2011 Men's Day

Riverina Men's Day.
Simon Manchester has agreed to be our guest speaker next year, & the date is Saturday 4th June 2011 so lock it in now!
We'll also be having several workshops to choose from;
"Ministry out of the box." and "Reaching generation Y."

Once again we'll be meeting at Wagga Wagga Baptist Church
to be encouraged, challenged and equipped to live as Christian men
Our Men's Days are free to attend, but a donation is gratefully accepted toward our costs.
See you there!

Other Downloads

Other files available for download:

Fliers etc:
Mens Day 3 May 2008

Resources:
Church Planting Policy 2008

Minutes:
AGM Minutes March 2008
AGM Minutes August 2007

AGM Minutes

Minutes of the AGM, March 15 2008 are now available as a mediafire download.

Steve Maynard

About Steve.

Steve has been the Pastor of Gundagai Baptist Church since 2005.
After searching for the answers to life's big questions, he found those answers in Jesus Christ. Steve firmly believes that God has a plan for each of our lives & that He cares for every one of us so much more than we could ever grasp or understand! Steve is married to Leonie (a truly patient & forgiving wife!)They have 2 outstanding children, Kylie & Tim.

http://gundagaibaptistchurch.blogspot.com/

David Wilson

David is the Treasurer of the Riverina Baptist Association

David has recently moved to Corowa after many years of service with Denilliquin Baptist Church.

In his time David has served in various ways with the Riverina Baptist Association, and now ably keeps the financial records and keeps the rest of the Executive on their toes.

Downloads and Advertising

We are trialling the mediafire website as our download system.

I noticed that the download page contains advertising.

If anyone finds this advertising unhelpful (personally) or inappropriate (public-wise) please let us know and we will work out how to fix it or find another way.

In particular I don't want any of our pages, or pages we link to, to contain visual temptations that have even a chance of leading people away to other unhelpful sites.

Grace and Peace,
Michael

Andrew Skewes

Andrew Skewes is the Regional Minister of the Riverin Baptist Association

About Andrew

About the regional Minister's Role

Anthony Petterson

Anthony Petterson was the guest speaker at the 2008 RBA Rally. He opened chapters 3, 4 and 5 of Zechariah for us.

It was great to hear the well know passage, "Not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the Lord." applied to us in terms of God building his people by his Spirit through his Word.

Anthony is an Old Testament Lecturer at Morling College (Sydney), the New South Wales Baptist Theological and Bible College.

Here is his biographical blurb from the Morling Website:

Rev Dr Anthony PettersonBSc, BD, BMin, PhD
Anthony Petterson joined the faculty at Morling College as Lecturer in Old Testament in 2006.
Anthony studied at UNSW and worked there for several years. He then studied at Moore and Morling Colleges and was pastor of Hornsby Heights Baptist Church. He returned to Sydney from Ireland after having spent four years as associate pastor of Grosvenor Road Baptist Church in Dublin and researching the Messianic hope in Zechariah for a doctorate through Queen's University Belfast.
Anthony is married to Megan and they have four children, Luke, Emma, Sophie and Hugh.

More about Morling at the Morling Website.

Which Town needs a Baptist Church?

If you believe that Baptist churches are a faithful expression of Biblical Christianity then the question isn't, 'Why plant churches?' but becomes, 'Why shouldn't every town have a Baptist Church?'

If you don't believe Baptist Churches are a faithful expression of Biblical Christianity, what are you doing here?

The annual meeting of the Riverina Baptist Association on 15 March 2008 approved a motion to start church planting in the riverina by doing the following:
• Start small fellowships
• Raise funds for the future
• Find out more about church planting

A copy of a workign document titled the RBA Church Planting Policy here.

Is there a town that needs a small group gathering around the Bible with the assistance of nearby Baptists?

Is there a town that has scattered Baptists who would like to be pulled together around the word?

Has the Lord laid a town on your heart?

Leave a comment below if you want to stick a pin in the map for us to take note of. In particular we are interested in the town, who you might be, and why it might be a good time to start something there. Please do not post email addresses in full. Try something like michaelahutton (at) gmail.com. We'll know what you mean.

Alternatively, have a look at one of the biographical entries (listed on the right as the exec team) and send us an email.

Grace and Peace,
Michael

RBA AGM Minutes August 2007

The minutes of the Agm in August 2007 are available for download here.
These minutes were approved at the 2008 AGM on 15 March.

RBA Rally 2009

2009 will build on the success of this year. The executive is in the process of contacting possible speakers. If you have a suggestion please leave a comment below.

God Bless,
Michael

Michael Hutton

Michael Hutton is fortunate enough to be the pastor of Ariah Park Baptist Church. A great little church in a great little town in the Riverina.

Michael grew up in Wollongong and studied and taught in Sydney before moving to Ariah Park in 2002.

Meredith is Michael's beautiful wife. Apart from all the scrapbooking and patchworking and Bible Study and Scripture teaching and Sunday School teaching, Meredith also manages a household of 3 girls and 1 boy. (not counting Michael)

Michael likes to read, is currently having a resurgence of interest in glass and leadlighting, hates to miss woodwork class on Monday Night. He finds it hard to finish what he started before he races off onto another hare-brained idea.

Michael has a blog (latest hare-brained idea) called anatole.