The key leader conference held every year in the various Baptist associations across the state offers a time of recognition of churches that are stepping out in their giving efforts.
And while the conference is old hat, the Tennessee River Association had a new focus at its recent conference- coupling stewardship and enlightenment.
Ben Chandler, Tennessee River’s director of missions, said the “Associational Stewardship and Key Leader Awards Banquet” on Aug. 14 at Center Point Baptist Church near Scottsboro offered a time of recognition for all 46 churches.
John MacLaren, director of the office of Cooperative Program/stewardship development at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions, spoke at the banquet. MacLaren thanked the churches for their contributions to the Cooperative Program. He also explained the accomplishments realized at home and abroad from this fiving. He recognized the top five churches in three categories: total gifts to the Cooperative Program, percentage giving and gifts per resident member.
Instead of holding workshops for the various ministries, display tables with ministry leaders working them afforded participants the opportunity to ask questions, purchase resources and receive free materials.
The purpose of the event was to reintroduce participants to the work of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Alabama Baptist State Convention and the resources available to help churches grow.
Chandler believes this change in focus for the conference helped “launch Tennessee River Baptists into a new era of doing missions” and created a “time of revival and renewal of the partnership between association and churches.
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