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BBA Prayer Emphasis Please continue to pray for the Search Committee for the Director of Missions. They are narrowing their search and should have a recommendation very soon.

Please pray for the search committee by name daily. They are Jacob Toews,

Kerry Groce, Bill Ledbetter, Darel Bunch, James Robinson.

Please also pray for the man that God has already chosen to fill this role in His Kingdom.

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Operation Christmas Child was a huge success thanks to you!!

We beat our last year’s number by far! We had 1651 shoeboxes last year

and 1836 this year! Thank you to all that participated in this fun mission!

Start saving things now to put in your boxes next year. Thousands and

thousands of children and whole families come to know the Lord through

this simple gift.

If you didn’t play a part in this mission this year you still can, by praying

that each and every box is delivered to a child that will be blessed by the

gifts, but also learn about Jesus and even come to know Him personally!

Blessings!!

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Birthdays

12/8—Donald Ford

12/10—Charles Williams 12/11—Rusty Moles

12/13—Tommy Rowland 12/21—Darel Bunch 12/21—Adine Stevens 12/27—Wayland Shirey

12/28—Sherri Whisenhunt 12/31—Quentin McLarry

Wedding Anniversaries

12/21—Roy & Suzie Vinson 12/22—Doris & Dewel Arp 12/22/92—Monty & Tammy

Wood 12/28/85—Philip & Laura

Stephens 12/28/02—Garry & Heather

McNeill 12/28/73—Tommy & Brend

Rowland 12/31/05—Rodger & Peggy

Duncan

Ministry Anniversaries

12/1/03—Ken Bartholomew—Durant, First

12/6/06- Barbara Wiginton—Colbert

12/18/05—Monty Wood—Armstrong

What’s Going on in Our Churches

Happy Birthday & Happy Anniversary

Western Meadows will be presenting

“A Light Still Shines” on Sunday night,

December 4th at 6:00. Please come celebrate

with us!

If you’re separated or divorced, the holidays can be a lonely, stressful, depressing time. But there’s hope. Join us for an encouraging seminar that will help you survive the holidays and discover new ways to enjoy them again. Please register in advance for childcare. There is no cost to attend the event.

Surviving the Holidays December 1, 2011, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

First Baptist Church, Durant 124 W. Evergreen, Durant Call for more information or to register: Church: 580-924-3573, or Katherine Brown: 924-1472

Thank You

Some of you gave money to ship shoe

boxes

To faraway places cross the sea.

Or maybe you helped to pack the cartons.

Or bought thousands of pieces of candy.

Many gave gifts that put big smiles

On the faces of one hundred sixty-five.

Another pushed heavy loads on a dolly.

It takes the efforts of many to keep those

dreams alive!

Thank You!

Pray that children will find Christ as Savior by

studying the books printed in their languages that

will be given to them along with the shoe boxes.

Thanks to friends and family who gave so much that I went above my goal. What will we do next year? Dolores White Kiser

Lottie Moon International Missions Week of

Prayer Dec. 4 - 11th

Pray for all the missionaries all over the world!

Give all the Lord directs you to give!

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Please pray for our pastorless churches

Bennington, Blue River, Brown, Cartwright, Stonecreek,

Trips: (Please call the BBA office to reserve your place on the bus, leave your name and phone number.) Dec 16th—Ardmore Christmas Lights and Dinner Leave Fairview parking lot at 4:00 pm. Bus fee—$3 Luncheons: Dec 14 - Colbert FBC Jan 11—Kenefic BC

LAKE TEXOMA BAPTIST RESORT MINISTRY 2034 Max Road, Mead Ok 73449 580 924 7919 cell 580 220 7530

We continue to be blessed with much needed rain and the Fall colors are beautiful out here.

November reservations are picking up and we are having some of our local churches using the facilities out here now, and I am very happy to see this happening. We also have several reservations for December. It is so exciting to see how God works. What an awesome God we serve!!

I have been blessed with an opportunity to go to Israel in December. I am very excited about this trip and would really appreciate your prayers for me while on this trip.

The State Convention was wonderful and it was good to visit with those of you that stopped by my booth. I am always excited to go to the Convention and got a lot of interest in our summer mission program.

AD and Lee DeVore (Lake Chaplains) were at the Convention also and were excited about making their first Convention and helping in the Resort Ministry. They really enjoyed themselves.

GOD BLESS

Barbara Decker

Upcoming Senior Events

The BBA Disaster Relief Feeding Unit was asked to come to McAlester to conduct their associational training session September 10th. We took our large trailer and had a successful training. We conducted the BBA’s training session on October 12th at Caddo First Baptist Church. Several people from Harmony Baptist church east of Atoka came to that session. They became inspired to join when we went to Tushka to help with the tornado disaster.

We took the large trailer to Atoka FBC on October 22nd. They were celebrating the 100th Atoka-Coal Baptist Association anniversary and asked us to prepare hamburgers and hot dogs. Their association supplied all the food and paper goods. We used our grill and prepared a little over two-hundred hamburg-ers and as many hot dogs. We had a good time as well as they did.

Pastor Charles Loyd and I went to Camp Gruber east of Muskogee November 4th and 5th to attend the annual Blue Cap meeting. We got to see the new chapel that is being erected there by Baptist builders and we also got to revisit the place where we fed evacuees of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.

Clark Harp, Blue Cap for the BBA Disaster Relief Feeding Unit

Norman and Peggy Ford are not new around the

county at all. They have been very helpful to many

churches in Bryan Association over the last several

years. They are new to Blue Baptist Church

though.

They have accepted the call to be the pastor at

Blue Baptist Church. Please pray for them and the

church as they begin this new path.

Roadrunners Luncheon at Colbert FBC

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We love to have your church’s events in the

Challenger. If you or your church have any

announcements or news you would like to be

included in next month’s Challenger, please call the

BBA office before December 19th. 580-924-2351.

Pastor/Staff

Conference - 10:30

at Fairview BC

Phone: 580-924-2351 Emails: DeeDee@bryanbaptistassociation.com Website: bryanbaptistassociation.com

Director of Missions---------- Moderator-------------------------Philip Stephens Vice-Moderator--------------------- Jacob Toews Clerk---------------------------------Rodger Duncan Treasurer---------------------- Haley Stringfellow Administrative Assistant --------DeeDee Pena Office Hours - Mon. - Thurs. 8:30 - 4:30 Fri. 8:30 - 1:00

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BBA office closed Dec 26th—Jan 3rd

Roadrunners trip

Ardmore Lights

Lottie Moon International Missions Week of Prayer Dec. 4 - 11th

BBA Leadership Appreciation

Banquet Richard Hight