VBS/Medical/Construction Trip to Guatemala
February 4-11, 2012
If you have interests and/or experience in doing VBS, Medical missions, or construction, please contact the CVBA office or Loretta Locke llocke948@aol.com. The cost is approximately $1400.


Deacon's Banquet
February 10, 2012
The banquet will be hosted by the First Baptist Church, Atwater and is for all current and former deacons and their wives. Gifts and recognitions are made to our deacons and a special program of encouragement is presented. This is a time of affirmation, appreciation and challenge for all our deacons and their calling.


Winter Youth Retreat
Feb. 24-26 at Jenness Park
For grades 7-12. Cost is $153 for early registration, $173 after Jan. 18. Speaker is Will Snipes

African-American Pastor's Fellowship
February 18, 2012
Dr. Charles Evins is inviting all of our African-American pastors to a fellowship breakfast hosted by our CVBA. Theis will be a great time of getting to know one another and sharing information of resources and insights for seeing our churches grow. We will meet at HomeTown Buffet in Turlock at 8 a.m.



2012 On Target Evangelism Conference
February 20-21, 2012 Marriott South Bay , Torrance , CA Registration as low as $69 (Group rates are available)
Our association will pay a $50 scholarship toward the cost of the first 24 attendees from our churches. (This will be paid after attendance - just provide your registration receipts to the CVBA office.)
To register go to www.OnTargetEvangelism.com (use the "Register as guest" tab).




CVBA Annual Sunday School/Church GrowthTraining and Disaster Relief Training
Saturday, March 3, 2012 at Berkeley Ave. Baptist Church
The Disaster Relief Training requires registration and the following fees:
New volunteer certification: $50
Currently certified, taking additional certification classes: $25
Re-certification (three year update): $50
A $20 late fee will be added to all registrations after February 16, 2012.
Training information and online registration will be posted online soon. Click here to check for updates on our website.



VBS Training- March 31
more info. to follow

 

CVMI (Central Valley Missionary Institute)
We are changing our name for our Institute studies to better reflect our objective: our aim is to help our churches raise up harvest workers and leaders for our local church fields of the association (and beyond). Our current classes end the week of Thanksgiving and new classes will begin again in January. We will announce the new courses being offered later this month. We are adjusting course fees to $25 per class for 2012 plus the costs of any required texts for the studies (we try to minimize these costs).


New Church Annuals for 2012

Our new church annuals are now available. If you or your church have not received one, please email us at cvba777@sbcglobal.net to receive your copy.

Block Party Trailer
Now we have two trailers to work with! Both trailers are now ready for our churches to use them. The BPT is a very useful tool for attracting people to an event which allows you to establish relationships with unchurched people to do further work with. Please contact the CVBA office to reserve use of one these.



938 PRAYER PLAN
PRAY(Matthew 9:38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.)
LOOK(John 4:35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.)
ACT (James 2:17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.)
NEVER GIVE UP PRAYING(Luke 18:1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.)



Prayer for Sister Churches (P4SC)Prayer for sister churches in the Central Valley Baptist Association (P4SC) is taking place each Sunday in our churches of the CVBA. We are asking each of our churches to lift a single church in prayer each week (name/info. on each church is sent out monthly).



**If you have not received the ACP form from our state office, you can go online at www.csbc.com and clicking on ‘Annual Church Profile’ (about half-way down on left margin) on the home page. Please send a copy to the Associational office (2831 N. Berkeley Ave, Turlock, CA 95382) and one to our state convention office (678 W. Shaw Ave, Fresno, CA 93710). Thanks to all of you for your help in communicating and assessing our overall work for Christ in our associational area—and beyond!!

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One thing you can be certain about in the coming year is that you can't be certain about what is ahead. This is a great blessing, because you do not need to know. To know what is ahead and the details of what will happen would be too great a burden to carry and too great a responsibility to bear.

What you do need to know about the future is not what is ahead of you, but Who is ahead of you. It is the Lord who goes before you, is ahead of you, and is preparing the way for you. Your future is in His sure, strong, caring hands.

I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you. Genesis 28:15 NLT

As you pass through the door of 2011 and enter the door of 2012, here are six of the needs you are certain to have...
1. There will be the need for prayer
2. There will be the need to trust
3. There will be the need to obey
4. There will be the need to forgive
5. There will be the need to be faithful
6. There will be the need for Jesus

Devotional excerpt by Roy Lessin. Read the full message on his blog: Meet Me in the Meadow