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Missions
Student Ministry
Mission Trip to Rochester, New York
July 9-15, 2011
Our 21st Year
Franklin Baptist Association
Franklin Baptist Church Builders
FRANKLIN COUNTY REBUILD
Seven projects~June 20-24, 2011
Mission Trip to Ecuador
Barry, Kathi, Nathan, and Abby Holcomb
March 8-15, 2011
Mission Trip to Arequippa, Peru
April 9-16, 2010
Associational Mission Trip 2010
Casper, Wyoming
June 21-25
Student Ministry
Mission Trip to Rochester, NY
"OUR 20th YEAR"
July 10-16, 2010
Associational Mission Trip 2009
Bar Nunn, WY
June 15-19, 2009
Mission trip to Arequippa, Peru
March 20-28, 2009
Student Ministry
Mission Trip to Rochester, NY
July 11-17, 2009
International Mission Trip
FBC, Russellville partnered with First Baptist Church, Kingwood, Texas
http://www.CeriKids.org
Moldova / Transniestria
December 5-13, 2008
Associational Mission Trip 2008
Appleton, Wisconsin
June 16 - 20, 2008
Be in prayer for families near to the hearts of First Baptist Church:
Peter and Jeanie, and their children
Mission Friends, RAs, GAs
Sundays @ 6:00 P.M.
ages 3 to 6th Grade
Mission trip to Arequippa, Peru
May 24-31, 2008
Student Ministry
Mission Trip to Rochester, NY
July 6-12, 2008
for Rochester blog go to:
www.MySpace.com/FBCRussellville
International Mission Trip
FBC, Russellville partnered with First Baptist Church, Kingwood, Texas
Transniestria
November 23-December 1, 2007
Dr. Gene Balding
Channing Ward
Jennifer Kimbrough
Summer missionary to Kenya
2007
Mission Trip ~ Thailand
February 2007
R,FBC Participants: Anna Brackin, Bobby & Theresa Sorrells
Student Ministry
Mission Trip to Rochester, NY
July 8-14, 2007
Mission Trip ~ Guatamala
U N A Baptist Campus Ministries
January 2006
R,FBC Participants: Caleb Farris, Luke Robinson, Channing Ward
International Mission Trip
FBC, Russellville partnered with First Baptist Church, Kingwood, Texas
Moldova
November 11-21, 2005
Roger and Maudie Bedford
Ricky and Kathy Hall
Bob and Jama Rogers
Bobby Sorrells
International Mission Trip
partnered with Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions
Tsunami Relief, Thailand
August 2005
Russellville, FBC Participants:
Grady Fuller, Floyd Tirey
International Mission Trip
FBC, Russellville partnered with First Baptist Church,Kingwood, Texas
Medical Mission Trip to Moldova
June 2005
Russellville, FBC Participant: Robert Parmer
Student Ministry
Mission Trip to Rochester, NY
July 10-16, 2005
Caley Farris
Summer volunteer to East Asia
2005
YOUTH SUMMER 2006 MISSIONARIES
Caleb Farris~Asia
Jennifer Kimbrough~Arlington, TX
Leah Parker~San Antonio, TX
Channing Ward~San Antonio, TX
Student Ministry
Mission Trip 2004
Rochester, New York
ministering to The Pines of Perinton
July 11 - 17, 2004
Associational Mission Trip 2004
New Life Community Church
Pastor, Bro. Jim Goforth
Inwood, West Virginia
July 19 - 23, 2004
Constructed a first unit, all metal building.
Mission Team Participants from First Baptist, Russellville:
Larry and Janice Dover (and grandson)
Andy and Deborah Gault
Calvin and Linda Parmer
Bobby Neal Smith
Buryl and Ruth Smith
Floyd and Betty Tirey
Harry and Doris Woodruff
International Mission Trip
FBC, Russellville partnered with First Baptist Church, Kingwood, Texas
Transniestria
November 21-30, 2003
We had the privilege of placing new boots (and socks)
on the feet of needy children and adults.
2003 Transniestria Mission Team Participants:
Dr. Gene Balding, Robert Parmer, Bob Rogers, Floyd Tirey
Sunday, July 6 - Saturday, July 12, 2003
The Pines of Perinton
Rochester, New York
If you were to die tonight,
and God asked you,
"Why should I let you
into My Heaven?"
What would you say
to Him????????
How To Become A Christian
2003 Rochester Mission Team and Friends
Associational Mission Trip 2003
Huntington Baptist Church, 2435 Waterworks Rood ZIP 46750
Huntington, Indiana
http://www.huntingtonbaptist.org/
July 21 - 25, 2003
Mission Team Participants from First Baptist, Russellville:
Larry and Janice Dover
Andy and Deborah Gault
Bobby Neal Smith
Harry and Doris Woodruff
Mission Trip ~ Guatamala
U N A Baptist Campus Ministries
January 5 - 12, 2003
R,FBC Participants: Karen (Farr) Burns, Lauren Parker
Mission Trip ~ Mexico
University of Alabama Baptist Campus Ministries
R,FBC Participants:
April 2003
Andrea Fowler, James Glasgow
April 2004
James Glasgow
Mission Trips of
Brother Grady Fuller
1995 Argentina
1996 East Asia, Nigeria, and Ghana
1997 Ghana
1998 Ukraine and Ghana
1999 India, Japan, Guam, and Australia
2000 South Africa and Ghana
2001 (trip to India cancelled due to 9/11 terrorist attacks)
2002 India and Ghana
2003 Japan and Taiwan; Venezuela; India
2004 India
2005 Thailand; Brazil; Ghana
2006 India
2008 Haiti
International Mission Trip
FBC, Russellville partnered with First Baptist Church, Kingwood, Texas
Moldova
November 30 - December 8, 2002
We had the privilege of placing new boots (and socks)
on the feet of needy children and adults.
2002 Moldova Mission Team Participants:
Dr. Gene Balding
LeAnne Long
Bob Rogers
Laura Smallwood
Theresa Sorrells
Floyd Tirey
Robert Parmer
Associational Mission Trip
Otis, Colorado
July 15 - 19, 2002
Mission Team Participants from 1st Baptist:
Larry and Janice Dover
Buryl and Ruth Smith
Harry and Doris Woodruff
Mission Vacation Bible School
Eastside Apartments, Russellville, AL
June 24-27, 2002
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. each day
WAS A GREAT SUCCESS!
RADOOGA
Melissa Chesnut, participated in RADOOGA June 25-July 9, 2002
RADOOGA (All-Ukrainian Charitable Camp Resource Fund)is a Ukrainian camp ministry that started with a small camp in Kiev in 1994. Their vision was to present Christian camps (a novelty at that time) for Ukrainian youth. Rapid growth of Radooga camps and their popularity encouraged their director, Oleg Vasilevsky, to share the Radooga vision of strengthening God’s church in Ukraine through camps with other people and start training them to do similar camps. Filled with love for God and their country, the Radooga staff believe that only revived Christians can bring true changes to their economically and spiritually impoverished country. God has honored their desire to make a difference in Ukraine and used their ministry to build up key youth pastors, Sunday school teachers and missionaries. The primary focus of Radooga activities today are youth and kid’s summer camps as well as camp director’s and youth ministry training programs. One of Radooga’s long-term goals is to start regional offices in other parts of Ukraine to provide churches with much-needed help in creating and implementing summer camp programs.
Karen (Farr) Burns
2003 Summer Missionary to Thailand
Tuesday, June 10, 2003 Arrival! Hey! I finally made it to Thailand! After about 22 hours on 3 planes. The flights weren’t bad, but the 12-hour one from Detroit to Tokyo was, well, long. Then there were 6 more hours to Bangkok. But I’m here, safe, and loving it so far. . .
We go out on campus and invite students to our English club room, where we basically sit and talk with them so they can practice English. Hopefully those conversations will lead to talks about God and the Gospel, so that we can share our faith and maybe students will accept Christ. It takes the average Thai about 7 years to accept Christ after first hearing the Gospel . . .
Thank you all so much for your prayers to this point! This place absolutely needs God and has no idea that they are lost . . .
In Buddhism, the mother’s (or maybe both parents’) salvation depends on the son becoming a monk (one week minimum), so I have talked with a student who wants to wait until after his week as a monk to accept Christ. Even though he agrees with Christianity. Tradition, family, etc. are extremely important to the Thai people, so that makes it more difficult to witness. They will usually listen to what you say, but it is so much like in Acts when Paul was in Athens. The people wanted to hear new ideas, but they just heard them...they didn’t take them very seriously. It can easily discourage us as we work here, but I know that God has brought me here without promising that I will ever see results. I’m really excited about this past week because my prayer changed from, “Lord, help me make it through the next 5 weeks of teaching” to “Lord, I only have 5 weeks of contact with students, so help me to make the most of that time.” I have definitely had to rely on faith rather than feelings, b/c culture shock and some other things have many times made me want to be somewhere familiar. I wouldn’t change anything, though, because I absolutely am sure this is where God has called me, at least for 8 weeks this summer...
God is faithfully continuing to remind me that He wants me to be joyful, obedient, and completely dependent on Him. Over the past 4 weeks, God has brought me to where all I have to rely on is Him, especially on the days when I would rather be anywhere but here. Don't get me wrong. This place is great, and the need for the Truth is so evident. International missions are just much different and more difficult than I imagined. We have really seen the need for discipleship here . . .
The one prayer request I have, other than continued focus and perseverance, is that God would open up they hearts and eyes of the people here to the Truth that Buddha and other gods cannot save them or do anything at all for them. We went to a famous temple (Temple of the Emerald Buddha--Wat Phra Keo) last Saturday, and to make this concise, it was terrible. Countless people just in that one temple were praying to and bowing down before this statue. Think Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the golden image of the king. It was heartbreaking, and God let me see so much more of how blind this nation really is.
Probably the hardest part about our work here...knowing that we share the gospel with so many Thai people, and then knowing that we will probably never know if they become Christians or not. But we all have to remind ourselves often that our calling here is to preach the gospel, not to save people.
Karen
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