Just visited today with Andy Haynes, Director of Collegiate Leadershp for the Baptist Convention of New England. He mentioned that there are several opportunities for current college and seminary students and recent graduates as well as adults for being on misson on our college campuses in New England.
The need is great. . . ."With more than 250 accredited colleges and universities, New England is America's educational capital. The quality of education in New England attracts the best and brightest students and scholars from around the world. The spiritual climate, on the other hand, is a challenge with one of the lowest populations of born-again Christians in the country.". . .quote from "New England Students" brochure
There are openings for Mission Service Corps missionaries, semester missionaries, and summer missionaries who share the vision of seeing a generation of New England college students passionate for Christ and His Church.
If you or someone you know have an interest in exploring these opportunities, please learn more specifics at http://www.answerthecall.net/ or contact Andy Haynes at ahaynes@bcne.net. (508)393-6013 Ext. 233.
SBJ
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Finally! A report on our New England Connections 2010!
Hello to all of you!
It's been quite a long time since we have communicated with you via "Ben & Sheri's New England Connections"! Apologies are in order!!! Somehow it's very difficult for us to get around to composing and publishing a regular, detailed, comprehensive, periodic communique to keep you updated on our activities as Southern Baptist Mission Service Corps missionaries serving in New England. As most of you know, this is our fourth year to travel to the northeast US to work as Mission Mobilizers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and eastern Connecticut. Our pattern has been to spend six months (mid-April to mid-October) in New England and the rest of the year back in our home state of Texas. In both locations, we work primarily with churches, learning of needs and resources and determining ways to connect the two.
Knowing full well how important it is to communicate regularly with you, our wonderful friends and family, we've decided that we could be much more successful at that task if we provide more frequent, shorter updates via this blog rather than laboring to fashion the longer, comprehensive version! So---we trust that will be more palatable for you as well!
Just so that we can do a much abbreviated "catch-up summary" of our past six months in New England, here are a few brief bullet points detailing what we've been up to in 2010:
* Helped in the Northborough Incident Response Center for New England
Disaster Relief after March floods affected thousands of homes
* Hosted "discovery team" from FBC Marshall, TX, at The Church
at Westerly, Rhode Island
* Helped in various ways with "new" Massachusetts Baptist
Associaton missions house
* Taught Inductive Bible Study methods in Rhode Island and Connecticut
* Worked closely with two Texas couples to produce a video to encourage
mature Christians to consider serving as church strengtheners
* Helped to pioneer Family Portrait Days as outreach events at four
churches
* Assisted FBC Longview mission team with VBS & discipleship training in
Haitian congregation in Providence & Hispanic house church in
Johnston, RI
That's a VERY brief wrap-up of the highlights of last six months! Now---we'll try to be much more frequent and concise in the future!
We do want you all to know how much we appreciate and count on your participation and your prayers. When you lift us up to the Lord, your role is equally important or more so as ours here "on the ground." The most inportant thing we all do is PRAY. . . . .
More to come later. . . .promise!
Ben and Sherilyn Johnston
It's been quite a long time since we have communicated with you via "Ben & Sheri's New England Connections"! Apologies are in order!!! Somehow it's very difficult for us to get around to composing and publishing a regular, detailed, comprehensive, periodic communique to keep you updated on our activities as Southern Baptist Mission Service Corps missionaries serving in New England. As most of you know, this is our fourth year to travel to the northeast US to work as Mission Mobilizers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and eastern Connecticut. Our pattern has been to spend six months (mid-April to mid-October) in New England and the rest of the year back in our home state of Texas. In both locations, we work primarily with churches, learning of needs and resources and determining ways to connect the two.
Knowing full well how important it is to communicate regularly with you, our wonderful friends and family, we've decided that we could be much more successful at that task if we provide more frequent, shorter updates via this blog rather than laboring to fashion the longer, comprehensive version! So---we trust that will be more palatable for you as well!
Just so that we can do a much abbreviated "catch-up summary" of our past six months in New England, here are a few brief bullet points detailing what we've been up to in 2010:
* Helped in the Northborough Incident Response Center for New England
Disaster Relief after March floods affected thousands of homes
* Hosted "discovery team" from FBC Marshall, TX, at The Church
at Westerly, Rhode Island
* Helped in various ways with "new" Massachusetts Baptist
Associaton missions house
* Taught Inductive Bible Study methods in Rhode Island and Connecticut
* Worked closely with two Texas couples to produce a video to encourage
mature Christians to consider serving as church strengtheners
* Helped to pioneer Family Portrait Days as outreach events at four
churches
* Assisted FBC Longview mission team with VBS & discipleship training in
Haitian congregation in Providence & Hispanic house church in
Johnston, RI
That's a VERY brief wrap-up of the highlights of last six months! Now---we'll try to be much more frequent and concise in the future!
We do want you all to know how much we appreciate and count on your participation and your prayers. When you lift us up to the Lord, your role is equally important or more so as ours here "on the ground." The most inportant thing we all do is PRAY. . . . .
More to come later. . . .promise!
Ben and Sherilyn Johnston
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