2011 Calendar

 

Central Region

2011 ANNOTATED CALENDAR OF EVENTS

First Draft – 9-1-10

 

 

JANUARY       Emphasis:  Make Your Will

 

   2-5    Winter Bible Study Emphasis Week

3       New Year’s Holiday – office closed

12-14   VBS Institute

Training for State enlisted VBS leadership team

FOR WHOM: State enlisted VBS Team

     16   Sanctity of Human Life Sunday

     17   Martin Luther King Holiday (office closed)

24-25   Regional/Functional Team Meetings, Camp Hebron, Halifax, PA

     31   ESL Training Workshop

                        FOR WHOM: Prospected ESL Trainers

 

 

FEBRUARY     Emphases:  Baptist Seminaries, Colleges, and Schools; True Love Waits

 

       4   Executive Board Meeting, Harrisburg, PA

Meeting of Executive Board and related committees to discuss business of BCPSJ.

FOR WHOM: Executive Board members

       5   Building and Finance Conference, TBD

Conference covers new construction, remodeling, and working with volunteers.  The rules of thumb for building churches are given and attention is paid to working within the church and the challenges that change brings.

FOR WHOM:  Pastors and building committee members looking at new construction or remodeling and anyone in church who will be supervising and working with construction volunteers.

      13  Racial Reconciliation Sunday

14-20    Focus on WMU

Church focus on Woman’s Missionary Union programs for the year.  Time to recognize leaders and members of WMU organizations.  To emphasize the value of WMU to a church.

FOR WHOM:  leaders and members of WMU organizations.

18-19    ESL Training

                        FOR WHOM: Church Members

 

 

MARCH          Emphasis:  North American Missions

 

TBD     Prayer Summit

     6     Day of Prayer for Spiritual Awakening in North America

6-12     Youth Week

6-13     Week of Prayer for North American Missions/Annie Armstrong Easter Offering

7-12     Update Week for Church Planting Trainers and Assessors,

Volunteer House, Harrisburg, PA

    12    Associational Baptist Youth Night

    13    North American Missions Day in Sunday School

    14    Mentor Training

14-15    Church Conciliation Training – TBA

                     Two day training seminar for Certification in Conciliation.

FOR WHOM: Pastors and lay leaders interested in helping churches in the conciliation process.

20        Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday 

25-26    Servant Leadership Retreat, Carlisle Baptist Church

                        Speaker: Dr. Charles Roesel

27        Start a Church Sunday

 

 

APRIL             Emphases:  Life Commitment and Church Vocations; Church Media

 

       3   SBC Seminaries Sunday

    7-9   Basic Training

FOR WHOM: Church Planters

      10  Cooperative Program Sunday

10-15  Baptist Doctrine Emphasis Week

15-17  NOW Missional Living Conference, Nashville, TN

     16  Prayer Walking      

     17  Life Commitment Sunday

     22   Good Friday (Office Closed)

22-23    Youth Evangelism Celebration, TBA

Two day meeting designed for inspiration and training in Evangelism and

Discipleship

    24    Easter Sunday

    30    State Bible Challenge, TBA

 

 

MAY               Emphases:  Annual Church Council Planning; Chaplaincy Ministries

 

        1  Senior Adult Day

    1-8   Christian Home Week

       5   National Day of  Prayer

       6   Executive Board Meeting, Harrisburg, PA

Meeting of Executive Board and related committees to discuss business of             BCPSJ.

FOR WHOM:  Executive Board members

9-10     Regional/Functional Teams Meeting, Camp Hebron, Halifax, PA

15-21    Baptist Association Emphasis

22        Pentecost Sunday

23-25    Minister’s Retreat, TBA

30        Memorial Day (office closed)

 

 

JUNE               Emphases:  Vacation Bible School; Guidestone Ministries                           

 

    6      Leadership Team Meeting, Harrisburg, PA

 6-8      Summer Missions Orientation, Bongiorno Conference Center, Carlisle, PA

Training and orientation retreat for student summer missionaries assigned to PA/SJ.  Cultural acclamation, ministry and evangelism resources are included.

11-12    Crossover, Phoenix, Arizona

12-13    WMU Missions Celebration, Phoenix, Arizona

14-15    Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona

19        Baptist Men’s Emphasis

26        Mission:  Dignity Sunday

 

 

JULY               Emphasis:  Christian Literature

 

        3  Citizenship and Religious Liberty Sunday

        4  Independence Day Holiday (office closed)

24-28    NAMB/State Leadership, Atlanta, GA

25-30    World Changers

29-31    Campus Minister’s Retreat

31/8-2   Campus Intern Orientation

 

 

AUGUST         Emphases:  Ridgecrest Conferences; Glorieta Conferences

 

TBD     Annual Intern Training

 6-10    National Collegiate Week at Ridgecrest Conference Center

       7   Social Issues Sunday

12-14    Angel Tree Camp, Denver, PA

                        FOR WHOM:  Summer Camp for children who have parents incarcerated.

14        Student Evangelism Day

22-23    Youth Leader’s University

30/9/2   Annual Single Adult Labor Day Getaway, Ridgecrest, NC

Conference and national networking opportunities

FOR WHOM:  All single adults and single adult leaders

 

 

SEPTEMBER    Emphasis:  State Missions State Missions Season of Prayer and Ed & Mary Price Offering.  A focus on state missions involving study, prayer, and giving.

 

       4   Single Adult Sunday

       5   Labor Day (office closed)

  8-15   State Missions Week of Prayer

11-17    Worship Music Week

12-13    Regional/Functional Teams Meeting, Harrisburg, PA

      17  Sunday School Leadership Institute, TBD

Training for state team of multipliers who will go out and train in churches and associations.  Presented by specialists in age-groups from LifeWay.

FOR WHOM:  Usually by invitation by may be open to anyone who wants to lead training in PA/SJ.

   18     Anti‑Gambling Sunday

   19     Suggested Associational Discipleship Rally

23-24    Missions Celebration (WMU Meeting)

This conference is a missions celebration and the annual business session for Woman’s Missionary Union of PA/SJ

FOR WHOM:  All church and associational mission leaders

29-10/1 Basic Training

            FOR WHOM: Church Planters

31-10/1 Discover More to Life

 

 

OCTOBER      Emphases:  Annual Associational Meetings; Cooperative Program

 

      2    Soul-Winning Commitment Day

  7-9     InCounter Collegiate Retreat, TBA

      9    World Hunger Sunday

28-29    Peacemaker Network Training

 

 

NOVEMBER               Emphasis:  Stewardship and Church Budget Promotion

 

    3-4   State Convention Meeting, TBA

Annual Meeting of Pennsylvania‑South Jersey Baptists Constituency of the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania/South Jersey

FOR WHOM: Constituency of BCPSJ

    3-4   Executive Board Meeting,

Meeting of Executive Board and related committees to discuss business of             BCPSJ

FOR WHOM:  Executive Board members

      6    Children’s Missions Celebration Day

      7    Baptist Women World of Prayer

      15  Band of Brothers Event, TBA

7-9pm, Men’s Fraternity – Year Two

24-25    Thanksgiving Holiday (office closed)

 

 

DECEMBER               Emphases:  International Missions; Student Day at Christmas

 

  4-11   Season of International Missions and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

       9   Office Staff Christmas Party

     11   International Missions Day in Sunday School

26-27    Christmas Holiday (office closed)