WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND?

Hey I'm doing a survey, I want to know what concerns you. What kind of things are going on in your life that concern you, the things that you would like to talk about or need help with. Tell me about them. You can post them here or e-mail them to me at careybaptist@gmail.com
Thanks and I hope to here from you soon.

MISSIONS

When I say missions, what do you think? Do you think about the Cooperative Program that we give money to so that our missionaries around the world can tell others about Jesus? Or maybe you think about the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, or the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, or maybe even the Reach Texas Offering that we are in right now, the money raised for this stays here in Texas for mission projects here in our state, all of these are worthy causes. Or maybe you think closer to home and you think about CONNECT, our own outreach from CBC, maybe you connect this with Desert Reign coming every year in the fall and the money we raise for that. Maybe when you think about missions you think about going to Cloudcroft NM with our team to work on that camp, or maybe you have thought about going to Namibia Africa to reach an unreached people group and tell them about Jesus. What do you think about when you think about missions? Did you know that our mission closest to home is Carey Baptist? As a group that is our closest mission, the work we do as a church. As an individual your closest mission may be right next door, or around the corner, or down the road or street, it may be your family or friends. We must always be thinking about missions and what we can do to further the Kingdom; we must be mission-minded. Just saying we are in not enough, just giving money to a missions offering in not enough, we must be mission-minded. If we cannot go on a mission trip we need to be raising money for those who do go, for the Cloudcroft trip or the Namibia trip, those who are lead to go don’t always have the money, and we all can help. We must be mission-minded to the needs around us.
Lord, I pray for those in our church, I pray Lord that you will make us all mission-minded. Let us become aware to the needs that are around us everyday, show us how we can be involved in missions, those that our church are involved in and those that our Southern Baptist missionaries are involved in. Amen.

MISSING SHEEP

110, that’s what we had for our 5th Sunday Singing, 110. It was good to have a full house and to worship with other churches. 110 people, 7 different church, well over 2 hours of singing, what a great time! It was great to have a full house, to hear all of the voices singing together. Do you know what would be even better, if we had that many in church on Sunday mornings. We could you know, real easy, how you may ask. Well, it’s like this, if our members who live right here in town would come to church we would have at least that many every Sunday morning, probably even more than 110. So how do we get them here? Did you know that Carey 1st Baptist Church has 238 members? Did you know that we have 193 resident (those who live in the area) members? And yet we averaged only 57 in Sunday School during the past year, why is this? How do we get our resident members to come back to God’s house? How do we get from here to there? Number one; we pray! We pray for our members, those who are committed members, those who are working for the Kingdom and coming to church, we pray for God to bless them in every way, we pray for God to make them a great witness for Him. Then we pray for our members who come, but not real often, we pray that God will increase their desire for more fellowship with the church. Then we pray for our members who have not been here in a while, we pray for God to put a desire in their hearts to come back to His House, to get involved again. And last, we pray for all of our members to grow into a deeper relationship with Christ. Number two; we send cards to our members who have not been coming letting them know that we miss them and want them to come back. And number three; we go and visit. We go and knock on their door and pleasantly invite them back to church, we let them know that we miss them. After all they are part of our Carey Baptist Family, if we follow this it will work, maybe not on all, but on most. Sometimes things happen and people miss church and then they get out of the habit of going to church and then they think that no one misses them, but we do and we need to let them know it. Let me ask you something, how would you like to be on the missing sheep team, the team that prays, sends cards and visits members? Pray about it, I will be forming this team soon!!