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May 2015 — Volume 33, Number 5
7th Annual
CHURCH STARTING BANQUET
Theme: Any Church Can!
TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 AT 6:30 PM
Churchill Baptist Church
12400 Vista View, San Antonio, TX 78231
As the population of San Antonio grows we must start new churches to reach
every area of our city and the many different people groups. Jesus commanded
his followers, “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching
them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matt 28:19-20) Any church
can participate. A church can start a new work or team with other churches to
fund a new church or generously
donate to the Lone Star Church
Starting Offering. Alex and Cassandra
Fleming
This year’s Church Starting
Banquet features testimonies
from church starters about their
triumphs and challenges of
starting a church in San Antonio. Herb and Sandra
Halbeisen
Speakers are: Alex Fleming,
Herb Halbeisen and Ben Hanna. Tom Revilla of Life Church will bring special music.
Attending the Church Starting Banquet is an opportunity to participate in
raising funds to assist new Church Starters. Tables of 8 are available for $320.00
or individual tickets may be purchased for $40.00. Make reservations and purchase your tickets by calling Gail at 210.525.9954
or [email protected].
If you cannot attend please choose to contribute generously to the Lone Star
Church Starting Offering by calling San Antonio Baptist Association.
If you would like more information on how you can be involved
in Church Starting, contact Roland Lopez at 210.525.9954 or
[email protected].
SABA CALLS NEW
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The March 16th Executive Board
voted to call Dr. Darrell Horn as the
new Executive Director of San Antonio
Baptist Association! Dr. Horn received
97% of the vote from the packed
Executive Board Meeting! Dr. Horn
has served as Executive Director of
San Felipe Baptist Association, and
Coastal Plains Baptist Area. Additionally,
he has served as IMB Missionary in
Mexico City and Venezuela. He is working
on his Doctor of Philosophy from the
University of Pretoria. He has a Doctor
of Ministry and a Masters of Divinity
from Southwestern Baptist Theological
Seminary. His Bachelor Degree is from
Oklahoma Baptist University. Dr. Horn
began his ministry with SABA on April 8
part-time and will join us full time on May
11th. He and his wife Karen have 5 adult
children.
We welcome Dr. Darrell Horn and
his wife Karen to San Antonio and to San
Antonio Baptist Association!
EXECUTIVE BOARD
MAY 18, 2015
11:30 AM
SAN ANTONIO
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
Please join us for Executive
Board meeting and welcome,
Dr. Darrell Horn, as Director of
Missions to San Antonio Baptist
Association.
FIRST WEDNESDAY PASTOR’S
FELLOWSHIP AND LUNCH
MAY 6, 2015
11:30 am
SAN ANTONIO
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
5807 IH-10 West
Asociación
Bautista Mexicana
domingo, 3 de mayo
2:00 pm
Life Church Baptist Church
2483 W. Southcross 78211
The Hispanic Pastors
Fellowship and Conference
will be held on Mondays,
8:30 am-11:00 am in May and June
at Iglesia Bautista El Calvario
2522 W. Houston St. 78207
Las reuniones del
compañerismo y conferencia
de Pastores Hispanos
siguen siendo cada lunes
de 8:30 am a 11:00 am
en los meses de mayo y junio en
Iglesia Bautista El Calvario
2522 W. Houston St. 78207
La Varonil De La Asociación
Bautista Mexicana
sábado, 9 de mayo
8:00 am
Primera Iglesia
Bautista Somerset
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2015 Willow Creek Leadership Summit
The Summit is a world-class experience for leaders who want to get
better. Everybody has the influence and the responsibility to lead well. When
cultivated in a culture of Christ-centered leadership, your influence can
change lives and the organization in which you lead. Leaders worldwide
leverage the Summit to sharpen their skills and unleash the full potential of
their teams.
Join more than 190,000 leaders around the world at the Global Leadership
Summit 2015. Some of the speakers will be Bill Hybels, Pastor, Willow Creek
Community Church; Tyler Perry, Filmmaker, Actor, Philanthropist; Patrick
Lencioni, Author, President of The Table Group; Bryan Loritts, Founder and
Lead Pastor, Fellowship Memphis and many more.
Super Early Bird rate expires 5/19/2015. Go to www.willowcreek.com/
events/leadership to register.
SUMMER CAMP SCHEDULE
Registration and more information for the camps listed below may be found at
www.altofrio.com under Summer Camps. Most camps offer a discounted rate for
early registration. Do not delay making your reservations.
MASTER’S CAMP
EMMANUEL CAMP
July 13-17, 2015
July 20-24, 2015
“Identity”
“Redeemed”
Speaker: Shane Pruitt
Worship: Leeland
www.masterscamp.com
Speaker: Matt Blackwell
Worship: The Darnell Band
Featuring Abandon and
Royal Taylor live in concert.
http://www.emmanuelcamp.com/
Area Girls In Action/
Acteen Camp
July 27-31, 2015
"Fearless"
1st -12th grade girls
Royal Ambassador
& Boys Camp
July 27-31, 2015
1st-12th grade boys
ANNUAL TEXAS BAPTIST MEN’S
CYPRESS RETREAT
AUGUST 14-15, 2015
ALTO FRIO BAPTIST ENCAMPMENT
Rob Morgan, Keynote Speaker,
“Mastering Life Before It’s Too Late”
and
Mike Garcia, Worship Leader
Registration Deadline: Monday, Noon, July 13, 2015
To register contact Pat Ward at 210.525.9954
or [email protected].
MEN’S PRAYER
GATHERINGS
If you would like to become a prayer warrior
for our city, state and nation join one of the
groups below each Wednesday night as they
meet to lift concerns and praises to God.
Meets the third Wednesday at 6:30 pm
First Baptist Universal City
In Grace Class Room 315
1401 Pat Booker Road
Universal City, TX 78148
Highland Hills Baptist Church
in the Pastor's Office
2751 E. Southcross
San Antonio, TX 78223
Events
YOUR CHURCH
STAFF UPDATES
Many of you have responded to
our request for changes in your staff,
deacons, prayer team or key leaders
or addresses and phone numbers to
update our database and we appreciate
your doing that. If you have not
updated your information recently
please contact Dianna at 210.525.9954
or [email protected].
We want to keep the churches
informed about opportunities we offer
and email and mailouts are the way we
do this.
MAY 2015
12 • Lone Star Church Starting Banquet • 6:30 pm
Churchill BC
15 • The Reel Pre-Conference Rally • 7:00 pm
New Beacon Hill BC
Meetings
3 • Asociación Bautista Mexicana • 2:00 pm • Life Church
4,11,18,25 • Hispanic Pastors Fellowship • 8:30 am
IB El Calvario
5 • Church Planting Team • 10:00 am • SABA
16 • Singing Men, Singing Women Concert • 6:30 pm
Shearer Hills BC
6 • First Wednesday Pastor’s Fellowship • 11:30 am • SABA
21 • Men’s Prayer Gathering • 6:30 pm • FBC UC
& Highland Hills BC
8 • R3 Summit Team Meeting • 10:00 am • SABA
25 • Memorial Day • SABA Closed
7,14,21,28 • Urban Initiatives Meeting • 10:00 am • SABA
9 • La Varonil De La Asociación • 8:00 am • FBC Somerset
18 • Budget & Finance Committee • 10:00 am • SABA
18 • Executive Board • 11:30 am • SABA
Check out our new website at
www.sanantoniobaptist.org for Current Events
Be sure to use this address and clear your browser of the former website address.
*SABA = San Antonio Baptist Association
*WMU=Woman’s Missionary Union
*TBM = Texas Baptist Men
*BCFS=Baptist Child & Family Services
*BUA=Baptist University of Americas
*CWJC=Christian Women’s Job Corps
*MTC=Ministry Training Center
*TBA=To Be Announced
*IB=Iglesia Bautista
*BSM=Baptist Student Ministry
LeaderTip:
Great Leaders Live a Life of Prayer!
(fourth in a series of eight)
Singing Men and Singing
Women of Texas Coming
to San Antonio
In the mid-1980’s Jack Taylor, then pastor of Castle Hills First Baptist
Church here in San Antonio, travelled the nation with a team of other leaders
promoting prayer. At one conference I attended he commented, “No church’s
effectiveness will ever rise above the prayer level of the pastor!” His comment
indicates that you can’t give people what you don’t have! Pastors who have a
weak prayer life will find it difficult to lead the church into a thriving relationship
with God.
The South Texas Chapters of the
Singing Men of Texas and Singing
Women of Texas will perform in a
combined choir concert, Saturday,
May 16th at 6:30 pm at
Shearer Hillls Baptist Church, 12615,
San Antonio, TX 78216
Church consultants Gary McIntosh & Daniel Reeves have discovered
from their vast experience of being seminary professors, pastors, consultants,
denominational leaders and missiologists that, “Regardless of the state of a
church’s overall health, the state of the pastor’s and leaders’ spiritual life is,
without question, the most important single reason why some churches are
growing and others are declining in numbers. Indeed, for the vast majority of
churches, spiritual dynamics are the principal factor for growth and health.
Where churches are growing, spiritual energy is being generated.” (Thriving
Churches in the 21st Century)
CONVENCION BAUTISTA
HISPANA DE TEXAS
June 28-30, 2015
Hyde Park Baptist Church
Austin, TX
Starts Sunday at 6pm
and Ends Tuesday at Noon
Contact Rolando Rodriguez
at 214.887.5125 or
[email protected]
How Can Ministers Grow in Prayer?
Conquer Your Fear of Intimacy -- Far too many ministers have baggage
from our past, parents or earlier experiences within the church. We protect
ourselves from anyone, even God, who might get too close.
Realize Satan’s Plan -- Satan is very powerful and cunning. He loves to
prevent the minister from praying, often through distractions and preoccupations.
He seeks to discourage us at every turn and is threatened when the minister
and church gets serious about praying.
Stop Talking -- Prayer is conversation, not a sermon where you are constantly
talking! Listen to the voice of God. Pay attention to His movement, His guidance
and His gentle promptings.
Get Rid of the List -- You need a list when your wife sends you to the
grocery store. You don’t need a list when you are in the presence of God! There
is so much more to prayer than the prayer of intercession.
Worship God in Prayer -- R.A. Torrey’s life completely changed when he
learned not only to pray and thank God, but when he began to worship God
– asking nothing of God and seeking nothing from God, just being occupied
with God.
Live in Prayer -- Grandmother taught me, God is in front, back, on my right
and left side. He is below me and above me. Literally, he surrounds me. If so,
I should live as though he is present at all times, eager to have a conversation
with me throughout the day. Prayer is a relationship, not just a scheduled time
on a calendar.
May we all be more intentional in growing and progressing in prayer!
Harrell
MISSION GOLF
CLASSIC TOURNAMENT
Monday, June 15, 2015
SilverHorn Golf Club of Texas
1100 W Bitters Rd, San Antonio, TX 78216
Registration
12:30 pm
Tee Time 1:30 pm
$150 for each player and/or $600 for a team of four
$150 for each hole/green sponsor
Youth Ministry of United By Grace Baptist Church
Fundraiser for Summer 2015
mission trip to Antigua, Guatemala.
Seeking players and sponsors
All proceeds will benefit the
Guatemala mission trip.
For more information, call Nelson
Herrera at (210)287-8121 or
Felix Rodriguez Jr. (210)240-0725.
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NE WSFROM THE CHURCHES
Please call 210.525.9954 when your ad needs to be removed.
AVAILABLE: an assortment of musical programs
for church choirs. Call 210.658.0525.
BRAILLE BAPTIST HYMNAL, 1991 edition to give
to a church that can use. Contact 210.455.8112.
CIBOLO VALLEY BC has a pulpit and prayer
kneeler to donate to a church in need. Contact
Jon-Gabriel Wilson at 210.658.0525.
CRESTVIEW BC is searching for a part-time
Director of Student Ministries. Contact Jim Palmer
at [email protected] or Crestview Baptist
Church 8101 Eaglecrest, San Antonio, TX 78239.
DELLVIEW BC is seeking a Mother’s Day Out
(MDO) teacher/caregiver for 2015 Spring Semester
(Jan-May). Contact Lucy Herrera at 210.344.6273.
FAMILY CHRISTIAN CHURCH needs a 12-15
passenger van to transport members to church.
Contact Domingo Sixtos @210.202.8624 or
[email protected].
FBC SCHERTZ PRESCHOOL is seeking a
strong Christian with a passion for early childhood
education in their Preschool. Full-time, year round.
Call 210.658.3251 for application and information.
FBC UNIVERSAL CITY has an opening for an
experienced fulltime bookkeeper, knowledgeable
with the Shelby accounting software. Application
packets are available in the church office and a
resume is required. For information, contact Barry
Beard, at 210-658-6394 or [email protected].
IGLESIA BAUTISTA NUEVO AMANECER needs
a 12-15 passenger van to transport members to
church. Contact [email protected].
KINGDOM OUTREACH is seeking a believing
volunteer to lead a multicultural children and/
or youth ministry. Contact Pastor Brown at
210.687.9715.
LOVERA BC is seeking a part-time secretary and
bookkeeper. For information or to send resume
email [email protected] or mail
to Lovera Baptist Church, 333 Lovera Blvd,
San Antonio, TX 78212.
NORTHWEST HILLS is seeking a part-time pianist.
The position pays by event. Go to www.nwhbc.org
for more info.
NORTHWEST HILLS is seeking a paid nursery
worker for Sunday morning & evening. Go to
www.nwhbc.org for more info.
STONEBRIDGE BC needs an experienced
childcare worker. Paid position, background and
drug testing will be conducted. Contact Louise
Mathews at 210.290.1812.
TEMPLO BAUTISTA needs an overhead projector
system to bring its worship services and Bible
studies up to date. Contact Robert Garcia at
210.260.6709.
UNIVERSITY BC has large complete collections of
anthems, musical programs and plays to donate.
Contact Cheryl Jones @ 210.289.6998.
VEN A EL is seeking a Christian nursery worker.
Contact 830.491.4379.
VILLAGE PARKWAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is
seeking a 4th grade teacher for the 2015-16 school
year. Contact Irene Taylor, 210.680.8187 or email
resume to [email protected].
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WOULD YOU LIKE
MINISTRY HELP
THIS SUMMER?
We are expecting a large number of Summer Mission
Groups to bless our city in June and July. These out of
city and out of state church groups come to do mission
work in San Antonio.
If you need help for: painting, minor maintenance,
landscaping, summer block party, VBS, backyard Bible
programs or musical groups contact Fernando Felan at
210.310.9014 or email him at: [email protected].
THE REEL CONFERENCE
Pre-Conference Rally
May 15, 2015 – 7:00 PM
New Beacon Hill Baptist Church
612 Fredericksburg Rd
SAN ANTONIO BAPTIST ASSOCIATION VISION STATEMENT
Be the premier provider of customized leadership
development and resources for churches.
YOUR ASSOCIATIONAL STAFF
Darrell Horn, Director of Missions
Email: [email protected]
ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED
Roland Lopez, Church Planting Consultant
Email: [email protected]
SAN ANTONIO BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
May 2015 — Volume 33, Number 5
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DIRECTOR OF MISSIONS
Dr. Darrell Hor
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ. Eph 1:2
Until He returns, Darrell
As I look forward to the days ahead, there are three
fundamental truths that guide me: the Great Commission and
the two Great Commandments. With all fidelity and strength it
is my desire to join with you in furthering the Kingdom of God,
here in San Antonio and surrounding areas, in the state of Texas,
in the United States, and around the world. Thank you for the
gracious welcome we have received and the opportunity to
work with you in furthering God's Kingdom.
During our 32 years of marriage, God has blessed us with
5 children and by the end of the summer, 6 grandchildren.
For the last 10+ years, I served as the Director of Missions for
San Felipe Association located in southwest Houston. Prior
to that position, Karen and I served as missionaries with the
International Mission Board in Latin America. We are grateful for
God's new assignment in SABA.
It is such a privilege to be here in San Antonio, following
God's leadership in joining His work in and through SABA.
Karen and I want to express our deep appreciation to
all of you, to the search committee, to the staff, and to others
for the extensive hours of prayer and seeking God's direction
for the future of SABA. We are humbled that God has given
us the opportunity to join you in His work. SABA has a great
history of faithful men and women God has used to accomplish
His purposes. We are pleased to become an active part of the
present and future of SABA.
A WORD FROM
PAID
Gail H. Burley, Administrative Assistant/Treasurer
Email: [email protected]
San Antonio, TX
Permit #3061
Steve Payne, Community Ministry Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
Kevin Prather, BSM Director, UTSA BSM
Email: [email protected]
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Harrell Teague, Church Growth Coach & Consultant
Email: [email protected]
Support Staff
Dorothy Hart, Financial Secretary
Email: [email protected]
Dianna M. Morales, Receptionist/Media Library
Email: [email protected]
Pat Ward, Ministry Assistant to Church Growth
Coach & Consultant and Print Shop Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
To have your articles in the JUNE 2015 UPDATE,
we must have your information by MAY 1, 2015.
Contact Pat at [email protected]
or by calling 210.525.9954 to submit your article.