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Eastern Baptist Association
Eastern Baptist Life & Recent Events
Mt. Gilead, Hickory Grove, and Grove Park have been helping out at Spruce Pines in our NC Mountains-
You never know what skills you have that the Lord can use on a Mission trip like this-
Even those acrobatic skills we learned a long time ago-
Great Job Churches-You have been such a blessing!
Summer is a great time to help out with food pantry needs as lots of families have more needs when school is out-
Thank You Immanuel of Clinton that delivered lots of spaghetti!
And the ladies at Sharon made birthday cakes kits for the families that need to visit our food pantry-
Super Great Idea! All families like to celebrate birthdays!
And Wallace First shows up every month with food pantry gifts!
So many of our churches are donating to our food pantry and we post a picture once in a while. We know we may not get everyone's pic but we want you to know that it is so nice to be able to help the needy-Thank You All for making this happen!
Our EBA Churches are phenomenal!
Great Job Churches!
Magnolia Baptist & Grove Park Baptist
delivered a great BIG cart full of snacks for our summer volunteers!
And "Right on Time"
Thank You-Thank you-Thank you!
A Great Way to help out this summer!
Greetings from Armenia
As I type this article, Tammy and I are sitting in the airport in Armenia waiting for our flight to take us back home. Today is May 23, 2025; the reason that date is important is because on this same date 3 years ago we had an EBA team in Armenia praying for God's guidance in raising money to build a church here for a group of Yazidi refugees. The refugees had been praying for over 30 years for a church building. On this date 3 years ago, 14 of our EBA family joined the Yazidi refugees in prayer. As we returned home and shared the vision with the rest of our EBA family, you responded by raising approximately $125,000.00 to make the vision for this church possible. As we have watched from a distance at the progress of the church being built, it has been amazing to see God bring this project to a close.
Last night Tammy and I had the privilege and honor of being a part of the dedication of the church. With nearly 100 people in attendance for the dedication, once again I was reminded of the mighty power of our God and I was overwhelmed at the thought of how God allowed our EBA family to be a part of such a powerful witness. Tammy and I are thankful to each of you for your continued support of spreading the Gospel throughout the world. Well done. “Stay Tuned” for the next project that God would have us to be a part of.
Richard Weeks, Eastern Baptist Association Director of Missions
Eastern Baptist Association
is honored at their church dedication!
This is the pastor
and his son-
Lots of excited people
attended and filled
the pews-
And God sprinkled
these beautiful poppies in the fields outside-
To give honor and glory
and praise to
our amazing God-
What a Great Day in the Lord!
Thank You EBA for answering the call to "build a church"
for the Yazidi Refugees!
Visionaries, Richard Weeks and
Paul Langston
are in the field next to the church-
would anyone want to guess what they may have been discussing?
Could there be a Phase II to this project?
WOMT Roundtable
What a Fun Night for the ladies!
Each church decorated their table to depict a mission project that they enjoy doing-
Island Creek does a great job keeping the EBA Food Pantry well stocked!
Mt. Gilead responded with one of the first teams to our mountains after Hurricane Helene-Great Job!
Sharon Baptist has a really big "life saving" Celebrate Recovery & Grief Share!
Grove Park ladies enjoy making "no sew" lap blankets & present them with a cross and a note!
Garland ladies love to be involved in Hispanic Outreach-
We can tell the world about Jesus right in our own back yards now!
Dobson makes hygiene bags for students at James Kenan High School
and
they went to Canton in Western NC to serve those affected by Helene!
Corinth enjoys helping expectant moms and babies through the Agape Pregnancy Support and Services
Ladies from Johnson love to fill military care packages-Great way to let them know we are praying for them as they serve us!
Peace Baptist is sending Teddy Bears
to Teddi Bear Child Advocacy Center in Mt Olive. They work with abused and neglected children
Hickory Grove ladies send an enormous number of backpacks to West Virginia each year and they love to go and help distribute a lot of love as well!
Wallace First works with hundreds of high school girls to get them outfitted for the prom at NO CHARGE-a great way to help out the youth in our communities!
Magnolia Baptist works with Passion International to offer help with adoption support!
Poston enjoys having a birthday party for residents at Day Spring Assisted Living Facility each month!
More pics coming!
Mintz delivered a BIG load of food
for the Baptist Children's Home
Food Drive!
Thank you so much!
Just a reminder to have all Baptist Children's Home Food Drive donations of food and/or food cards to Charity by May 1st.
Thank you all for giving!
Ms. "Awesome Katie" from Beulaville Baptist has been helping out in our Thrift Store every week for the past 2 years!
You're Amazing Ms. Katie-
Many thanks!
A group of ladies come from Mt. Vernon each month to keep the Thrift Store spic 'n span-Way to Go Ladies!
Mr. Jimmy Brown and Mitchell Henderson are busy leading teams at home building wheelchair ramps-
Make plans to come out and help-they build several ramps a week and Wow is it making a difference to our neighbors at home!
If you want to help
others right here at
home-there is not
a better way to do it!
Great Job and a Great Way to share the love of Jesus!
Open Enrollment
Warrior Strong!
Great Job Poston!
Warsaw has sent several teams to
our mountains to help out!
Re-building homes and building new relationships!
The snow certainly didn't stop these ladies from Garland !
Thank you girls for going and helping out!
More teams are showing up to help out in the mountains-
Looking Good Mintz!
Love seeing those young people!
Prayers continue from one side of our state to the other for the people in our NC Mountain areas-
Prayers continue from one side of our state to the other for the people in our NC Mountain areas-
Before they call I will answer;
while they are still speaking I will hear. Isaiah 65:24
Please continue to pray-God is hearing and answering! Mighty is our Lord God!
Christmas break was a great time for some of our EBA crowd to help out in the mountains-
The Norwood Family from Dobson Chapel could not have given a better gift-
This homeowner will never forget this wonderful gift of love.
Great Job Norwood Family!
And of course the kids were taken care of as gifts of toys arrived!
Calypso is back again! Thank you for being the hands and feet of Jesus in all seasons!
Winter in the NC Mountains is still beautiful and a great time to come and help out!
As Christ hands and feet, we must be ready and be "On Mission" in season and out of season!
"More pics from our association going and helping in our NC mountains"
Cedar Fork jumps
right in !
Thank You for going to
serve!
Island Creek is always ready to help!
Looking strong Island Creek-great work!
Each year we head to West Virginia to deliver backpacks full of love and gifts from the churches in our association. This seems to make Christmas a little brighter each year!
Thank You EBA for your gifts to these children!
This team not only delivered your gifts, they also delivered a load of fun for the kids
Brandon Kelly made sure the Grinch was taken care of...
And everyone had a
Great Time..
As well as hot delicious meals!
You guys are really cooking!
I think the whole
crowd gave you
a BIG Thumbs Up!
This is a Great way for our families to "Do Missions Together" as a family
A super fun way to be the hands and feet of Jesus!
The Eastern Baptist Association Community Choir lead by Vicki Teachey
gave a phenomenal performance to our King and a large audience on the First Evening of December
What an awesome way to start the Advent Season-
A special time of preparation for the celebration of Christ's birth at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming. All Glory be given to the Prince of Peace, Jesus our King!
We would like to commend Ms. Vicki for her direction and the choir for their dedication and hard work to present such a wonderful gift of worship to our King!
At the close of the cantata, our Director of Missions reminded us that the Peace that God sent to earth in the form of a baby, not only came to save us from our sins but came so that the Word could dwell in the our hearts. As Christians, we have that "Word", Jesus inside of us, abiding with us and directing our lives in a way to carry out His perfect plan on earth-
How will a lost and dying world know of His Word if we don't go and tell them?
Psalm 96:1b Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day"
When Tammy calls, our people from all of our churches and some from other community churches come to help pack the senior food boxes that are distributed monthly!
You guys are looking good! Doing Missions Together at Charity!
The recipients' of
these boxes are so appreciative-
Great way to
:Love your
Neighbor!
Grove Park packed an extra Christmas Bag for these seniors at Christmas!
The group helped get them in place for
distribution
Mr. Mark Best loves to help distribute the food!
Thank You Grove Park for the Christmas Surprise-they loved them!
Hurricane Helene hit our NC mountains especially hard and experts say that it will be many years to rebuild. Much of the road, water and sewer infrastructure is so broken or destroyed that it is very hard to reach people in some of the higher elevations. So of course Eastern Baptist, you've stepped right in to help. We remember so clearly how hard some of our own neighbors were hit during Hurricanes Floyd, Matthew and Florence and we know it will take a lot of help to get these people through this.
Because of your generosity, the immediate needs of the in kind donations have been met in the area that we are partnering with in Western North Carolina. We do however continue to need volunteers and financial contributions to help with the rebuild process. Thank you for your generosity and love. The Eastern Baptist Association and Charity Mission Center is not serving as a donation collection site currently but we will notify you all as needs arise. What is needed however are your continued prayers, financial support and we need volunteers. Please email us at the following address if you can go and serve:
ebarespond@easternbaptistlife.com
Many of you have already been to help in the western part of our state. We wanted to share a few pics of some of our churches that have gone to help!
Corinth Church
involved in rebuild
and delivering supplies!
Great Job Corinth!
Making a huge impact
on lives !
Thank you Dobson Chapel and
Wallace First for going to serve!
More than one way to move some mud out!
It's great to go and just "love on them"
a little-
You might just get a little love in return!
Way to Go
Dobson Chapel and Wallace First!
And Warsaw Baptist
is right on time!
Everybody plan a trip to help out-there's something for everybody to do!
Harmony Baptist is really sharing the love of Jesus-
Mt. Gilead is hard at work helping to rebuild homes and lives!
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Great Job Harmony!
Keep up that good work!
A lot of our people are doing
jobs they've never done before-
And what a fantastic
job they are doing!
Great Job Mt. Gilead!
You are encouraging all
of us to get up a
team and go!
These are pics of the supplies that many of you have sent for the people that live in an area that has been cut off. We are helping to establish a temporary "Tent City"
As usual, our EBA folks know how to give and you have given in mighty ways. Thank you for the supplies you've sent for the people there and for the rebuild equipment and supplies that will be needed for many years.
We have more teams serving in the mountain area.
Sharon Baptist and Faison Baptist serving "together on mission! "
Hammers and Hugs-You're looking like Jesus!
Great Job guys and girls!
Another team from Harmony!
Looking Great!
You're amazing Harmony-
Thank you for serving the Lord!
Here comes Serenity!
God uses all of us-many members, one body-in many ways!
Dobson Chapel's here
and working hard!
More teams from Sharon
are arriving!
Always having fun in the midst of hard work! Thank you Sharon!
Rowan has come to help out! Your service is a great gift to give at the holidays!
Great Job Rowan!
Your Director of Missions is using his God given gifts to help get Rebuild under way in WNC..
Blessing so many!
Calypso sent a team-great job
with that electrical stuff!
A real love for missions!
A real love for
others!
Thank You
Calypso!
Hickory Grove dug right in to help!
Looking great on the
sheet rocking!
WOM and EBA teamed up to host our
4th Annual
It was a HUGE success!
Our sponsors were Fantastic!
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Our vendors were Amazing!
Our entertainers were Phenomenal!
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And Cute!
Our "Special Helpers" from Liberty School and the Duplin County Queens were
Exraordinary!
Our Chili that the Cook-off contestants brought in was "Stupendous"!
And of course the kids had so much "FUN"!
So to sum up the 4th Annual Fall Festival-
It was a HUGELY FANTASTIC, AMAZINGLY PHENOMENAL, EXTRORDINARYLY
STUPENDOUS, FUN EVENT!
Thank you WOM for working so hard to pull everybody together that made the day so "WONDERFUL!"
The perfect picture of "Women On Mission Together" with our churches, schools, businesses and the entire community to provide wheelchair ramps for our neighbors!
Great Job!
Seniors-What a Fantastic Job you did
"Sticking Your Necks Out" to help our neighbors at University Ave. Baptist Church in Hawaii! The offering was phenomenal!
Thank You all for coming out to be a part of this mission project!
And boy did you "wear your bright colors" for this event-You look great!
Carol Ann Tucker, formerly of Magnolia Baptist Church and her friend Steve did a great job entertaining our group!
What a beautiful sea of color!
The Lord has blessed the giver and the receiver! Thank You Seniors!
Charity Senior Food Box Distribution is going Great!
And don't forget, we need
Volunteers every month to make it work- Call Tammy and get involved!
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