11/18/25 - Staff Meeting

Visitors & Prayer Requests

Visitors

Prayer Requests

Susan Rooks – Pray for her recovery.

• Wendy Clark – Home. Pray for her recovery and physical therapy.

• Jimmy Huggins – Gets winded when doing any movement.

• Ruth Guyton – Recovering from surgery.

• Mary Ellen – Recovering from surgery.

• Richard Parker – heart procedure yesterday.

• Pray for our nation.

• Pray for someone to invite to church next week.

• Pray for the process of the new school at Riley’s Creek.

• Hispanic Ministry. All documents are signed and turned into the CIR.

Missionaries:

C&K – South Asia

J&M South Asia

Carter - South Asia

J & T - South Asia

B & L - South Asia

Pastor Biju – South Asia

Brian Palumbo US

Kevin & Jan Smith

Jason & Sara Tierney

Chris & Jamie Freeman - Zambesi

Kalman & Julia Kovacs

Jack & Lyndsey Campbell – Ivory Coast

Richard & April Rivenbark – Baltimore

Jay & Kathy Shafto – IMB Sub Saharan Africa

Russell Abraham – Queens, NY

Kody Aten - Boston Area church planter

Devotional

Some people say “yes” to God once. Larry McCallon has said it 107 times and counting.

At 86 years old, Larry is still boarding planes, crossing oceans, and serving alongside IMB missionaries around the world. His favorite trips are the ones that bring him face-to-face with missionary kids—laughing with them, listening to them, and reminding them that they are loved and never forgotten.

For more than two decades, “Mr. Larry,” as they call him, has led a class of 13-year-old boys at IMB gatherings across Europe. Those boys have grown up to become pastors, teachers, engineers—and even missionaries themselves. All because one man kept showing up, year after year, to say yes to God’s call.

“A lot of missionaries leave the field when their kids become teenagers for various reasons. This is what motivates me to come back. You never know what’s going to be that little difference in a teen’s life,” Larry says.

Larry’s story reminds us of something we all need to hear: saying “yes” to God doesn’t always mean moving overseas. Sometimes it means simply showing up—again and again—and trusting Him to use your obedience to change lives for eternity.

I have the privilege of seeing this kind of impact every day through the IMB—missionaries who say “yes” to leave everything familiar and take the gospel to places it’s never been, churches who say “yes” to send and support those who go, and believers around the world who say “yes” to pray, to give, and to stand with them in the work.

Each “yes” is a response to Jesus’ command in Matthew 28—to go and make disciples of all nations. And when we say yes together, God multiplies those acts of obedience in ways we could never imagine.

Through the faithfulness of believers like Larry—and like you—lives are being changed. People are hearing the name of Jesus for the first time. New churches are being planted. The gospel is taking root in places once thought unreachable.

Sunday Review

AM Service

PM Service

Ministries

Next year the church will be focused on prayer and discipleship

I am working on putting together small groups that will meet

for the purpose of Bible Study in people’s homes

I am also putting together a prayer group

All this will come out in the message on JAnuary

RPCA

Board meeting this evening at 6:30 PM

Building & Grounds

Were they able to met last night and did they get anywhere?

Hispanic Ministry

All the paperwork is signed and submitted to the CIR.

They should be submitting the visa application to the USCIS

The next steps for us will be to put together a survey

for Patricio and his family for their needs when they get here.

Next Generation

Music

Office

Reports go out to the congregation for a vote on Sunday November 30.

This will give me time to talk over with the deacons on Sunday.

Audio - Visual

I spoke to Jason about a ladder

The projector seemed to be working fine on Sunday evening

If it ever goes dim again, it may be that

the projector just needs to be restarted.

Missions

Upcoming Events

Calendar

Until next Meeting

11/19 - Masterlife Together - 10Am at network office

11/20 - Choir Rehearsal

11/23 - Deacons Meeting at 4PM / Lord’s Supper & Thanksgiving service at 5PM

11/24 - Art out - Picking up Ada

11/26-27 - Office Closed

11/29 - Burgaw Christmas Tree Lighting

11/30 - Angel Tree Gifts Due / Discovery Class

12/1 - Ladies Gathering ?

12/2 - Silver Threads - noon

12/4 - Christmas Choir Rehearsal

12/6 - Youth Christmas Party 5-8PM

12/7 - Christmas Cantata

12/8 - WOM 1 @ 1:30 / WOM 2 @ 6:30

12/9 - Staff Meeting / Christmas Lunch

Looking Ahead

12/13 - Angel Tree Wrapping

12/16 - Baptist Men / RPCA Board Meeting 6:30 PM

12/19 - Choir Christmas Party 7-8:25PM

12/21 - Christmas Candlelight Service

12/23-25 - Office Closed

12/28 - No Evening Programs

1/1/26 - Office Closed

1/4/26 - No Evening Programs

1/5/26 - Ladies Gathering 6PM

1/6/26 - Silver Threads - noon

1/8/26 - Missions - 6:30 PM

1/12/26 - WOM 1 @ 1:30 / WOM 2 @ 6:30

1/13/26 - Staff Meeting / Admin @ 6:30 PM

1/17 - Winterfest - 10 AM-1 PM

1/18 - Discovery Class

1/21-24 - Missions College @ IMB

1/26/26 - One Cry Prayer Rally at RCBC

2/10-2/19 - Art to Nepal

3/17-21 - Washington DC Sifting Week

3/23-25 - AMS Conference - Caraway Conference Center

4/4 - Easter Egg Hunt

4/10-11 - Living Cent Missions Conference

4/20 - Kids Ministry Summit