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News of Ministry and MissionAmerican Baptist Churches of the
Great Rivers Region
The Mainstream is a twice-monthly publication of the American Baptist Churches of the Great Rivers Region, 3940 Pintail Drive, Springfield IL 62711 Phone: (217) 726-7366 Email: [email protected] Web: www.abcgrr.org To subscribe or unsubscribe to The Mainstream or to change contact information, please send an e-mail to Debbie Naugle with your request: [email protected].
The Mainstream
50th Annual Assembly ofAmerican Baptist Churches of the
Great Rivers Region
What Is Difficult About God’s New Thing?
Isaiah 43:18,19
Friday, September 29 - Saturday, September 30, 2017
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel16625 Swingley Ridge RoadChesterfield, MO
Registration Information: Assembly Registration Fee: $20.00
Register online or download registration form @ www.abc-grr.org
Speakers:
Dr. Marvin A. McMickle is President, Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program & Profes-
sor of African American Religious Studies at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, NY
Dr. Lee Spitzer is the newly elected General Secretary of American Baptist Churches USA (read bio at abcgrr.org)
Schedule: Friday, September 29:
Clergy Spouses Luncheon 12:00 Noon - Speaker: Dr. Lee Spitzer
Business Session: 2:00 p.m.
Opening Session: 2:30 p.m. - Speaker: Dr. Marvin McMickle
Casey Pitchford OrdinationCasey Pitchford was ordained at the First Baptist Church of Marissa on Sunday evening, August 6. Casey is a graduate of the GRR AME pro-gram. He has been serving the First Baptist Church in Benton this past year as their Associate Pastor. Casey has received scholarships and will be attending Northern Baptist Seminary
this fall. Casey is pictured in the middle along with AME graduates Rev. John Pitchford (his father, on left) and Rev. Jim Jenkel.
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Mainstream ContactInformation
Send your stories of mission and ministry. Please also send the names of new members to:
Linda Ricks232 Devron Circle
East Peoria, IL 61611
God’s New Thing
August 2017 No 2 Email: [email protected] web: www.abcgrr.org Online edition now interactive
2017 CalendarSeptember:
17: Installation Service for Rev. Patty Bilyeu - Area Minister for Areas II and IV - 4:00 p.m. FBC Greenville, IL
28: Minister’s Conference Chesterfield, MO
29 - 30: GRR Annual Assembly Chesterfield, MO
October:
14: Professional Boundaries Course ABC-GRR Resource Center, Springfield, IL
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New Area Minister Contact Information
Rex Rogers, Areas I & IIIEmail: [email protected]
Phone: 779 - 207 - 9188
Patty Bilyeu, Areas II & IVEmail: [email protected]
Phone: 618 - 694 - 8860
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GRR WebsiteE-mail GRR Webmaster, Richard Ricks: [email protected]
American Baptists encouraged to help those affected by hurricane Harvey by giving to OGHSClick on link or go to abcgrr.org
home page.
like to share where I’ve been, who I’ve seen in the past few weeks.Elgin, with Pastors Ben and Susana Manso and the people of Primera Iglesia Bautista Hispana. Champaign, with Baptist Student Foundation, and with Chuck Moore, New Sr. Pastor at First Baptist. Full day of meeting with Lee Spitzer and Scot Ridout, head of Converge, (Formerly the Baptist General Conference). Chris Prater and our friends at First Baptist in Charleston. Jack Hennum and the people at First in Moweaqua, dedicating new sanctuary.Dr. Ken Board and the folks of Prilgrim Baptist, Rockford, cel-ebrating 100 years. Rev. Steve Evans and the good people at Deer Creek Baptist. Pastors Cluster in Greenville. A bit weary, but I enjoyed every minute of the past few weeks. Happening during that time was a special concert (Pentatonix) with Melissa, a special birthday celebra-tion with Melissa, Emily, Adam and me (Hamilton), and some very good food, and cake. Life is good. God is great.Hurricane Harvey: More info com-ing, but if you or your church want to give towards that, the best way to do it is to give an amount to the One Great Hour of Sharing, and men-tion Harvey. 100% of money given will go directly to meet needs coming from this horrible storm. Please keep all involved in your prayers. And remember, be rightly related to God and find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water. Be a vessel that God can pour His love through. Let It Flow!See you in Chesterfield, hopefully. Paul
A Word From PaulGibson, ABCGRR ExecutiveMinister CHESTERFIELD, SEPT. 29 - 30: OUR ANNUAL GATHERING I want to ask you to plan to be with us at the 50th Annual Gathering of the Great Rivers Region. We will be taking some time to look back at the people and ministries of the past 50 years. We will also be joined by some very special people. Here is a partial list .Dr. Marvin A. McMickle: Inspiring speaker, come hear him.Dr. Lee Spitzer: New General Secretary, God’s gift to ABCUSA, Enjoy.Brian and Lynette Smith: Missionaries preparing for Haiti, Wonderful.Paul Rollet: Missionary to the Philippines, with CWTPChallenging.Dr. Karl Slaikeu: Ministers Conference: Crucial information for ministry.Patty Bilyeu, Rex Rogers: New Area Ministers. Come meet them.Zofia Driggs: International Ministries. Reporting on our gifts of last year.Dwight Stinnett and Mac Shotwell. Former Regional Execs of GRR.You, me, and Others: Wonderful people serving Jesus in ABCGRR. Please plan to join us as we gather to celebrate Jesus together and to hear about great things that are hap-pening all over the world. It is always wonderful traveling around the region and meeting and greeting so many of you. I would
GRR 50th Annual GatheringSchedule: (continued)
GRR Mission/Ministry Banquet: 5:00 p.m with speakers: Dr. Lee Spitzer
& Brian and Lynette Smith are preparing to serve in Haiti in partnership with the Haitian Bap- tist Convention
. Evening Session: 7:00 p.m
Speaker: Dr. Marvin McMickle
Special Reception: 8:45 p.m.
Saturday, September 30:
Breakfast Meetings: 8:00 a.m.
American Baptist Men: Mac Shotwell - Speaker
American Baptist Women’s Ministries, Brian and Lynette Smith - Speakers Alternative Ministerial Education (AME) - Paul Maitland - Speaker
Workshops: 9:30 a.m.
Closing Worship: 10:45 a.m. Speaker: Dr. Marvin McMickle
Please Note:
Hotel Rooms for Annual Assembly are filling fast! If the DoubleTree is full Hilton Garden Inn (free shuttle) is holding 10 rooms as a courtesy block until September 5th.
Ministers’ Conference“Dealing With Conflict”
Speaker: Dr. Karl Slaikeu is an internationally recog-nized psychologist, mediator and nego-tiation expert based in Austin, Texas
DoubleTree HotelChesterfield, MO
Thursday, September 28, 2017
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
This is a FREE conference for pas-tors and pastoral staff. Registering helps us have your seat and meal ready. Also, there are 0.4 CEU’s available. This is a separate regis-tration from the Annual Assembly.
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Patty Bilyeu Installation Service
You are invited to the installation worship service of The Rev. Patty Bilyeu on Sunday, September 17 at 4:00 p.m. Green-ville First Baptist Church will be host-ing this service.
Members and pas-tors of Area II and
Area IV churches of the ABC GRR will be participating as we celebrate God’s calling and Patty’s response to follow God’s leading into serv-ing as GRR Associate Minister with primary responsibilities to churches of Areas II and IV.