Covenant Baptist Church 2024

It’s a new and significant year for us.

Sunday, Covenant Baptist Church took a break from our expositional teaching in Galatians to cast a vision for the year before us. Josh and I co-preached the sermon by presenting our commission from Christ and a strategic plan for church planting. Yes, we plan to plant a church in 2024.

We followed the service with our first member meeting. The meeting was short as we welcomed nine new members to the congregation. That brings us to 25! Each new member had completed the membership process prior to the member meeting. During this part of the meeting, I was struck hearing the testimonies of our new members along with their heart felt requests to join the church. The current members of Covenant Baptist responded by voting each member into the church.

We also passed out our first budget! This budget is a 6 months mini budget to be followed with a July through July annual budget. Members will ask questions and vote in the budget at our next members meeting in two weeks.

We taught the congregation parliamentary procedures for amending and ratifying our bylaws and statement of faith. This will take up the bulk of our time in the coming member meeting. However, the investment of work and discussion will be well worth having these foundational elements in place as we move forward.

Josh has done a lot of work to get these things in order. I appreciate his gifting and knowledge in these areas as I tend to be more gifted in the artsy department.

Update… we still are loosing to the skunk. Josh was battling it today and I have yet to hear his victory scream here in Siloam. The air is so cold outside, I’m sure I would have heard it echoing over the hills. We may be in for another stinky Sunday. More skunk news to come… I’m sure.

Bart