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Holston Valley
Baptist Association
October 2022
Volume 140 Issue 1

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MISSION-AIDER

Annual Meeting

The Holston Valley Baptist Association is excitedly preparing for our Annual Meeting! All are welcome to join us for this yearly business meeting and celebration of all that God has accomplished over the past year through the Holston Valley Baptist Association. The meeting will be held on Monday, October 24, 2022 at Rogersville First Baptist Church. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. followed by a fellowship meal at 5:15 p.m. A second session will begin at 6:30 p.m. There will be several organizations with booths set up for everyone to visit prior to the first session and during dinner. There will be devotionals led by Rev. Johnny Carr, Pastor of Shepards Chapel Baptist Church as well as Neal Lane, Pastor of Valley View Baptist Church. Our featured speaker will be Rev. David Singleton from E3 Ministries. The theme for this year’s meeting will be Witnesses to the World based on Acts 1:8. We look forward to seeing you there!

Rogersville First Baptist Church

Hawkins County Pregnancy HELP Center

by Kelly Snodgrass

The Pregnancy Center has had a busy month with several new clients and several new babies! I am thankful to be able to serve the moms and babies of Hawkins County through the Center. Over the last month, there have been 52 visits to the Center. I love when the kids come by the Center to play while I visit with the moms. Thank you to all the individuals and churches that support the Hawkins County Pregnancy Help Center. The weekly Outside The Walls Meetings continues on Wednesday nights. This is a great gathering to invite clients and share the gospel. I also took a client and her daughter to the Go Tell America Crusade. We had a great time and I enjoyed spending time with them. There are several things happening in the near future. The Tennessee Health Departments Community Baby Shower is coming soon. It is a great event to benefit moms and I usually meet several clients and potential new clients there. Also, I am planning to host a nutrition class called “Nutrition Through the Life Cycle” in October. The class is in conjunction with the UT Ag Extension office and teaches moms about nutrition during pregnancy through the first years of a child’s life.

Go Guatemala

At the September HVBA Executive Committee meeting at McPheeters Bend Baptist Church, a commissioning service was held for the members of the HVBA Guatemala Mission Team. Heath Smith, Ruth Moles, Haley Jones, Ethan Roberts, and Laura Beets will spend 8 days in October in Guatemala conducting VBS at two schools, handing out food boxes, doing evangelistic house visits, and helping with Bible studies. Be in prayer for this team as they go. If you would like to help this team in a tangible way you may help purchase food boxes by sending money to the Holston Valley Baptist Association marked for Guatemala.

Church Anniversaries

Several churches in our association have recently celebrated anniversaries. Our Director of Missions, Mark Roberts, was able to be at each of the churches to present a plaque to the pastors at their homecomings. Cool Branch celebrated 150 years, Henards Chapel 50 years, and Bentleys Chapel 75 years. We are thankful for each of these churches and for their legacy of service to the Lord!

Cool Branch Baptist Church
150 years Pastor J. R. South

Henards Chapel Baptist Church
50 years Pastor Stevie Rogers

Bentleys Chapel Baptist Church
75 years Pastor Robbie Drinnon

Churches to pray for without Pastors

Fishers Creek
Lyons Park
Mount Pleasant Sneedville First
Tunnell Hill
War Creek (Sneedville)

Disaster Relief Training

Ever considered getting involved in Disaster Relief? Now is your chance. Two trainings will be taking place at Sullivan Baptist Church in Kingsport on October 11 &13. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. and the classes start at 6:30 p.m. each night. The cost of the two day training is $36.00 which covers the cost of a background check and any additional courses that you take over the next 3 years. You must complete the introductory class and one specialty class to be certified for Disaster Relief work. You may contact the Holston Valley Baptist Disaster Relief Leader, James Shackelford, for more information at 423-276-0032.

Financial Report for August 2022

Balance August 1, 2022
Gifts in August 2022

50266.64
14949.05

ITEMIZED REPORT OF GIFTS
CHURCHES AUGUST 2022

Bass Chapel
Beech Creek
Belmont
Bentleys Chapel
Bethel
Big Creek
Burem
Caney Creek
Cave Springs
Choptack
Christians Bend
Church Hill FBC
Circle C. Cowboy
Cool Branch
Cross Anchor Cowboy
Duck Creek
East Rogersville
Elm Springs
Fishers Creek
Gills Chapel
Henards Chapel
Hickory Cove
Howes Chapel
Independence
Indian Ridge
Keplar
Kyles Ford
Lone Oak
Looneys Chapel
Lyons Park
McKinneys Chapel
McPheeters Bend
Mooresburg
Morrisetts Chapel
Mount Pleasant
New Hope
New Life
North Fork
Oak Grove
Persia
Prices Grove
Ridgeview
Rogersville FBC
Shady Grove
Shepards Chapel
Sneedville FBC
Speedwell
Surgoinsville FBC
Tar Pine
Tunnell Hill
Valley View
War Creek-Eidson
War Creek-Sneedville
West View
TBMB Supplement
Other
TOTALS

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70.00
50.00
0.00
0.00
200.00
91.40
25.00
0.00
194.00
125.00
1916.63
0.00
0.00
0.00
100.00
462.92
0.00
0.00
1228.35
881.10
522.46
0.00
0.00
217.56
0.00
20.00
30.00
57.66
30.00
200.00
196.82
0.00
0.00
15.00
0.00
0.00
74.31
1823.68
50.00
500.00
688.33
833.33
880.00
825.00
303.55
50.00
415.53
0.00
419.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
170.60
782.00
499.76
14949.05
14036.03

0.00
245.00
400.00
270.00
1260.58
1600.00
850.08
200.00
0.00
1211.00
1000.00
15333.04
0.00
420.00
0.00
800.00
3633.80
0.00
0.00
6619.66
5569.49
3838.61
2000.00
0.00
1503.70
0.00
160.00
240.00
335.87
240.00
2400.00
1320.78
0.00
1875.00
135.00
0.00
750.00
1463.69
12650.36
450.00
500.00
5469.31
6666.64
880.00
2750.00
3390.43
400.00
3089.82
0.00
2636.24
429.00
100.00
0.00
1364.80
6256.00
180766.55
284651.62
14036.03

Balance and Receipts
Disbursements in August 2022
Balance September 1, 2022

65215.69
13032.07
52183.62

Churches and Pastors to Pray for this month

Celebrations

HAPPY
BIRTHDAY

October 3…….……Mrs. Amanda Meek (Rogersville First)
October 5…………......Mrs. Patty Carr (Shepards Chapel)
October 16…………….……...Mrs. Carla Roberts (Office)
October 18.………....Rev. Stevie Rogers (Henards Chapel)
October 20.………....Rev. Tecky Hicks (Surgoinsville First)
October 25…………………….Rev. Ken Cradic (Tar Pine)
October 25………………..Mrs. Tina McLain (North Fork)

MORRISETTS CHAPEL
BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Rev. Robert Mallory

HAPPY
ANNIVERSARY

October 10…………....Jarod & Kira Harrell (Gills Chapel) October 13……Dustin & Renea Jessee (Church Hill First)
October 14...Robert & Jo Etta Mallory (Morrisetts Chapel)
October 19…………...Lon & Shirl Taylor (Howes Chapel)
October 20……....Stevie & Beth Rogers (Henards Chapel)
October 23………..Jamie & Crystal Stewart (Mooresburg)
October 27………….Ron & Margie Grimes (Indian Ridge)

New Pastor

MOUNT PLEASANT
BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor:

We are excited to welcome a new pastor to the Holston Valley Baptist Association! Mooresburg Baptist Church has elected Jamie Stewart as their new pastor. Please join us in prayer for Jamie and his wife, Crystal, as they begin their new ministry.

NEW HOPE
BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Rev. Codi Miley

Holston Valley Baptist Association

207 Hawkins Street
Rogersville, TN 37857
Hours: Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

HVBA: 423-272-7318
Pregnancy Center: 423-272-7309
Website: hvbaptist.org

Facebook:
Holston Valley Baptist Association
Hawkins County Pregnancy Center

NEW LIFE
BAPTIST CHURCH
Pastor: Rev. Tim Johnson

Associational Missionary
Mark Roberts
hvbamissions@gmail.com

Ministry Assistant
Melinda Eidson
hvbaoffice@gmail.com

Pregnancy Center Director
Kelly Snodgrass
hcphcrog@gmail.com

Due to the ongoing pandemic the Holston Valley Baptist Association has decided to do our annual VBS Kickoff a bit differently. In late April, we will be shipping out to each church VBS Director a DVD that our associational VBS team has created. It will have videos that pertain to every area of VBS for your VBS workers to view. These videos will also be posted on our Facebook page as well as our website. Our team is working hard to prepare quality videos that will help get your church ready for VBS no matter what program or theme you are using. Be on the look out for this information by following our Facebook page and visiting our website (www.hvbaptist.org) and reading future newsletters.

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Did your church report your VBS information? The Tennessee Baptist Mission Board is asking all churches no matter what curriculum they used to report their information. The information is used to track VBS growth and trends across our state. If you have not done it already, you may go to vbs.lifeway.com/church reports to have your church counted.

Summit of the Saints Breakout Speakers
Roc Collins (Evangelism)
William Maxwell (Clerks, Treasurers, Legal Issues)
Vicki Hulsey (Children’s Ministry, VBS)
Mark Miller (Small Group Bible Study, Win TN)
Jay Barbier (Youth Ministry)
Vickie Anderson (Women’s Ministry)
Joy Clay Corby (Secretaries)
Libby Eaton (Tennessee Electronic Database)
Ryan Keeton (Reaching Millennials)
Wes Jones (Disaster Relief, Baptist Builders, Men’s Ministry)
Beth Moore (Compassion Ministry)
Chris Headly (Music Ministry)
Gary Gerhardt & Lynn Parker (Deacons)
Glyn Cuthrell (Robert’s Rules of Order)

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