NEWSPLASH

DecemberDecember

20142014

2401 Grand Ave., Liberty, Texas 77575 936-336-9232 David Williams, Director of Missions

Trinity River Baptist Association P.O. Box 1269 Liberty, TX 77575 Address Service Requested

Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage

PAID Liberty TX

Permit No. 38

Receipts October 2014

A Christmas meal, Christmas music, the Christmas story, and a Christmas mes-sage. Those elements will combine to make a perfect Christmas gathering for members of Trinity River Baptist Association churches at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Calvary Baptist Church, Dayton. The evening will begin with a Christmas meal catered by the Haidusek Family, featuring pork loin, long grain wild rice, roasted vegetables, salad, rolls, and pe-can cobbler. Cost of the meal, subsidized by TRBA, will be $10 per person. Reser-vations are needed by Dec. 3. The meal will be followed by a brief executive board meeting with an exciting report of what is coming to TRBA in 2015. By 7 p.m. the group will enter a time of worship. Donna Kay Williams will lead the congregation in Christmas music, David Williams will tell the Christmas story, and Tony Hines will preach a Christmas message.

Trinity River Baptist Association December 2014

Sat, December 6 AM Mendoza, Longoira PM Dosier, Skinner Sun, December 7 AM Hinch, Gault PM Snell, Catchings Sat, December 13 AM Thomas, Clark PM Barefield, Miller Sun, December 14 AM Presnulls PM McGuires Sat, December 20 AM Davis, Goff PM Hortmans

Sun, December 21 AM Radley, Downey PM Baldridges Sat, December 27 AM C. & G. Theis PM King & Nichols Sun, December 28 AM Smarts PM Herring, Morales

Family Visitors’ Center Schedule

TR Baptists gather to celebrate Christmas

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

2 3 4

9 am Senior Pastor Prayer Time

5 6

7 8 9 6 pm TRBA Christmas Fellowship and Ex. Bd. Calvary, Dayton

10 11 9 am Senior Pastor Prayer Time

12 13

14 15 16 9 am Pastor Essentials Planning Mtg

17 18 9 am Senior Pastor Prayer Time

19 20

21 22 23 24 Christmas Eve

25 Christmas Day

26 27

28 29 30 31 New Year’s Eve

Oct 14 Jan - Oct 14 Batson Prairie 310.00 3,592.00 Berean Tabernacle 200.00 1,200.00 Calvary, Dayton 500.00 4,200.00 Calvary, Liberty 340.63 2,783.06 Center, Thicket 60.00 731.00 Central Daisetta 499.07 1,926.60 Central, Liberty 162.00 1,357.08 Covenant 0.00 455.86 Eminence 0.00 924.00 First Anahuac 833.33 8,333.30 First Batson 200.00 2,400.00 First Concord 0.00 292.59 First Daisetta 331.00 3,321.00 First Dayton 888.38 7,145.54 First Devers 271.21 4,390.51 First High Island 419.00 1,614.74 First Hull 552.14 2,064.21 First Liberty 995.18 13,043.60 First Saratoga 404.96 4,518.23 First Sour Lake 512.02 6,712.65 Grace Community 0.00 6,950.00 Grayburg 0.00 798.99 Gum Grove 49.40 353.07 Hardin Baptist 1,155.92 12,205.05 Heights 0.00 6,320.15 House of Living Waters 0.00 437.06 Kenefick Southern 643.11 7,838.45 Mt Calvary 990.40 4,569.94 North Main 1,200.00 12,000.00 Nuevo Amanecer 0.00 0.00 Oak Island 40.08 327.67 Old River 1,166.67 11,666.70 Pathways 99.00 1,158.00 Primera Dayton 75.00 750.00 Smith Point 52.28 547.79 South Dayton 50.00 641.84 Sweet Home 83.00 659.43 Trinity 100.00 1,000.00 West End 449.00 4,594.00 Whispering Meadows 209.65 2,265.54 Wild Country Mission 0.00 828.80

Interest 7.15 101.29

Total 13,849.58 147,019.74

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, Nov. 30 - Dec. 7

Mark Hardee, center, won the $1,000 drawing the first night of the Mission Lone Star evangelistic emphasis during the Lone Star Motorcycle Rally in Galveston, Nov. 6-8. To get his name into the hopper, earlier in the day Hardee had come into the booth and listened to J.E. Hail Jr. (looking on from the rear) tell in three minutes how Jesus had changed his life. Hardee’s big prize, however, was not the $1,000 he won at 7 p.m., but the free gift of forgiveness and eternal life when he trusted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord an hour earlier. Hardee was one of 399 who prayed to re-ceive Christ when they came into the booth to register for the drawing. Congratulating Hardee are, left to right, Dale Hill, director of missions of Galveston Baptist Association; David Williams, director of missions of Trinity River Baptist Association; Jim Hamilton, executive director of Golden Triangle Baptist Network; and Ronnie Hill, evangelist. Story and more photos on page 3.

Evangelism conference features Nathan Cothen

NATHAN COTHEN

Nathan Cothen, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Beaumont, Texas, will be the featured preacher at the TRBA Evangelism Conference, 6 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 11, at First Baptist Church, Dayton. Calvary Baptist Church is a dynamic fellowship with two campuses, a television and radio ministry and involvement in many local and international missions. Tony Hines, evangelism director, encourages all TRBA churches to make this special once-a-year evangelism confer-ence their Sunday evening service that week and come hear an encouraging and challenging word from this man of God. Music will feature special quartets from TRBA.

NOMINATION CARD Inserted in this Newsplash is a Nomi-nation Card you can use to “nominate” a man you feel may be called by God to be a pastor or church planter in our association. We will formally invite each man nominated to participate in our Monday evening Pastor Essentials class which begins Jan. 12, 2015. Please pray, complete the card, and mail it to TRBA. A stamp is required.

Put Yourself in this picture Join our new Commu-nity Events Team. Help set up and work a Trinity River Baptist Association booth at events like the Trinity Valley Ex-position, Dayton Trade Days, Daisetta Mayhaw Festival and many others. Help give TRBA a public presence in the com-munity.

If you believe the Lord could use you in that way, please email me today! David@TrinityRiverBaptistAssociation.org

Donna Kay and I had a great experience at the Lone Star Motorcycle Rally in Galveston, Nov. 6-8. I’ll have to admit that I had my reservations about joining the crowd of

400,000 most of whom were bikers, but we were drawn by the anticipation of being able to lead people to Jesus. We were not disappointed.

Mission JourneyMission Journey

Thursday morning we began with a time of training led by evangelist Ronnie Hill. He coached us on how to most effectively tell our own three-minute story of how Jesus had changed our lives. At 10 a.m. we opened the booth. Some of us stood out front asking people to come in and register for the $1,000 drawing. Others waited under the tent, ready to share with any who were willing to come in to register. It was amazing how many people walked into the tent and listened to our stories. By the end of the three days our 32 volunteers had shared with 1,060 peo-ple and 399 of them had trusted Jesus as Savior and Lord. Next week we will begin calling each per-son we won to Christ to follow up with them and encourage them to get involved in a Bible believing, Bible teaching church. We will be going back next November and our biggest need will be more volun-teers. Please mark your calendars right now and plan to go with us Nov. 5-7, 2015. If you are hesitant to go, let me encour-age you with two words: “Fear Not!” Don’t be afraid of the crowds. Don’t be afraid of the bikers. Don’t worry about how

you will get there, where you will park, how you will find the booth, what you will wear, what you will eat, or what you will say when a stranger walks up to you ready to hear your story. You do not need to be afraid. You do not need to worry. Going to the rally is easier than going to Six Flags. The Lord will be with you. He will guide you. He will watch over you. He will give you the words to say. And by the time you go home you will have shared your personal testimony with dozens of people and seen some of them come to Christ. Come for the whole event and take ad-vantage of free lodging in a church and free breakfast and dinner provided by a disaster relief feeding unit. Or drive down for the day. Or drive down and work one shift, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. or 2-7 p.m. But come. I am counting on a dozen vol-unteers from TRBA working each shift next year. The more volunteers we have, the more people will come to Jesus. It’s like a mission trip, but it’s only an hour and a half away from home. Think about this: Donna Kay and I shared Christ with more people and saw more peo-ple saved than we would normally be able to in an entire year. There were more people saved those three days than all of our TRBA churches baptized all of last year, three times as many saved in all of our Vacation Bible Schools. I want you to have a part in this next year. Commit to it now and calendar it now. All you have to do is tell people what your life used to be like before you met Jesus, how you came to know Jesus, and how your life has been different since meeting Jesus. Then you tell them that they can have the same kind of change you have experienced, right here and right now. And when they begin to nod their head and say, “Yes, I’d like to pray that prayer,” you will be so thankful you took the time and took the risk to be involved in Mission Lone Star.

Risking for the Kingdom, David Williams

Pray for our pastorless churches West End Saratoga, since August 2014 Bill Fabriguze, interim First Hull, since February 2014 John Guedry, interim First Concord, since January 2014 Richard Stidham, interim Oak Island, since December 2012

Mission Lone Star

399 trust Jesus at cycle rally Borrowing an evangelism approach developed for the Sturgis S.D. Motorcycle Rally, TRBA and other Baptist partners sponsored a booth during Galveston’s Lone Star Motorcycle Rally in November and saw 399 people trust Jesus. Dubbed “Mission Lone Star,” the evangelistic effort centered on a booth offering a $1,000 drawing each of three nights, Nov. 6-8. To register for the draw-ing, people had to come into the booth and listen to a volunteer’s three minute story, a personal testimony of how Jesus had changed their life. “It was our first year, our first at-tempt, and we were not sure what to ex-pect,” said David Williams, TRBA director of missions. “We had been told that as many as one out of seven, about 14 per-cent, of those who came into the booth would pray to receive Jesus before they left.” Instead of 14 percent, the booth reg-istered 38 percent, 399 salvations out of 1,060 who heard a volunteer’s personal testimony. A total of 32 volunteers participated in the booth, including men and women from TRBA, Galveston Baptist Association, Golden Triangle Baptist Network, and Bell Baptist Association. Bell Association brought its disaster relief feeding unit and served breakfast and dinner to volunteers staying at Seaside Baptist Church in Ja-maica Beach. In addition to the evangelism booth, Mission Lone Star provided 15 chaplains who ministered to vendors at the event. They made 3,074 contacts and four ven-dors prayed to receive Christ. “I appreciate Jim Hamilton, Golden Triangle’s executive director, who spear-headed this effort, and Ronnie Hill, the evangelist who came to train us and en-courage us as we shared our testimonies” Williams said. Hamilton and Hill were the architects of the successful evangelistic outreach in Sturgis that has been dupli-cated at other cycling and racing events around the country. Williams said more volunteers are needed for the evangelism booth next year, Nov. 5-7. “We have two shifts a day for three days. We need a dozen TR Bap-tists during each shift,” he said.

Mission Lone Star — Clockwise, beginning top left. One American and her four Filipino friends accepted Christ the first day. They all work as hospi-tality interns at the Tremont Hotel in Galveston. Left to right are Clarissa Lopez, Lysel Agram, Christine Abcede, Kristelle Saceda, and Shane Maata. Ernest Nunn from TRBA shares his personal testimony with a young man. The crowd in Galveston was estimated at between 400,000 and 500,000 people. Sherri and Jerry Avery, TRBA friends and missionaries to Zambia back in the States for a few months, stand outside the booth encouraging people to come in and listen to a three-minute story.

Greg Kappas, left, poses for a “class photo” with the men he taught during the Training of Trainers event at TRBA, Nov. 11-12. Vice president of The Timothy Initiative, Kappas taught the men how to use the 11 books that will form the central curriculum for TRBA’s Monday evening Pastor Essentials course that begins Jan. 12, 2015. Left to right are Kappas; Scott Tidwell, pastor of Wild Country Mis-sion; Mike Chadwick, pastor of First Dayton; Michael Blackburn, pastor of Trinity Dayton; Lee Weaver, member of First Anahuac; Frank Aragon, pastor of First Saratoga; Ken Davis, pastor of Calvary Dayton; David Williams, TRBA director of missions; Kyle Dobbs, music minister of First Anahuac; Gary Hillyard, pastor of First Anahuac; Byron Sanford, pastor of Grayburg Sour Lake; Steve Bean, pastor of First Lib-erty; and Tim Gruver, pastor of Heights Liberty. They will be faculty for the Pastor Essentials class.

Cowboy Church Bible Study — Robert Smith leads a group of eleven at the initial meeting of First Liberty’s cowboy church. The group is meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays for Bible study while a core group is formed. “Bring your Bible and a covered dish,” said Steve Bean, First Lib-erty’s pastor. “We eat at 6 and our study be-gins when everyone has their plates full.” Lo-cation is the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Center, 501 Palmer Ave., Liberty.

Pastoral Essentials class starts Monday, Jan. 12 Men called by God to be pastors or church planters are invited to enroll in the Pastor Essentials course taught at the TRBA office Monday nights beginning Jan. 12. There is no charge for the course. “Over a year’s time we will train our men and prepare them to start a church or pastor an existing church in our area,” said David Williams, TRBA director of missions. “Rather than going somewhere else to attend Bible college or seminary, they will be able to stay here at home, keep their current jobs, and pursue God’s call on their lives.” The 6-9 p.m. class will include dinner and two teaching sessions. “This is not a Bible institute but a church planter/pastor training school,” Williams said. “In lieu of financial commit-ment we are expecting a high level of commitment from our students in com-pleting assignments, including ministry, evangelism and missions during the week.”

Special tech skills needed by TRBA If you love the challenge of setting up a new website and getting it to do exactly what you want it to do. . . If you are a Facebook and Twitter pro who knows how to use those tools to get the word out . . . If you have experience using communi-cation tools like Constant Contact, Mail Chimp . . . If you are looking for a way to use your tech skills and passion for Christ and his Kingdom . . . Then Trinity River Baptist Association needs your help! Here’s our tech prayer list: new domain; new website; Facebook presence; Twitter presence; contact appli-cation. Contact David@TrinityRiverBaptist Association.org.

Donna Kay and I had a great experience at the Lone Star Motorcycle Rally in Galveston, Nov. 6-8. I’ll have to admit that I had my reservations about joining the crowd of

400,000 most of whom were bikers, but we were drawn by the anticipation of being able to lead people to Jesus. We were not disappointed.

Mission JourneyMission Journey

Thursday morning we began with a time of training led by evangelist Ronnie Hill. He coached us on how to most effectively tell our own three-minute story of how Jesus had changed our lives. At 10 a.m. we opened the booth. Some of us stood out front asking people to come in and register for the $1,000 drawing. Others waited under the tent, ready to share with any who were willing to come in to register. It was amazing how many people walked into the tent and listened to our stories. By the end of the three days our 32 volunteers had shared with 1,060 peo-ple and 399 of them had trusted Jesus as Savior and Lord. Next week we will begin calling each per-son we won to Christ to follow up with them and encourage them to get involved in a Bible believing, Bible teaching church. We will be going back next November and our biggest need will be more volun-teers. Please mark your calendars right now and plan to go with us Nov. 5-7, 2015. If you are hesitant to go, let me encour-age you with two words: “Fear Not!” Don’t be afraid of the crowds. Don’t be afraid of the bikers. Don’t worry about how

you will get there, where you will park, how you will find the booth, what you will wear, what you will eat, or what you will say when a stranger walks up to you ready to hear your story. You do not need to be afraid. You do not need to worry. Going to the rally is easier than going to Six Flags. The Lord will be with you. He will guide you. He will watch over you. He will give you the words to say. And by the time you go home you will have shared your personal testimony with dozens of people and seen some of them come to Christ. Come for the whole event and take ad-vantage of free lodging in a church and free breakfast and dinner provided by a disaster relief feeding unit. Or drive down for the day. Or drive down and work one shift, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. or 2-7 p.m. But come. I am counting on a dozen vol-unteers from TRBA working each shift next year. The more volunteers we have, the more people will come to Jesus. It’s like a mission trip, but it’s only an hour and a half away from home. Think about this: Donna Kay and I shared Christ with more people and saw more peo-ple saved than we would normally be able to in an entire year. There were more people saved those three days than all of our TRBA churches baptized all of last year, three times as many saved in all of our Vacation Bible Schools. I want you to have a part in this next year. Commit to it now and calendar it now. All you have to do is tell people what your life used to be like before you met Jesus, how you came to know Jesus, and how your life has been different since meeting Jesus. Then you tell them that they can have the same kind of change you have experienced, right here and right now. And when they begin to nod their head and say, “Yes, I’d like to pray that prayer,” you will be so thankful you took the time and took the risk to be involved in Mission Lone Star.

Risking for the Kingdom, David Williams

Pray for our pastorless churches West End Saratoga, since August 2014 Bill Fabriguze, interim First Hull, since February 2014 John Guedry, interim First Concord, since January 2014 Richard Stidham, interim Oak Island, since December 2012

Mission Lone Star

399 trust Jesus at cycle rally Borrowing an evangelism approach developed for the Sturgis S.D. Motorcycle Rally, TRBA and other Baptist partners sponsored a booth during Galveston’s Lone Star Motorcycle Rally in November and saw 399 people trust Jesus. Dubbed “Mission Lone Star,” the evangelistic effort centered on a booth offering a $1,000 drawing each of three nights, Nov. 6-8. To register for the draw-ing, people had to come into the booth and listen to a volunteer’s three minute story, a personal testimony of how Jesus had changed their life. “It was our first year, our first at-tempt, and we were not sure what to ex-pect,” said David Williams, TRBA director of missions. “We had been told that as many as one out of seven, about 14 per-cent, of those who came into the booth would pray to receive Jesus before they left.” Instead of 14 percent, the booth reg-istered 38 percent, 399 salvations out of 1,060 who heard a volunteer’s personal testimony. A total of 32 volunteers participated in the booth, including men and women from TRBA, Galveston Baptist Association, Golden Triangle Baptist Network, and Bell Baptist Association. Bell Association brought its disaster relief feeding unit and served breakfast and dinner to volunteers staying at Seaside Baptist Church in Ja-maica Beach. In addition to the evangelism booth, Mission Lone Star provided 15 chaplains who ministered to vendors at the event. They made 3,074 contacts and four ven-dors prayed to receive Christ. “I appreciate Jim Hamilton, Golden Triangle’s executive director, who spear-headed this effort, and Ronnie Hill, the evangelist who came to train us and en-courage us as we shared our testimonies” Williams said. Hamilton and Hill were the architects of the successful evangelistic outreach in Sturgis that has been dupli-cated at other cycling and racing events around the country. Williams said more volunteers are needed for the evangelism booth next year, Nov. 5-7. “We have two shifts a day for three days. We need a dozen TR Bap-tists during each shift,” he said.

Mission Lone Star — Clockwise, beginning top left. One American and her four Filipino friends accepted Christ the first day. They all work as hospi-tality interns at the Tremont Hotel in Galveston. Left to right are Clarissa Lopez, Lysel Agram, Christine Abcede, Kristelle Saceda, and Shane Maata. Ernest Nunn from TRBA shares his personal testimony with a young man. The crowd in Galveston was estimated at between 400,000 and 500,000 people. Sherri and Jerry Avery, TRBA friends and missionaries to Zambia back in the States for a few months, stand outside the booth encouraging people to come in and listen to a three-minute story.

Greg Kappas, left, poses for a “class photo” with the men he taught during the Training of Trainers event at TRBA, Nov. 11-12. Vice president of The Timothy Initiative, Kappas taught the men how to use the 11 books that will form the central curriculum for TRBA’s Monday evening Pastor Essentials course that begins Jan. 12, 2015. Left to right are Kappas; Scott Tidwell, pastor of Wild Country Mis-sion; Mike Chadwick, pastor of First Dayton; Michael Blackburn, pastor of Trinity Dayton; Lee Weaver, member of First Anahuac; Frank Aragon, pastor of First Saratoga; Ken Davis, pastor of Calvary Dayton; David Williams, TRBA director of missions; Kyle Dobbs, music minister of First Anahuac; Gary Hillyard, pastor of First Anahuac; Byron Sanford, pastor of Grayburg Sour Lake; Steve Bean, pastor of First Lib-erty; and Tim Gruver, pastor of Heights Liberty. They will be faculty for the Pastor Essentials class.

Cowboy Church Bible Study — Robert Smith leads a group of eleven at the initial meeting of First Liberty’s cowboy church. The group is meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays for Bible study while a core group is formed. “Bring your Bible and a covered dish,” said Steve Bean, First Lib-erty’s pastor. “We eat at 6 and our study be-gins when everyone has their plates full.” Lo-cation is the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Center, 501 Palmer Ave., Liberty.

Pastoral Essentials class starts Monday, Jan. 12 Men called by God to be pastors or church planters are invited to enroll in the Pastor Essentials course taught at the TRBA office Monday nights beginning Jan. 12. There is no charge for the course. “Over a year’s time we will train our men and prepare them to start a church or pastor an existing church in our area,” said David Williams, TRBA director of missions. “Rather than going somewhere else to attend Bible college or seminary, they will be able to stay here at home, keep their current jobs, and pursue God’s call on their lives.” The 6-9 p.m. class will include dinner and two teaching sessions. “This is not a Bible institute but a church planter/pastor training school,” Williams said. “In lieu of financial commit-ment we are expecting a high level of commitment from our students in com-pleting assignments, including ministry, evangelism and missions during the week.”

Special tech skills needed by TRBA If you love the challenge of setting up a new website and getting it to do exactly what you want it to do. . . If you are a Facebook and Twitter pro who knows how to use those tools to get the word out . . . If you have experience using communi-cation tools like Constant Contact, Mail Chimp . . . If you are looking for a way to use your tech skills and passion for Christ and his Kingdom . . . Then Trinity River Baptist Association needs your help! Here’s our tech prayer list: new domain; new website; Facebook presence; Twitter presence; contact appli-cation. Contact David@TrinityRiverBaptist Association.org.

NEWSPLASH

DecemberDecember

20142014

2401 Grand Ave., Liberty, Texas 77575 936-336-9232 David Williams, Director of Missions

Trinity River Baptist Association P.O. Box 1269 Liberty, TX 77575 Address Service Requested

Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage

PAID Liberty TX

Permit No. 38

Receipts October 2014

A Christmas meal, Christmas music, the Christmas story, and a Christmas mes-sage. Those elements will combine to make a perfect Christmas gathering for members of Trinity River Baptist Association churches at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Calvary Baptist Church, Dayton. The evening will begin with a Christmas meal catered by the Haidusek Family, featuring pork loin, long grain wild rice, roasted vegetables, salad, rolls, and pe-can cobbler. Cost of the meal, subsidized by TRBA, will be $10 per person. Reser-vations are needed by Dec. 3. The meal will be followed by a brief executive board meeting with an exciting report of what is coming to TRBA in 2015. By 7 p.m. the group will enter a time of worship. Donna Kay Williams will lead the congregation in Christmas music, David Williams will tell the Christmas story, and Tony Hines will preach a Christmas message.

Trinity River Baptist Association December 2014

Sat, December 6 AM Mendoza, Longoira PM Dosier, Skinner Sun, December 7 AM Hinch, Gault PM Snell, Catchings Sat, December 13 AM Thomas, Clark PM Barefield, Miller Sun, December 14 AM Presnulls PM McGuires Sat, December 20 AM Davis, Goff PM Hortmans

Sun, December 21 AM Radley, Downey PM Baldridges Sat, December 27 AM C. & G. Theis PM King & Nichols Sun, December 28 AM Smarts PM Herring, Morales

Family Visitors’ Center Schedule

TR Baptists gather to celebrate Christmas

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

2 3 4

9 am Senior Pastor Prayer Time

5 6

7 8 9 6 pm TRBA Christmas Fellowship and Ex. Bd. Calvary, Dayton

10 11 9 am Senior Pastor Prayer Time

12 13

14 15 16 9 am Pastor Essentials Planning Mtg

17 18 9 am Senior Pastor Prayer Time

19 20

21 22 23 24 Christmas Eve

25 Christmas Day

26 27

28 29 30 31 New Year’s Eve

Oct 14 Jan - Oct 14 Batson Prairie 310.00 3,592.00 Berean Tabernacle 200.00 1,200.00 Calvary, Dayton 500.00 4,200.00 Calvary, Liberty 340.63 2,783.06 Center, Thicket 60.00 731.00 Central Daisetta 499.07 1,926.60 Central, Liberty 162.00 1,357.08 Covenant 0.00 455.86 Eminence 0.00 924.00 First Anahuac 833.33 8,333.30 First Batson 200.00 2,400.00 First Concord 0.00 292.59 First Daisetta 331.00 3,321.00 First Dayton 888.38 7,145.54 First Devers 271.21 4,390.51 First High Island 419.00 1,614.74 First Hull 552.14 2,064.21 First Liberty 995.18 13,043.60 First Saratoga 404.96 4,518.23 First Sour Lake 512.02 6,712.65 Grace Community 0.00 6,950.00 Grayburg 0.00 798.99 Gum Grove 49.40 353.07 Hardin Baptist 1,155.92 12,205.05 Heights 0.00 6,320.15 House of Living Waters 0.00 437.06 Kenefick Southern 643.11 7,838.45 Mt Calvary 990.40 4,569.94 North Main 1,200.00 12,000.00 Nuevo Amanecer 0.00 0.00 Oak Island 40.08 327.67 Old River 1,166.67 11,666.70 Pathways 99.00 1,158.00 Primera Dayton 75.00 750.00 Smith Point 52.28 547.79 South Dayton 50.00 641.84 Sweet Home 83.00 659.43 Trinity 100.00 1,000.00 West End 449.00 4,594.00 Whispering Meadows 209.65 2,265.54 Wild Country Mission 0.00 828.80

Interest 7.15 101.29

Total 13,849.58 147,019.74

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, Nov. 30 - Dec. 7

Mark Hardee, center, won the $1,000 drawing the first night of the Mission Lone Star evangelistic emphasis during the Lone Star Motorcycle Rally in Galveston, Nov. 6-8. To get his name into the hopper, earlier in the day Hardee had come into the booth and listened to J.E. Hail Jr. (looking on from the rear) tell in three minutes how Jesus had changed his life. Hardee’s big prize, however, was not the $1,000 he won at 7 p.m., but the free gift of forgiveness and eternal life when he trusted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord an hour earlier. Hardee was one of 399 who prayed to re-ceive Christ when they came into the booth to register for the drawing. Congratulating Hardee are, left to right, Dale Hill, director of missions of Galveston Baptist Association; David Williams, director of missions of Trinity River Baptist Association; Jim Hamilton, executive director of Golden Triangle Baptist Network; and Ronnie Hill, evangelist. Story and more photos on page 3.

Evangelism conference features Nathan Cothen

NATHAN COTHEN

Nathan Cothen, senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Beaumont, Texas, will be the featured preacher at the TRBA Evangelism Conference, 6 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 11, at First Baptist Church, Dayton. Calvary Baptist Church is a dynamic fellowship with two campuses, a television and radio ministry and involvement in many local and international missions. Tony Hines, evangelism director, encourages all TRBA churches to make this special once-a-year evangelism confer-ence their Sunday evening service that week and come hear an encouraging and challenging word from this man of God. Music will feature special quartets from TRBA.

NOMINATION CARD Inserted in this Newsplash is a Nomi-nation Card you can use to “nominate” a man you feel may be called by God to be a pastor or church planter in our association. We will formally invite each man nominated to participate in our Monday evening Pastor Essentials class which begins Jan. 12, 2015. Please pray, complete the card, and mail it to TRBA. A stamp is required.

Put Yourself in this picture Join our new Commu-nity Events Team. Help set up and work a Trinity River Baptist Association booth at events like the Trinity Valley Ex-position, Dayton Trade Days, Daisetta Mayhaw Festival and many others. Help give TRBA a public presence in the com-munity.

If you believe the Lord could use you in that way, please email me today! David@TrinityRiverBaptistAssociation.org