Thank you for visiting the Salt River Baptist Association website!
Here you will find information concerning our association and its ministries. We hope you find your time spent here a blessing. Our association is a warm and loving one, and we want you to feel comfortable and at liberty to call on us for anything you need. Feel free to browse through the various areas of our website and learn about our association.
If you are considering relocating to our area, we would love to direct you to a place of worship.
When you visit one of our churches, you will find:
- A caring congregation that will gladly welcome you
- Preaching/teaching that is centered on the Word of God
- Ministries to meet the spiritual needs of every age
- A corporate outlet for truth-filled and moving praise and worship
May our awesome God bless your day!
Salt River Baptist Association
Mission & Vision Statement
The mission of the Salt River Baptist Association is to encourage the churches towards effectively fulfilling the Great Commission, equipping Christian leaders, and inspiring cooperation among God’s people. In order to accomplish their mission, members of the Association SHALL:
· Bring glory to God by living a life of integrity through Jesus Christ.
· Promote unity through prayer and action.
· Support the work of the Missouri Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist Convention.
· Provide continuing education and discipleship for ministers and other leaders.
· Equip church members in the work of the church in their unique setting.
· Promote communication among the churches and throughout the region.
· Network with churches to share resources, work together on ministry projects, and fellowship together.
· Encourage teamwork among associational leaders.
· Coordinate with churches to start new missions and revitalize struggling churches.
· Strengthen church leaders through training and consultation using current resources and methods.
We are a Family of Churches Serving Together to Grow God’s Kingdom!!!
· The Salt River Baptist Association envisions a day when every person in Pike County and surrounding areas can find a healthy, growing, and dynamic Southern Baptist Church to attend.
· We envision an association where all of our churches are experiencing Kingdom growth, not just transfer growth.
· We envision an association where lives are being transformed daily because of the ministry and discipleship of our member churches, and as a result, our communities are transformed as well.
· We envision an association where new church leaders and church planters are being discovered and trained up in our member churches.
· We envision an association where evangelism and ministry by member churches expands beyond our geographic boarders to the very end of the earth.
Core Values Statement
· Connect [instead of lone rangers]
· Intentional [instead of accidental]
· Servanthood [instead of self]
· Transformation [instead of stagnant]
We are a family of churches serving together to grow God’s Kingdom!
Have you shared Jesus with someone today?
Helping those in need...
Your contributions of funds or canned and non-perishable food items
to the following outreaches would be most appreciated:
Bowling Green Hope Center: Phone: 573-324-6255
Address: 30 North Court, Bowling Green
The Community Food Pantry: Phone: 573-754-2421
Address: 406 South Carolina, Louisiana, MO 63353
Vandalia First Baptist Church Food Pantry: Phone: 573-594-6535 Address: 209 North Main Street, Vandalia MO 63382 Time:1:00 pm to 2:30 pm - 1st Wednesday of every month - Multi-Purpose Building
Thank you for your prayers and support.
Ways to Serve:
· Call a friend or relative to check on them.
· Pay for the person's meal behind you at the drive-thru.
· Donate toys and clothes to children in need.
· Drop off gently used clothing, canned food or blankets to a homeless shelter.
· Bake cookies for a new neighbor on your block.
· Invite your Pastor & Wife out for dinner.
· Go visit the people at the Nursing Homes!
· Take dinner to a family in need.
· Clean out your families vehicle .
· Pick us someone and take to church with you.
· Pay for someone’s groceries at Wal-Mart!
· Make a handmade craft and give to someone who needs encouragement.
· Give a thank you gift card to the people who pick up your trash.
· Take a card to you’re your postmaster.
· Go and visit the shut-ins.
Mailing Address: SRBA, P.O. Box 368, Bowling Green, MO 63334
Office Address:203 East Maple, Curryville, MO 63339
Phone: 573-324-6420 or 573-470-9340
E-mail: srbaal@sbcglobal.net
Please keep all of these events in your prayers!
Wednesday Morning Prayer Meetings– 6:30am– Calvin’s Restaurant Eolia, MO
Celebrate Recovery– Wednesday Nights– 6:00pm- Second Baptist Church
Weekly Community/County-Wide Prayer Gathering– Thursday Mornings– 7:00am- “The Bridge” Coffee Shop - Louisiana, MO
Celebrate Recovery– Thursdays–6:00 pm– First Baptist Church, Louisiana
Men’s Prayer Breakfast– Every last Saturday of the month- 9:00 am– One Way Ministry
Prayer Meeting- January 27th– 6:30pm-Salem Baptist Church
Annual Wild Game Supper- January 31st- 6:00 p.m.– Salem Baptist Church
Sharing God’s Love– A Fellowship Dinner– February 11th– 5:30pm– Resurrection Church
Valentine’s Day Widow & Widower Luncheon– February 14th– 12:00pm– New Hartford Baptist Church
Prayer Meeting– February 24th– 6:30pm-New Hartford Baptist Church
Family Fun Day– March 7th– 11:00-2:00pm– Pike County Christian School
MBC Worship Conference– March 13-14th– Jefferson City, MO
Prayer Meeting- March 31st– 6:30pm- Resurrection Church
SRBA Executive Board Meeting– April 9th– 6:30pm– Second Baptist Church
Community Sunrise Service– April 5th-6:45am– Bowling Green City Park
Prayer Meeting- April 28th–6:30pm- First Baptist, Vandalia
Prayer Meeting- May 26th– 6:30pm– Eolia Baptist Church
Super Summer– June 8th-12th– Hannibal La-Grange University
SBC Annual Meeting– June 9th & 10th– Orlando, FL
PCCS Annual Banquet & Auction– June 13th
Prayer Meeting- June 30th– 6:30pm- Elm Grove Baptist Church
SRBA Executive Board Meeting– July 2nd– 6:30pm– Second Baptist Church
Youth Camp– July 6th-10th
Pike County Fair Ministry– July 28th-August 1st
Prayer Meeting- July 28th– 6:30pm- Grassy Creek Baptist Church
Prayer Meeting- August 25th– 6:30pm- Adiel Baptist Church
Evangelism Events– September 18th-20th– Save the dates
Prayer Meeting- September 29th– 6:30pm- Ramsey Creek Baptist Church
Prayer Meeting- October 27th– 6:30pm- Friendship Baptist Church
Prayer Meeting- November 24th– 6:30pm- Peno Baptist Church
Prayer Meeting- December 29th– 6:30pm- God’s House of Ministry
Partner with Care Portal– www.careportal.org
Pathway Newspaper- The Pathway is provided FREE through the Cooperative Program giving of your local Missouri Southern Baptist Churches. To subscribe to the printed edition, call 800-736-6227 or subscribe online at www.mbcpathway.com
Kids Outdoor Zone– KOZ (Boys: Ages 8-18) KOZ will meet the 2nd Saturday of every month at 8:00 a.m.
NEED Biblical Counseling? – Call Bro. Kevin Ford at 573-470-1736
Free tools for evangelism– www.whosyourone.com– Get your everyday Evangelism Tool!
Please check out our online edition of the newsletter. It’s packed with up coming exciting events. If you have something special coming up at your church and would like it put in the newsletter, please e-mail it to us by the second Saturday of each month.
Church Families- If you have a special event coming up at your church and would like it put in the SRBA newsletter or placed on our website, please forward us a flyer. You can send it by mail, e-mail, or just drop it off at the SRBA office. Please have information to us by the second Monday of each month for the following month’s newsletter.
Free tools for evangelism– www.whosyourone.com– Get your Everyday Evangelism Tool!
NEED Biblical Counseling? – Call Bro. Kevin Ford at 573-470-1736
Vacation Bible School- https://nhbc.church/events/category/srba-vbs-25/
Pathway Newspaper- The Pathway is provided FREE through the Cooperative Program giving of your local Missouri Southern Baptist Churches. To subscribe to the printed edition, call 800-736-6227 or subscribe online at mbcpathway.com
NEED Biblical Counseling? – Call Bro. Kevin Ford at 573-470-1736
The Lottie Moon Offering!!! I find it difficult to describe the Lottie Moon Offering, it is so very near and dear to my heart. The offering is not just a topic of conversation for me; it is at the very heart of my experience as one of your missionaries serving far from home, family, and all that was familiar. As I attempt to share a description; tears come to my eyes, my heart aches, and I am transported back to memories of days gone by. Memories of foreign languages, customs, and beliefs that I came to understand as bridges to carry the good news of Jesus to lost people. Memories of a four-wheel-drive Toyota belonging to Lottie Moon that I was allowed to use saving lives, changing communities, telling people about Jesus, and starting churches. Memories of carrying people to the hospital for life-saving treatments. There are memories of multitudes of people being carried in a cab while the monsoon rains fell and the jeep trail challenged us as we traveled through the jungle to share Jesus and the ministry of returning the body of a believer from the local hospital to their village for a Christian burial. Many baptisms took place in the back of the Toyota in a metal tank far-removed from the water in the African bush. There are memories of hauling Bibles, building materials, and books for new churches, transporting Lottie’s Honda generator, a film projector, and “The Jesus Film” into a very dark part of Africa. The Lottie Moon Offering brought the light of the Way, the Truth, and the Life to communities resulting is decisions for Jesus, one new church, and that church started new churches. ~ Author Unknown
The Lottie Moon Offering allows me to support the opportunity to touch lives, hearts, and souls of the lost all over the world just by sharing how God has blessed me. The Lottie Moon Offering, through the International Mission Board, goes into the hands of missionaries touching lives for eternity with the love of God through faith in Jesus.
~Written by Ben Hess.
