We Exist to

Serve, Strengthen and Start Churches

 Thanks for all of your continuing prayers for Brother Tim and Denice's son, Matt Green.

For updates Brother Tim is posting on Facebook or you can call the office.

Prayer Time every Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. at SCBAOC

D E F I N E

March 31, 2012

Join us for DEFINE, a one-day event with relevant topics and honest small group conversations just for girls in grades 6-12.

5. Main sessions with Jami Smith
5. Break-out sessions on beauty, faith, sexuality, leadership and more
5. Plus worship, entertainment and iPLAY.
5. How to Start Girls Ministry breakout for Women

For more information, you can see below or download this flyer:

http://southcanadian.net/userFiles/1012/define_weekend_promotional_flyer.pdf

To register online, click on this link:

http://www.eventbrite.com/org/1843119149

To mail in your registration, download this form and mail in with your check made out to "South Canadian Baptist Association" or "SCBA":

http://southcanadian.net/userFiles/1012/define_registration_from.pdf

THE truth MAKEOVER

Are you the girl always trying to live up to the looks of magazine covers and TV shows?

Fashion trends and fad diets need a serious makeover.

Our Creator tells us how to truly….

DEFINE Beautiful.

Are you the girl who wonders if she’s good enough in school and relationships?

Cliques and popularity contests are missing the point.

It’s time to be who God made you to be and…

DEFINE Real.

Are you the girl who wants to know what she really believes? And live like it matters?

Faith and truth make a lasting foundation for life.

In the fullness of Christ you will discover how to…

DEFINE Faith.

Canadian Valley Cowboy Church

Canadian Valley Cowboy Church is a Dream in the hearts of a group of people in the Churches of South Canadian Baptist Association of Churches (http://www.southcanadian.net).

First Interest/Core/Prayer meeting is scheduled for February 9, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Holdenville in the Fellowship Hall. This meeting is for those who are interested in helping with or being a part of the Cowboy Church.

This event will feature a catered meal which will be free to attenders but registration is needed by Feb 2nd so we can inform the caterers (Thanks).  Call 405-382-5463 or email scbadom@yahoo.com to register.

Additionally, another Interest/Core/Prayer meeting is scheduled for February 23, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in Holdenville (location pending).

The Kickoff event for the Canadian Valley Cowboy Church will be a Ranch Rodeo Revival scheduled (tentatively) for May 5, 2012 near Holdenville (location pending).

First Church Service/Meeting of the Canadian Valley Cowboy Church is scheduled (tentatively) for May 3, 2012 (location pending).  The Church will meet weekly thereafter. If you would like to make a secure donation to this effort, there is a donation button on the top right of this website.  All donations are tax deductible.

For more information, please contact:

Kevin Duck, Pastor, Vamoosa Baptist Church and Strengthening Team Leader,  South Canadian Baptist Association of Churches (405.584.0671)

Jay Badry, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Wewoka and Church Planting Team Leader, South Canadian Baptist Association of Churches (405.257.5438)

Tim Green, Director of Missions, South Canadian Baptist Association of Churches (405.382.5463)

Here are some ways you can join us:

Intentional Prayer

Sponsorships

Financial Support

Sending "Missionaries"

Pride and Fear

It’s paradoxical, this relationship between fear and pride. On the surface, they look very different. Puffed up over against cringing. Head up compared with head down.

The truth is that they are closely related. First of all, as I noted a couple of days ago, they are both the expressions of a self-centered heart. Sometimes the ego promotes itself while at other times it protects itself. Self is still in charge.

Another way they are connected is that they feed each other. How so? The person who acts out of pride drives others away and themselves into a self-imposed isolation. That in turn becomes a breeding ground for insecurity and fear. And then that fear becomes resentful toward others and wants to conquer them. I know. Pretty deep stuff.

Getting unstuck always involves other people, their feedback and their support. Yet pride and fear always separate. They separate us from one another: we’ve already said that.

They also separate us from ourselves in a variety of ways, one of which is the pressure to be something we’re really not. Yet that isn’t what necessarily keeps us stuck. Instead, our self separation keeps us from knowing ourselves and seeing ourselves clearly. And so the things from which we keep trying to dislodge ourselves continue to hold us. Trying to fix ourselves without a clear self understanding is like trying to repair a refrigerator with a schematic of a calculator.

Fear ignores reality. Pride defies it. Together they rob us of the one crucial prerequisite to change: pain. Until we come to believe that the pain and danger of staying the same is greater than the pain and danger of changing, we’ll stay right where we are.

Right there beside pride and fear.

Fear keeps us stuck when it says, “This is dangerous. Don’t try it. You don’t know what might happen.” Pride keeps us stuck when it says, “Change? There’s nothing wrong with you. If you admit you need to change, you’ll look bad.”

You need to find some new companions...humility and godly confidence.

(reprinted with permission from http://www.brettselby.com)