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WEB DESIGN
Does your churches website need to be freshened up, or does your church need a web presence? Please fill out the questionnaire and submit it to iba@interstatebaptist.org and let us help you find the best solution and pricing.
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MISSIONARY MOMENTS
May 29 - June 5, 2011
For the past five years, STEVE and JUDY ANDERSON have served as boarding home parents in Manila, Philippines. The boarding home is a place where the children of other missionaries live while they are in school. Steve and Judy partner with many Southeast Asian families, whose childen live in Manila. Their role allows them to provide love and care to high school students who do not have their parents close by. "One of the truly exciting things about our work...is the opportunity we have to see students grow in maturity and in their walk with the Lord. They gain avenues of independence that allow them to face life challenges later on," Steve and Judy said. Your support of missions through CP empowers the ministry of our missionaries while providing for their families as well. Pray for the children of our missionaries this week.
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DR. GUILLERMO SORIANO serves the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina as the Multicultural Evangelism Specialist Consultant in the Evangelism and Church Growth Team. Dr. Soriano works with more than 4,300 churches in the areas of evangelism and church growth with all the people groups living in the state. In North Carolina alone, as estimated 4.6 million lost people need to experience the saving grace of Christ. With your prayers and your faithful participation in the Cooperative Program, Dr. Soriano will partner with North Carolina churches and other volunteers to see that they have the opportunity to experience Christ's grace.
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BY THE NUMBERS
45% of Americans list family as their top priority.
20% of Americans list health and wellness as their top priority.
17% of Americans list financial stability as their top priority.
12% of Americans list faith as their top priority.
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OUTLOOK
Top Leadership Myths
#1 - The Myth of Empowerment: The way to empower people is to leave them alone and let them manage themselves.
This is false empowerment, the number one myth in the workplace.
What is the reality? Almost everybody performs better with more guidance, direction, and support from a more experienced person. So why do leaders often second-guess their own instincts to take a stronger hand? The answer is, they have been in-grained with the mantras of false empowerment. When these leaders do take charge, people under them often recite these same mantra, complaining. "Don't micromanage me!"
The funny thing is that most cases mistaken for micromanagement turn out to be under management in disguise. For example:
Example one - if a person under your leadership must check with you every step of the way in order to make a very basic decision or take a very simple action. This is not micromanagement. If a person you are leading is unable to make very basic decisions or take very simple actions on his/her own, this is almost always because the leader has not prepared them in advance to do so!
Example two - if a person under your leadership makes decisions and takes action without every checking with you, and when you find out about the decision and actions you burn them for taking initiative. Micromanagement? No. This person does not know where his/her discretion begins and ends, that's because the leader has not spelled out guidelines and parameters for the person up front.
So, what is real empowerment?
If you truly want to empower people, then you simply must define the terrain on which they have power. That terrain consists of effectively delegated goals, with clear guidelines and concrete deadlines. Consistently articulating with every direct report the appropriate standards and expectations - what to do and how to do it - is the hard work of leading, managing, and supervising. Within clearly articulated parameters, a direct report has power. Limited power? Yes. But it also has the great virtue of being real power.
*Information/insight gathered from Bruce Tulgan's book, "It's Okay to Be Boss."
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"Churches Coming Together To Help One Another!" |
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NJO MISSION OFFERING INITIATIVE
Making old things new - we are headed in a new direction!
The Nelle Johnson Offering (NJO) was established to provide funds to enhance our serving and giving locally and to the world as an Association.
This year's offering will be used as follows:
Leadership Development -
Healthy, growing pastors are essential for developing healthy, growing churches. We would like to develop SALT (Strengthen Associational Leadership Team) to support and resource our pastors.
This team focuses on supporting pastors with practical needs during hard times as well as creating opportunities for training, mentoring, coaching, partner-ships, assessments, consultations, and whatever other means we can access to resource these men of God so they can continue to grow in their ability to lead, equip, preach, and impact their community for God; keeping in mind every pastorate is unique.
IBA Continuing Education Fund - Provides scholarship funds that benefit Northwest Pastors, Pastor's Family and Ministry Leaders to attend seminary, complete under-graduate studies, and etc.
Offering Goal for 2011:
$7,000.00
This offering can be collected and turned in year round. This week (May 15-May 22) is the North American Mission Board's designated time for emphasis on Associational Missions.
Click Here for bulletin insert
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BUSINESS CENTER REVIEW
 Google Enhances E-Mail Security in Apps
For those using any Google based app systems (i.e. Google calendar, Google talk, Google docs, Google video chat, Gmail, etc.) will be pleased to hear that Google has taken a step to stop legitimate e-mail messages sent by its Apps customers from getting caught in spam filters. Administrators for Google Apps (www.google.com/apps) can now enable digital signing of those messages, which help recipients verify that the message came from a known vetted sender. |
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CHILDREN'S CAMPS
 Girl's Camp Staff Meeting will be June 4, 2011 at the Northwest Baptist Center from 10 a.m. to noon. The meeting will be a planning and informational meeting.
If you are interested in volunteering to help with camp, please join us.
Boy's Camp is also meeting on June 4 for a prep meeting at Camp WaRiKi. On the agenda is to repair the trail.
Camp flyers and copies of all forms have been mailed to the churches. You can also find general camp information and downloadable forms at www.interstatebaptist.org/serving/soulshapers. |
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MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
NORTH TO ALASKA
Due to the economy, we have not had the response we anticipated or have had in the past for summer mission volunteers. Here are some of our urgent needs:
A Summer Missions Coordinator (couple with a tow vehicle, primarily assisting with Block Party trailer)
- 8 to 12 JAM Camp Adult Leaders (children's music and worship camp)
- A Registered Nurse - July 23 thru 28
- A Lifeguard - July 23 thru 28
- At least one evangelism team August 31 thru September 5 (Alaska State Fair)
All of these volunteer missionary requests are currently listed on the NAMB Bridge, but I need your help! Please, please help me get the word out about all of these mission volunteer needs. Thanks very much for your help!
Gary Bearce, Associational Missionary
Hatcher Pass Baptist Association
PO Box 2650, Palmer, Alaska 99645
Cell: 907 982-0133 Home: 907 746-7467
Email: gary@hpbaak.org Web: www.hpbaak.org
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JAMAICA AND/OR MYRTLE BEACH, SC
We are inviting you and your member Churches to come on mission with us to Jamaica. Trips are scheduled for August and October/November. We are now in our 15th year of mission trips to Jamaica. We are also extending an invitation to Churches to come on mission to Myrtle Beach, SC this summer and fall to help us reach our community for Jesus Christ.
Dr. Tom Sees, Pastor
Rising Sun Community Church
Myrtle Beach SC
For more information:
Jamaica trip, click here
Myrtle Beach, SC, click here
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It is amazing how individuals especially students love to serve if they are given the opportunity. With projects that are a worthy causes and deserving of their time and effort. So, I say let them serve in tangible ways!
This summer SWEAT Ministries has two opportunities to serve:
- The first being an Intrastate Service Project in Vernonia, OR; where we will be assisting a church that has been affected by the past floods.
- The second will be time of assisting Evergreen Community church in Washington with some building repairs and maintenance.
Both of these opportunities will be a great learning experience for all that participate! If you are interested in becoming a part of SWEAT Ministries Service Projects please contact Crystal Miller- crystal@sweatministries.org.
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Thank you for reading. If there is something you would like to see and/or would like to add to the IBA Encourager Newsletter please send it to iba@interstatebaptist.org attention IBA Encourager. We would love to hear and share how God is working in your churches and communities. 
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