(NOTE: DATES IN BOLD PRINT DIRECTLY AFFECT NEPBA MINISTRY)
JANUARY Emphasis: Make Your Will
1 New Year’s Day – office closed
11-12 Supervision Conference
17 Sanctity of Human Life Sunday
18 Martin Luther King Holiday
22-23 Men’s Retreat, His Thousand Hills, Wellsboro, PA, Registration begins at 5 pm; final service ends about 6 pm Saturday. Coordinated by Big Woods Bible Church
26-27 Regional and Functional Teams Meeting, Harrisburg, PA
28 - Church Planting Network (CPN) for NEPBA church planters, 4pm at Hemisphere Church
FEBRUARY Emphases: Baptist Seminaries, Colleges, and Schools; True Love Waits
5-7 Mid-winter Collegiate Retreat, Camp Joy El, Greencastle, PA
6 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.
14 Racial Reconciliation Sunday
15-21 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.
20 Central Region Prayer Summit – SVCC, Berwick, 10am-2pm, Dr. Don Zampogna, facilitator. Primarily for pastors and staff, though pastor chosen lay leaders may attend also. FOCUS: Prayer, sharing requests and building relationships. A light lunch will be provided by NEPBA sometime during the process.
26-27 Disaster Relief Training – Temple Baptist Church – 6pm Friday through 4pm Saturday. Contact Kenton Hunt for more information (570.323.9564).
MARCH Emphasis: North American Missions
5-6 Disaster Relief Training – South Jersey Baptist Association – 6pm Friday through 4pm Saturday. Contact Kenton Hunt for more information (570.323.9564).
7 Day of Prayer for Spiritual Awakening in North America
7-13 Youth Week
12-13 Disaster Relief Training – Crumlynn, in Philadelphia – 6pm Friday through 4pm Saturday. Contact Kenton Hunt for more information (570.323.9564).
7-14 Week of Prayer for North American Missions/Annie Armstrong Easter Offering
8-13 Update Week for Church Planting Trainers and Assessors,
Volunteer House, Harrisburg, PA
14 North American Missions Day in Sunday School
15-16 Church Conciliation Training – TBA
Two day training seminar for Certification in Conciliation.
FOR WHOM: Pastors and lay leaders interested in helping churches in reconciliation.
19-20 NEPBA Disaster Relief Training – Winfield Baptist Church – 6pm Friday through 4pm Saturday. Contact Kenton Hunt for more information (570.323.9564).
21 Substance Abuse Prevention Sunday
25 -Church Planting Network (CPN) for NEPBA church planters, 4pm, Place: TBA
28 On Mission: Planting New Congregations Sunday
APRIL Emphases: Life Commitment and Church Vocations; Church Media
2 Good Friday (Office Closed)
2-3 Youth Evangelism Celebration, TBA
Two day meeting designed for inspiration and training in Evangelism and
Discipleship
4 Easter Sunday
11 Cooperative Program Sunday
11-15 Baptist Doctrine Emphasis Week
18 Life Commitment Sunday
24 Bible Challenge, TBD
Three events covering the Bible Challenge: Challenge for grades 4-6; Challenge for grades 7-9; and Speakers’ Tournament. Participants must qualify through Associational meets before the State Challenge.
FOR WHOM: Participants in the events, their family, friends, and anyone
who wants to attend.
25 Small Group Training, TBD
29 NEPBA Administrative Team Meeting – Bloomsburg Southern Baptist Church, 9 AM
MAYEmphases: Annual Church Council Planning; Chaplaincy Ministries
2 Senior Adult Day
2-9 Christian Home Week
6 National Day of Prayer
7-8 Disaster Relief Training – Erie, PA – 6pm Friday through 4pm Saturday. Contact Kenton Hunt for more information (570.323.9564).
10-11 Regional and Functional Teams Meeting, Harrisburg
14-15 Disaster Relief Training – Pittsburg Area, Southwest Baptist Association– 6pm Friday through 4pm Saturday. Contact Kenton Hunt for more information (570.323.9564).
17-19 Minister’s Retreat at Phillip Bongfiorno Conference Center, Carlisle, PA
16-22 Associational Missions Emphasis Week
22 NEPBA Spring Picnic, Benton Park, Benton, PA, 4pm-8PM
23 Pentecost Sunday
27 - Church Planting Network (CPN) - NEPBA church planters, 4pm, in Hazleton
30 Day of Prayer and Fasting for World Evangelism
31 Memorial Day (office closed)
JUNE Emphases: Vacation Bible School; Guidestone Ministries
13-14 WMU Missions Celebration, Orlando, Florida
Celebrate the Joy of Missions at this annual missions conference.
FOR WHOM: For all persons involved in and interested in missions.
AUGUST Emphases: Ridgecrest Conferences; Glorieta Conferences
1-7 Angel Tree Camp, Denver, PA
FOR WHOM: Summer Camp for children who have parents incarcerated.
SEPTEMBER Emphasis: State MissionsState Missions Season of Prayer and Ed & Mary Price Offering. A focus on state missions involving study, prayer, and giving.
8-31/3 Annual Single Adult Labor Day Getaway, Ridgecrest, NC, Conference and national networking opportunities. FOR WHOM: All single adults and single adult leaders
6 Labor Day (office closed)
9-16 State Missions Week of Prayer
9 -Church Planting Network (CPN) - NEPBA church planters, 4pm, The Breeze, Stroudsburg
13-14 Regional and Functional Teams Meeting
16 NEPBA Administrative Team Meeting, 9 AM, Hazleton Community Church
18 Adult Music Leadership Workshop
Training for leaders in the worship service.
FOR WHOM: Pastors, music leaders, praise teams, technical support, musicians
19 Anti‑Gambling Sunday
23-25 Annual Peacemaker Ministries Training, for CSD Consultant, Gerald Mounce
25 Central Region Church Strengthening Institute (CSI) FOCUS: Training for church leaders done in breakout sessions on a variety of topics to help churches. Done at two locations in central region of KBA, SCBA, NEPBA.
OCTOBER Emphases: Annual Associational Meetings; Cooperative Program
3 On Mission: To Share the Gospel Sunday
10 World Hunger Sunday
11 NEPBA Administrative Team Meeting, 9 AM, Dallas Baptist Church
NOVEMBER Emphasis: Stewardship and Church Budget Promotion
4-5 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
20 Central Region Prayer Summit – PROPOSAL: FSBC, Williamsport, 10am-2pm. Primarily for pastors and staff, though pastor chosen lay leaders may attend also.
FOCUS: Prayer, sharing requests and building relationships. A light lunch will be provided by NEPBA sometime during the process.
13 Leadership of the Black Church, TBD
25-26 Thanksgiving Holiday (office closed)
DECEMBER Emphases: International Missions; Student Day at Christmas
2 -Church Planting Network - NEPBA church planters, 5pm, Wilkes-Barre
11 - NEPBA Pastor and Wives Christmas Banquet, Genetti’s Hotel, Wilkes-Barre
5 Season of International Missions Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
