Dear Friend of Mission Mid-Atlantic,

As we look forward to 2012 at Mission Mid-Atlantic, it is with heartfelt gratitude to the Conservative Baptist community for sustaining the worthwhile work that has helped so many churches during the past year. With a generous gift from Mission Mid-Atlantic, Poplar Ridge Community Church in Sutton, WV, made some major modifications to their church building. As a result, they established a Sunday school ministry in their community where none has previously existed. Your gifts have also expanded the ministry of New Beginnings Christian Life Fellowship in Reading, PA, as they installed a sound system in their new church building.

Through God’s grace, our region continues to move forward in every area. Four churches in New Jersey and one in Pennsylvania welcomed new senior pastors in 2011. Numerous hours were invested consulting with pastors and churches in our region. Sometimes this involved next step coaching, other times walking together through a crisis. Relationships with potential church planters continue to grow, and the potential for developing a church planter pipeline in the Mid-Atlantic region is on the horizon. Thanks to pastors from the NJ Central Shore area, our Men’s Retreat was resurrected in October, and plans are already in place for the fall of 2012. Our commitment to nurture healthy churches that multiply more healthy churches stands firm.

As we look toward Mission Mid-Atlantic’s future, we realize that your generosity has brought us such a great distance – will you continue to help us serve our churches? Your support will help us strengthen our local churches by bringing relevant trainings and workshops to each area in our region. Trainings such as Relational Leaders Training, Resolving Conflicting Biblically, Best Practices of Healthy Churches, and Stewardship Principles. Through these and other trainings, our goal of developing a network of trained conciliators throughout the region can also be realized. Together with your support, we can offer Strategic Ministry Assessment and Planning, helping churches to engage in effective and purposeful ministry. Other initiatives for 2012 include further developing our pastors clusters, updating our website and growing our fellowship by adding new churches through church planting and new relationships.

Mission Mid-Atlantic is strong because of your support, and we are looking to the future with greater vision for our churches. As we close this year with a deficit, your help will play a huge part in our ability to make a difference for the Gospel - whether it is a one-time gift or making a monthly gift commitment to help sustain us in 2012. Your tax deductible gift can be sent to Mission Mid-Atlantic, P.O. Box 345, Clayton, NJ, 08312. As we close the chapter on 2011, we thank you again for your faithfulness. May God richly bless you during this Christmas season!

In His Easy Grip,

Jim

Dr. James E. Leary

Save the Date!

April 20th-21st, 2012
Mission Mid-Atlantic Annual Meeting
Grace Baptist Church, Lancaster, PA