Monday, November 5, 2007

MBA Church and Community Ministries offers the following opportunities for ministry River Region Chaplain Service Become a prayer partner for public safety officers in Montgomery.  Be trained to become a chaplain (men AND women are needed.)  Adopt a firehouse, police station, sheriff’s office, or 911 center. Conversational English  Become a prayer partner.  Become a CE teacher.  Work with the childcare ministry.  Help transport students back and forth to classes. Samaritan Inn Become a prayer partner.  Become a volunteer to meet with families who have medical needs but live outside the Montgomery area.  Provide “welcome baskets” for the family. Regional Centers Sign up to pray for each center and the people who come for emergency help.  Volunteer to be a receptionist and answer phones.  Bring a mission team to do small repairs around the center.  Become a lawn care volunteer.  Gather food and clothing on a regular basis for the center church is assigned. Baptist Family Resource and Counseling Center  Give generously to help maintain the sliding fee scale for clients.  Pray for wisdom as the staff ministers to clients.  Invite Dr. Johnson to your church to provide basic training in marriage, parenting, grief, etc. as your church continues to grow healthy families and individuals. As a church body, you can hold an “Operation Inasmuch” in your community. It is a one day mission blitz where church members come together for the day to reach out and touch the neighborhood. Every Christian in Montgomery has the opportunity to serve the Lord in creative and exciting ways. For more information, call Lisa Rose at 271-6794 or email lrose@mgmbaptist.org

MBA Ministry Directors

Adoption and Foster Care Ministry

Lisa Rose

334-271-6794

lrose@mgbaptists.org


Conversational English School

Director, Susan West

334-312-7057

montgomeryceschool@yahoo.com

Family Resource and Counseling Ministry

Director, Dr. Kline Johnson

334-271-6241

counseling@mgmbaptist.org

Forest Park Ministry Center

Director, Donna McCollough

334-529-5726

forestparkministry@gmail.com

www.forestparkministry.blogspot.com

Montgomery Mixtec Ministry

Lisa Rose

334-27106794

lrose@mgmbaptists.org


Samaritan Inn Ministries

Director, Debbie Jones

334-462-7108

samaritaninn14@gmail.com

Books MBA/CCM Recommends

Ten Ways You Can Serve Greater Montgomery

1. Connect with one of the 6 Cooperative Ministries listed on this blog.

2. Do a neighborhood survey and find out what your community wants and needs.

3. Tithe 1/10 of your garden and give to a family in need.

4. Read to a child at one of the public schools in your area. The administration would love to have you serve.


5. Start an Fellowship of Christian Athletes club at a local jr high or high school.

6. Take gift bags to new neighbors around your home or church with information about the church/community.

7. Adopt a school and be a prayer partner with them.


8. Call Alabama Post/Pre Adoption Connections(APAC-334-409-9477) in Montgomery and find out how you can support adoptive families.

9. Offer to host an ESL or Conversational English class in your church. Someone can come and train your church to teach ESL too.

10. Gather in good condition clothing and take to the centers. Ask Forest Park about their "Good Samaritan Clothing Ministry".