Lake Murray Baptist Church

Appalachia Trip #1 Report

Sunday May 20 began a week of Appalachian ministry for a group of 15 men and women, including two from a sister church in Lexington, two from Memphis, and 11 from LMBC.  This was our third mission trip to Lynch, Kentucky, and we hope many more will follow. We were blessed to have a talented electrician in the group who directed in rewiring and framing in the walls at the Red Door Ministry house for Loaves and Fishes, run by John and Melissa Fitzwater.  The group worked on Thursday, distributing over 200 boxes of food at L & F. While the folks were waiting in line to receive their box, they heard the gospel preached. Many of them allowed us to pray with them for specific needs in their lives.  Our ladies also assisted Melissa in distributing lunches to children at Lynch City Park, and conducted a Backyard Bible Club in the afternoons for the children.  Some of the ladies visited the Tri-Cities Nursing Home in Cumberland where they played and sang hymns, followed by personal visits with many of the residents. They were pleased to receive the coasters made by the Women’s Ministry of LMBC. Others in the group assisted Melissa in preparing and delivering meals to shut-ins in Lynch.  Later in the week, the men had opportunity to work with Heritage Ministries directed by Jeff and Linda Sim. The goal of Heritage is to restore the homes, lives, and communities in the heart of Appalachia. Our men were successful in repairing several homes.  Our mission culminated on Saturday with a Kids’ Fun Fest in Lynch City Park that included Face Painting, Balloon Animals, Parachute Games, and lots of food! We estimate that around 50 people showed up. It is truly amazing what the Lord was able to accomplish through our group in such a short time! This week was a wonderful example of what God will do if we make ourselves available for His use. We witnessed how He can use all of our gifting and talents for His glory!  If you have never experienced the fun, fellowship and fulfillment of serving our Lord on a mission trip, I challenge you to join us next year!

Summer Hours begin next week at Lake Murray Baptist Church

Summer hours will begin next week, starting June 4th, and are as follows: M-Thurs 9-4, Friday 9-1. Support staff will be available in the office during these hours.

Your help is needed for the second Appalachia Mission Trip, June 5-9!

GO: Meeting Human Needs in Christ’s Name Begins With Meeting Physical Needs in Appalachia

As our first mission team, Appalachia #1 is heading to Lynch, KY this next week, our second team, Appalachia #2 is following quickly on their heels! Harlan and Letcher Counties in Kentucky get a one week respite from the LMBC Missions Team’s two back to back trips. This second team will be doing a combo trip of LMBC’s first ever Medical Missions Trip and first ever Sports Camp Mission Trip. We are excited and nervous all at the same tine to see how God is going to use this team in this new adventure to sow seeds of the gospel, and to water the seeds planted by Team #1. 

PRAY

We will be holding the Sports Camp at one of the local elementary schools. Through the Sports Camp we will be building relationships with not only the children but also the parents. Following the Sports Camp in the morning we will have lunch for the participants and then the Medical Clinic will begin immediately after lunch at the same location.  Pray that many parents will stay allowing God to touch their lives by meeting their physical needs and that word of mouth will spread through the community. When working in extremely distressed and poor communities, meeting physical needs has a spiritual impact on an unbelieving community like nothing else.  Because they couldn’t argue over the fact that all the people were rejoicing at the miraculous change that had taken place in the formerly crippled beggar at the Temple gate. 

See Acts 3:1-16; 4:1-22.

HELP & SEND

If you are not one of the 40 people going, YOU CAN STILL HELP AND SEND!  The biggest way you can help is to purchase some of the over the counter drugs from the list (available Download ApptripwishlistOTCmed_Layout 1)  that we will be giving to those coming through the medical clinic. We will be seeing people who have no insurance. If you aren’t able to get to the store to buy these items, you can also drop a check in the offering plate, drop by the office or hand it to one of our church staff members and we will purchase the drugs for you.  Make checks out to LMBC with medical clinic in the memo no later than June 3^rd as the team leaves on Tuesday, June 5^th.   Also, we have a few people who need help in getting the funds to go. Feel free to help send one of our people. 

In His service and yours,

Shannon Madden

Minister of Missions & Administrations

 

Living the Light of the Gospel Conference at LMBC, April 28th

LMBC is hosting the "Living the Light of the Gospel" conference on Saturday, April 28th.  Conference sessions will be held 9:30 AM to 12 Noon, and 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM.

Speakers include the Hearts for the Lost Team (David Martin, Matt Watson, Steve Reeves, Greg Moss, and Scotty Logue), as well as three area pastors (Dr. Richard Belcher, Dr. Robert Tims, and Paul Stephens).

Find out the true meaning of grace, learn to live every day in light of the Gospel, and learn how to comfortably and confidently share the Gospel.  

Learn more at Hearts for the Lost, and enjoy this promo put together by Wretched.

 

The Spiritual Life Conference, February 10-11, 2012

Congregation,

There is an event occuring in our community the weekend of February 10 that I'd like to encourage you to attend.  It's the Spiritual Life Conference at First Presbyterian of Columbia.  I am planning on attending Friday night, as I have Upward basketball responsibilities every Saturday this winter.  

Here are the details (if you don't want to click through above).

Theme:  The Needs of the Hour 
Guest Speaker: Dr. R. C. Sproul  
No registration is required.

Session 1, at 7:00 p.m. Friday, A Famine of the Word
Session 2, at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, The Prayerlessness of the Church
Session 3, at 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Bridges to the World

Dr. R.C. Sproul is president of Ligonier Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies and the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is executive editor of Tabletalk magazine and general editor of The Reformation Study Bible. Dr. Sproul currently serves as the director of Serve International and Senior Minister of Preaching and Teaching at Saint Andrew’s in Sanford, Florida. He is ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. Dr. Sproul is the author of more than seventy books and scores of articles for national evangelical publications. Dr. Sproul has produced more than 300 lecture series and has recorded more than 80 video series on subjects such as the history of philosophy, theology, Bible study, apologetics, and Christian living. Dr. Sproul’s teaching can be heard on the program Renewing Your Mind with Dr. R. C. Sproul. Dr. Sproul holds degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and the Free University of Amsterdam, and he has had a distinguished academic teaching career at various colleges and seminaries, including Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida, and Jackson, Mississippi.

Granted, we as Southern Baptists have our theological disagreements with Presbyterians.  However, R. C. Sproul is one of our nations premier theologians and teachers, and the oppportunity to sit under his teaching live is one that should not be passed up if at all possible.  Additionally, the topics he is addressing (Bible-reading, prayer, and evangelism) are profoundly important for Lake Murray (ALL churches, for that matter), and I am certain his teaching in these areas can be of great benefit to our church body.

I hope you will make every effort to attend!

David Rainer for Associate Pastor of Discipleship

This Sunday, February 5th, David Rainer will come "in view of a call" to serve at Lake Murray as Associate Pastor for Discipleship.  If affirmed, David will begin in mid-March.

David Rainer grew up around Birmingham, AL. He holds a bachelors of arts degree in Communication Management from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a Master of Divinity from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.  He was ordained at Lakeview Baptist Church in Auburn, AL in May 2008. 

He and his wife Melinda have been married nine years, and have two children, Luke, age three and Evangeline, age one.

Over the past ten years, David has ministered in churches in Alabama and Tennesee.  Most  recently, David served in Shizuoka City, Japan with the International Mission board as a Church Planter and Evangelist, sharing the Gospel with the Japanese people.

To speak of David's role in terms of our mission statement, David is the "Pastor for Sharing Life."  He is responsible for strengthening and growing our Sunday school and Life group ministries, which are the key ministries for church health and growth.  Responsibilities in this area include recruting, mentoring, and equipping teachers, designing and implementing curriculum, assimilating new and existing members into Sunday school and Life groups, etc.  He will work intimately with our student and children's pastors to make sure we have a comprehensive discipleship strategy as a church, and closely with our missions minister to insure that Sunday school classes have every opportunity to serve the community with the Gospel.  He will work closely with our deacons and our council of leaders as well.  Additionally, David will lead all church-wide fellowships and special events (i.e., concerts, lakeside services, etc.), and oversee the adult education building (use and care).  Busy man!

David and Mindy will be in the adult education building on Sunday, February 5, from 9:00 - 9:30 AM for a drop in.  David will speak in the service on the 5th.  A vote will immediately follow the service.

Upward Basketball & Cheerleading Evaluations Nov. 6 & Nov. 8th

Don't miss out!  

Upward Basketball & Cheerleading Registration Ends Tuesday Nov 8th!

Evaluations are mandatory this season and will be held this Sunday, Nov. 6 from 5-7pm and Tuesday, Nov. 8th, from 6-8pm in the gym. The last day for registration is November 8.

Basketball  - age 5 (by jan 1, 2012) through 8th grade. Cheer -  age 3 (by jan 1, 2012) through 6th grade. Practices will begin the first week of January.  Brochures are available in the South Ministry Center, the Children’s Building and in Adult Education Building.   Registration forms are available online at www.lakemurraybaptist.org under the “current events” or “serve others” tabs. Interested in coaching or refereeing? Contact Monica Borden at 397-4118.

Join us TOMMORROW NIGHT, Wednesday, Nov. 2nd at 6:15pm for a Special Speaker from Israel

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, November 2nd at 6:15pm in the chapel, a special speaker, our tour guide for our next Holy Land Bible Study Tour in April 2012, will be with us for an evening of sharing about the land of the Bible.  He will be speaking on the connection between the end of Amos 9 and the speech of James in the book of Acts chapter 15. He will also be taking any quesions about Israel. Our special guest is a native of Israel as well as a Rabbi. 

Israel Holy Land Bible Study Tour planned for April 2012
We invite you to join us as we take a 13 day life changing study tour,    April 20-May 2, 2012. People from around the world come to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and see the places they have read about in the Bible. When you come to Israel, you will not only visit powerful historic sights, but you will experience the fresh footsteps that Jesus makes today. Just as Christ's encounter with people left them forever changed, you too can experience the powerful presence of Christ afresh in your own life.  April 2012 Trip Information/Itinerary sheetsare available at the Information Desk in the South Ministry Center, Adult Education Building, and in the church office.  Questions? Contact Shannon Madden at 803-359-1556, email smadden@lakemurraybaptist.org or Pastor Rob Tims at rtims@lakemurraybaptist.org.

 

LMBC Simulcast of Secret Church with David Platt, this Friday, Nov. 4th at 6:30pm

  Lake Murray Baptist Church Secret Church with David Platt

this Friday, November 4th, 6:30pm-1am

Tickets are $5 and include all materials and refreshments

Secret Church Simulcast is six intense hours of biblical teaching and prayer for the persecuted church led by David Platt. He is the pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama and the author of The New York Times bestseller Radical.

 

FAMILY, MARRIAGE, SEX, AND THE GOSPEL

 

Manhood. Womanhood. Marriage. Parenting. Singleness. Sex. Divorce. Homosexuality. Same-sex marriage. Polygamy. Pornography. Adoption. Abortion. Cultures around the world perceive each of these issues differently. So how does God's Word address them? During Secret Church this Friday, November 4th, we will explore how the gospel uniquely affects our understanding of family, marriage, sex, and host of related (and controversial) issues that are ultimately foundational for the display of the glory of God in our lives, in the church, and in the world.

Register TODAY by calling the church office at 803-359-1556,
email sbeasley@lakemurraybaptist.org or register online at  www.lakemurraybaptist.org under "current events" tab. You can  pay the $5 registration in the church office or at the door on Nov. 4th. Registration includes materials and all refreshments
for the evening.

Join Us for the LMBC Fall Festival! Oct 30th from 4-6pm.

Get ready for the fun and Gospel-centered fellowship!   Come in costume and enjoy tons of free food, candy, and prizes!  

They'll be Trunk or Treat, Cotton Candy, Popcorn, Drinks,  Queen Esther Story Time, Pie the Pastor, Horse Rides, Inflatables, Games,
Lexington County Emergency Service Vehicles on Display,
Missions “Lock-Up” - Make a donation to have someone locked up in the “jail” and they make a donation to get  free!  Donations go to a local missions project.