MAPLE CITY BAPTIST CHURCH

updates - march 2011

A Very Special Baptism

On Sunday March 13th I had the wonderful and exciting privilege of baptizing Anna. Last summer Anna came home from camp under conviction of her need for Christ. She did wrestle with the Spirit for a little while, but about two weeks later, she approached my wife and I late one evening expressing her desire to receive Jesus as her Saviour. Needless to say, we are so thankful for what the Lord has done in her heart and we pray she will grow in the Lord and serve Him all her days.

Concerning the ministry; on Sunday March 27th we will be having the first of ten evangelism classes and people seem to be getting interested. I just spoke to a man who told me he and his wife both want to take the class because they know they should share their faith, but they’re both scared to death to do it. Please pray for this class and for the ensuing spring and summer outreach plans we are preparing for. I am doing all I can to lead our church to be evangelistic, but the soil of people’s hearts in our community is often like stone. Would you please join us in praying that the Lord will begin softening the soil?

I’m very excited about our, “Faithful Men” meetings this year. This is a gathering of men from our church once a month. Our time is spent in fellowship, study of Scripture, and prayer. However, last year when I was planning the calendar I had a burden to do something just a little different and so this year we are memorizing Scripture together and all reading a book. The men seem to be excited, though memorizing verses is a bit challenging for some of them. I enjoy those meetings and my prayer is that we will all become and/or remain faithful to God, faithful to family, and faithful to church.

Thank you so much for making it possible for us to be here to minister and reach out to this community. We pray the Lord will greatly bless your spring and summer ministry plans and I would like to once again say that it is our privilege to be co-labouring with you in reaching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Beliveau Family