Ashe Baptist Association Church Announcements

Annual Church Profile 2024- Attention Church Clerks! It is a new year and the 2024 end of year statistical information is due in our office. This a new process and we will be able to do the Minute Books for Ashe Baptist Association once the ACPs are in.  Please get it to us ASAP. Please include the members who passed away in 2024 and church data that you would like to report. Call Debbie at the office 336-846-5631 if you have questions. Thanks for your understanding.

 The 2025 Ashe Baptist Associational Calendars are ready for churches to pick up at your convince.  

Special Thank you to  Bristol Baptist Church Ladies Circle,  Old Fields Baptist Church, Christian Unity Baptist Church,Orion Baptist Church, Healing Springs Baptist Church, Welcome Home Baptist Church  Phoenix Baptist Church and Round Knob Baptist Church for your Christmas Card and your gifts. Linda and I appreciate it.

Grassy Creek Baptist Church announces that Rev. Tom, Graybeal has been elected by at 100% vote as their Pastor. We welcome Brother Tom and his wife Mary and look forward to working with them. He will begin his work on the 3rd Sunday of January.

Fletcher Memorial Baptist Church announces that Rev. Paul Strickland has been elected as pastor by a 100% vote. He has served as Interim Pastor. We welcome Brother Paul and his wife Cindy to the Ashe Baptist Association and look forward to working with them. 

Ashe Baptist Association is looking for a FaithHealth Connector. If you have an interest in helping folks with their health and faith needs, please contact me. This is an 8 hour per week paid position. Rev. Paul Strickland, for FaithHealth Connector is stepping down since he has been elected a Pastor at Fletcher Memorial Baptist Church in Jefferson. He did an excellent job especially since he is a retire nurse and minister. Thank you Brother Paul.

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday is January 19, 202. The Bible clearly supports the view that life begins at conception. Scripture teaches that human life is precious and that murder is wrong (Genesis 9:6). 

Baptist Men's Day in 2025 is on Sunday, January 26. Baptist churches celebrate this day on the fourth Sunday of January each year to recognize the importance of men's ministry in the church, community, and the world.

North Beaver Baptist Church would like to invite everyone to our annual Baptist Men’s Day Breakfast. Sunday, January 26, 2025, starting at 9:00….come for a good meal, fellowship and stay for a message to feed your Soul. Rev, Mathew Tilly is the pastor.

Ashe Really Cares is looking for volunteers to join our ministry. If you are interested in giving a few hours a week of your time to help minister to our neighbors please contact Twila Miller at 336-846-5234 or email ashereallycares@gmail.com.  

Sweetheart Dinner for Ministers and Wives February 11 at Bald Mountain Baptist Church Barn at 6:00. Contact the Ashe Baptist Office to reserve a seat at the table. Deadline to know is Feb.3 to order enough food. We did not have a Minister and wife Christmas Dinner in December like we usually do, due to the Helene Disaster all the hurting folks involved. We now feel better about getting together as folks are doing better as well. This Sweetheart Dinner will be help on Tuesday, February 11 at 6:00 at the BARN of Bald Mountain Baptist Church. Chicken or BBQ prepared by Chef Rick Farmer, slaw, baked beans, roll, drink and desert will be available. Ministers, wives and any office folks who serve with you are welcome. There will be songs, food, prizes, fellowship, prayer and reading from the Bible. I hope you will attend, relax and be with folks who serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who you don’t often get to fellowship with. Contact the Ashe Baptist Office by February 3 to get your seat at the table. Please keep Ashe County in your prayers for folks to be saved, Christians strengthened and the hurting to feel good again. Check us out at www.ashebaptist.org for the latest from "the coolest corner of NC!"

 Souper Bowl Sunday. Tackel Hunger by sending soup (or other can goods) or money to Ashe Really Cares thru February 28 for Souper Bowl Sunday Event. Everyone deserves to eat.  

This week I took a trip to the Ashe Baptist Campground and was very pleased. As I walked in the Mattie Parsons Building 6 men were singing how great thou art! One was from Venezuela his interpreter was from Honduras other were from outside the county as well. Baptist Men are sleeping there as they work on fixing up disaster needs. They[DB1]  tell me a whole lot of snoring is going on. I appreciate all the folk’s men, women and youth working to together to make AsheStrong. Two of them is with us this morning and will be sharing shorty. If you have some disaster needs, please contact me at the Ashe Baptist Office and we can send a team out to help you.  

The Hope for the Mountains Disaster Relief was organized immediately after Helene to assist those in need. The group of volunteers is not limited to one church or denomination but is comprised of Christians who are eager to lend a helping hand. If you or your group would

like to help with these jobs, please call 336-977-4980 or 336-469-2270 as soon as possible. I have been asked where someone can give. There is a special fund set up to help individuals in need. It is Hope for the Mountains Disaster Relief Fund. Checks can be mailed to Ashe Baptist Association PO Box 850 Jefferson, NC 28640. Or visit the Facebook page Hope for the Mountains Disaster Relief of Ashe County and

scan the QR code. 

Please remember Ashe County as you pray. We had the most water in 100 years thus lots of damage to homes, churches, stores, cars and all other items close to water. It will takea lot of PRAYING and working to get going again. at this time some people still  with out power. No internet insome places.  Ashe Really Cares, churches and all the other food pantries are working extra to help folks in need. Other organizations are working very hard to try to help. Working together doing what we cannot do alone. Let us know  if you need help.  AsheStrong!

 Mt. Olive Baptist has donated 45 Baptist Hymnals for any church needing them. They have been dropped of at ABA office. Mt. Olive Baptist invites you to join them for Sunday School at 10 am and Worship at 11 am.

 Ashe Baptist Association  still need a church to host Annual Meeting on 3th Friday(15th) in August 2025.  Please contact the church you attend and share with them this need. How long has it been since you hosted an Ashe Baptist Associational Meeting? For more info contact Mrs. Lucy Hagin, Mr. Jerry Powers ( Moderator), Mr. Harold Riddle or the Associational Office.  

    Hope for the Mountains Prayer Team meets every Tuesday at 8:00 AM with Midway Baptist Church, we have devotion in the sanctuary and pray around the altar. . It is open to the public and you are invited to attend.  

 When you pray, please remember Riverview Baptist Church, Wagoner Baptist Church, Round Knob Baptist Church and Big Laurel Baptist Church.   

FYI- 336-846-2743 (ASHE) Fax Number if you need it. Office for Ashe Baptist 336-846-5631 and Ashe Really Cares 336-846-5234.    

Special Announcements from our friends:    

 Ashe Pregnancy Center are still giving away diapers, wipes, formula and baby food to anyone and everyone. 

 Gideons International of Ashe County reminds you they are speaking to churches about the work they are doing. If you would like to have a speaker,   please, contact  Bill Carter at 336-877-0599.   

Ashe Baptist would like to thank our sponsors for the Ashe Baptist News heard on WKSK each Saturday and on SoundCloud on the Web. Randy Marion Ford and Randy Marion Chevrolet of Ashe County as a new sponsor, Kristin and Josh Harrold. We look forward to working with them and appreciate it very much. Tri - County Paving, Lucian and Patricia Jordan, Statewide Insurance Solutions, Chris and Andrea Finney and Tri County Monuments, Mike and Lesia Peters. They wish you a very Merry Christmas! They are all Christians and attend church and welcome you to come see them when you find yourself in need of their services.      

Happy Birthday: 18th. Nathan McLeese (Sara- ARC), 20th. Rev. Steve Ashley (Sammi-App Church)23rd. Mrs. Hope Bare (Dan – A.A. Bald Mt), 24th. Mrs. Ann Farmer (Rev. Danny- Farmers Memorial) 

Happy Anniversary: none)