1 Sunday Nights 1 Family & OC 2-5 Missions Moment 6 Women’s Ministry 7-9 Music Ministry 10 Men’s / SOLOS 11 Media Library 12 New Members 13 Birthdays and Anniversaries 14 AWANA / Student 15 Just The FACTS 16 JANUARY 2020 Issue 295 Join us for SUNDAY NIGHTS IN JANUARY 6pm “Revival Prayers from a Revived People” Services led by Rev. Greg Addison, Associate Executive Director of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. Week 1 begins with the revived people and then progresses thru praying for revival as a revived people. The Church Office and OC will be closed from noon on DEC 31 through JAN 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Sunday Nights 1
Family & OC 2-5
Missions Moment 6
Women’s Ministry 7-9
Music Ministry 10
Men’s / SOLOS 11
Media Library 12
New Members 13
Birthdays and
Anniversaries 14
AWANA / Student 15
Just The FACTS 16
JANUARY 2020
Issue 295
Join us for SUNDAY NIGHTS IN JANUARY
6pm “Revival Prayers from a Revived People”
Services led by Rev. Greg Addison,
Associate Executive Director of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention.
Week 1 begins with the revived people and
then progresses thru praying for revival as a revived people.
The Church Office and
OC will be closed from
noon on DEC 31
through JAN 1
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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A Mission Moment…. THANK YOU! - THANK YOU! — for your wonderful response
to the Shoebox Mission!! From 110 boxes in 1999, this year’s
goal of 775 resulted in 810 boxes delivered for children
around the world. We appreciate the leadership of Nancy
Trull who led this project.
THE CENTRAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
Balboa’s budget includes 3% of total contributions to the
Central Baptist Association — what is it?
The CBA represents 56 Baptist Churches — “Churches
linked together for Fellowship and Missions”. Its offices are
located in Garland, Saline, Hot Springs and Grant Counties.
The purpose is to provide support to Churches in
accomplishing their ministries and to help them corporately
to carry out the Great Commission. The mission is to assist
the Churches of the Association through leadership, training
and encouragement to be on mission for Jesus Christ.
…..Your Mission Committee
MISSIONS
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BWM Events in January!
JAN 2 FIRST THURSDAY PRAYER TIME
Ladies are invited to First Thursday Prayer Time from 10am-11am on January 2nd in the Welcome Sunday School room. Please join us as we encourage each other in lifting our praises, concerns, prayers and thanksgiving to God. Contact Darlene Phillips at 501-922-2844 if you need additional information.
JAN 5 FIRST SUNDAY FOOD DONATIONS
Food donations are given to Owensville Baptist Church on Highway 5. Folks living in our vicinity need help in providing enough food for their families. Many of those needing assistance are grandparents taking care of their grandchildren. Give with a generous heart!
JAN 9 GIRLS, GAMES, & GOODIES
Ladies are invited to Girls, Games, & Goodies from 10am-2pm on January 9th in the Outreach Center. Contact Kathy Foust at 501-922-3208 if you need additional information.
JAN 21 KICKOFF LUNCHEON
Balboa ladies are invited to the 2020 BWM Kickoff Luncheon from 12pm-2pm on January 21st in the Outreach Center. It will be a time of good food (pot luck), sweet fellowship, and facts about upcoming activities. We will introduce the BWM team members and provide a quick overview of BWM activities we have planned for 2020. The BWM team will bring the entrees and we ask you to bring a side dish, salad or dessert. Look for the sign-up sheets at the Welcome desks. Contact Linda Rymer at 702-786-2757 if you need additional information.
Balboa Women’s Ministry Mission Statement: “Equipping women to know, love, and serve Christ”
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JAN 23 THREADS OF HOPE
Ladies are invited to Threads of HOPE from 9am-3pm on January 23rd in Room 115 (Fellowship Hall). Please join us to find out how easy it is to be a blessing to someone and receive a blessing yourself! We are excited to start a new year of fun, fellowship, and Helping Other People Everywhere! We will be making chemo port pillows as the first project of the year. The pillows provide padded protection and relieve the pressure on the port caused by the seatbelt. Two Velcro straps are sewn on the pillows to attach around the seatbelt. The pillow is a fast and easy project and are very appreciated by those having ongoing chemo treatments.
If you sew, please bring your sewing machine, notions for sewing cotton, and neutral-colored thread. All fabric will be cut, pinned and ready for sewing. If you do not sew or do not want to sew, your help is needed with pinning, assembling fabric for sewing, pressing fabric, assembling project kits, and signing notes of encouragement to be included with the finished project.
We have made some changes for the upcoming year and hope you will like them.
1. One change we are excited about is adding Fidget Mats to our monthly schedule. A fidget mat is a lap quilt that provides sensory and tactile stimulation for the restless hands of someone with Alzheimer’s, or other forms of dementia, and autism spectrum disability. Beginning in January, we will start a Fidget Mats group which will meet at the same time and same day as Threads of HOPE. Because making a Fidget Mat is so time-consuming, we have streamlined the process. Each Fidget Mat will be packaged as a kit with all embellishments provided, along with instructions. The Fidget Mats group will meet from 9am-3pm. All supplies will be provided. The HSV Quilt Guild Bee, Bits and Pieces, (Fidget Quilts) will no longer be meeting on the third Thursday of the month at BBC.
2. Another change being made is the time of the Crocheting and Knitting group. They will meet from 9am-3pm. April Catlett has some exciting projects planned for 2020. One project is a Fidget Muff. People with dementia often have restless hands and like something to keep them occupied. Fidget Muffs provide a source of visual, tactile and sensory stimulation and, at the same time, keep hands snug and warm. Fidget Muffs can be crocheted or knitted. The Muffs are textured, colorful, and can be embellished with buttons, crocheted flowers, strings, and beads. They are fun to make and even more fun to embellish. If you worked on projects during the November-December break, please bring them with you to the January meeting. If you crochet or knit and have crochet hooks or circular knitting needles you would like to use, please bring them. If not, yarn and needles will be provided. If you do not know how to crochet or knit, April, our instructor, would love to teach you.
Coffee, coffee cake, and a delicious lunch will be provided for you in appreciation for volunteering to Help Other People Everywhere. To ensure we have a correct count for lunch, please call or text Sue Griggs at 501-984-1401 if you are able to attend.
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Photo 1: Threads of HOPE Crocheting and Knitting group making caps for preemies and homeless.
Photo 2: Threads of HOPE Sewing Group with quilt tops made at the October meeting.
JAN 27 2020 PRAYER LEADERS WORKSHOP
The 2020 Prayer Leader Workshop will be held from 9:30am-11:30am on January 27 at the Geyer Springs First Baptist Church in Little Rock. This workshop, hosted by the Arkansas State Baptist Convention, is designed for those who lead out in prayer in their family, church, and/or study group. This year’s workshop will be held as a part of the State Convention on Evangelism + Church Health and will be led by Kie Bowman, Senior Pastor of Hyde Park Baptist Church and The Quarries Church in Austin, Texas. Contact Jody Moore at 318-452-0589 if you are interested in attending this event.
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This New Year of 2020 promises to be exciting! Just as our church has been so blessed in
the past with wonderful people, we continue to add to our membership more people who
are talented and Spirit-led and want to serve the Lord with us in this new decade of ministry.
I thank God for Bro. Denny, who leads us in a wonderful way to seek Christ’s leadership in
our lives, and teaches and preaches His word with great conviction and ability. I also thank
God for Bro. Kevin, and all our staff who serve so diligently….Denise, Teylor, Debbie, Alice,
Rick, Cyndi, Pam, Dave and Anna. We seek to share the gospel in as many ways as possible to
reach the lost and unchurched of our community, and everything we do is toward that goal. I
am blessed indeed to serve with all our staff.
My deep appreciation goes to you faithful members of our church and to our key outreach
and in-reach committees and our disaster team who reach out to our community and beyond
to share in time of need the message of God’s love and help. Every committee of our church
helps us to share the gospel in their own specific ministries. I so much appreciate our music
ministry teams of The Celebration Choir, The “Light” Orchestra, our Celebration Bells and Bro.
Teylor and the Praise Team in our Contemporary worship, who help us share the word of God
and lead worship through songs of faith, praise, and worship of God through music each
week.
Happy New Year, Church Family.
I love serving the Lord with you here.
Pastor Jim
Soli Deo Gloria!
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Men’s Bible Study & Fellowship
There will be no Bible Study in January but
the men will continue to meet for Fellowship.
All men are invited to join us for a new Bible
Study & Fellowship beginning Monday,
February 3rd at 8am when we will begin
a Study of the Book of Acts, led by Mark Graham.
This first session will include a
Good, Old-Fashioned Country Breakfast
Served in the Outreach Center.
Sign Up at the Men’s Bulletin Board (outside Rm. 115 in church building) OR back in the choir hallway/main foyer
so they can plan for you!
Contact Dave Finton, Men’s Director, at 318-461-0647.
S.O.L.O.S. (Singles Onward Loving Other Souls)
If you are single, come be a part of Balboa SOLOS. Contact Karen Laib 922-
1137 or Candace Williams 915-0096. You don’t have to be a member of our
church to be a part of this group .
Activities will resume in February.
Grief Ministry ~ “Friendly Hearts” meets at Balboa Baptist Church on the
LAST Monday of every month at 1:30pm. Contact Sammye Rottluff (501-922-0918) or
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As I write this Media report today, my home is filled with the music of Christmas. It seems I
should say Merry Christmas instead of Happy New Year. However, as you read this, we are into a
new year and I pray that it will be happy. God has many blessings for this church, and we as
individuals, that we need to be aware of and willing to accept in 2020.
If you enjoy reading fiction, you are aware of the type novels that are offered in the many markets
today. Many of them we can not enjoy because of the language or content. I am so thankful that
we do have Christian authors who write about their faith in fiction novels. I am reading one now
about a woman’s search for her missing child. The book is Hide and Seek by Lynette Eason. I
haven’t finished it so I can’t spoil the ending for you, but it is only one of Ms. Eason’s books in the
church library. One of the first things printed in this book shows us her heart as she says thank you
“To my wonderful Savior, who lets me write for Him”. If a story about a woman who hunts for the
missing children of others as well as her own child doesn’t interest you, the library has many more
from which you can choose.
There will be more new books in 2020 by Christian authors, both fiction and nonfiction for your
reading pleasure, information, and inspiration. Please take some time to come by the library and
enjoy the resources that God has enabled us to provide at Balboa Baptist. The library is open any
time that the church is open.
Your library committee and I wish you a Happy and Joyous New Year in your walk with Jesus.
Carolyn Linam Librarian 922-8896
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LARRY & MELISSA KIRK
Melissa was born and raised in Rockford, IL. She married and
became a homemaker with two girls (Melanie and Ericka) in
Pocahontas, AR. In 1996, she started working for Farm Bureau as
an insurance agent. She did very well in her career until MS hit
her in 2005. Although a Christian since age six, this illness
deepened her faith and taught her to rely on God’s grace. Melissa
taught Sunday School and worked with the women’s ministry at
First Baptist Church, Pocahontas, for over twenty years. She recently published an inspirational suspense
book in 2018 entitled “Running from Asperity”, emphasizing God’s grace. She now is a life coach for women
under her ministry, The Grace Warrior.
Larry was born in Memphis and moved to Biggers, AR as a child and then to Pocahontas in 1958. He
joined the Marines while in high school and served three years, some of which was in Vietnam. After he
returned, he finished high school and attended Arkansas State University before going to St. Louis to work
undercover for Pinkerton Agency. He then went to Mississippi to work in salvage and construction for his
father. Moving back to Pocahontas, he married and started working as a barber. In 1973, he became a Deputy
Sheriff and then went on to work for the Arkansas State Police. There, he worked several years as an
undercover narcotics agent before moving to the Highway Patrol division. In 1979, he became a father to his
son (Shane). After serving his term, he worked as a criminal investigator, a private investigator, and was the
Randolph County Veteran’s Administrator. He barbered again for a while, did security for some traveling
country singers, and drove a school bus for five years before retiring again.
Larry met Melissa in Pocahontas, and they married in 1991. They moved to Hot Springs Village this last
September. They visited Balboa Baptist Church and were impressed by the friendliness and the follow-up by
people who were truly interested in them. They joined our church soon after that. They attend the Welcome
Bible Class. They continue to stay busy with their three children, 13 grandchildren, six great-grandchildren,
and one on the way. This is a most interesting couple you should get to know.
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Clay Franklin 1
Sherry Karr 1
Evelyn Henke 1
Dianne Douglas 1
Mark Bunger 6
Dot Lewis 6
Helen Cox 7
Gary Stockwell 8
C. Reifschneider 9
Steve Wales 9
Wally Cox 10
Mary Alice Jones 10
Janice Forshee 10
Dana Connally 11
Mary Ann Foster 11
John Ross 11
Jade Sierra 12
Jerry Barber 12
Bob Alexander 13
Kevin Garner 13
Janet Curtis 14
Walt Drissel 15
Jim Raney 15
S. Quisenberry 15
Gerald Norman 17
Joey Dixon 17
Wayne Dixon 19
MJ Rosenbaum 20
Margaret Brownell 22
Gary Ewert 22
Lauren Sahm 22
Kolt Carden 23
JoEllen Escher 24
Bob Bearden 25
Jerry Morgan 25
Pam Raney 25
Mary Ann Rishel 26
Mike Costlow 26
Bill Rough 27
Larry McGhee 29
Gwen Blakely 30
Jeff Carden 30
Barbara Garrett 30
Anne Hope 30
Richard & Glenda Boysen 1
Bob & Betty Johnson 1
Davis & Sandy Stephens 1
Brian & Melissa Nickles 6
Gaylon & Charlotte Clark 13
Wayne & Ruth Ann Kittelson 17
Bob & Shirley Black 21
Ira & Geany Young 21
Spurge & Brenda Mask 23
Vic & Donna O’Neal 23
Ray & Kay Keune 24
Wayne & Grace Harper 26
Larry & Dorothy Pryor 27
Jerry & Beng Gormley 29
Carroll & Paula Mercer 29
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FAMILY MINISTRY Let the Little Children Come to Jesus!
AWANA Clubs
During the school year,
our AWANA Clubs meet
on Wednesdays at 5:30pm
CUBBIES is for children ages 3 & 4.
SPARKS are kindergarten thru Grade 2 and
T&T (Truth & Training) are Grades 3-6.
Activities resume January 8—Happy New Year!
ACTIVITIES
During the school year
our Balboa STUDENTS (Grades 7-12) meet every
Wednesday from 5:30—7:30pm,
and start with a light meal.
Bring a friend and join us for food, fun and great fellowship!
Activities resume January 8—Happy New Year!
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JUST THE FACTS
If you are moving, or have an email or phone number change,
Please contact the Church Office at 501-922-0155, so that we may update our records accordingly.
