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MBC Calendar
March
4
- 5:30 - 8:30 pm - Date Night Child Care - Bldg A
March
6
- Communion
March
10
- Girl Time Gathering Building C 6:30-8:30 pm
March
13
- 26 - Payson Schools Spring Break
March
17 - 6:00 pm - Shoot for the Heart "Spring Time is Crappie
Time"- Bldg A
March
18
- 5:30 - 8:30 pm - Date Night Child Care - Bldg A
March
25
- 6:15 am - Men's Breakfast - Bldg A
March
27 Children's Rotations Begin
March
28-
Mexico Mission Trip
April
1 & 2
- Women's Seminar "Going Beyond" - Bldg A
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Children's Rotation Schedule
Coming Soon!
Thank you
Mountain Bible for answering the call! We asked for 12
teachers, we received 12 teachers! We asked for 10 Shepherds,
we received 10 Shepherds. We asked for decorating teams, we
received our decorating teams! We asked for 10 computers, we
received 10 new computers! Thank you!!!!!!!!
We are excited
about starting our New Rotation on March 27th.
Please continue to pray. We have a lot to do.
Mark 10:14 "... Let
the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the
Kingdom of God belongs to such as these."
Decorating Teams:
Don & Barb Beatty
Barbara Bennett
Holly Ryan
Jayme Goldman
Jerry Diehl
Cynthia Hudson
Peggy Mayer
Shepherd Subs:
Janice Kirsch
Jen Barker
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Penny's Tax
Thought as April 15th Approaches
Whose picture is under the "IN GOD WE
TRUST"?
What's his nickname?
"Hello, is this Father O'Malley?"
"It
is."
"This
is the IRS calling. Can you help us?"
"I
can."
"Do
you know a Ted Houlihan?"
"I
do."
"Is
he a member of your congregation?"
"He
is."
"Did
he donate $10,000 to the church?"
"He
will."
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YSAP Fridays
6:30
The Text went out to 30+ Young Single Adults of Payson this last
week. WHAT? came back 20+ responses. The hook was
in the water and got the desired response...no it wasn't another Bass
fishing tournament at Roosevelt. (Congradulations by the way
goes out to our Children's Pastor Mark Kile who recently finished 3rd
out of 137 fishermen in the recent FLW tournament.)
YSAP
is meeting on Friday Nights 6:30 pm. On the first and third
Fridays we are meeting at Calvary Chapel Kitchen for Bible
Study. On the 2nd and fourth Fridays we are meeting at Scoops
for Liquid Refreshments and Bible Study in their back room.
Some Friday nights the back room at Scoops will be booked for
birthday parties or other events like last Friday, but that just
means we will do something out front or go somewhere from there!
No,
Jana and I do not consider ourselves as Young or Single, but we are
happy to host those of you from Payson who are. Our two YSAP
live elsewhere so if you are a YSAP's and still live in Payson
come join us this week at Calvary or next week at Scoops!
Please
Pray with us for the many Young Single Adults of Payson that are
spread all over this country going to school or beginning careers, we
desire to minister to them as well through a new Newsletter going out
next week!
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Jovial Jokes from Jana
This is in honor of my
friend, Pastor Manuel Martinez; English is his second language.
When you write copy, you own the right of copyright to
the copy you write, if the copy is right. If, however, your copy
falls over, you must right your copy. If you write religious
services, you write rite, and own the right of copyright to the rite
you write.
Conservatives write Right copy, and own the right of
copyright, to the Right copy they write. A right-wing cleric would
write Right rite, and owns the right of copyright to the Right rite
he has the right to write. His editor has the job of making the Right
rite copy right before the copyright can be right.
Should Reverend Jim Wright decide to write Right rite,
then Wright would write right rite, to which Wright has the right of
copyright. Duplicating his rite would be to copy Wright's Right rite,
and violate copyright, to which Wright would have the right to right.
Right?
Brought to you by Mikey's Funnies
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Next dinner time as you are thanking Him for your food ask Him if
there is a neighbor you have that you could bring to the Community
Dinner next Monday Night? Don't just tell them about it, bring
them!
Who
knows you might start a neighborhood table at our Community Dinner.
5-6:30
pm
In
Him and Because of His Love
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Dear Joel,
Hope you survived the recent beautiful snow we have
had here in Rim Country! God's air filter just brings us more
and more beautiful sunrises and sunsets in Ptown!
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FLESHING OUT THE MBC VISION
Our vision
at MBC is quite simple: KNOW, GROW and GO. Let's
clarify these three key tenants a bit further. KNOW involves
getting to know God better
through prayer, worship and a growing interaction with His Word at
various levels. Thus, our ministry presently offers numerous
outlets to help facilitate this effort including Bible studies for
all ages, Concerts of Prayer and special topical seminars on Bible
themes.
 GROW
involves deepening relationships with God and others - particularly
through the enhancement of ministry-wide fellowship opportunities
among our family members. Connection Groups and body-wide
meals (potlucks) are two primary means of enhancing and deepening
fellowship within our church body.
GO
specifically involves getting  the message of the gospel of
Christ to the unchurched in our community. It is important to
clarify that unchurched can also include the 'no longer'
churched. Though the 'GO' aspect of our vision primary
involves the unsaved non-churched, we are also concerned about
presently non-churched Christians who need a place to call their
spiritual home as well. Because the GO part of our vision is
typically the easiest to ignore, our leadership has planned several
all-church outreach efforts for 2011. The first we are
calling Celebrate Friends Sunday. This event will take
place on Palm Sunday, April 17th. Our Key Leaders
ministry-wide are already planning toward this being a special and
spiritually effective GO effort here at Mountain Bible. Your
role, at this point, is quite simple. We ask you to begin
praying and thinking about whom you believe God would have you
invite to this special Sunday. According to recent surveys,
nearly seventy percent of non-churched people say they have never
been invited to church, and nearly the same percentage say they
would likely attend if asked. Knowing that God's will for us
is to GO (Matt. 28:19 -20; Mark 16:15), we believe if we start
praying, thinking and planning right now toward this event, He will
honor us with spiritual success.
KNOW, GROW
and GO. This is who God has called us to be. Do you see a
healthy balance of these three key tenants in your present
spiritual walk? For such a balance to exist in our church at
large, these there foundational tenants must first be alive and
growing in each of our lives individually.
Pastor Jim
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Children's Rotation Schedules
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Women's
Ministry
Believe it
or not, SPRING will get here before long. If you're
"thinking Spring" you'll want to join us for the next "Girl Time Gathering"featuring our MBC Girl Time
Gardeners, on Thursday, March 10th at 6:30 p.m.
What grows in this Payson soil? Is it possible
to harvest beautiful flowers and vegetables from your garden
here? What are you sowing in the "garden" of your
life to reap God's best? Join us as we tap into the knowledge
and experience of our Girl Time Gardeners, winners of a Gila County
Fair Blue Ribbon for their entry the past 3 years! Sign-up at
the Women's Ministry Table...just $3 for an evening of fun and
fellowship!
BRING A FRIEND...we're
connecting hearts and lives, one friend at a time!
Ladies, have
you ever wondered "where is God?" when things aren't
going as you had planned? Have you experienced too
many "interruptions" to your plans? Have you
tried to go your own way because it just seems better?
Maybe we've all been there. Here's a suggestion:
Don't miss our WOMEN'S
CONFERENCE "Life Interrupted: Navigating the
Unexpected" Friday &
Saturday, April 1 & 2 with Speaker/Teacher, Priscilla
Shirer; and Worship
Leader, Anthony Evans.
This Simulcast will focus on a specific message from
Priscilla's upcoming book. Using the life of Jonah as a guide,
Priscilla will show us how to respond when God's plans don't match
our own and how to embrace the amazing freedom and fulfillment that
comes from going with God, even when He's going against your grain.
You'll be blessed!
Priscilla's new book, Anthony's CD's, T-shirts and
more will be available for purchase in our conference
bookstore. Dessert will be served Friday p.m. and
refreshments Saturday a.m.
The schedule is: Friday, April 1, 5:45-9 p.m.
and Saturday, April 2, 8 a.m.-noon in Bldg A.
Tickets are $12, available at the Women's Ministry Table or
by calling 472-7800 X140, or emailing womensministry@mountainbible.org.
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Note from Pastor Kraig
 Men's Ministry
The men's breakfast will be on March 25th
at 6:15 in building C. We will have a guest speaker and
a fantastic breakfast.
Kingdom Builders
Two classes 8:45 building A with Bob McQueen, and
10:30 in building C with pastor Kraig come and be part a class on
Sunday mornings.
Put on your calendar
Sunday September 11th at 6:00pm
Mountain Bible will be hosting a simulcast called a Wake-up Call
for God's People. The featured speakers will be Anne Graham
Lotz (Billy Graham's daughter), and Joel Rosenberg an expert on
Bible prophecy. Selah will be doing the music. This
event is sponsored by the Kingdom Builders and I want to personally
invite the entire Church. You may notice the date ten years
since nine-eleven.
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Student Ministries
Well,
another Winter Camp season has come and gone for Student
Ministries, and what a great one it was. This year we attended
three camps and they were all fantastic.
Forty-one of us left in
early January for Jr. High camp in Williams. It proved, as it
always does, to be a great getaway. It's always a joy to see the
"light bulb" go on in a student's life. There's just
something about getting away and a change of venue to help some
kids focus and grow spiritually. I am convinced that the youth in
this town, and actually this nation, face more troubles and
situations in their schools and homes than they are equipped to
deal with. We definitely saw prayers answered for some of these Jr.
High kids that made decisions for deeper relationships with God and
to rebuild their relationships at home with parents and siblings.
This year, I decided to take  some leadership students from
both ministries to a "Leadership Camp". Over a weekend at
the end of January, 15 of us spent time in deep worship, Spiritual
growth and social growth training and studied the Word in an
intimate and personal way. This was a huge success and will
definitely be part of the winter season for years to come. Soon
after the camp started, the Youth Pastors from the other churches
that attended wanted to know what was going on at MBC that our
Leadership Students were so comfortable in sharing their faith,
taking charge, and were giving and loving to everyone around them.
It's definitely God working in their lives, but I would like to
give some credit to their Mountain Bible family that believes in
young people and prays for them continually. Please be in prayer
for the future "Leadership Camps", this is a venue that
will include different students each year as we disciple and train
more of our youth to reach their families at home and their peers
at school.
High School camp in Williams this year was the first winter
camp that I can remember in years that didn't have any snow on the
ground when the 38 of us arrived. Well that changed within 2 hours.
If you remember that weekend, it snowed until Sunday evening. The
"blizzard conditions", forced the High School students to
spend more time indoors, (and that was a good thing). When we
weren't in Chapel or the mess hall, the MBC students were hanging
out like a big family. Their mature and loving attitudes for one
another brought confirmation to the goal of unifying the group as a
single body of students and not allowing the natural tendency for
social clicks to happen. The teaching and worship was powerful and
the MBC students felt challenged and enlightened in their
relationships with God.
Thank you for being so giving
in your prayers and finances for the youth camp program here at
Mountain Bible. You are investing in and changing lives and I
praise God for your involvement!
Questions or comments for
Student Ministries?
Contact me at the MBC office or
mbcstudentministires@live.com
Chris
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