"Growing" in January

While 2009 is winding down....GROW is gearing up for 2010!!

We have been announcing, praying, discussing, and signing up for G.R.O.W! I am sure you have heard about it in your BFG this past week as the teachers all received letters outlining the teams and week assignments last week. I pray this outreach program will involve more people in personal evangelism that we have ever had previously! There will be times of training for everyone, and then there is a need for some to keep nursery, write letters, and some to visit those who have visited Trinity and, most importantly share the Gospel. So if you have not signed up - yes, you can do so in your Bible Fellowship Group. Your class will be assigned approximately one night a month; you will be giving about 12 hours a year! If you miss your night, you can certainly come on another night - it is our desire to keep your classes together if at all possible so that you have visitation partners and time for fellowship as well. Please don’t just sign up...please make every effort to be involved in this great strategy. We will still be providing a meal and it will still be on Monday nights, but we believe more will be involved by doing it this way, because of the busy schedule that we all have. We have a staff member over each team and they will help you find a partner to go out with and a recommend someone to go visit. If you have never been involved with our outreach at Trinity before please make every effort to be here. If you have been involve previously but had to quit because of work schedule or some other conflict, this is your opportunity to get back involved in carrying out the Great Commission. Let’s see what God does through this in 2010!

Big Event for 2010

In no way do I want to rush 2009 out of here - I love the Holidays, being with family, and playing with my boys! But I want to use this space to give some understanding about a monumental event in 2010 for Trinity Baptist Church! We will begin a debt retirement campaign that will aggressively chip away at what we owe on our auditorium. God has blessed us with wonderful facilities, but we would be poor stewards of what He has given us if we spend over 200,000 a year making minimum payments until my grandchildren celebrate the payoff! The missions and ministries that money could be used for to glorify God, is being sent to a bank each and every month. This has been hanging over the head of Trinity for a while now, and we now have the opportunity to cut most of it down in about 3 years. The day I came, many of you expressed a desire to pay off this debt and that is a wise and realistic goal - so begin praying and planning how God will use YOU, and each member of Trinity as we sacrifice to pay off this building. As we enter into 2010 we will begin to explain in greater detail the process that we will be going through, but the chief motivation for this should be (as in all things) to glorify God. There are some who are already praying and are involved in the preliminary planning...and they will begin sharing with you, and explaining more in detail as we get into the New Year. As for right now, our prayer is that each member will make a commitment to be used of God and to give in a sacrificial way. This will be a spiritual journey to a glorious end! Please be in prayer regarding this great task for the New Year!