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voted to change the title of the Association Leader from Director of Missions to A s s o c i a t i o n M i s s i o n Strategist. This comes from a recommendation out of the study conducted over the last year by the Southern Baptist Conference

of Association Leaders. The Association also voted unanimously to approve the change for the frequency of our quarterly meetings. Instead of quarterly, the Association wil l meet semi-annually in November and April. In September, we celebrat-ed the accomplishments of the Association by hosting our annual Family Picnic at Webster Conference Cen-ter. We had an outstanding turnout for this fun after-noon. Families from church-es across the Association

Summer is now a memory and fall is upon us. Fall brings with it much anticipation of Friday Night Lights (high school foot-ball), cooler days, fall colors, Thanksgiving, and many other activities. October is also a time across North America when churches give focused attention

to appreciating their pastors in tangible ways. Very few church families celebrate Pastor Appreciation Month. Wouldn’t it be great if all our churches took time to love on their pastor and his family? So, let me encourage you to consider what you can do for your pastor. Remember to pray for him weekly. Consider surprising your pastor with a gift card to his favorite restaurant or gas card. Other ideas include a new iPad or new computer, a bonus, a certificate for a 3 day get away for him and his wife, a couple’s spa massage, Fitbit, gym membership, a gift basket,

or an addition to his library. What not to get your pastor for Pastor Appreciation Month: Bible, a leadership book that you want him to read, or a tie. Have fun this year expressing your appreciation for your pastor. Paul wrote the follow-ing verses to Timothy, and I

think it is good for us to hear them today: The elders who are good leaders should be considered worthy of an ample honorari-um, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says: Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain, and, the worker is worthy of his wages . (1 Timothy 5:17-18) Much has been going on in the Association. During our Leadership Team Meeting on August 13, the Association

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Upcoming Dates

October 8-9 KNCSB Annual Meeting,

Pratt, KS 10 SHBA Admin Team Meeting

November

2-3 KNCSB SHINE Conference for Teen Girls, Webster Conference Center

12 SHBA Leadership Team

Meeting, Christ The Lord Community Church, Salina

Thanksgiving

December

SHBA Pastors/Ministry

Leader and Wives 25 Christmas Day

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SMOKY HILL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION “BETTER TOGETHER”

BIRTHDAYS

OCTOBER

2 TARA BOOTH, CROSSPOINT, SALINA

7 KIM DUNAWAY, LIFE CONNECTION,

OGDEN

18 RYAN BOOTH, CROSSPOINT, SALINA

STACY HAGINS, FIRST BAPTIST,

MANKATO

NOVEMBER

2 CHRIS MADSEN, EMMANUAL BAPTIST,

MANHATTAN

7 LENTZ UPSHAW, COLLEGE HEIGHTS,

MANHATTAN

ANNIVERSARIES

OCTOBER

5 GREG AND HEIDI SAVAGE

27 CHRIS AND CAROL MADSEN

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ANNUAL CHURCH PROFILE

As fall arrives, so does the task of completing the Annual Church Profile (ACP). This year the Smoky Hill Baptist Association is hoping for a 100% participation from our member churches. The ACPs have been mailed to each church. What is the value of the ACP to the church? The reported numbers provide an annual snapshot of the impact Southern Baptists are making through their local churches in penetrating their communities with the Gospel. The ACP gives pastors an annual “report card” to give themselves a clearer picture of where they are. The ACP gives real, clear information that helps the local pastor to make changes in programming, staffing, and budgeting that better reflects where they want to go. The ACP establishes “annual accountability” and gives independent credibility to financial institutions when the church may need to borrow money for construction. Should you need assistance completing the ACP please call Nate Butler at 785-307-8160 or Heather Carder at 785-289-6749.

KNCSB ANNUAL MEETING

The 2018 KNCSB annual meeting will be held Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 8-9, at First Southern Baptist Church, Pratt, Kansas. MESSENGER PREREGISTRATION Messenger preregistration is now underway. You may register on line at http://kncsb.org/annual-meeting/ Childcare will be available for babies through fifth grade. Pre-registration is required to make sure there will be enough work-ers. Sept. 26 is the deadline. You may preregister for childcare here: http://www.kncsbevents.org/childcare2018a.html

2019 MISSION TRIPS

The Smoky Hill Baptist Association is planning three mission trips for 2019. Below is a brief description and known information: June 3-8, Crossover Birmingham, Alabama. Work will include: prayer walking, door-to-door canvasing, block parties, Vacation Bible School, service projects, collegiate outreach, and strategic evangelistic events. The mission trip culminates with three nights of Harvest Crusade with Greg Laurie. Cost for this trip is still to be determined. June 29-July 6, Jamaica. Vacation Bible School, evangelis-tic work, and light construction are part of the work agenda. Cost is estimated at $2250 per person. The cost includes transportation, lodging, and most meals. July 12-20, Toronto Canada. The team will be working with the Spanish Church Planting Network, conducting Vacation Bible School, and area canvassing. Cost is estimated at $800 per person. The cost includes transportation, lodging, most meals, and a trip to Niagara Falls.

MESSENGERS TO THE ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

Questions often arise about the number of messengers each church can send to the Association Leadership Team Meetings which are held in November and April. According to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Smoky Hill Baptist Association, each church accepted into the membership of this Association may send members to the annual meeting of the association in accordance with this constitution. The pastor of each church and mission will be seated as a mes-senger from his church. Each church shall be entitled to two (2) messengers in addition to the pastor. The answer to the question is that each church can have up to three voting messengers, the pastor and two additional messengers from the church. All are welcome to our semi-annual Leadership Team Meetings scheduled for November and April. Join us for our next meeting November 7, 7:00 P.M., at Christ The Lord Community Church, Salina.

For those who are interested in

partnering with, or praying for, the Smoky Hill Baptist Association, the following prayer list is provided:

• Your pastor and his family

• Our Association churches

• Kansas Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists

• Church plants

• Our nation’s leaders

• Our government

• Military Service Members

• Pastorless churches

PRAYERS/NEEDS

1 John 5:14 “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask any-thing according to his will, he hears us.” Psalm 17:6 “I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.” 1 Chronicles 16:11 “Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

LEADERSHIP QUOTE

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ANNUAL PICNIC FUN

budget time approaches, may I be bold and ask you to consid-er increasing your support to

the Association by 1%. If you have been unable to give this past year, may I encourage you to start giving once again. Your support of the Association helps to provide not only for salaries and administration costs, it also allows us to help churches with their needs such as: renting a moving truck for a new pastor; assisting pastors financially; purchasing supplies for the party trailer; providing scholarships for short-term

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converged onto Webster Conference Center to enjoy the zipline, knocker ball soccer, skeet

shooting, the giant inflatable slide, and the food. Additionally, your pastor’s and ministry staff’s wives were treated to a one-hour spa event. During the meal, we collected an offering of more t han $800 for mi ss ions scholarships. I must take a mo-ment to thank all the volunteers who helped setup and take down the meal, and oversee the slide, zipline, knocker balls, and skeet range. Without your volunteer service, the event wouldn’t hap-

pen. I also want to thank those who prepared the food: Ran-dall Brown for his fried catfish,

Fatboy Heaven owners Stan and Pam Black for the burgers, beans and cole slaw, and Pam Flores for baking twenty of her pies. I must also thank Mari Parker for representing the Kansas Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists, and the band from First Southern Baptist Church, Salina, under the direction of Fred Schweer. As an Association of churches, “We Are Better Together.” As

missionaries; purchasing books for each of our pastors; assisting with the cost

of a site license to show movies; financial support for a church needing to rebuild their parsonage after a fire; paying for the annual picnic and ce lebrat ion; and providing printed material for pastor search committees. With more we can do more. Together we can reach our communities. Because He Lives, Nate Butler

Smoky Hill Baptist

Association

Annual Family Picnic

September 16, 2018

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EXCITING TIMES FOR OUR CHURCHES CrossPoint Lindsborg Renovations: “Hello brothers and sisters of the Smoky Hill Baptist Association. Our CrossPoint Lindsborg church family is continuing to grow. One topic we'd like to celebrate with you is our CrossPoint Kids ministry expansion. At the start of our church plant, we began meeting in a recep-tion space. It was simply a large room with no offices or separate rooms. About 18 months ago, God provided the resources for us to build two CrossPoint (CP) Kids ministry rooms for us to minister to children and parents more effectively. Today, the rooms are full most Sundays and we need two more rooms built to keep up with the pace of ministry. We are making plans to expand in our building by adding space in October. The glory goes to God for the consistent growth in our church. I believe he is using our tremendous volunteers to make this growth happen. Our CP Kids team meets together every month after a service for ongoing training by our CP Kids Director, Amy Robinson. The team shares a meal together, prays for the ministry, and discusses methods for improvement. I write this exciting update about our CP Kids ministry expan-sion simply as a messenger. God is growing the church within our Association and it's a blessing to labor alongside you for the sake of the gospel.” Payte Johnson, Campus Pastor

CrossPoint Church Lindsborg I Corinthians 3:11 “For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

New Hope Community Church Property Purchase: The property we have under contract is truly a blessing from God. The property we are purchasing is on Tuttle Creek Blvd, and is located along the second busiest point in Manhattan. Nearly 30,000 cars pass by there everyday. It is close to the university, and is near the center of town so it is easily accessed for reaching Manhattan. The remarkable part about it all is that the property is worth around $9-10 per square foot and we got it for around $2 per square foot. We offered them what we could afford, which is obviously way below its value. We fasted and prayed as a church for 3 weeks and the bank agreed!!! Closing is on November 30. It will be the place of the first church building for New Hope which started 31 years ago coming out of College Heights. We are very excited to see how God provided this blessing to us, but we realize that with every blessing from God He desires us to be a blessing. We are eager to see how we will be. Dick Jaques, Senior Pastor

New Hope Church Manhattan Acts 9:31 “So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spir-it, it continued to increase.”

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EXCITING TIMES FOR OUR CHURCHES CrossPoint Church Concordia: For the past 6 1/2 years CrossPoint church in Concordia, Kansas, has operated out of temporary rented facilities. We started out in the Holiday Inn conference room, and for the last 4 years we have been renting the local movie theater every Sunday morning. Last December, a local Foursquare congregation decided to close their facilities in Concordia, and we were able to negotiate a lease to own option with them. We are really excited to have our own facility full-time now. We feel like the shackles have been taken off and we are free to finally be involved in ministry throughout the week. Most notably we have started a Sunday evening Bible study for junior high through adults. We can testify that buildings are not the answer to all the problems churches face but we have noticed a shift in attitude towards the church in our community as we now have our own place to call home. It is exciting to see what God has done through this congregation for the last 6 1/2 years and we are anxious to see what he does with us in the future. Mathew Carder, Campus Pastor

CrossPoint Church, Concordia 1 Corinthians 3:6-7 “I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.”

CrossPoint Church Salina: CrossPoint Salina is excited to announce the purchase of new facilities in Salina (621 Westport Blvd). God has grown us spiritually and numerically over the last 9 years so after planning for the last couple of years, we have recently purchased a larger facility. CrossPoint’s vision is to reach 10% of the state of Kansas with the gospel and 10% of every city we are in. That’s a HUGE task so we are thankful that God has provided this facility as a tool to be used for His ministry. The building is bigger than we need so the plans are to use some of the space to bless our city via renting it out or by using it for various ministries that can occupy the space. We are still in the beginning stages of planning for the remodel but we praise God that the building is fully paid for! As we look to the future ministry of CrossPoint this building will be valuable in providing ministry to not only our city, but the truck drivers and travelers along 135. We also hope to use it as a training center for church planters, worship leaders, and other ministry leaders so we can plant churches all around central Kansas. We can’t wait to see what God will do next! Join us in prayer as we seek to preach the gospel and makes disciples of Jesus. Ryan Booth, Campus Pastor

CrossPoint Church Salina Acts 16:5 “So the churches were strengthened in the faith and were increased in number daily.”