July 2026

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July 2026 Calendar

Sat July 4: Happy Independence Day!!
Mon July 6: ABA office will be open
Thurs July 16: 1:00 – 2:00 PM, Miracles in American History Video, Part 1.
Tues July 21: 10:00 AM ABA Mission Team Meeting
Tues July 21: 6:00 PM ABA Nominating Team Meeting
Thurs July 23: 1:00–2:00 PM, Miracles in American History Video, Part 2.

August 2026 Calendar

2–9: Serve NC Week. How will you serve your      
       community!
Mon Aug 17: 5:45 PM, Region 6 Mission Rally, Benton's Cross Roads Baptist Church
Sun Aug 23: Global Hunger Sunday

Birthdays:
Rosemary Greene - 3
Brad Phifer – 11
Sara Perko – 20

Anniversaries:
Chris & Renae Simpson – 11
Scott & Lisa Baucom - 15

Happy 250th Anniversary!

Rocky River Baptist Church

 

Celebration Service July 26th at 1:30 PM
Engaging
With David

 

 

We Can Help!

“The mission of the Anson Baptist Association is to assist, resource and inspire our family of churches to make disciples of Christ.”

Among the services we provide are resources and traning for churches searching for supply preachers, interiums, and new pastors, as well as opportunities for church consultations, church growth, and mission expansion. Please look at the list below and Pray about how we can help your church take your Great Commission next step!

•    Full Church Consultation
•    Revitalization Consultation
•    Coaching
•    Assessments:
o    General: Where Are We Now?
o    Community - including demographics and psychographics 
o    Church Facilities
o    Welcome Ministry
o    Church Health
o    Evangelism
o    Discipleship
o    Online Presence
o    Stewardship/Finances
o    Outreach
o    Barriers to Growth

•    Developing Mission and Vision Strategies
•    Developing Great Commission Next Step Strategies
•    Developing Outreach Strategies
•    Developing Evangelism Strategies
•    Developing Discipleship Strategies
•    Developing Strategies to Become the Church God Wants Us to Be

•    How to Reach & Keep Guests
•    Leading Your Church Toward Spiritual Renewal
•    Renewing Church Mission and Vision

•    Discovery of growth and/or ministry obstacles and opportunities 
ABA List of Services Provided Continued

•    Discovering Next Steps Toward Better Church Health

•    Long Range Planning
•    Short Range Planning
•    Seeking God’s Will for Our Church
•    Help for Churches that Feel “Stuck.”
•    Help for Declining Churches

In every one of these consultations, assessments or discussions, your church remains in the driver’s seat. You decide how you want to move forward and in what ways. If you invite us in to assist you, we will provide information, a process, and some suggested next steps, but it is always up to you and the Holy Spirit as to how you choose to use the information. 

Please call on us if we can serve your church!  We love you Anson Baptist Association!

David

 

 

The Anson Crisis Ministry need for July is soap. ACM needs volunteers to serve, and monetary donations are appreciated as well. Hours are Tuesday-Friday, 8 am until 1 pm. Margot Barnes is director and can be reached at 704-694-2445. You can access more information at: www.ansoncrisisministry.com.  

 

 

Thank you to the following churches for their June financial support: Ansonville, Brown Creek, Calvary, Deep Creek, Freedom, Lilesville, Mineral Springs, Morven, Mount Beulah, New Home, Pleasant Grove, Polkton, Red Hill, and Victory
 

Planning a VBS this summer?  We would like to help you promote your VBS in our newsletter!   Send us your church name, date, time, and the theme, and we will post your VBS in our newsletter!  Please have your submissions in by the 15th of the month prior to your VBS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free Bibles for VBS Students!

If you would like the Gideons to distribute free New Testaments to your VBS students contact Gideon, Jimmy Flake, at (704) 695-5507.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

North Carolina Baptist Ministers
Wives Conference
Caraway, NC, July 13-15, 2026

 

Thursday Nights at 6:30 PM
North Wadesboro Baptist Church 
1211 N. Greene St., Wadesboro, NC 28170

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ centered recovery program to help people “find freedom from their hurts, hang-ups, and habits” including addiction. For more information contact David Wesley Helms at (980) 278-6189 or Rev. Ernie Walters at (910) 506-6066.

 

Blessing 
Bags

 

The ABA Mission Team needs churches to pack backpacks (Blessing Bags) for the months of October, November, and December. Ten are needed for each month. There are some backpacks and Bibles at the ABA available at cost. If you would be able to help with this ministry, please contact Beth Rogers at 704-695-2010.

 

Free
Backpacks
For Ministry

The Send Network of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) has shared some free backpacks with us to be used for missions and church outreach efforts. This is not free stuff that we are trying to get rid of, but an investment in missions that NAMB and the ABA (us) want to invest in the ministry that your church is doing. Any church can have 12 backpacks for missions between now and July 15th as long as they last. Whatever is left after July 15th will be available on a "first come first serve" basis to any church until they are gone, even if they have already received 12 previously. The main requirement for all of these backpacks is that the church must have a plan for how they are going to use them for missions and ministry. Please contact the ABA office to get backpacks for your outreach ministry!

 

 

Because of your partnership, missionaries were able to remain present in hard places among people with little to no access to the gospel. And because they stayed, people heard. Because people heard, they believed. And churches were born. 

Here are just a few of the ways your support helped make an eternal difference this year:

•    2,066,251 people heard the gospel 
•    196,497 became new believers 
•    29,937 were baptized 
•    7,697 new churches were planted 
•    29,018 leaders were trained in church planting 
•    225,578 people were discipled 

Your faithfulness also helped meet urgent physical needs in Jesus’ name. Through Send Relief 2,277,589 lives were impacted across 80 countries through 472 projects. 

And behind those numbers is something even more meaningful – your prayers, generosity, and support that helped sustain more than 3,500 missionaries and their 2,700 children across 150+ countries. 

Your faithfulness is producing real gospel fruit. You are helping sustain missionary presence, gospel proclamation, discipleship, church planting, and compassionate care in places where people may have little or no opportunity to hear the good news of Jesus. 

Thank you for praying. Thank you for giving. 

Thank you for your partnership in this work. 

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Start Planning For…

 

SERVENC WEEK

AUGUST 1 - 8, 2026 
Any project. Any day.

https://ncbaptist.org/servenc/

ServeNC is an opportunity for every NC Baptist church to love its community in Jesus’ name through service projects. Every church. Every community. If your church didn’t exist, would your community notice? Whether it’s painting a school, cleaning up a yard or serving meals to those in need, your church knows your community’s specific needs and can choose the best project to make a difference through ServeNC. Commit your church to being on mission together and display the gospel during the week of Aug. 1-8, 2026. Sign your church up today!

Signup: https://form.jotform.com/253093459964167 

Order t-shirts at: https://store.ncbaptist.org/product/servenc-tshirt/  

 

 

 

 

Ideas for ServeNC Service Projects

https://baptistsonmission.org/Mission-Projects/Local-Ideas-Compassion-Ministry-Ideas/Community-Ministry-Project-Ideas

•    Plant a garden for an elderly person or an assisted living facility
•    A Sunday School class or men’s group could build a wheelchair ramp
•    A youth group could lead a Backyard Bible Club
•    Make care packages or appreciation bags for soldiers, police, first responders or teachers
•    Card Ministry. Send either a “thank you” note or a note of encouragement to public servants, police, first responders, hospital workers or teachers. Great project for all ages!!
•    Have an appreciation lunch or reception to honor firemen, policemen or school teachers
•    Paint a porch
•    Offer quarters to someone at the Laundromat
•    Have a Prayer walk
•    Serve lunch to the poor or homeless
•    Sponsor a blood drive
•    Organize a neighborhood block party
•    Nursing Home landscaping or cards for the residents. (Call and find out what their needs are)
•    Sew or knit: lap blankets for nursing home patients, blankets or hats for cancer patients, walker bags; or stuffed animals (for Police or hospitals to give out to children in crisis.) 
•    Public School (yard work, painting or cleaning, etc.) (Call and find out what their needs are)
•    Assemble Hygiene Kits
•    Baby Shower for Unwed Mother or a project at Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center in Wadesboro
•    Clothes Closet 
•    Collect and Deliver Firewood 
•    Deliver Lunches to the Homeless 
•    Food Pantry Outreach
•    Free Car Care
•    Free Yard Sale
•    Serve Your Local Crisis Ministry (Anson Crisis, Feed My Lambs, or Burnsville Learning Center)
•    Park Cleanup   
•    Host a Block Party
•    International Student Ministry
•    Lunch for Habitat for Humanity Workers
•    Offer ESL Classes
•    Roadside Cleanup
•    School Landscaping, Clean-up, Painting
•    Sewing Ministry

 

 

Region 6 Mission Rally

Monday, August 17th at 5:45 PM
Benton's Cross Roads Baptist Church
109 E Lawyers Rd, Unionville, NC 28110

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A meal is provided for the NC Mission Rallies at no charge, but reservations are necessary to ensure an accurate meal count. The cutoff date for reserving a meal is August 10th. Please register at: https://baptistsonmission.org/events/regional-rallies. You may also register by sending an email to Tina Holder at tholder@ncbaptist.org or by calling 919-459-5596. The meal will begin at 5:45 pm, followed by the program from 6:50 pm - 8:30 pm.
 

Global Hunger Sunday
August 23, 2026

https://www.globalhungerrelief.org/

What is Global Hunger Relief?
Southern Baptists join together to fight the hunger crisis by giving to the Global Hunger Relief (GHR) Fund. Established in 1978 as the World Hunger Fund, Global Hunger Relief is an initiative of the Southern Baptist Convention dedicated to providing food and sharing the Bread of Life.

Send Relief, a joint ministry of the North American Mission Board and International Mission Board, carries out missions-focused GHR projects. All GHR projects have an intentional spiritual strategy, solicit local input and expertise, work with Southern Baptist personnel and have accountability measures built in.

How are my gifts used?
GHR funds are used in gospel-centered hunger projects that share God’s love in both word and deed.

In addition to meeting crisis hunger needs during famine and natural disasters, GHR-funded projects focus on long-term, sustainable solutions to end chronic hunger through job skills training, livestock and seed distribution, clean water, home reconstruction, medical care and more.

 

 

Hidden Souls:
A Bible Study for Women 
Seeking Healing from Abuse
 
Contact Kathy Landon @ (704) 690-0072 if interested. Texts are preferred.  
 

RevitalizeNC Start Here

https://ncbaptist.org/events/revitalizenc-start-here/

Hyde Park Baptist Church,
301 N Roberts Ave, Lumberton, NC 28358
Tuesday, August 25th, 2026

Mount Beulah Baptist Church,
5306 Dallas Cherryville Hwy, 
Bessemer City, NC 28016
Saturday, September 26th, 2026

Is your church stuck in a rut? Seeking revitalization but not sure where to start? We’re here to help! RevitalizeNC’s ‘Start Here’ training will equip your church team with key resources to guide you through the revitalization process.

During this one-day training, we’ll discuss assessments, go over a vision framing process for long-term missional health and provide opportunities to attend various breakout sessions led by local revitalization specialists. Bring a group of pastors and/or leaders from your church or association, and get ready to start your revitalization journey! Register at the web address above.

 

 

 

 

Delighting in God's Plan 
for Gender and Sexuality

“In His Image is a critical and urgent message designed to equip the church to answer culturally controversial questions about gender and sexuality from a biblical perspective.” You can watch this video and others by joining American Family Radio at https://stream.afa.net/welcome . There is a free membership that allows some free access to videos, but there is also a paid membership that allows additional access to more videos. 
 

Worship Leader Training

Thursday, July 30th - Saturday, August 1st, 2026
Caraway Conference Center & Camps,
4756 Caraway Mountain Rd, Sophia, NC 27350
https://ncbaptist.org/events/worship-leader-training 

Is worship not hitting the right note? Practical, proven training equips worship leaders with the understanding and tools to overcome spectatorship and renew transformative worship. Designed for worship leaders with little or no formal training, or experienced leaders looking for a fresh set of resources, tracks include undergraduate and graduate certificates issued by accredited schools — beginning with a three-day retreat.

Learn how to
•    Plan engaging services
•    Make disciples through worship ministry
•    Prepare entire worship teams to lead well
•    Turn your congregation from spectators to participants
•    Select best songs for worship
•    Plan and implement smooth transitions
•    Personally prepare to lead worship
•    Lead change in a healthy manner
For more information on these specific training options, please visit www.renewingworshipnc.org/training. Or contact Sydney Zirkle at szirkle@ncbaptist.org.

Student
Fall
Retreats

https://ncbaptist.org/ministries/student/student-resources/

Oct. 23-25, 2026, Ridgecrest Conference Center

Nov. 13-15, 2026, Fort Caswell 
 

 

 

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