TIDINGS

Boones Creek Baptist Association Serving, Encouraging and Supporting Christs Churches

Bro. John Ryder-Director of Missions Angel Kane-Secretary Floyd & Gale Holbrook-Camp Manager Twyla SheffieldTreasurer Office (859) 744-0037 Fax (859) 744-1069 E-mail: boonescreekbapti@bellsouth.net Web-Site-www.boonescreekbaptistassoc.com Printed Mar. 2013, Volume 47, Issue 3 Deadline for next Issue: April 15, 2013

A note to you, Camp season is near again. We are again looking for summer staff: young people, 18 years and older, who will work with children at the camp in June and July. If you know of someone, please have them call the office and get an application or go online to the association web site www.boonescreekbaptistassoc.com. Happy Easter As we celebrate the Resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ, on March 31, remember what the angel said in Matthew 28:5-6, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for He is risen, as He said. Lets go and tell the Good News that we have a Risen Savior. As Jesus told us in: Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." Reminder: Spring Semi-Annual Meeting On April 8, we will hold Spring Semi-Annual Meeting at Salem Baptist in Irvine, KY. At this meeting the churches will send messengers elected by the church. There can be five to twelve messengers according to the resident membership totals of the church. Please come and participate. Bro. Todd Wiley of Reid Village Baptist Church will deliver the doctrinal sermon. In Business: we will vote on new officers and committees for 2013-2014 and the associational budget for 2013-2014. Reminder: Area Hymn Sings Spring Hymn Sings will be here before the next Tidings. I hope your choir will participate. Winchester Hymn Sing is April 22 at Ephesus Baptist. Irvine Hymn Sing is April 23 at Williams Memorial Baptist. Mt. Sterling Hymn Sing is April 25 at Spears Mill Baptist. Food For Thought: Dr. A. W. Tozer said, Let us be confident, Christian brethren, that our power does not lie in the manger at Bethlehem nor in the relics of the Cross. True spiritual power resides in the victory of the mighty, resurrected Lord of glory, who could pronounce after spoiling death: "All power is given me in heaven and in earth." The power of the Christian believer lies in the Savior's triumph of eternal glory! Christ's resurrection brought about a startling change of direction for the believers. Sadness and fear and mourning marked the direction of their religion before they knew that Jesus was raised from the dead-their direction was towards the grave. When they heard the angelic witness, "He is risen, as He said," the direction immediately shifted away from the tomb "He is risen, indeed!" If this is not the meaning of Easter, the Christian church is involved only in a shallow one-day festival each year. Thankfully, the resurrection morning was only the beginning of a great, vast outreach that has never ended-and will not end until our Lord Jesus Christ comes back again! Yours in Christ, Bro. John Ryder

II Corinthians 8:20-21 20-Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: 21-Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. You can donate to the Boones Creek Baptist Association or Camp Building Fund in MEMORY or in HONOR of a Love One. If you want it to the Building Fund, please write on your check memo: Building Fund

TO ALL CHURCHES IN THE ASSOCIATION:

The Disaster Emergency Relief Committee is available to the churches for projects that require manpower. Call the Association Office at 859/744-0037 if you need help.

MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
1. Disaster Emergency Relief Volunteers Needed 2. Go Metro USA and Find It Here 2013. Contact the association office for more information 3. Youth Mission Trip to Fayette Baptist Church, Memphis TN April 3rd-7th-2013.

Jobs Opportunities
Its that time of year again. We are looking for Camp Staff, Lifeguards and Cooks with a Baptist Background. Call the office if you are interested in a summer job. 859-744-0037

SOFTBALL LEAGUE Boones Creek Baptist Camp

Teams or individuals wanting to play please contact Gale Holbrook at 859-771-2136 for more information.

NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS from the Association and our CHURCHES CAMP REPORT Camp is getting ready to open and we need help. EX. BOARD REPORT Ex. Bd. Mtg. as held at Howards Mill Baptist. There were 15 churches with 65 in attendance. Approved to lower camp cost for association churches to $120.00. ALLANSVILLE We will be having our Easter Passion Play, Footsteps of Jesus. on Friday, Mar. 29 and Sat. Mar. 30th at 7 pm each night. Everyone is welcome to attend. We include a few small changes from yr. to yr. so attendees can enjoy seeing it again and again. Come join us! BEECH GROVE No Report BOONES CREEK Our Annual Mothers Day Brunch will be on Sat. May 11th at 10 am CALVARY No Report CENTRAL Central hosted the Assoc. Mission Fair/Chili Supper. We had a Ladies night out and Elevation Weekend for our youth. The following functions will be at Central: The Good Friday Service at Noon on March 29th. Secret Church on the evening on March 29th from 7pm until 1 am. A Sisters in Christ Tea for the ladies of Central from 11 am until 2pm on April 20th-2013. The Middle School Blast on May 31st-June 2nd and VBS on June 1014th. Our youth will go to Student Life Camp on June 16-27, 2013. CLAY CITY Our oldest member Bertha Blankenship age 101 went to be with the Lord Feb. 9, 2013. Choir Easter Service. Easter Sunrise and Breakfast will be on Easter Sunday. CORINTH No Report COW CREEK A trip to Perfect Slope North was enjoyed by all. We are in the middle of a 6 weeks study Eternal Security by Bro. Charles Stanley on Sunday evenings. EMMANUEL No Report EPHESUS Long-time church member, Barbara Jordan, went home to be with the Lord last month. Sunday School teachers training lunch was held Feb. 24th. Starting Spring Forward initiative to Grow His Kingdom, Our Church, Your Faith to focus on fellowship, facilities and Find-It-Here Crying our to God for the lost. Going our into our community. Reaching out to lost loved ones we know. Preparing our facilities for Easter Sunday and Homecoming services in June. Sonrise Service and breakfast on Easter Sunday along with an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids following the services. (TNT) Tuesday Night in Town on March 26th, 6:30pm at Wendys. Mens outing to UK Football Spring Game on April 13th. FAITHNo Report FRIENDSHIP Youth enjoyed Pizza Party. Several enjoyed the Mission Fair at Central. WMU enjoyed visiting with one of our members in the Nursing Home for her birthday. Mens Prayer breakfast March 16th. Annie Armstrong goal set for $600.00. Sunrise and breakfast March 31st. GREENBRIAR Starting to have youth group mtg. and worship on Monday nights at 6 PM . Had to cancel Sunday 2-3-2013 because of snow and ice. Looking forward to Easter Sunday Service. Having an Easter egg hunt for the children March 23rd. Planning for spring cleaning of the Church. April Birthdays-Ina Elliott, Bill Richardson, Hannah Eaton, Anniversary for April-Charles & Ina Elliott. HEIDELBERG No Report HERITAGE Well we have breezed through Feb., and are flying through March. I want to personally thank everyone who make the Mission Fair at Central Baptist such a huge success. I also want to thank everyone for their overwhelming generosity on complimenting my chili. As I have said to many, you were just hungry. Spring has sprung, and we are planning our next Community Garden. We want every church that wants to help, to come and do so. Please come and be a part of the blessing in giving fresh produce to the hungry at Clark County. Heritage will also be holding an Easter Egg Hunt on Sat. Mar. 30th between the hours of 3-5pm. This will be a community event. We hope to use this as an evangelism tool to minister to the families of Winchester. That are so many lost souls right here in our own Jerusalem and we want to make sure these people are reached for Jesus. Thank you LORD for allowing us to serve You, in Your church. HOWARDS MILL No Report IRVINE FIRST Sunshine Ladies remember our Nursing Home residents with Valentine gifts. We welcome Patricia Gould into our fellowship by Baptism 2-17-13, Church-wide snow-tubing at Perfect North Slopes. IVORY HILL Sunrise Service will be held at Ivory Hill on Easter Sunday at 7am. Breakfast will be served afterwards. Plans made for VBS when school is out for the summer. JEFFERSONVILLE- Sweetheart Banquet at Michaels, had a wonderful turnout, very much excitement and fun laughter. Our choir to present a musical program for accepting Jesus as Savior. Planning the childrens Easter Story, Campfire message on the 24th presentation of the 3 crosses. KIDDVILLE No Report MACEDONIA God is still on his throne!! We had 4 more baptisms this month!!! The Mt. Sterling Lions Club helped replenish our food pantry. It was completely empty after Thanksgiving and Christmas. We returned the favor by helping them with their Feb. project of donating dog and cat food for the Mont. Co. Animal Shelter. We had our Valentines Banquet at Golden Corral in Winchester on Feb. 9th. We are having a pot luck followed by an Eggstravaganza on Mar. 24th. We will have a Sunrise Service on Easter at our grounds. MEANS Held an Assoc. emphasis night with Bro. John Ryder. Hosting a Gospel Concert Sunday Morning, April 14th with the True Gospel Echoes. Pastor to attend the Seminary for a Day Conference in London March 23rd. MT. OLIVE We had a great month. We had a visiting preacher, Bro. Brad Brinegar, on the 2nd Sunday evening of the month and he brought his churchs Teen Drama Team with him. Everyone present received a blessing. We watched the movie The Last Brick Marker of America on the 3rd Sunday evening of the month. We had a great time together and enjoyed the movie. We had several great testimonies after the movie and that was the greatest part of the night. The kids really enjoyed the movie: this was our kids event for them. We plan on having a guest preacher out on the 2nd Sunday evening and also we are planning a movie night on the 3rd Sunday evening. Everyone is welcome to join us for any event. NEW HOPE Beth Moore Study of Deuteronomy continues. Youth bowling outing. Annie Armstrong offering emphasis. Youth Swimming outing. Easter Sunday services with Sunrise breakfast. NORTHSIDE The youth had a lock in on the 8th with 30 attending. The WMU had a Valentine Banquet for our Senior Adults. We have been blessed with 6 baptized this month. We welcome the Buttrey and Prater families to our church . PANOLA Our hearts are sadden at the loss of Shirlene Ronks Mother, Bettie Martin. Easter Cantata Hes Alive March 31st at 11 am.

POWELLS VALLEY 42 attended Valentine Banquet on the 16th. Food Ministry prepared and delivered 200 meals on the 23rd. WMU is beginning an Outreach to reach children in our community. Will have a Sunrise Service at the church with breakfast following in Fellowship Hall on Easter Sunday. Choir will be performing a Cantata in Morning Service. PROVIDENCE, CLARK No Report PROVIDENCE, ESTILL We want to Praise the Lord for the privilege to be able to baptize 7 people in a month. God has been so faithful to us and we are so thankful that when you walk in the door He is already there. We are saddened by the loss of Kandi Sparks in the month of Feb. She fought a battle with cancer that she could not win but Praise God we will see her again. We are getting ready for our Spring Revival with Bro. Don Whitt from TN. Praying for souls and lives to be changed. The men are planning a retreat in April, The Ladies had a wonderful brunch with lots of good food and plenty of laughter too. Wed. night youth program is continually growing and we are praying that we are planting seeds in all of those young lives that we get the privilege to spend our Wed. evenings with. We are also praying for our Sunday School to grow, we have some of the best teachers who work hard every week to prepare the lessons that God has laid on their heart. REID VILLAGEWe delivered household and cleaning supplies that the CIA collected to Clark County Homeless Coalition. The WMU delivered Valentines Day cards to the Windsor Care residents, Gateway Childrens Services, Shepherds Shelter and the Montgomery Co. jail. Our Valentines Day party was a lot of fun. The youth will be attending Winter Jam at Rupp Arena on Mar. 16th. The choir will sing a Cantata on Easter Sunday morning He is Risen. Our 5th Sunday Hymn sing will be Sun. night Mar. 31st at 6 pm-everyone is welcome. The WMU will be delivering Easter cards to the Windsor Care residents, Gateway Childrens Services, Shepherds Shelter and the Montgomery Co. jail. We will have our annual kite flying at East Walker park on Sat. April 13th. Our goal for Annie Armstrong Easter offering is $450. We are planning to start a Youth on Mission group. SALEM Sunshine Gang made valentines for Hospitalized Veterans. The men entertained the women with food and fun for Valentines Day. Several Women on Mission attended the Assoc. Missions Fair and Chili Supper. SPEARS MILL-No Report SPRING STREET Easter Sunrise Service and Breakfast following. Plans for Homecoming will be announced in April. THOMAS No Report VALLEY VIEW No Report WM. MEMORIAL Had a Valentine Dinner for all the church Feb. 13th. Working on a Cantata for Easter and Planning for VBS.

April Calendar 2013: 1-April Fools Day 4-Ky WMU Ex. Bd. Mtg. 4-Camp Mtg. at Boones Creek Baptist Camp-7PM 5-Ky WMU Annual Mtg. (5th-6th) 1st Baptist-Hopkinsville 8-Spring Semi-Annual Mtg. Salem Baptist-Irvine-(Eat at 6 PM) 11-Association Bible Drill-Reid Village Baptist-Mt. Sterling-7PM 12-Exalt/4:GO-(12th-13th) 13-Ministries in Transition 13-Youth Bible Drill State Wide event 13-Pastors Prayer Breakfast-Cracker Barrel-Mt. Sterling-9AM 14-Cooperative Program Sunday 19-WMU Regional Retreat-(19th-20th)-Laurel Lake B Camp-Corbin 20-Work Day at the Camp-9 till ??? 22-Spring Hymn Sing-Ephesus Baptist-Winchester-7PM 23-Spring Hymn Sing-Williams Memorial-Ravenna-7PM 25-Spring Hymn Sing-Spears Mill Baptist-Paris-7PM 26-Childrens State Bible Drill-Louisville 26-WMU Regional Retreat (26th-27th)-Camp Schafer-Hawesville 27-State Bible Drills-Calvary Baptist Church, Lexington

Best Wishes April Birthdays: 2-Vida Rediford-Pastors Wife-Corinth 7-Cecil Sheffield-Treasurers Husband 8-Jim Smith-Retired DOM 11-Phyllis Runyon-Pastors Wife-Spring Street 19-Angel Kane-BCBA Best Wishes April Anniversaries: 24-Jessie and Sharon Kline-Northside

Allansville Baptist Church, 1270 Red River Road, Winchester KY would like to invite all associational churches to our annual Footsteps of Jesus Passion Play on Good Friday, March 29 and Saturday March 30 at 7pm. This year we will be feature Joe Moore, Gospel Artist and vocalist. Good Friday is Youth night and several youth groups coming. For more information please call 771-7056