Mission Reports & Opportunities Visit this page often for upcoming opportunities and reports on previous mission events.
Nada Mission Trip & Prayer Retreat July 25-27 Contact Keith Stillwell, Tara Farmer, or Brenda Farmer for more information or to sign-up
Yard Sale Items Needed Beginning Sunday, July 4 we will be collecting items for a yard sale during our Nada Mission Trip. We will accept all types of items (clothes, appliances, household items, etc.) that are in working order, clean, and glently used. You may bring your items to the fellowship hall and place them on the designated tables. Collection ends on Wednesday, July 21. All sorts of items can be used but especially children's clothes, and household items, such as sheets, blanket, towels, and kitchen ware.
Hospitality Items Needed for Children's Mission Trip As a part of the children's Nada mission trip they will be making hospitality kits on behalf Nada Baptist Mission to share with guests at cabins in the area. You can help by bringing to the church office by Wednesday, July 21:
soap(travel size is fine, but any size will work) toothbrushes (individually packaged) toothpaste (travel size) shampoo (travel size) combs.
The Mission
Youth Eastern Kentucky Univeristy Tour with Nada Youth Legend's Baseball Game Hang out with Nada Youth Work Project
Children Prepare Hospitality Kits for Cabins Fun Activity with Nada Children Work at Yard Sale
Adults Yard Sale Home Repair Hang Out in Nada
Missionaries Needed Youth Children Yard Sale Coordinator Yard Sale Workers Home Repair Handymen & Handywomen Youth Leaders Children's Leaders
Tentative Schedule
Sunday, July 25 11:00 am - Depart during worship 12:00 pm - Lunch in Lexington 2:00 pm - Check-In 3:15 pm - Sunday School with Nada 4:00 pm - Worship with Nada & Hang Out 6:00 pm - Supper: Miguel's Pizza or Natural Bridge State Park
Monday, July 26 (Youth) 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast in Cabin 9:00 am -Depart for EKU 10:30 am - Tour EKU with Nada Youth 3:00 pm - Fun in Lexington planned by Nada Youth 7:00 pm - Legends' Baseball Game Late - Back to Nada
Monday, July 26 (Children) 8:30 am - Continental Breakfast in Cabin 10:00 am - Swimming at Natural Bridge 12:00 pm - Lunch at Snack Bar (Natural Bridge) 1:30 pm - Return to Nada 2:00 p.m. - Yard Sale Set-up & Decorate Hospitality Kits for Cabin Guests 5:00 pm - Supper at Mountain Breeze 7:00 - Bible Study and Prayer Time & Fun at the Cabin
Monday, July 26 (Adults) 8:00 am - Continental Breakfast in Cabin 9:00 am - Bible Study & Prayer 10:30 am - Home Repair 12:00 pm - Sack Lunches 1:30 pm - Home Repair 3:00 - Yard Sale Set-Up 5:00 pm - Supper at Mountain Breeze 6:00 -8:00 pm - Yard Sale 8:00 - Yard Sale Clean-Up 9:00 - Devotions
Tuesday, July 27 (All) 9:00 am - Breakfast at the Bed & Breakfast, Sharing Stories 10:30 am - Complete Any Unfinished Jobs/Youth Work Project 12:00 ish - Depart for Danville
Training Sundays, June 20, 9:45 a.m. in the Youth Room Led by Melissa Rolph
Organizational Meeting Wednesday, June 23, 7:00 p.m. in the Library
We need all adults, youth, and children who plan to participate in the Nada Mission trip to attend this meeting. We will arrange housing, decided on what mission projects we will be able to do based on who is going, and share other important information.
Mission Trip July 25-27 This mission trip will offer a variety of things to do for various types of skills.
LABC Summer Mission Trip Extreme Build 2010 McCreary County June 11-19, 2010
LABC Mission Trip: Tuesday, June 15 - Saturday, June 19
Registration Fee: $75 per person (includes meals, t-shirt, materials; scholarships available Housing Costs: To Be Arranged Register by Wednesday, April 28 (call the church office- 236-3565)
Extreme Build Kick-Off Kentucky Winds Concert, Cookout, and Registration Friday, June 11, 6:00 p.m. Sand Hill Camp, Whitley city
The Wilson Family KBF is pleased to announce that Kristi Wilson will be the recipient of the fifth Extreme Build home built in McCreary County. Kristi Wilson is a single mother of two children ages seventeen and two. She works full time, often over fifty hours a week to provide for her children. She has struggled over the years, but has been able to buy her own land and a small mobile home that is rapidly deteriorating. Kristi comes from a large family of six children whose father died at a young age. She knows hardship first-hand and wants to provide a better life for her children. She left a marriage to an alcoholic husband who has no contact with his child and provides no support or assistance. She receives no real support from her second child's father and has made the decision to raise her children on her own, but needs help to provide a safe and decent home for them. As Kristi says, 'My main focus is my kids. I'm doing this for my kids so they can have something they can be proud of!'
LABC WMU Mission Project
The world is coming to Lexington for the World Equestrian Games September 25- October 10. WMU is partnering with AIM to minister to the visitors as they come to Lexington.
WMU has been given a unique opportunity to serve the 1000 grooms who are coming to take care of the horses. These grooms will stay with the horses throughout the games. We are to provide hospitality bags for the grooms. These bags will be distributed by chaplains and other volunteers familiar with the life of the grooms. KY WMU will purchase the bags for the items. You may donate funds to KY WMU to help cover this cost.
In order to have enough items for both the women and the men, we are asking some churches to collect for women and other churches to collect for men.
Lexington Avenue Baptist Church will collect items for men. Items should be full-size. You may bring your items to the church office.
Visit neighbors who live across the street from the church. Deliver loaves of bread and audio New Testaments and Easter bags for children (prepared by GAs)
Everyone bring two or more loaves of bread for our neighbors (preferably home baked but could bring unsliced loaves from Burke's or other bakery).
What Do You Know About Your Neighbor? Come Learn about "Asset-Mapping" and how it Exposes and Promotes the Many Resources of Your Community
A Kentucky Baptist Fellowship Mountain Hope Conference
Friday, March 12
Dinner: 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Workshop: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church, Winchester, Kentucky
With Ben Newell Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Field Personnel, Together for Hope, Helena, Arkansas Ministry includes community gardens that teach about and provide nutrition, a traveling literacy bus ministry called Stories on Wheels, several economic development projects, and a significant ministry with children and teenagers at the local community center.
For all friends of Mountain Hope in Nada, Owsley County, and McCreary County and for all who are interested in Community Development in Your Own Local Community
Call the church office for registration or questions.
The editors of d365.org have written devotions to offer readers a space from which to pray for the situation in Haiti. Ken Medema offers a musical response. d365 devotions
Share the link. Join the prayers.
d365.org is a free online resource produced by Passport Inc. in partnership with The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, The Presbyterian Church U.S. A., and the Episcopal Church.
The Lexington Avenue Baptist Church Missions Leadership Team will be meeting soon to consider what else we might be able to do in response to the crisis in Haiti.
NADA MISSION TRIP Sunday, July 26 through Wednesday, July 29
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 7:00 p.m. Katie Roberts will be reporting on her mission experiences.
Kay Floyd Memorial Project
Kay Floyd was a local educator and a faithful member of Lexington Avenue Baptist Church. She passed away in 2006 after a long and difficult battle with cancer. In her memory, the Mary Martha Sunday School Class, assisted by the GA's, is once again sponsoring a project to honor Kay and her legacy as a devoted educator and an advocate for children. The Kay Floyd Memorial Project will supply the local chapter of Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Families First and the LABC Preschool with needed supplies. (These organizations service both Danville and Boyle County students.) Church members are asked to donate typical school supplies: pencils, markers, scissors, construction paper, backpacks, etc. A collection box has been placed in the hallway next to the church office. Of course, if you prefer, you may make a monetary donation in lieu of purchasing items. The GA's will be collecting donations for this project at the doors of the sanctuary at the conclusion of the worship service on August 2. Please be sure to designate 'Kay Floyd Memorial Project' on any donations that are mailed to the church office. This drive will conclude on August 10. Thanks for your support of local children in memory of Kay.
Nada Mission Trip 2009
NADA MISSION TRIP Sunday, July 26 through Wednesday, July 29 WORKERS, PAINTERS, LEADERS STILL NEEDED! (Call the church office to sign up) More information for Adult Work Crewhere
More information medical release for LABC Youthhere
More information and medical release for Nada Youthhere
Youth 1. Youth Skills Class: Monday night 2. Joint Mission Trip/Fun Trip to Louisville (July 26-29): Nada and LABC youth will spend one night and two days in Louisville doing inner city mission work and going to Kentucky Kingdom. Need: Youth, Chaperones, Organizers
Work Project 1. Repair 2. Painting 3. Special Music in Worship Need: Painters, Persons with home repair skills, others to work, someone with musical skills to provide special music
Relationship Building The most important thing we do Need: People who can be friends
Schedule
Sunday, July 26 Depart from church after worship Sunday School and worship with Nada Baptist Mission Miguel's Pizza
Monday, July 27 Adults and youth work project: Floor Repair and Painting for two elderly couples Red River Gorge visit Youth Bible study
Tuesday, July 28 Adult work crew finish floor repair and painting LABC and Nada youth and chaperones to Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville Adult work crew returns to Danville
Wednesday, July 29 LABC and Nada youth: Homeless ministry in inner city Louisville Visit with Karen Refugees Return to Danville and Nada
WOM is collecting food for the Salvation Army through the month of July. Boxes have been placed in the hallway by the church office and in the fellowship hall.
Haiti Fund-Raiser Luncheon
Haiti Fund-Raiser Luncheon Sunday, June 7, 2009 12 Noon, LABC fellowship hall
Join us for this spaghetti lunch immediately following worship service on June 7th. All proceeds will go towards building two houses in Haiti that will cost $1,400.00 each. Marian Gibson will be going on this mission trip again this summer with team leader, Eddie Arnold. The mission trip dates are July 6-14. For more information see Marian Gibson.
The Karen (kah REHN)
A Karen Choir from Louisville sang for us Sunday morning, May 3. You may be interested in learning more about them and their visit with us. Trina Elliott, Girls in Action leader explains: "The G.A.'s, R.A.'s, and Mission Friends have been studying the Karen (pronounced kah REHN ) refugees during our Wednesday night lessons. They are from what was originally Burma, currently renamed Myanmar. They have been persecuted and have had to flee to Thailand. Many of them have now been brought to the U.S. and many have settled in Louisville, KY. They attend Crescent Hill Baptist Church. The Karen's have been through so much and are very dedicated Christians, mostly Baptist." Steve Clark and Annette Ellard are Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) missionaries to the Karen and videographers. When you give you offerings to the church, a portion goes to support CBF missions, including Steve and Annette and their work with the Karen.
For more information on this interesting story and videos by Steve and Annette:
Lets build a house for Paula and Travis in McCreary County! We will join together with Paula's family to build a house in just over a week. Won't you be apart of this opportunity to "Build Up Hope"? Register by April 15th. For more information and registration click on the KBF website.
Christmas Missions Lexington Avenue participated in many mission activities throughout the 2008 Christmas Season. Among these activities were bell ringing and assisting with toy distribution for The Salvation Army. LABC Youth prepare Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets annually for The Salvation Army as well as providing bellringers on Christmas Eve Day.
Christmas Gifts From LABC Salvation Army Stockings: 181 Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child Stockings: 119
GORGEous Gals Earring Sale A women's group at the Nada Baptist Mission has begun a micro-enterprise project that will help the women support their families, named "GORGEous Gals" after the nearby Red River Gorge. The GORGEous Gals are creating attractive and affordable earrings. To help support this worthy project and to help you with you Christmas shopping we are having an earring sale. For more information visit the Mountain Hope website.
Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:00am - 12:15pm (Missions Room across from Fellowship Hall)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:00pm - 7:45pm (Missions Room)
Mon. - Wed., November 16-19, 2008 9:00am - 4:00pm (In the church office)
The young GA's mission project is to bring life-giving water to an entire village in Zambia.
Zambia is one of Africa's poorest countries. Two-thirds of its 10.4 million people live below the national poverty line. Eight percent live on less than one dollar a day.
The LABC Girls' In Action call on us in the name of the one who is the "Living Water" (John 4:14) to help them raise $2,000 for a borehole or shallow well. They have reached half of their goal so far. Will you help us meet our goal to fund one well that will provide clean water to families who have none?
Designate you gift to "Water for Zambia". Donation envelopes are available in the vestebule. You may place them in the offering plate or turn in to the church office.
Lexington Avenue Baptist Church | 339 W.
Lexington Avenue | Danville, KY 40422 | (859)
236-3565
LABC Summer Mission Trip
fifty hours a week to provide for her children. She has struggled over the years, but has been able to buy her own land and a small mobile home that is rapidly deteriorating. Kristi comes from a large family of six children whose father died at a young age. She knows hardship first-hand and wants to provide a better life for her children. She left a marriage to an alcoholic husband who has no contact with his child and provides no support or assistance. She receives no real support from her second child's father and has made the decision to raise her children on her own, but needs help to provide a safe and decent home for them. As Kristi says, 'My main focus is my kids. I'm doing this for my kids so they can have something they can be proud of!'
Friday, March 12
