS USED TO DISBURSE THOSE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND WHICH ARE NOT SUPPLIED BY OUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.
-________________________-
MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY
THANK YOU! THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS! Our February offerings to the Monthly General Fund totaled $30,502.72 [see the Offerings Report printed in this issue].
We always recognize that THE MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERING IS WHAT IT IS...BECAUSE YOU WHO GAVE IT – DID SO! And, we bless God for you. Every one of your names – and each of your offerings is an occasion and subject of personal thanksgivings to God.
This month’s GENERAL FUND offering was a few thousands of dollars less than what we need to sustain to meet our missionaries’ ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE TRANSACTIONS disbursements each month. [January=$38,258.30; February=$40,343.05]
We really need to maintain at least $40,000.00 per month in GENERAL FUND offerings to maintain a monthly GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY – and then that will free up our THANKSGIVING OFFERING funds to supply the other support services and benefits we commit to our missionaries over the course of the year.
EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR WE WORK OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND. The General Fund is the main contribution source and stream to keep our missionaries on their fields and ‘keep the lights on’ for their ministries. Even if we maintain what we have committed to our missionaries – it is still so modest that it doesn’t really cover their essential needs.
BUT, WE CAN’T CONSIDER INCREASING OUR ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE COMMITMENTS TO THEM WITHOUT AN INCREASE OF THE MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS.
“Now, therefore, KNOW and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO…”
-________________________-
It still isn’t too late to plan to join us for our SPRING MISSIONS CONFERENCE. The program, travel directions, and motel accommodation recommendations are all posted on FEBRUARY ARCHIVES.
Our purpose for all our Conferences is to stir up mutual participation in our missionary fellowship. FELLOWSHIP is mutual INTEREST, INVESTMENT, and INVOLVEMENT in a common activity. That is what Baptist Faith Missions is.
We will also give you the latest updates and reports concerning our missionaries’ ministries and needs and how we can all work together to strengthen their hands and encourage them.
-________________________-
2009-10 THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
God bless each one who has given – and you who continue to give – to our THANKSGIVING OFFERING. With the offerings reported this month [$1638.00 – see the Offerings Report pages in this issue], our new updated total to $91,960.01.
We are praying and hoping that still others of you will contribute over the weeks to come and that we can reach our $100,000 Goal!
THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS USED TO DISBURSE THOSE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND WHICH ARE NOT SUPPLIED BY OUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.
-________________________-
MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY
THANK YOU! THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS! Our February offerings to the Monthly General Fund totaled $30,502.72 [see the Offerings Report printed in this issue].
We always recognize that THE MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERING IS WHAT IT IS...BECAUSE YOU WHO GAVE IT – DID SO! And, we bless God for you. Every one of your names – and each of your offerings is an occasion and subject of personal thanksgivings to God.
This month’s GENERAL FUND offering was a few thousands of dollars less than what we need to sustain to meet our missionaries’ ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE TRANSACTIONS disbursements each month. [January=$38,258.30; February=$40,343.05]
We really need to maintain at least $40,000.00 per month in GENERAL FUND offerings to maintain a monthly GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY – and then that will free up our THANKSGIVING OFFERING funds to supply the other support services and benefits we commit to our missionaries over the course of the year.
EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR WE WORK OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND. The General Fund is the main contribution source and stream to keep our missionaries on their fields and ‘keep the lights on’ for their ministries. Even if we maintain what we have committed to our missionaries – it is still so modest that it doesn’t really cover their essential needs.
BUT, WE CAN’T CONSIDER INCREASING OUR ESSENTIAL MAINTENANCE COMMITMENTS TO THEM WITHOUT AN INCREASE OF THE MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS.
“Now, therefore, KNOW and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO…”
-________________________-
Thursday, February 18, 2010
PAUL KIRKMAN'S WIFE, EMMA, NOW WITH THE LORD
Posted by Dave Parks / Thursday, 18 February
Pastor Paul Kirkman’s wife, Emma, went to be with the Lord yesterday morning [Wednesday].
She has been in progressively declining health for the past few years from deterioration resulting from Alzheimer’s Disease – and this was also complicated by a blood disorder that prevented her bone marrow from producing blood, resulting in the need for frequent blood transfusions.
She had been in a nursing care facility since October of last year, interspersed also by short stays in the hospital and at home.
Her memorial service is scheduled for Tuesday, 23 February, at the meeting-place for the Grace Baptist Church
2920 Beaver Valley Road
Fairborn OH 45324.
Brother Kirkman and her family will be greeting and receiving friends at 12:00 noon for one hour before the service at 1:00 pm. Pastor Bill Brown will be conducting the memorial service.
Emma’s funeral arrangements are being made by Belton-Stroup Funeral Home
422 E. Dayton-Yellow Springs Road
Fairborn, Ohio 45324
Phone: 937-879-0800.
You can find directions by going to their website: http://www.beltonstroup.com
Brother Kirkman did ask me to tell anyone who wishes to send a memorial to Emma’s service to make a contribution to Baptist Faith Missions in lieu of flowers. Contributions can be made to Baptist Faith Missions
c/o George Sledd
P.O. Box 471280
Lake Monroe FL 32747-1280
“In Memory of Emma Kirkman”
You may contact Brother Kirkman at 937.754.1860
or 1982 Rockdell Drive / Fairborn OH 45324.
I hope you will also pray for God's Grace to be supplied to this dear Brother in this time of his need.
Pastor Paul Kirkman’s wife, Emma, went to be with the Lord yesterday morning [Wednesday].
She has been in progressively declining health for the past few years from deterioration resulting from Alzheimer’s Disease – and this was also complicated by a blood disorder that prevented her bone marrow from producing blood, resulting in the need for frequent blood transfusions.
She had been in a nursing care facility since October of last year, interspersed also by short stays in the hospital and at home.
Her memorial service is scheduled for Tuesday, 23 February, at the meeting-place for the Grace Baptist Church
2920 Beaver Valley Road
Fairborn OH 45324.
Brother Kirkman and her family will be greeting and receiving friends at 12:00 noon for one hour before the service at 1:00 pm. Pastor Bill Brown will be conducting the memorial service.
Emma’s funeral arrangements are being made by Belton-Stroup Funeral Home
422 E. Dayton-Yellow Springs Road
Fairborn, Ohio 45324
Phone: 937-879-0800.
You can find directions by going to their website: http://www.beltonstroup.com
Brother Kirkman did ask me to tell anyone who wishes to send a memorial to Emma’s service to make a contribution to Baptist Faith Missions in lieu of flowers. Contributions can be made to Baptist Faith Missions
c/o George Sledd
P.O. Box 471280
Lake Monroe FL 32747-1280
“In Memory of Emma Kirkman”
You may contact Brother Kirkman at 937.754.1860
or 1982 Rockdell Drive / Fairborn OH 45324.
I hope you will also pray for God's Grace to be supplied to this dear Brother in this time of his need.
FEBRUARY SECRETARY'S REPORT
2009-10 THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
God bless each one who has given – and you who will continue to give – to our THANKSGIVING OFFERING. With the offerings reported this month [$5519.00 – see the Offerings Report pages in the February issue of our monthly newsletter, THE MISSION SHEETS], our new updated total to $90,321.01. We are praying and hoping that still others of you will contribute over the weeks to come and that we can reach our $100,000 Goal!
THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS USED TO DISBURSE THOSE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND WHICH ARE NOT SUPPLIED BY OUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.
-________________________-
MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY
THANK YOU! THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS! Our January offerings to the Monthly General Fund totaled $40,343.05 [see the Offerings Report printed in the February issue of our monthly newsletter, THE MISSION SHEETS]. So many of you have responded graciously to our appeals to you to increase your long-term commitments to give to the Monthly General Fund. We all bless God and thank you for your response.
Here is a sample of the kind of response you have made. This note came to us from one of our long-time faithful supporting churches. “The Calvary Baptist Church of Uniontown KY has voted to increase its ‘gifts’ to BFM from 7% to 10%. The Calvary Baptist Church is not a large church; nor are we rich. Actually, we are just able to stay above water ourselves. Many are unemployed. However, due to BFM’s need and our blessings, we are increasing our missions giving. Perhaps others will do likewise. Grace and Peace, Harold Greenfield, pastor.”
I think you will find a Scriptural precedent for this exhortation in 2 Corinthians 8.1-5. I hope you will accept their encouragement and respond with them.
“Now, therefore, KNOW and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO…”
-________________________-
God bless each one who has given – and you who will continue to give – to our THANKSGIVING OFFERING. With the offerings reported this month [$5519.00 – see the Offerings Report pages in the February issue of our monthly newsletter, THE MISSION SHEETS], our new updated total to $90,321.01. We are praying and hoping that still others of you will contribute over the weeks to come and that we can reach our $100,000 Goal!
THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS USED TO DISBURSE THOSE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND WHICH ARE NOT SUPPLIED BY OUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.
-________________________-
MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY
THANK YOU! THANK YOU, GIVING FRIENDS! Our January offerings to the Monthly General Fund totaled $40,343.05 [see the Offerings Report printed in the February issue of our monthly newsletter, THE MISSION SHEETS]. So many of you have responded graciously to our appeals to you to increase your long-term commitments to give to the Monthly General Fund. We all bless God and thank you for your response.
Here is a sample of the kind of response you have made. This note came to us from one of our long-time faithful supporting churches. “The Calvary Baptist Church of Uniontown KY has voted to increase its ‘gifts’ to BFM from 7% to 10%. The Calvary Baptist Church is not a large church; nor are we rich. Actually, we are just able to stay above water ourselves. Many are unemployed. However, due to BFM’s need and our blessings, we are increasing our missions giving. Perhaps others will do likewise. Grace and Peace, Harold Greenfield, pastor.”
I think you will find a Scriptural precedent for this exhortation in 2 Corinthians 8.1-5. I hope you will accept their encouragement and respond with them.
“Now, therefore, KNOW and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO…”
-________________________-
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
2010 SPRING MISSIONS CONFERENCE
50th ANNUAL SPRING MISSIONS CONFERENCE
IN THE INTEREST OF BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS
APRIL 12, 13, 14 / Monday - Wednesday
CONFERENCE THEME:
"FILLING THE EARTH WITH HIS GLORY!"
Habakkuk 2.14
"For the earth will be filled with
the knowledge of the glory of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea."
Dave Parks, 859.223.8374 / 3985 Boston Road • Lexington KY 40514-1507
daveparks@insightbb.com / www.faith-works.blogspot.com
MONDAYnight / April 12
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER
7:00 PRAISE
7:20 MESSAGE: Pastor David Pitman, Addyston Baptist Church, Addyston OH
8:00 PRAISE
8:20 MESSAGE: Pastor Michael Jones, Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Taylor MI
TUESDAYmorning / April 13
9:30 PRAISE and PRAYER
9:50 MESSAGE: Pastor-at-large Louie Carver, Simpsonville SC
10:30 PRAISE
10:50 SEMINAR / WORKSHOP: “FILLING THE EARTH WITH HIS GLORY”
The Ultimate Purpose and Goal of Baptist Faith Missions:
MAKING CHRIST’S GLORY KNOWN
That everybody in the world will:
[1] KNOW there is a God;
[2] KNOW our God is that God;
[3] KNOW what is GLORIOUS about Him;
[4] KNOW HIM in eternal life.
12:00 LUNCH
1:30 OPEN ADVISORY MEETING / Reports / Q&A / “All are welcome”
[ The 2009 Annual Financial Report will be presented and distributed ]
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER
TUESDAYnight / April 13
7:00 PRAISE
7:20 MESSAGE: Pastor Larry Wilson, Bethel Baptist Church, Lexington KY
8:00 PRAISE
8:20 MESSAGE: Pastor Elton Dunbar, Concord Baptist Church, Leesville SC
WEDNESDAYmorning / April 14
9:30 PRAISE
9:40 MESSAGE: Pastor Wayne Brickner, Calvary Baptist Church, Piqua OH
10:20 PRAISE
10:30 MESSAGE: Pastor Terry Adkins, New Hope Baptist Church, Dearborn Heights MI
11:10 BREAK
11:20 Pastor Ben Glover, Park Ridge Baptist Church, Gotha FL
12:00 LUNCH
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER
WEDNESDAYnight / April 14
7:00 PRAISE
7:30 MESSAGE: Bobby Creiglow, First Baptist Church of Science Hill, KY
-______________________________-
CONFERENCE THEME:
“FILLING THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY”
Habakkuk 2.14
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
This exact, precise language is repeated again in Isaiah 11.9: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
[You will find other abbreviated expressions of this same theme in
Psalm 72.18-19, Isaiah 6.3 and 40.5.]
The prophets are not just using eloquent literary flourishes when they speak with such soaring words like ‘as the waters cover the sea.’ They are speaking under the inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit, and they are communicating to us what God’s own covenant purposes are for the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
They are describing in figurative terms REAL, CONCRETE MISSIONS ACTIVITIES that will have the effect of COVERING and SATURATING the populated world with the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S GLORY. God is declaring to them...and to us...that the day is coming when the Good News of His Glory will be witnessed and proclaimed to EVERY NATION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. See Revelation 14.6-7.
This ‘knowledge of the glory of the LORD’ is the Gospel we have been commissioned by Jesus Christ to preach to every creature under Heaven
[Mark 16.15; Colossians 1.23].
It is the Gospel of Christ’s Kingdom;
it is the Gospel of God’s Grace;
it is the Gospel of the New Covenant;
it is the Gospel of GOD’S GLORY IN JESUS CHRIST.
God has commanded us to FILL THIS DARKENED WORLD WITH THE LIGHT OF HIS GLORY IN THIS GOOD NEWS!
2 Corinthians 4.3-6
But even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL OF THE GLORY OF CHRIST, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give THE LIGHT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST.
If anyone doubts that this Old Testament promise is a MISSIONS MANDATE and another expression of Jesus Christ’s Great Commission [
‘As you are going, MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS...’] –
then read Isaiah 11.10,
which immediately follows God’s Missions Purpose Statement in Isaiah 11.9:
‘And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a banner to the people;
for the Gentiles shall seek Him,
and His resting place shall be glorious.’
What ‘day’ does Isaiah foresee here?
‘In that day’ is OUR DAY – THE GOSPEL-DAY – THIS ‘DAY OF SALVATION’.
We know that promise is fulfilled and enacted by New Testament Gospel missions because Paul interprets it that way in Romans 15.12 [in fact, the whole chapter], where he is relating for us what inspired and motivated him to FILL THE THEN-KNOWN EARTH WITH THE GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE GOSPEL.
And Paul summarizes his whole ministry purpose, goal, and itinerary:
‘so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ’ [verse 19].
Listen to all these powerful MISSIONS MANDATES that propel us into all the nations of the earth to COVER THE EARTH WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST’S GLORY...AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA.
Matthew 24.14
John 17.17-23
Acts 17.22-34
Romans 1.5; 1.13-16; 16.25-27
Revelation 14.6-7
So, THAT IS WHAT THIS CONFERENCE IS ALL ABOUT.
THIS IS WHAT BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS IS ALL ABOUT.
This is what MISSIONS is all about.
This is what THE GOSPEL is all about.
This is what THE MINISTRY OF OUR CHURCHES is all about.
“FILLING THE EARTH WITH
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S GLORY”
-______________________________-
CONFERENCE OFFERING:
Pastor Louie Carver Medical Expenses
We want to designate our Conference offering this year to help Pastor Louie and Mary Carver defray some of the mounting expenses they have incurred during his recent two illnesses and hospitalizations. Brother and Sister Carver served the Lord as missionaries in association with Baptist Faith Missions for over 16 years. They served several terms, first in Korea, and then also in the Philippines. Brother Carver also served BFM here in the States for a period of time as our Field Representative.
Brother Carver also has served as pastor in several churches since returning from foreign missions service, most recently in the Chicago-area. Changes in the ministry there necessitated their moving to South Carolina, where they live now. The Lord has wonderfully and miraculously provided for all their needs during that move and finding housing, etc.
Then, as most of you know, Brother Carver suffered a massive heart attack in mid- January and underwent a 5-bypass open-heart surgery. His recovery was hampered by pneumonia and other pulmonary complications. He had an extended stay in the hospital before being discharged home on 2 February – much weakened by the whole ordeal – only to suffer a mini-stroke three days after returning home from the heart surgery. He underwent another week’s hospitalization. He has been recuperating at home while receiving speech and physical therapies.
Needless to say, all these medical emergencies and treatments have created quite a financial burden for them. He doesn’t know we are doing this for him, and I hope and pray it will be alright when he does find out. We had already scheduled him to preach on the Conference program well before all these emergencies occurred, and he is still making plans to attend the Conference and preach, God willing and enabling him to do so.
But, I hope you will come to the Conference prepared to make as generous a gift as you can to our brother’s needs. If you cannot attend the Conference, but still want to give a gift, send it to our Treasurer:
Pastor George Sledd
PO Box 471280
Lake Monroe FL 32747-1280.
-______________________________-
CHILDREN’S MISSIONS CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Every year we conduct sessions for the children [age 4 through grade 5] who attend our Conference services. My wife, Debbie, conducts these learning and activity sessions. Each year, we focus on a particular nation of the world, highlighting its culture and customs along with their need for the Gospel and opportunities to take the Gospel to those peoples. This year’s theme nation is TURKEY. Our Children’s Center is always set up with crafts and activities which engage the children’s attention and interests in the missions lessons.
-______________________________-
MOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
You may choose to use your own travel / accommodations program or discounts...or do your own research to find a better deal. We are still recommending the Quality Inn Northwest / 750 NEWTOWN COURT / LEXINGTON KY 40511 / 859.233.0561
ONE QUEEN BED room is $49.95.
TWO DOUBLE BEDS room is $59.95.
They also offer continental breakfast on the premises, in-room coffeemaker, hairdryer, iron and ironing board, and high-speed internet access.
Ask the desk for "Thompson Road Baptist Church Event" rates. It would be best to make your reservation by March 31st.
-______________________________-
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
The physical address of the church site is: 320 Thompson Road, Lexington KY 40508 if you need this information for your GPS.
FROM SOUTH ON I-75: Get off at Exit 104 (Athens-Boonesborough). Turn west toward town. You will be on Athens-Boonesborough Road / Richmond Road Extension. As you approach Lexington, the road will become Richmond Road around Jacobson Park. Continue straight into Lexington. Richmond Road will become Main Street. You will pass the Rupp Arena / Lexington Convention Center on your left. Turn left at the next traffic light. This is Jefferson Street. Turn right in the middle of the overpass bridge onto Manchester. About one mile down Manchester, turn right on Thompson Road and come to the top of the hill.
FROM NORTH ON I-75 OR EAST / WEST ON I-64: I-75 and I-64 merge for a few miles on the north/northeast side of Lexington. Come to Exit 115 on 64/75. This is Newtown Pike (State Route 922). Turn south toward Lexington. Follow Newtown Pike until you come to Main Street. Go straight across Main Street. This short street is Cox Street. Follow Cox Street to the dead-end. Turn right on Manchester / Old Frankfort Pike. Follow Manchester about one mile. Turn right on Thompson Road and come to the top of the hill.
If you choose to stay at Quality Inn, then follow the second set of directions above and Quality Inn will be on your left behind the Shell station just before you get to the New Circle Road interchange [1 mile from 64/75].
IN THE INTEREST OF BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS
APRIL 12, 13, 14 / Monday - Wednesday
CONFERENCE THEME:
"FILLING THE EARTH WITH HIS GLORY!"
Habakkuk 2.14
"For the earth will be filled with
the knowledge of the glory of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea."
Dave Parks, 859.223.8374 / 3985 Boston Road • Lexington KY 40514-1507
daveparks@insightbb.com / www.faith-works.blogspot.com
MONDAYnight / April 12
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER
7:00 PRAISE
7:20 MESSAGE: Pastor David Pitman, Addyston Baptist Church, Addyston OH
8:00 PRAISE
8:20 MESSAGE: Pastor Michael Jones, Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Taylor MI
TUESDAYmorning / April 13
9:30 PRAISE and PRAYER
9:50 MESSAGE: Pastor-at-large Louie Carver, Simpsonville SC
10:30 PRAISE
10:50 SEMINAR / WORKSHOP: “FILLING THE EARTH WITH HIS GLORY”
The Ultimate Purpose and Goal of Baptist Faith Missions:
MAKING CHRIST’S GLORY KNOWN
That everybody in the world will:
[1] KNOW there is a God;
[2] KNOW our God is that God;
[3] KNOW what is GLORIOUS about Him;
[4] KNOW HIM in eternal life.
12:00 LUNCH
1:30 OPEN ADVISORY MEETING / Reports / Q&A / “All are welcome”
[ The 2009 Annual Financial Report will be presented and distributed ]
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER
TUESDAYnight / April 13
7:00 PRAISE
7:20 MESSAGE: Pastor Larry Wilson, Bethel Baptist Church, Lexington KY
8:00 PRAISE
8:20 MESSAGE: Pastor Elton Dunbar, Concord Baptist Church, Leesville SC
WEDNESDAYmorning / April 14
9:30 PRAISE
9:40 MESSAGE: Pastor Wayne Brickner, Calvary Baptist Church, Piqua OH
10:20 PRAISE
10:30 MESSAGE: Pastor Terry Adkins, New Hope Baptist Church, Dearborn Heights MI
11:10 BREAK
11:20 Pastor Ben Glover, Park Ridge Baptist Church, Gotha FL
12:00 LUNCH
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER
WEDNESDAYnight / April 14
7:00 PRAISE
7:30 MESSAGE: Bobby Creiglow, First Baptist Church of Science Hill, KY
-______________________________-
CONFERENCE THEME:
“FILLING THE EARTH WITH GOD’S GLORY”
Habakkuk 2.14
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
This exact, precise language is repeated again in Isaiah 11.9: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
[You will find other abbreviated expressions of this same theme in
Psalm 72.18-19, Isaiah 6.3 and 40.5.]
The prophets are not just using eloquent literary flourishes when they speak with such soaring words like ‘as the waters cover the sea.’ They are speaking under the inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit, and they are communicating to us what God’s own covenant purposes are for the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
They are describing in figurative terms REAL, CONCRETE MISSIONS ACTIVITIES that will have the effect of COVERING and SATURATING the populated world with the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S GLORY. God is declaring to them...and to us...that the day is coming when the Good News of His Glory will be witnessed and proclaimed to EVERY NATION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. See Revelation 14.6-7.
This ‘knowledge of the glory of the LORD’ is the Gospel we have been commissioned by Jesus Christ to preach to every creature under Heaven
[Mark 16.15; Colossians 1.23].
It is the Gospel of Christ’s Kingdom;
it is the Gospel of God’s Grace;
it is the Gospel of the New Covenant;
it is the Gospel of GOD’S GLORY IN JESUS CHRIST.
God has commanded us to FILL THIS DARKENED WORLD WITH THE LIGHT OF HIS GLORY IN THIS GOOD NEWS!
2 Corinthians 4.3-6
But even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL OF THE GLORY OF CHRIST, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give THE LIGHT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST.
If anyone doubts that this Old Testament promise is a MISSIONS MANDATE and another expression of Jesus Christ’s Great Commission [
‘As you are going, MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL THE NATIONS...’] –
then read Isaiah 11.10,
which immediately follows God’s Missions Purpose Statement in Isaiah 11.9:
‘And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a banner to the people;
for the Gentiles shall seek Him,
and His resting place shall be glorious.’
What ‘day’ does Isaiah foresee here?
‘In that day’ is OUR DAY – THE GOSPEL-DAY – THIS ‘DAY OF SALVATION’.
We know that promise is fulfilled and enacted by New Testament Gospel missions because Paul interprets it that way in Romans 15.12 [in fact, the whole chapter], where he is relating for us what inspired and motivated him to FILL THE THEN-KNOWN EARTH WITH THE GLORY OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE GOSPEL.
And Paul summarizes his whole ministry purpose, goal, and itinerary:
‘so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ’ [verse 19].
Listen to all these powerful MISSIONS MANDATES that propel us into all the nations of the earth to COVER THE EARTH WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST’S GLORY...AS THE WATERS COVER THE SEA.
Matthew 24.14
John 17.17-23
Acts 17.22-34
Romans 1.5; 1.13-16; 16.25-27
Revelation 14.6-7
So, THAT IS WHAT THIS CONFERENCE IS ALL ABOUT.
THIS IS WHAT BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONS IS ALL ABOUT.
This is what MISSIONS is all about.
This is what THE GOSPEL is all about.
This is what THE MINISTRY OF OUR CHURCHES is all about.
“FILLING THE EARTH WITH
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S GLORY”
-______________________________-
CONFERENCE OFFERING:
Pastor Louie Carver Medical Expenses
We want to designate our Conference offering this year to help Pastor Louie and Mary Carver defray some of the mounting expenses they have incurred during his recent two illnesses and hospitalizations. Brother and Sister Carver served the Lord as missionaries in association with Baptist Faith Missions for over 16 years. They served several terms, first in Korea, and then also in the Philippines. Brother Carver also served BFM here in the States for a period of time as our Field Representative.
Brother Carver also has served as pastor in several churches since returning from foreign missions service, most recently in the Chicago-area. Changes in the ministry there necessitated their moving to South Carolina, where they live now. The Lord has wonderfully and miraculously provided for all their needs during that move and finding housing, etc.
Then, as most of you know, Brother Carver suffered a massive heart attack in mid- January and underwent a 5-bypass open-heart surgery. His recovery was hampered by pneumonia and other pulmonary complications. He had an extended stay in the hospital before being discharged home on 2 February – much weakened by the whole ordeal – only to suffer a mini-stroke three days after returning home from the heart surgery. He underwent another week’s hospitalization. He has been recuperating at home while receiving speech and physical therapies.
Needless to say, all these medical emergencies and treatments have created quite a financial burden for them. He doesn’t know we are doing this for him, and I hope and pray it will be alright when he does find out. We had already scheduled him to preach on the Conference program well before all these emergencies occurred, and he is still making plans to attend the Conference and preach, God willing and enabling him to do so.
But, I hope you will come to the Conference prepared to make as generous a gift as you can to our brother’s needs. If you cannot attend the Conference, but still want to give a gift, send it to our Treasurer:
Pastor George Sledd
PO Box 471280
Lake Monroe FL 32747-1280.
-______________________________-
CHILDREN’S MISSIONS CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Every year we conduct sessions for the children [age 4 through grade 5] who attend our Conference services. My wife, Debbie, conducts these learning and activity sessions. Each year, we focus on a particular nation of the world, highlighting its culture and customs along with their need for the Gospel and opportunities to take the Gospel to those peoples. This year’s theme nation is TURKEY. Our Children’s Center is always set up with crafts and activities which engage the children’s attention and interests in the missions lessons.
-______________________________-
MOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
You may choose to use your own travel / accommodations program or discounts...or do your own research to find a better deal. We are still recommending the Quality Inn Northwest / 750 NEWTOWN COURT / LEXINGTON KY 40511 / 859.233.0561
ONE QUEEN BED room is $49.95.
TWO DOUBLE BEDS room is $59.95.
They also offer continental breakfast on the premises, in-room coffeemaker, hairdryer, iron and ironing board, and high-speed internet access.
Ask the desk for "Thompson Road Baptist Church Event" rates. It would be best to make your reservation by March 31st.
-______________________________-
TRAVEL DIRECTIONS
The physical address of the church site is: 320 Thompson Road, Lexington KY 40508 if you need this information for your GPS.
FROM SOUTH ON I-75: Get off at Exit 104 (Athens-Boonesborough). Turn west toward town. You will be on Athens-Boonesborough Road / Richmond Road Extension. As you approach Lexington, the road will become Richmond Road around Jacobson Park. Continue straight into Lexington. Richmond Road will become Main Street. You will pass the Rupp Arena / Lexington Convention Center on your left. Turn left at the next traffic light. This is Jefferson Street. Turn right in the middle of the overpass bridge onto Manchester. About one mile down Manchester, turn right on Thompson Road and come to the top of the hill.
FROM NORTH ON I-75 OR EAST / WEST ON I-64: I-75 and I-64 merge for a few miles on the north/northeast side of Lexington. Come to Exit 115 on 64/75. This is Newtown Pike (State Route 922). Turn south toward Lexington. Follow Newtown Pike until you come to Main Street. Go straight across Main Street. This short street is Cox Street. Follow Cox Street to the dead-end. Turn right on Manchester / Old Frankfort Pike. Follow Manchester about one mile. Turn right on Thompson Road and come to the top of the hill.
If you choose to stay at Quality Inn, then follow the second set of directions above and Quality Inn will be on your left behind the Shell station just before you get to the New Circle Road interchange [1 mile from 64/75].
Saturday, February 6, 2010
LATEST UPDATE ON MARGUERITE HALLUM
LATER TODAY, SATURDAY / FOLLOW-UP
I have just witnessed another miracle...when I arrived at the center this morning Marguerite was sitting up, was dressed, and had eaten a full breakfast...even fed herself!!! The Hospice nurse on duty wondered why she was there:)
The people that saw her yesterday are in shock... they cannot figure out what's going on with her. She had a strong grip in both hands, no slurred speech, and no drawn face.
What a trooper she is and how good is our Lord to see her through one more time. He's not finished with her yet! Thank you for your loving concern for her. Just so thankful it is good news today.
Love to all, Teeter
6 February 2010 / Saturday morning
Marguerite Hallum served with her father and mother in Peru. They were first missionary family supported through BFM in Peru back during the 1940s and 50s. She is in an assisted living facility in DeLand FL under the loving care of her niece, Teeter Mauldin, and her husband, Steve. [See June 2009 post]
Here is the update I received from Teeter today:
Dear Friends and Family,
This is just to update you on Marguerite's status. She has been failing for the past couple of weeks...confused, disoriented, etc. and then on Thursday she had what they thought was a TIA...they had to feed her and she did not respond to people...she came out of it and then on Friday she had a stroke..that is my diagnosis. She had severe pain in her head and lost mobility and her right side was weakened.
Hospice was to be discharged this month but now they are with her 24/7.
She still recognizes me and will try to smile when she opens her eyes but most of the time she is just in too much pain. Pain management is a problem since she is allergic to so many of the '-ines'...morphine, etc. Pray for her comfort and that the Lord be merciful to His precious servant.
If there ever were a servant of the Lord in the world it is Marguerite. Thank you all for your love for her.
With love, Teeter
I have just witnessed another miracle...when I arrived at the center this morning Marguerite was sitting up, was dressed, and had eaten a full breakfast...even fed herself!!! The Hospice nurse on duty wondered why she was there:)
The people that saw her yesterday are in shock... they cannot figure out what's going on with her. She had a strong grip in both hands, no slurred speech, and no drawn face.
What a trooper she is and how good is our Lord to see her through one more time. He's not finished with her yet! Thank you for your loving concern for her. Just so thankful it is good news today.
Love to all, Teeter
6 February 2010 / Saturday morning
Marguerite Hallum served with her father and mother in Peru. They were first missionary family supported through BFM in Peru back during the 1940s and 50s. She is in an assisted living facility in DeLand FL under the loving care of her niece, Teeter Mauldin, and her husband, Steve. [See June 2009 post]
Here is the update I received from Teeter today:
Dear Friends and Family,
This is just to update you on Marguerite's status. She has been failing for the past couple of weeks...confused, disoriented, etc. and then on Thursday she had what they thought was a TIA...they had to feed her and she did not respond to people...she came out of it and then on Friday she had a stroke..that is my diagnosis. She had severe pain in her head and lost mobility and her right side was weakened.
Hospice was to be discharged this month but now they are with her 24/7.
She still recognizes me and will try to smile when she opens her eyes but most of the time she is just in too much pain. Pain management is a problem since she is allergic to so many of the '-ines'...morphine, etc. Pray for her comfort and that the Lord be merciful to His precious servant.
If there ever were a servant of the Lord in the world it is Marguerite. Thank you all for your love for her.
With love, Teeter
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
2010 BFM WINTER MISSIONS CONFERENCE
The Park Ridge Baptist Church is doing a splendid work hosting the Winter Conference. Ben Glover is the newly-appointed pastor of this church, although he has been a member and served them for several years prior to now.
The theme of the Conference is "GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE" and HE certainly has...for which we are glad and praise Him.
Last night, we heard messages from God's Word delivered by David Pitman, pastor of Addyston Baptist Church, Addyston OH and Evangelist Bob Jones. Brother Pitman preached from Mark 9.1-4: AND THEY WERE TALKING WITH JESUS. They weren't talking about all the things we probably would want to talk about. They were learning from Jesus about His EXODUS [death and victorious ascension] He would accomplish at Jerusalem. This is what we should be talking about.
Brother Jones preached from Proverbs 14.4 and exhorted us to employ all the MEANS [oxen] in the work of the Lord if we expect to see any INCREASE and growth.
This morning [Tuesday] we heard two more messages by Missionary-Pastor Harold Draper and Pastor Darrell Messer. Brother Draper preached from Acts 14 to reinforce Christ's PURPOSE, PLAN, and PROGRESS for CHURCH-PLANTING MISSIONS IN THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
Brother Messer preached from Psalm 145 and thrilled us with his recounting of THE GREATNESS OF THE GOD WHO DOES GREAT THINGS - and THE GREATNESS OF THE PRAISE WE SHOULD GIVE HIM.
The members of the church are serving us all royally with their welcome, hospitality, and meals. We bless God for them all.
TUESDAY NIGHT
Two more stirring messages from God's Word through His servants. Pastor Cecil Fayard preached from Mark 2.1-12: WANTED, STRETCHER-BEARERS. Jesus Christ is the Healer, but we must be the concerned witnesses who bring our lost friends to Jesus Christ.
Pastor Glenn Archer preached from Acts 13.38 and other Scriptures concerning MANIFOLD JUSTIFICATION. He gave us a thrilling, all-too-brief summary of how God justifies believers through Jesus Christ.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
Pastor George Sledd preached from Jeremiah 33.1-3: CALLING ON GOD FOR GREAT THINGS. Only God can do the GREAT THINGS we need to have done for us - and He does them when WE CALL ON HIM.
Pastor Millard Mitchell preached from Philippians 3.12-14: THE IMPORTANCE OF SETTING GOALS. We should still EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD.
I closed out the Missions Conference services this evening with a message from Luke 15.11-24: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GRACE...AND THEREFORE, OF GOD. God, Himself, is this father, who is running to receive and restore us through redemption and reconciliation. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself - and has committed this same message and ministry of reconciliation to us, His churches. We are pleading in Christ's stead: "RETURN TO GOD...BE RECONCILED TO GOD."
Once again, we thank the Park Ridge Baptist Church for their abundant generosity and extravagant hospitality given to us by their hosting this Conference.
The theme of the Conference is "GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE" and HE certainly has...for which we are glad and praise Him.
Last night, we heard messages from God's Word delivered by David Pitman, pastor of Addyston Baptist Church, Addyston OH and Evangelist Bob Jones. Brother Pitman preached from Mark 9.1-4: AND THEY WERE TALKING WITH JESUS. They weren't talking about all the things we probably would want to talk about. They were learning from Jesus about His EXODUS [death and victorious ascension] He would accomplish at Jerusalem. This is what we should be talking about.
Brother Jones preached from Proverbs 14.4 and exhorted us to employ all the MEANS [oxen] in the work of the Lord if we expect to see any INCREASE and growth.
This morning [Tuesday] we heard two more messages by Missionary-Pastor Harold Draper and Pastor Darrell Messer. Brother Draper preached from Acts 14 to reinforce Christ's PURPOSE, PLAN, and PROGRESS for CHURCH-PLANTING MISSIONS IN THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
Brother Messer preached from Psalm 145 and thrilled us with his recounting of THE GREATNESS OF THE GOD WHO DOES GREAT THINGS - and THE GREATNESS OF THE PRAISE WE SHOULD GIVE HIM.
The members of the church are serving us all royally with their welcome, hospitality, and meals. We bless God for them all.
TUESDAY NIGHT
Two more stirring messages from God's Word through His servants. Pastor Cecil Fayard preached from Mark 2.1-12: WANTED, STRETCHER-BEARERS. Jesus Christ is the Healer, but we must be the concerned witnesses who bring our lost friends to Jesus Christ.
Pastor Glenn Archer preached from Acts 13.38 and other Scriptures concerning MANIFOLD JUSTIFICATION. He gave us a thrilling, all-too-brief summary of how God justifies believers through Jesus Christ.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
Pastor George Sledd preached from Jeremiah 33.1-3: CALLING ON GOD FOR GREAT THINGS. Only God can do the GREAT THINGS we need to have done for us - and He does them when WE CALL ON HIM.
Pastor Millard Mitchell preached from Philippians 3.12-14: THE IMPORTANCE OF SETTING GOALS. We should still EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM GOD.
I closed out the Missions Conference services this evening with a message from Luke 15.11-24: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GRACE...AND THEREFORE, OF GOD. God, Himself, is this father, who is running to receive and restore us through redemption and reconciliation. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself - and has committed this same message and ministry of reconciliation to us, His churches. We are pleading in Christ's stead: "RETURN TO GOD...BE RECONCILED TO GOD."
Once again, we thank the Park Ridge Baptist Church for their abundant generosity and extravagant hospitality given to us by their hosting this Conference.
Friday, January 15, 2010
PASTOR LOUIE CARVER / HEART ATTACK
TUESDAY / 9 February 2010
Elton Dunbar sent this post to Ronnie Wolfe, who, in turn, disseminated it. Grace and thanks to all of you who are concerned and participating in this reporting.
"Bro. Ronnie:
I spoke with Sister Mary this evening [Monday] about 7:15 at which time she told me that Bro. Louie came home from the hospital today. He is doing well, but having some difficulty with his speech and trying to say what he wants. He will be taking speech therapy for this.
Let us continue to remember both of them in prayer.
Sincerely, Elton"
MONDAY / 8 February 2010
Bob Jones called me this morning. He had talked with Becky Carver. Pastor Carver is still in the hospital, but has been transferred from ICU to a private room. We praise God for this improvement. He does not appear to be suffering from any paralysis from the stroke, but he is still mentally confused and disoriented and his speech is still somewhat slurred. He is struggling with articulating and verbalizing his thoughts and with word retrieval. Please continue to pray that God will give him full and complete recovery. [dsp]
SATURDAY MORNING / 6 February / Text from Becky Carver
"PLEASE PRAY! Dad had a stroke yesterday and is back in the hospital. We greatly appreciate your prayers. Dad has been crying hard."
ANOTHER MEDICAL EMERGENCY - URGENT!
5:30PM / FRIDAY / 5 FEBRUARY 2010
Pastor Carver did come home Wednesday, and was doing wonderfully. I talked to him Thursday morning and then talked to their daughter, Becky, this morning [Friday], and he was continuing to make progress toward recovery.
Bob Jones talked to him at length earlier this afternoon.
But, Mary stepped out later this afternoon to run a short errand, and when she returned around 5:30 [or shortly before], Brother Carver was collapsed in the hallway of their home. Mary called for Becky, and when they tried to converse with him, he was very incoherent and confused. He was also suffering from weaknesses compatible with stroke symptoms.
They were rushing him back to the hospital at that time.
That is all I know right now. I will post further updates as I receive them.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON / 3 February / Text from Becky Carver
"Our Dad is coming home today!"
SUNDAY EVENING, 31 January / Text from Becky Carver
Dad is still in the hospital. Clamping tubes again tomorrow to see what happens.
FRIDAY EVENING / 29 January 2010
The last report I have received is that Brother Carver is improving from the setback he suffered on Wednesday and then had another 'bad' day on Thursday. His lung has now 'inflated' some and is functioning more normally.
He is still in the hospital, but they are hoping he will, within the next very few days, be discharged to a surgery-rehabilitation center to regain strength. He still has a long way to go to enjoy complete recovery. [dsp]
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON / From Becky Carver
Becky called me this afternoon to tell me that Brother Carver is suffering from other new complications. His lung is still not inflating and functioning. They had to insert a new tube into his side today to treat the lung. They have also told them just today that he also has emphysema, which is complicating these after-effects from the surgery. The emphysema, of course, will not improve or rehabilitate. He can't do long without his oxygen-assist. So, they are just waiting on God now to see where these new developments will take them over the next few days.
They do appreciate very much your continued praying for him and for them. [dsp]
TUESDAY EVENING / Text from Becky Carver
Dad isn't going home tomorrow [Wednesday] - he still has a leak in his lung. He gets very winded when he moves a little bit.
MONDAY EVENING / 25 JANUARY / Text from Becky Carver
Dad is doing soo much better. He may be going home on Wednesday if he keeps doing as well as he is now.
FRIDAY NIGHT / From Becky Carver
Becky called me as she was leaving the hospital late Friday evening. Brother Carver has rested better the past couple nights. He still has drainage tubes in his chest and abdomen to evacuate the fluid retention around his lungs and heart, and his left lung still has not fully inflated from the surgery and post-surgery excessive fluid. He is still very weak, but slowing regaining strength by the day. He is out of ICU and in a private room now.
THURSDAY EVENING / Text from Becky Carver
"Dad is very sore, and it hurts to even take a breath, but they have started getting him out of bed and moving him a little today. He is dealing with it pretty good. He told the nurse he likes it quiet as opposed to the loudness in ICU."
WEDNESDAY NIGHT / Text from Becky Carver
"Dad is doing great. He is on real foods now."
I assume that they have weaned him from the ventilator, and he is eating on his own instead of through IVs and tubes. We are praising God for this development. [dsp]
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Pastor Carver continues to improve. Talked to Becky, their daughter, this afternoon. He is still on the ventilator, and they are trying to wean him from it. One of the chief reasons he is on the ventilator is that he is retaining a lot of fluid, and it is pressing his lungs and heart, complicating his breathing. They are administering Lasix to serve as a diuretic to reduce his fluid retention. They are also having to suction his lungs periodically to evacuate fluid that way. This procedure is very traumatic and painful for him. But, he is cognizant, coherent, and communicative - all for which we praise God.
TUESDAY MORNING
His recovery is being hampered by some agitation he experiences when he begins to emerge from sedation. So, they are continuing to sedate him to keep him from struggling with the tubes and monitoring paraphenalia. Continue to pray for his complete recovery.
18 JANUARY 2010 / MONDAY
Pastor Carver underwent surgery today from approximately 8am - 1.30pm. Surgery went well. Surgeons performed 6 bypasses. He was in recovery shortly thereafter.
18 January 2009 / Monday
PASTOR CARVER IS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY @ 8AM TODAY. PLEASE PRAY FOR HIM...AND THEIR FAMILY.
16 January 2010 / Saturday
Dear Bro. Parks,
Good afternoon, this is Becky Carver, Pastor Carver's youngest daughter... On behalf of my dad and the family we want to thank you for your sincere prayers. We thank God that He is in control and that dad has soooo many true friends that are truly sincere with their walk with Christ. He has had his ups and downs for sure; however, he is tolerating the pain better today than he has been.
Will keep you posted as we find out more.
Sincerely His,
The Carver Family and extended
16 January 2010 / Saturday
UPDATE: Pastor Louie Carver
Brother Carver is scheduled for multi-bypass open heart surgery early Monday morning, 18 January. Continue praying for him and for Mary, his wife - and for their children during this time of adversity.
15 January 2010
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Pastor Louie Carver
Many of you know Brother Carver – some of you may not.
The Lord knows Pastor Carver if you don’t, so we would appreciate your asking the Lord to intervene in his behalf.
Brother Carver has moved from the Chicago area to Simpsonville SC [during 2009]. Three of their daughters live nearby.
I got a call from their daughter, Becky, this morning to inform me that Pastor Carver had a massive heart attack yesterday and is in the ICU in a Simpsonville Hospital.
They performed a heart catheterization yesterday and one angioplasty [balloon procedure] to immediately open one artery. All of his arteries are occluded.
They want to wait until the first of the week to perform the necessary bypass surgery, but if he continues to have the same cardiac trauma activity he is experiencing now, they may not be able to wait.
Sister Carver [Mary] also has suffered some light strokes and has been home from her own hospitalization only a couple weeks.
That is all I know right now. Please pray for them all.
If you want to correspond with their home mailing address:
259 Finley Hill Court / Simpsonville SC 29681
His email address is: wlc1939@att.net
Mary will be accessing his emails and can take them to him.
Grace to you all.
Dave Parks
3985 Boston Road
Lexington KY 40514
859.223.8374 phone
859.223.8954 fax
daveparks@insightbb.com
Elton Dunbar sent this post to Ronnie Wolfe, who, in turn, disseminated it. Grace and thanks to all of you who are concerned and participating in this reporting.
"Bro. Ronnie:
I spoke with Sister Mary this evening [Monday] about 7:15 at which time she told me that Bro. Louie came home from the hospital today. He is doing well, but having some difficulty with his speech and trying to say what he wants. He will be taking speech therapy for this.
Let us continue to remember both of them in prayer.
Sincerely, Elton"
MONDAY / 8 February 2010
Bob Jones called me this morning. He had talked with Becky Carver. Pastor Carver is still in the hospital, but has been transferred from ICU to a private room. We praise God for this improvement. He does not appear to be suffering from any paralysis from the stroke, but he is still mentally confused and disoriented and his speech is still somewhat slurred. He is struggling with articulating and verbalizing his thoughts and with word retrieval. Please continue to pray that God will give him full and complete recovery. [dsp]
SATURDAY MORNING / 6 February / Text from Becky Carver
"PLEASE PRAY! Dad had a stroke yesterday and is back in the hospital. We greatly appreciate your prayers. Dad has been crying hard."
ANOTHER MEDICAL EMERGENCY - URGENT!
5:30PM / FRIDAY / 5 FEBRUARY 2010
Pastor Carver did come home Wednesday, and was doing wonderfully. I talked to him Thursday morning and then talked to their daughter, Becky, this morning [Friday], and he was continuing to make progress toward recovery.
Bob Jones talked to him at length earlier this afternoon.
But, Mary stepped out later this afternoon to run a short errand, and when she returned around 5:30 [or shortly before], Brother Carver was collapsed in the hallway of their home. Mary called for Becky, and when they tried to converse with him, he was very incoherent and confused. He was also suffering from weaknesses compatible with stroke symptoms.
They were rushing him back to the hospital at that time.
That is all I know right now. I will post further updates as I receive them.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON / 3 February / Text from Becky Carver
"Our Dad is coming home today!"
SUNDAY EVENING, 31 January / Text from Becky Carver
Dad is still in the hospital. Clamping tubes again tomorrow to see what happens.
FRIDAY EVENING / 29 January 2010
The last report I have received is that Brother Carver is improving from the setback he suffered on Wednesday and then had another 'bad' day on Thursday. His lung has now 'inflated' some and is functioning more normally.
He is still in the hospital, but they are hoping he will, within the next very few days, be discharged to a surgery-rehabilitation center to regain strength. He still has a long way to go to enjoy complete recovery. [dsp]
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON / From Becky Carver
Becky called me this afternoon to tell me that Brother Carver is suffering from other new complications. His lung is still not inflating and functioning. They had to insert a new tube into his side today to treat the lung. They have also told them just today that he also has emphysema, which is complicating these after-effects from the surgery. The emphysema, of course, will not improve or rehabilitate. He can't do long without his oxygen-assist. So, they are just waiting on God now to see where these new developments will take them over the next few days.
They do appreciate very much your continued praying for him and for them. [dsp]
TUESDAY EVENING / Text from Becky Carver
Dad isn't going home tomorrow [Wednesday] - he still has a leak in his lung. He gets very winded when he moves a little bit.
MONDAY EVENING / 25 JANUARY / Text from Becky Carver
Dad is doing soo much better. He may be going home on Wednesday if he keeps doing as well as he is now.
FRIDAY NIGHT / From Becky Carver
Becky called me as she was leaving the hospital late Friday evening. Brother Carver has rested better the past couple nights. He still has drainage tubes in his chest and abdomen to evacuate the fluid retention around his lungs and heart, and his left lung still has not fully inflated from the surgery and post-surgery excessive fluid. He is still very weak, but slowing regaining strength by the day. He is out of ICU and in a private room now.
THURSDAY EVENING / Text from Becky Carver
"Dad is very sore, and it hurts to even take a breath, but they have started getting him out of bed and moving him a little today. He is dealing with it pretty good. He told the nurse he likes it quiet as opposed to the loudness in ICU."
WEDNESDAY NIGHT / Text from Becky Carver
"Dad is doing great. He is on real foods now."
I assume that they have weaned him from the ventilator, and he is eating on his own instead of through IVs and tubes. We are praising God for this development. [dsp]
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Pastor Carver continues to improve. Talked to Becky, their daughter, this afternoon. He is still on the ventilator, and they are trying to wean him from it. One of the chief reasons he is on the ventilator is that he is retaining a lot of fluid, and it is pressing his lungs and heart, complicating his breathing. They are administering Lasix to serve as a diuretic to reduce his fluid retention. They are also having to suction his lungs periodically to evacuate fluid that way. This procedure is very traumatic and painful for him. But, he is cognizant, coherent, and communicative - all for which we praise God.
TUESDAY MORNING
His recovery is being hampered by some agitation he experiences when he begins to emerge from sedation. So, they are continuing to sedate him to keep him from struggling with the tubes and monitoring paraphenalia. Continue to pray for his complete recovery.
18 JANUARY 2010 / MONDAY
Pastor Carver underwent surgery today from approximately 8am - 1.30pm. Surgery went well. Surgeons performed 6 bypasses. He was in recovery shortly thereafter.
18 January 2009 / Monday
PASTOR CARVER IS SCHEDULED FOR SURGERY @ 8AM TODAY. PLEASE PRAY FOR HIM...AND THEIR FAMILY.
16 January 2010 / Saturday
Dear Bro. Parks,
Good afternoon, this is Becky Carver, Pastor Carver's youngest daughter... On behalf of my dad and the family we want to thank you for your sincere prayers. We thank God that He is in control and that dad has soooo many true friends that are truly sincere with their walk with Christ. He has had his ups and downs for sure; however, he is tolerating the pain better today than he has been.
Will keep you posted as we find out more.
Sincerely His,
The Carver Family and extended
16 January 2010 / Saturday
UPDATE: Pastor Louie Carver
Brother Carver is scheduled for multi-bypass open heart surgery early Monday morning, 18 January. Continue praying for him and for Mary, his wife - and for their children during this time of adversity.
15 January 2010
FROM: Dave Parks
RE: Pastor Louie Carver
Many of you know Brother Carver – some of you may not.
The Lord knows Pastor Carver if you don’t, so we would appreciate your asking the Lord to intervene in his behalf.
Brother Carver has moved from the Chicago area to Simpsonville SC [during 2009]. Three of their daughters live nearby.
I got a call from their daughter, Becky, this morning to inform me that Pastor Carver had a massive heart attack yesterday and is in the ICU in a Simpsonville Hospital.
They performed a heart catheterization yesterday and one angioplasty [balloon procedure] to immediately open one artery. All of his arteries are occluded.
They want to wait until the first of the week to perform the necessary bypass surgery, but if he continues to have the same cardiac trauma activity he is experiencing now, they may not be able to wait.
Sister Carver [Mary] also has suffered some light strokes and has been home from her own hospitalization only a couple weeks.
That is all I know right now. Please pray for them all.
If you want to correspond with their home mailing address:
259 Finley Hill Court / Simpsonville SC 29681
His email address is: wlc1939@att.net
Mary will be accessing his emails and can take them to him.
Grace to you all.
Dave Parks
3985 Boston Road
Lexington KY 40514
859.223.8374 phone
859.223.8954 fax
daveparks@insightbb.com
Saturday, January 9, 2010
MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY
We continue to reach and strive toward the goal of MONTHLY GENERAL FUND SOLVENCY for our standard monthly General Fund disbursements.
We disburse an average of $50,000 per month for all the General Fund commitments and services required to maintain our missionaries and their ministries.
DESIGNATED OFFERINGS ARE NOT APPLIED TO GENERAL FUND USES. Designated offerings are ‘pre-addressed’ by the contributor and are ‘forwarded’ to the missionaries for the designated intended use.
But, when and if MONTHLY GENERAL FUND offerings supply our missionaries’ essential, standard financial needs, then we can consider using the Thanksgiving Offering to increase the modest commitments we are disbursing to them now.
THE GREATEST NEED BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONARIES HAVE AT THIS TIME IS OUR CONSISTENT, COMMITTED, AND COOPERATIVE INCREASES OF OUR OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.
Baptist Faith Missions strives to function on the principles of:
EFFECTIVENESS,
EFFICIENCY,
and EQUALITY – that is, “what we do for one missionary, we do for all”.
That is the beauty and benefit of the GENERAL FUND / non-deputation principle.
We ask each of our Giving Friends to join us in this RESOLUTION: “Resolved, that I will commit to increase my own personal giving, and our church’s offerings to the BFM General Fund, so that our missionaries’ needs will be supplied and that Christ’s Name will be more widely proclaimed throughout the nations of the world.”
“Now, therefore, KNOW and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO…” [1 Samuel 25.17]
Habakkuk 2.14: “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”
-________________________’
A GLARING INGLORIOUS NUMBER: $19,814.51
This amount is the total of ACCRUED ADDITIONAL DEDUCTIONS from our missionaries’ monthly deposits we had to make over three months of 2009 [August-October].
We made these additional deductions because we didn’t receive enough Monthly General Fund Offerings to cover the standard disbursements we made to our missionaries – and we didn’t have adequate funds in the remaining Thanksgiving Offering to supply those months’ deficits.
So, for those three months, what we did was to calculate their monthly deposits according to our standard commitments we make to them – and then, when the funds were not available to make those disbursements, WE WENT BACK AND TOOK BACK SOME OF THE DEPOSIT AMOUNT UNTIL IT MATCHED THE AVAILABLE FUNDS WE HAD TO MAKE THAT DEPOSIT.
WE CAN AVOID HAVING TO DO THAT EVER AGAIN BY INCREASING OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS.
We disburse an average of $50,000 per month for all the General Fund commitments and services required to maintain our missionaries and their ministries.
DESIGNATED OFFERINGS ARE NOT APPLIED TO GENERAL FUND USES. Designated offerings are ‘pre-addressed’ by the contributor and are ‘forwarded’ to the missionaries for the designated intended use.
But, when and if MONTHLY GENERAL FUND offerings supply our missionaries’ essential, standard financial needs, then we can consider using the Thanksgiving Offering to increase the modest commitments we are disbursing to them now.
THE GREATEST NEED BAPTIST FAITH MISSIONARIES HAVE AT THIS TIME IS OUR CONSISTENT, COMMITTED, AND COOPERATIVE INCREASES OF OUR OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.
Baptist Faith Missions strives to function on the principles of:
EFFECTIVENESS,
EFFICIENCY,
and EQUALITY – that is, “what we do for one missionary, we do for all”.
That is the beauty and benefit of the GENERAL FUND / non-deputation principle.
We ask each of our Giving Friends to join us in this RESOLUTION: “Resolved, that I will commit to increase my own personal giving, and our church’s offerings to the BFM General Fund, so that our missionaries’ needs will be supplied and that Christ’s Name will be more widely proclaimed throughout the nations of the world.”
“Now, therefore, KNOW and CONSIDER WHAT YOU WILL DO…” [1 Samuel 25.17]
Habakkuk 2.14: “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”
-________________________’
A GLARING INGLORIOUS NUMBER: $19,814.51
This amount is the total of ACCRUED ADDITIONAL DEDUCTIONS from our missionaries’ monthly deposits we had to make over three months of 2009 [August-October].
We made these additional deductions because we didn’t receive enough Monthly General Fund Offerings to cover the standard disbursements we made to our missionaries – and we didn’t have adequate funds in the remaining Thanksgiving Offering to supply those months’ deficits.
So, for those three months, what we did was to calculate their monthly deposits according to our standard commitments we make to them – and then, when the funds were not available to make those disbursements, WE WENT BACK AND TOOK BACK SOME OF THE DEPOSIT AMOUNT UNTIL IT MATCHED THE AVAILABLE FUNDS WE HAD TO MAKE THAT DEPOSIT.
WE CAN AVOID HAVING TO DO THAT EVER AGAIN BY INCREASING OUR MONTHLY GENERAL FUND OFFERINGS.
2009-10 THANKSGIVING OFFERING / JANUARY UPDATE
2009-10 THANKSGIVING OFFERING UPDATE
God bless each one who has given – and you who will continue to give – to our THANKSGIVING OFFERING.
With the offerings reported this month [$55,006.51 – see the Offerings Report pages in the January issue of our monthly newsletter, THE MISSION SHEETS], our new updated total is $84,803.01.
That is only less than $3000 short of our FINAL TOTAL of last year’s Thanksgiving Offering. We are praying and hoping that still others of you will contribute over the weeks to come and that we can reach our $100,000 Goal!
THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS USED TO DISBURSE THOSE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND WHICH ARE NOT SUPPLIED BY OUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.
God bless each one who has given – and you who will continue to give – to our THANKSGIVING OFFERING.
With the offerings reported this month [$55,006.51 – see the Offerings Report pages in the January issue of our monthly newsletter, THE MISSION SHEETS], our new updated total is $84,803.01.
That is only less than $3000 short of our FINAL TOTAL of last year’s Thanksgiving Offering. We are praying and hoping that still others of you will contribute over the weeks to come and that we can reach our $100,000 Goal!
THE THANKSGIVING OFFERING IS USED TO DISBURSE THOSE COMMITMENTS WE HAVE MADE TO OUR MISSIONARIES FROM THE GENERAL FUND WHICH ARE NOT SUPPLIED BY OUR MONTHLY OFFERINGS TO THE GENERAL FUND.
2010 SPRING MISSIONS CONFERENCE
2010 SPRING CONFERENCE
April 12, 13, 14 * Thompson Road Baptist Church, Lexington KY
Contact Pastor Dave Parks: daveparks@insightbb.com or 859.223.8374
Please make plans to attend this Conference with us to promote the interests of the missionaries who serve in association with Baptist Faith Missions.
The purpose of our Conferences is to ‘provoke one another to love and good works’ with respect to world-wide missions. We make every effort to inspire one another to FELLOWSHIP and PARTNERSHIP to reach the nations of the world with Gospel-preaching, Christ-proclaiming, and church-planting missions.
FELLOWSHIP has at least these three essential mutual and cooperative exercises: MUTUAL INTEREST, MUTUAL INVESTMENT, MUTUAL INVOLVEMENT. We seek to cultivate these missions activities in our Conferences. COME, AND BE A PART OF IT!
WE ENCOURAGE EACH CHURCH TO OFFER TO PAY AT LEAST YOUR PASTOR’S TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION EXPENSES TO OUR CONFERENCES. He, and your church, will not only be better informed about the function and ministries of our missionaries, but your church will also benefit from the revival of missions enthusiasm he will bring back to your church.
April 12, 13, 14 * Thompson Road Baptist Church, Lexington KY
Contact Pastor Dave Parks: daveparks@insightbb.com or 859.223.8374
Please make plans to attend this Conference with us to promote the interests of the missionaries who serve in association with Baptist Faith Missions.
The purpose of our Conferences is to ‘provoke one another to love and good works’ with respect to world-wide missions. We make every effort to inspire one another to FELLOWSHIP and PARTNERSHIP to reach the nations of the world with Gospel-preaching, Christ-proclaiming, and church-planting missions.
FELLOWSHIP has at least these three essential mutual and cooperative exercises: MUTUAL INTEREST, MUTUAL INVESTMENT, MUTUAL INVOLVEMENT. We seek to cultivate these missions activities in our Conferences. COME, AND BE A PART OF IT!
WE ENCOURAGE EACH CHURCH TO OFFER TO PAY AT LEAST YOUR PASTOR’S TRAVEL AND ACCOMMODATION EXPENSES TO OUR CONFERENCES. He, and your church, will not only be better informed about the function and ministries of our missionaries, but your church will also benefit from the revival of missions enthusiasm he will bring back to your church.
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