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"Passing the Baton" was the theme for the joyous graduation service at Maranatha Baptist Church, Bad Heilbrunn, Bavaria, Germany on Sunday, June 20, 2010.

Maranatha began as a Bible study in the mid 1980s. For the past eight years, BMM Missionaries Todd & Dawn Daily, sent by Slater Baptist Church, have been discipling, training, and nurturing the church toward autonomy. The church is duly constituted and recognized, has a German pastor, and is ready to move forward without the assistance of a missionary. The Dailys invited Pastor Don and Jeanie Michaelsen to represent their sending church at the service.

SBC gladly embraced the mission of sending the Michaelsens to Germany. They were able to participate in the morning worship service as well as the afternoon graduation service on June 20, plus enjoy an extended time of fellowship and sight-seeing with Family Daily on surrounding days. Some of the church people also created opportunities to spend quality time together and develop an even closer bond in the Lord.

In addition, the Michaelsens were able to participate in the worship service at the Independent Baptist Church in Ingolstadt the following Sunday. Charles and Nancy Ellis and the Dailys have been involved with that work in years past which is also now autonomous. Lord willing, the Dailys will return to Ingolstadt in 2011 to train and equip a leadership team who will plant a new church. The baton continues to be passed as disciples are being made and Christ builds His church in Germany.

Thank you for all of the wonderful work that you have done to represent our Lord, your families, your churches and our Fellowship in such excellent and godly ways. We love, pray for and rejoice in all of you.

Special Congratulations to all who placed in Iowa and in our National TFC Ministries!

On behalf of all of your brothers and sisters in the Iowa Assocition of Regular Baptist Churches,

Bible Knowledge
     Jennifer Huang, First Place, Open
          Faith Baptist Church, Mason City, IA
     Heather Gillis, First Place, Scholarship
          Calvary Baptist Church, Mount Pleasant, IA
     Kara Reu, Second Place, Scholarship
          Maranatha Baptist Church, Grimes, IA

Brass
     Jacob Farrell, First Place, Scholarship
         Calvary Baptist Church, Forest City, IA
     Justin Brant, Second Place, Scholarship
        Faith Baptist Church, Carroll, IA

Female Public Speaking
     Sophie LaFleur, First Place, Scholarship
         Maranatha Baptist Church, Grimes, IA
     Abby Does, Second Place, Scholarship
         Faith Baptist Church, Mason City, IA

Female Voice
     Kaylee Good, First Place, Open
        Clear Lake Regular Baptist Church, Clear Lake, IA
     Whitney Sauser, First Place, Scholarship
        Harvest Baptist Church, Williamsburg, IA

Male Voice
Curtis Johnson, Second Place, Scholarship
Indianola Regular Baptist Church, Indianola, IA

Oral Interpretation of Scripture
     Emily Wiedemeier, First Place, Scholarship
         Faith Baptist Church, Carroll, IA
    Janette Huang, Second Place, Scholarship
        Faith Baptist Church, Mason City, IA

Piano
Alyssa Katsion, Second Place, Scholarship
Calvary Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant, IA

Preaching
Charlie Carter, Second Place, Scholarship
Harvest Baptist Church, Williamsburg, IA

Strings
Megan Fee, First Place, Scholarship
Maranatha Baptist Church, Grimes, IA

Eleven messengers along with 30 other guests were present on Saturday, May 22nd to sit in council to consider the advisability of the ordination of Pastor Troy Weigert. After a lengthy examination the council gave a recommendation for the church to proceed with the ordination and commended Pastor Troy for his thorough preparation and his passion for God and the things of God. They also commended Blair Ridge Baptist Church for their support of this ordination.

An ordination service was held on Sunday May 23rd. Pastor Jerry VanHooser from Calvary Baptist Church Mt. Pleasant gave a charge to the church and Pastor Matt Reno also from Calvary Baptist Church Mt. Pleasant gave a charge to Pastor Troy. We all are rejoicing together and praying for God’s continued blessing on the Weigert’s and Blair Ridge Baptist Church.

Have you ever wished that you could give a gift to the IARBC with just a few clicks of a mouse on your computer rather than mailing a check. Well, now you can easily and safely do just that.

On the right hand side of the home page on our website, www.iarbc.org, you can click on and by following the prompts make a safe, tax-deductible gift using your credit card.

If you want to give to the General Ministries Fund of the IARBC, leave the Comments Box on the Donation Form empty or put General Ministries Fund in it. If you want to designate your gift to Philippian Providers, State Fair Ministries, etc., just put that in the Comments Box.

Since the Faith Community Foundation (FCF) provides this Online Credit Card Giving service for us, they will process your donation and send you a tax deductible receipt for your gift.

In case you may not be familiar with FCF, Mr. Del Mohler is the President of FCF and a Financial Officer at FBBC + TS. I am currently one of the two FBBC + TS (Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary) board members designated to represent them on the FCF Board. If you want more information about FCF please visit their website at www.fcfnd.org.

Although you will receive a tax-deductible receipt for the entire amount of your gift, 1% of your gift will go to FCF for providing this service for us and up to 3.5% will go the your credit card company for their fee.

Will your gift for the IARBC be safe and secure? Always look for the lock (symbol) at the end of the web address bar on your browser. The website for giving to IARBC hosted by Faith Community Foundation is a secure site and displays the (lock symbol) image.

Many of you support the ministries of the IARBC in many different ways. Some of you regularly pray for various ministries in our Fellowship, many of you participate in many of our ministries, many of you encourage others to participate in our ministries and many of your financially support various ministries in our Fellowship. We hope that this new way of giving will be helpful to some of you now and in the future. If you have any questions about this new way of supporting our Fellowship, please give me a call 515-964-2880.

Strategic Plan Adopted by
Iowa Association of Regular Baptist Churches!

Special thanks to our Lord; the Council of 10; Phil Fogle, our facilitator; Pastor Rich VanHeukelum, Chairman of the Strategic Planning Team; each of the other members of the Strategic Planning Team; and all of the messengers from our churches who met at Ankeny Baptist Church on Tuesday, November 11, 2008, and adopted the Proposed Strategic Plan. The messengers also passed a motion to commend our State Representative, the Strategic Planning Team, the Council of 10 and Phil Fogle for their vision, work and love for our Lord and the IARBC as demonstrated in this Strategic Plan.

Please be much in prayer for the Council of 10 and many, many others who will be involved in implementing these important Goals to help us live out our new Mission Statement, which is, “The Iowa Association of Regular Baptist Churches works together to carry out the Great Commission and to stimulate Biblically effective ministries.” In light of Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision (revelation) the people perish (cast off restraint and fail to fulfill their God-given purposes) but happy is he who keeps the law”, we are very grateful that we have a written revelation from God. His Word teaches us that our primary way to please Him in this Church Age is to seek to fulfill the Great Commission rather than live an unrestrained life. We are to demonstrate that our primary focus is on the Great Commandment and the Great Commission by “Growing More and Healthier Christians and Churches.” May our Fellowship enjoy the happinesses (blessings) that come to those that continually seek to keep His law (commandments), more faithfully and effectively each day.