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UBC Missions Team’s Annual Retreat
UBC Missions Team Annual Retreat
Retreat: a period of group withdrawal for prayer, meditation, study.
The UBC Missions Team is inviting you to retreat from the daily hustle and bustle and come join us on Saturday November 5, 2011 to hear how God is using His people to make His glory known around the world. We will pray for local serving, short term missions and our missionaries. We will meditate on Acts:1:8 and Matt 28. We will study, through hearing about what God is doing here and abroad.
The day: Sign in begins at 8 a.m. followed by Worship at 8:30
With your group (and a passport) you will travel to 3 ‘destinations’ : Africa, Appalachia, and Arizona, to hear the trip reports from 2011 short term mission trips. The 4th stop is a tour of UBC Local Outreaches, did you know there are serving opportunities from Union Bridge to Westminster, to Baltimore and Appalachia? The Missions Team takes a Serve Local, Go Global approach to world missions believing that sharing Christ begins at home, our communities and reaching the nations.
Pastor Steve will serve children of attendees grades 1-5 with a children’s missions program.
After everyone has completed their missions tour everyone will gather back in the multi-purpose room for closing statements, then lunch will be served.
It’s all FREE! Sign up at the kiosk on Sunday!
The title of this year’s Retreat is: Passport to Missions-Where is God Sending You?
Carrera Prayer Requests~thank you for praying!
Pray for Missionaries and Missions Trips.
Happy Thanksgiving~
From the UBC Missions Team. We are so very thankful for the encouragement you give our missionaries. When you connect with and build relationships with our missionaries, you increase your Biblical worldview, but you also grow your family, because caring for and praying for and encouraging our missionaries, they become like part of your family. Each UBC Missions Team supported missionary, (though they serve in many different ways), serve for one purpose and one purpose only. So that the people in the villages and communities where they serve might one day know Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. Each one has stories and burdens for the physical needs of the people in their part of the world, some are extreme and devastating, but it is the eternal suffering that breaks the heart of our God and our missionaries.
It takes our Church family to keep Local Missions happening at UBC. Your prayers, donations and your time in serving is vital for reaching our local communities with the gospel of Christ Jesus. Thank you.
We are thankful that you take the time to read through the blog posts and check out these pages to keep updated on our missionary news, and our Local Missions opportunities.
I could not end this note without thanking each and every one of my Missions Team members. I am privileged to serve alongside each of these brothers and sisters in the many areas of missions, local and foreign. They each serve tirelessly and give sacrificially all year-long. There is no slow season for meeting the needs of others and each one knows that it will only be in heaven alone where we will no longer be able to give Christ to others. To them I am truly grateful.
Love in Christ, Pastor Jay
We are privileged to announce the Missions Team Short Term Missions Trips for 2011: UBC Missions Team Announces 2011 Short Term Trips
The Missions Team focus for Short Term Missions at UBC is to plan trips and prepare teams to go support and encourage our missionaries wherever they are serving.
Location: Kenya, Africa-Missionary
People: unreached peoples of N E Kenya
Team: Pastor Tim Webster and Pastor Jay Bubel
Dates: April 3-14, 2011
Purpose-Pastor Training-3-day seminar
Location: Sells, AZ-Missionary Sherrie Dodson
People: Native American Reservation of the Tohono O ‘odham Nation
Team: Denise Velte, Sheila Ramsey and Dana Weaver
Dates: April 4-11, 2011
Purpose: Lead ladies retreat for women of 5 local churches and 2 after school programs for children.
Location: Jolo, WV/Grundy VA-Missionary Pastors Rose, May and Cooper
People: local communities
*Team: 1) Youth/Youth Leader
Dates: TBD
*Team: 2) Open to individuals and families
Dates: TBD
Purpose: Support and encourage the pastors, helping in the community through building projects, nursing home and neighborhood home visits.
Location: New Zealand-Missionary Scott Brown
People: Jewish people
Team: Doug Groft, Dennis Unglesbee
*Room for 1-2 more people ages 21 and older willing to spend much time preparing and training in Jewish evangelism.
Dates: Oct 2011 for 2+weeks
Purpose: campground upkeep and relationship building with the Brown family.
*All Trips-1)there will be team number limits, 2) mandatory meetings and 3) local missions participation are required prior to trip departure-Deadline for sign-up with commitment deposits for both Appalachia and NZ trips-no later than- April 3, 2011.
- For more information on these trips, contact Pastor Jay Bubel-bubels@comcast.net
- Support these trips with your finances: Make your check out to UBC-write Missions 2011 on the memo line.
November 6th~UBC Missions Retreat
Doors at Uniontown Bible Church Open at 8 a.m.
Come early and meet the speakers, check out the Local Missions tables, have a cup of coffee or orange juice, a pastry and enjoy some fellowship. Worship begins at 9.
*Hear reports from the Kenyan Mission field
*Bob Kimmel is UBC’s newest missionary-Chaplain Bob of the Carroll County Detention Center serves with the Good News Jail and Prison Ministry.
*Pastor Steve May-pastors a church in the Appalachia region of Grundy, VA. This is Pastor Steve and his wife Donna’s first visit to UBC.
*Hear testimonies from UBC 2010 Youth and August Appalachia Trips
*2011 UBC Missions Team Mission Trips announced!
Get involved in the life of a UBC Missionary-You Will Never Be the Same…click on the Missionaries tab to get their latest update.
Admission-Lunch and refreshments are free—information learned at this retreat could cost you…time in your lazy boy…this is a call to ACTION-
Acts 1:8- ”But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
At Uniontown Bible Church there is a place for everyone in missions, serving locally and maybe one day going out cross-culturally. Whatever your gifts, no matter your age, there is a mission for you-click the Local Missions tab…find your Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria…
Sunday October 31st is the LAST day to sign up…
World’s 3rd Largest Mission Field – America.
“America used to send out missionaries, now it’s the third-largest mission field itself. People from Africa are coming to help us. What does that say?”
“America is a nation in great spiritual decline evidenced by current statistics which show that only 17 percent of Americans attend church on any given Sunday and that America is the third largest mission field in the world.”
“In 2001 extremist enemies assaulted America with the terrorists attacks of 9/11. These acts of aggression signaled a physical wake up call for our nation as we entered the new millennium. Our lives were changed forever—millions of Americans fell to their knees in prayer.”
“For the last 40 plus years our nation has increasingly drifted lazily toward the falls of godless postmodern values, rejecting God’s standards in favor of a reinterpreted anything goes morality. Soon we will reach the precipice of no return unless we act quickly,” said John Franklin, member of the Cry Out America. On one level the events of 9/11 awakened us to the threat of radical Islamic fundamentalism, but the greater threat confronting us is our departure from God.”
“….and cry out to the Lord.” Joel 1:14
Withdrawal for Prayer and Study and Meditation…
…Retreat!
Saturday November 6, 8 a.m. at UBC-the Missions Team is inviting you to our Missions Retreat~Proclaim Christ!
Withdrawl from the world-Pray for missions and missionaries-Study-learn what God is doing in missions in Union Bridge, Westminster, Appalachia, Arizona, and Kenya-Meditate-what will you do next? How will you respond to the call to Go and Tell.
Acts 1:8- ”But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Sign up Sunday mornings-Uniontown Bible Church
Uniontown Bible Church SERVES!
Acts 1:8 ”But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
By the Spirit’s power the church will fulfill its mandate of preaching the gospel to the ends of the earth.
Opportunities to serve include Union Bridge, Westminster, Baltimore and Appalachia. Serve Local and Go Global-build a relationship with a UBC Missionary and then go be a part of how God is using them in other parts of the world! Click on the Local page for Local Mission Opportunities at UBC!
Local Missions at Uniontown Bible Church are for everyone. The Missions Team is committed to providing opportunities for the body of Christ to become active in sharing their faith-according to Philemon 6 and to take the instructions Christ gave the disciples in Acts 1- that with the power of the Holy Spirit we are to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
UBC Missions Retreat
God’s Word–Acts 1:8 we are called by God to be His witnesses Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.~Bob Kimmel
Missions at UBC-we serve in Union Bridge, Westminster, Baltimore, Appalachia and to the ends of the earth.~Jay Bubel
We Go Global-God has blessed UBC with missionaries to pray for and support~we have the privilege of sending teams from UBC who partner with a missionary on their mission field to encourage them and grow our Biblical world-view.~Dennis Unglesbee
Third World Culture in the United States…life in the Appalachia region of Jolo WV.~Rev. Charles Rose
Testimony of God’s witnesses Doug and Kelly Blacksten -Jeff and Michele Jones share their mission to Ethiopia and Faith Comes by Hearing
God’s Word says-GO! Jerry and Lillie Rebert answered the call-hear how their journey began~how we can better serve our missionaries
Where: 321 Clear Ridge Rd. Living Waters Presbyterian Church (UBC’s old campus)
When: May 1, 2010 Doors Open at 8a.m.-Worship 8:30a.m.-ending 3:00p.m. (Snacks and Lunch provided)
Who Should Attend: YOU! Sign up at the Missions Table Sunday mornings, or contact Jay 410-259-1787 or Dennis 410-857-0542
Retreat: a period of group withdrawal for prayer, meditation and study
Making Sense of What We Don’t Understand
| Making Sense of What We Don’t Understand Devotional thought from the messages of Adrian Rogers |
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| BIBLE MEDITATION: Psalm 139:23 – “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts.”DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT: A little boy had a jigsaw puzzle that had a map of the world on one side and a picture of a man on the other. His mother asked him to try to work it, and before long he had put the puzzle together. The mother was surprised to find that the little fellow knew so much about geography. “How on earth did you do that?” she asked. “Oh,” he said, “I worked the other side first. When I got the man right, the world was right.” How true that is! We will never fix this world until we get the man right — the Man Jesus Christ, that is. ACTION POINT: Are things in your world confusing you these days? Turn to Jesus and trust Him to make sense of what you don’t understand. |
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