Ashland Avenue Baptist Church’s 2010 World Impact Conference will be held September 23-26 at AABC in Lexington Kentucky. Our guest preacher will be Dr. Russell Moore. Breakout sessions and small group discussion will be led by leading orphan care advocates from ABBA Fund, Lifesong for Orphans, and Hope For Orphans (other groups and are still being added). This unique World Mission Conference hopes to show how adoption and orphan care fit within the church’s responsibility to fulfill the Great Commission. This conference is for anyone who has a heart for both the abandoned child and spiritual orphans living among the nations. On top of mission related resources, there will also be resources for church leaders and who would like to know more about connecting orphan care to your church’s vision for the nations, families considering adoption, and Christians concerned about orphan care in general.
May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face to shine upon us,
that your way may be known on earth,
your saving power among all nations.
Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all the peoples praise you!
Psalm 67:1-3
This week we were able to bust through our 2009 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goal of $30,000.00. This money goes directly to IMB missionaries serving among the unreached around the world. In 2009, we not only met our Lottie Moon goal we also took in an additional $20,000.00 that goes directly toward our Ends of the Earth work. Our Ends of the Earth work includes church planting efforts among the Ayacucho Quechua in the village of Cordova, Peru. In 2010, we are praying for an increase in short-term teams and an extended presence in the village. These additional fund will help us accomplish this goal.
The banquet is ready. A spread of fine cuisine unlike anything you could ever imagine has been carefully arranged with painstaking attention given to every minute detail. While everything is prepared, the feast still lacks one thing…people! The Master must have His house filled, so He commands His servants to, “go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame…go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that My house may be filled” (Luke 14:21-23). While we as believers anticipate with great joy and hope a future heavenly feast (Revelation 19:9), we recognize our position as servants of the Master whom He entrusts with the delightful duty of compelling people to join in the feast! On Sunday, December 13, we will celebrate our first ever, “Compelled Christmas.” It will be a day our church will labor as servants of the Master, not only to provide a banquet for those “poor, crippled, blind, and lame” but also to compel them toward a greater feast to come, enjoyed only by those who trust in Christ for salvation. To sign up or for more information on ways you can help serve this banquet, go to the Compelled Christmas table in Crossroads today.
The banquet for the needy will be only the beginning of a wonderful evening of music celebrating the birth of God’s invitation to the feast, Jesus Christ. While our church is specifically serving the needy in our community during the banquet at 5:00, our outstanding choir, quartet and orchestra will present a free concert for the entire community at 7:00. Please begin compelling as many people as you can to join us for the concert. I pray your loving service throughout the banquet and your multiple invitations to attend will ultimately compel many to one day fill the Master’s house for the true feast, the marriage supper of the Lamb!
On November 8, 2009 churches across America will be called to remember the plight of 145 million children created in the image of God who are suffering without the love of a family. At AABC, one of the primary ways our commitment to the fatherless is fleshed out is through adoption. Not everyone can or should adopt, but everyone in our congregation is called to be apart of the process by supporting families who are adopting.
On Orphan Sunday we will gather at 6:00 p.m. to hear a practical conversation about adoption between Pastor David and Pastor Jeremy. Topics will include: the adoption process, financial issues, transracial adoption, AABC’s ABBAA Fund, the personal reward and struggle of adopting.
Even if you never plan to adopt, join us to hear how you can personally walk with those who do adopt and how you can invest in the lives of the children who are being rescued by our church family.
If you have specific questions you would like us to answer, please email us or drop them off in crossroads Orphan Sunday Q&A box.
Ashland Avenue Baptist Church has been working among the Ayacucho, Quechua in the village of Cordova, Peru in the Andes for two years now. Last summer, a nurse named Betty bowed her knee to King Jesus. In this video, Betty shares her heart about our church’s work in the village of Cordova.
