Our staff and some of our pastors attended two important meetings this week regarding community transformation involving the Fort Worth Independent School District. 

 

            We met with the new superintendent of the Fort Worth ISD, Mr. Walter Dansby.  He is eager to involve our churches in the work of the schools.  He would like for churches and businesses to work together to show support for public education. 

 

            We also met with a group of evangelical pastors in southwest Fort Worth who are interested in creating a local TarrantNet affiliate.  They are looking for a big win that they can cooperate on.  Their target is the public school campuses in their area. 

 

            Volunteers from the churches will prayer walk campuses, provide gifts for teachers, serve as PTA, mentor students, and provide Kids' Hope programming after school.  All of our churches have people who can serve in one or more of these ways. 

 

            Mr. Dansby specifically requested that our churches check on students to make sure they are getting their schoolwork done.  Kids need accountability from us that they should be getting at home, but in many cases are not. 

 

            We had over forty people in our church in Baytown who worked for one of the local school districts.  At the beginning of the school year we recruited prayer partners for each of those school employees.  We recruited prayer teams for each campus.  Volunteers prayer walked each campus.  Members served the different campuses by making copies and doing other odd jobs for teachers and front office personnel. 

 

            What other ideas do you have regarding ministering to our communities through the public schools?  How is your church serving the schools in your area?  Let's put our heads together and find ways to be the church in the schools.  This will open doors for evangelism that will remain closed otherwise. 

 

            Church Unique by Will Mancini has a chapter about what he calls the Kingdom Concept.  The first part of the Kingdom Concept is the Local Predicament.  This refers to the top three characteristics of the community surrounding your church.  This provides your church with unique opportunities for ministry.  What can your church do to drive back the darkness in your community?  What can your church do to serve your community in the name of Jesus Christ? 

 

Pray for our schools,

David

 

            The Venezuelans shared more needs as the group worked with them. Plans are now being made to send a team to train Vacation Bible School and Sunday School leaders. They also requested help with Camp Carabobo, which is their national encampment. They would like advice on other activities for campers, soil testing on crops that can be planted on unused portions of camp property, and requested building

 teams to come and help build more facilities. An assessment team is being assembled to go and learn more about how we can assist.

            The cost to send these two teams to Venezuela will be about $10,000. Please pray that funds will be provided to make this possible.

 

Restorative Justice Ministry

More God, Less Crime

 

March 17, 2012

8:30am-1:00pm

 

True Vine Missionary Baptist Church

3732 Miller fort Worth, TX 76119

 

Pastor Jack Crane, Dr. Byron Johnson, Ms. Dee Wilson, and Emmett Solomon will be speaking at this conference

 

To register call the church office at 817-534-3764

 

 

 

  

 

For more information and to register go to 

www.tbma.net/

 

 You must register for the conference and hotel separately

 

REFUND POLICIES:

 

  

     This is a great retreat in Palacious, Texas at the Texas Baptist Encampment. For more information contact Sharilyn or Sam Craig at 713-957-8069 or www.sbtexas.com/sradults 

 

WHERE WE WILL STAY

TYPES OF WORK WE WILL BE DOING

Join us for Texas Baptist Hunger Offering Mission Trip to Canada, July 9-16, 2012

 

Texas Baptists are pledging their support to Canadian Baptists through gifts from the Texas Baptist Hunger Offering.  Join us as we reach out to strengthen this partnership through hands-on ministry with Matthew House, ministering to refugees in Ottawa,Toronto, and Ft. Erie, Canada, receiving Texas Baptist Hunger Offering funds.

 

Matthew House wraps its arms around frightened and displaced refugees, like Josie, forced to flee Africa with her young daughter. "After leaving our home in Africa, scared and alone, God has given us a new family in Canada.  The love shown to us at Matthew House has encouraged us to pick up our lives and start again."

 

Cost:  (includes flight, hotels, ground transportation)

$1495 (double occupancy)

$1995 (single occupancy)

(Meals and excursions additional.  Grocery shopping available.)

$300 deposit ($50 non-refundable).  Full payment due May 1.

Dan Curry recently celebrated 20 years of pastoral service at South Oaks.

 

A local pastor is retiring and selling his library at a deep discount.  A portion of the proceeds will go to the mission church he started in Keene with First Baptist Church of Burleson as the sponsor. If you would like to see the list of books and prices, please send a note to David at david@tarrantbaptist.org and he will forward the list to you.

 

North Richland Hills Baptist Church will be hosting the 2012 Muslim Background Believers Conference April 20-21, 2012. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Safeeya Schnaufer at 214-217-9857 or by email at safeeya@gospelformuslims.com. Register at   www.MBBconference.org