WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

September 11, 2025

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Annual Church Profile and

Leadership Lists due Sept. 30, 2025

Thank you to those churches who have already completed their reports.

The Tri-Area Annual Meeting

PARTNERS TOGETHER ON MISSION FOR CHRIST

This year's Tri-Area Annual Meeting will be on Saturday, October 11th in Portales.

"Together on Mission Gathering"
The Main Session

The main session will be held at Calvary Baptist Church, located at 1101 W 18th St. in the Worship Center and will be bilingual, with Mario Navarro, our BCNM Regional Missionary helping us with the translation during the session.

Everything begins at 4:00 p.m. with a short business session. We will approve new board members, the annual budget, and vote on the recommendation of our Credentials Committee to fully accept GracePointe church as our newest member of Tri-Area.

Each Tri-Area church is allowed to have up to five voting messengers to vote in the business session of the Together on Mission Gathering. But we welcome additional members of our churches to attend.

The business session will be followed by worship, led by the GracePointe Church Portales Worship Team. 

Matt Thackerson, the Missions Mobilization Leader for the BCNM will be our speaker this year.

The session will conclude with an altar call to allow attendees opportunity to respond to God in whatever way they feel led.
 

Provisions for Childcare
"Kids on Mission"

Childcare will be provided for little ones. All events provided for children will be at Calvary's campus. 

A mission lesson will be provided for younger (kindergarten through 2nd grade) in the Little Kids on Mission class.

A mission lesson will be provided for older children (3rd through 6th grade) in the Big Kids on Mission class.

"Students on Mission Gathering"
The Youth Session

Tri-Area youth and sponsors will gather at Emmanuel Baptist, located at 524 N Globe in Portales. They will be led in worship by the Emmanuel Worship Team and will hear a message from Tyler Eanes, from FBC Melrose.

Following the Youth Session at Emmanuel, youth and sponsors will join everyone else in the Fellowship Hall at Calvary for dinner. Church vans will be provided to help everyone get from Emmanuel to Calvary.

Barbecue Dinner to Follow

After the main session at 5:00 p.m., we will gather in the fellowship hall to share in a barbecue dinner and fellowship. Displays from various ministries will be in the Fellowship Hall for folks to enjoy and gain information on what is happening with such Tri-Area partners as Foundations of Faith Dairy Ministry, the New Mexico Baptist Children's Home, the Christian Challenge BSU ministry at ENMU, etc.

Register Your Church Group!

To help us prepare for the annual meeting, please register your group by clicking HERE.

Tucumcari Churches Preparing
Their Community For ONE DAY

The churches in Tucumcari that are participating in ONE DAY are preparing their community for this event that they are calling "We Love Quay County," by preparing flyers that are being used to promote the various elements of the day's activities.

Below is the general flyer that has been prepared in both English and Spanish (63% of Tucumcari is Hispanic). This flyer will be use on the day of ONE DAY at each activity to help people know of other activities also taking place that day. It also being used prior to ONE DAY to promote the events of the day.

Flyers have also been prepared in both English and Spanish for each activity on ONE DAY - Tucumcari. These are being distributed through-out the communities and the schools to make people aware of this special day.

The purpose of each of these activities is to provide environments where opportunities to share the gospel are made possible. Similar activities will also be happening in San Jon. Additionally, teams will be going door to door to conduct a survey to discover community needs, offer prayer, and share the gospel.

Our state convention reports that almost 500 people have registered to participate in ONE DAY in either Tucumcari or Silver City, with over 300 of them participating in ONE DAY - Tucumcari.

JOIN OUR PRAYER TEAM

If you would like to join our Tri-Area Prayer Team, text your first and last name to Elaine at 575-714-7788. She will pass along prayer needs via a text message that are submitted by our churches.

NEWS

Recently, Dress a Girl New Mexico received an email from Trey Dewey, with Mission Aviation Fellowship. They had received some dresses and shorts provided by Dress a Girl and distributed them to the Karya Anak Perdamaian Orphanage in Papua, Indonesia.

In the email, Trey passed along the following message from the girls: “Kami dari panti asuhan karya anak perdamaian mengucapkan, terima kasih buat bajunya. Tuhan Yesus memberkati.” Which, when translated, says, “We, from Karya Anak Perdamaian Orphanage, would like to thank you for the clothes you have given. May the Lord Jesus bless you.”

The girls are pictured in the first two pictures below wearing their dresses and the boys are shown in the last picture showing off their shorts.

Conchas Delivers
Dresses to House

Margie Berger, a member of Conchas Baptist, recently met Marsha Stowe, from FBC House to deliver 45 dresses for Dress a Girl. The ladies at House have received a request for 200 dresses for Operation Christmas Child boxes, which these 45 dresses will go a long way to helping fill.

PRAY FOR MISSIONARIES WITH NEW MEXICO TIES

Karen Pligreen sends out a monthly prayer list from International Mission Board of missionaries who have ties to New Mexico. You can sign up to receive Karen's monthly prayer request list by simply emailing her at kpilg42@yahoo.com and requesting to be added to her email list.

Phillip Smith Resigns
at FBC Portales

After serving for five years as pastor of FBC Portales, Phillip Smith has accepted the call to serve as the pastor of Del Norte Baptist Church in Albuquerque. He announced his resignation to the congregation on Sunday, August 31st. Pastor Phillip's last Sunday at FBC will be this coming Sunday,  September 14th.

We appreciate the time that Pastor Phillip served at FBC and the churches participating in the work of Tri-Area. We pray God's blessings on him and his family as that move forward in God's direction for them. We will also be praying for FBC Portales as they begin the search for a new pastor for their church.

Click on the image above
to register for Megapalooza!

Rusty Kenyon 
Earns Seminary Degree

On July 30, Rusty Kenyon, Pastor of FBC Tucumcari, graduated with a Diploma in Ministry Studies from Rockbridge Seminary. Rockbridge is a seminary through which a person can earn a degree completely online.

We congratulate Rusty and his family on this accomplishment; and commend FBC Tucumcari for encouraging their pastor in his efforts to better equip himself for ministry.

Skidsteer Purchase Update
for New Mexico
Baptist Disaster Relief 

Roy Martin Completes
His Master of Arts in
Worship Leadership Degree

Roy Martin, Worship Pastor at Parkland Baptist in Clovis, recently hosted a special worship service on a Sunday night in order to complete his Master of Arts in worship Leadership degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth. Roy was able to do his work online. His professors were watching the service online, and he received a grade for it, as his final project for his degree.

Roy recently shared with us that he received a grade for his project and thesis defense (the service was built around God making all things new). The grade he received was a 96.6!

Though Roy did his degree work online, he and his wife, Tammi, with travel to Ft. Worth so he might walk across the stage as he receives his diploma on Friday, December 5th.

We congratulate Roy on this investment in his ministry skills and commend Parkland for their encouragement and support. Parkland now has a better Worship Pastor as a result.

DIRECTOR OF MISSIONS REPORT

On Thursday of last week, Dave participated in a Zoom meeting of youth leaders to work on preparations for the 2026 Tri-Area DNOW. The group has decided to move to one DNOW that will use a one day schedule.

On Sunday, Dave preached at FBC Dora, one of our pastorless churches. The congregation now has a search committee, chaired by Tyler Morgan, son of Calvary Portales Pastor, Brad Morgan and his wife, Shelly. Tyler had led the church to go through a 40 days of prayer emphasis for their church and then asked Dave to preach on the Sunday at the conclusion of the 40 days prayer emphasis. Dave spoke from 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13 on "How to Support Your Pastor." After the message, Dave asked the search committee to come forward and allow the congregation to gather around them as he led them in a prayer of dedication and ask God to give them direction.

The rest of Dave's week was spent doing work in preparation for ONE DAY - Tucumcari. He also worked on this week's newsletter and on updating the Tri-Area website, in addition to fitting in some one on one meetings with pastors and ministry leaders. On Thursday, Dave and Donna took a load on things to their new home outside of Seguin, Texas, where Dave will remain for a while, working remotely (with the Tri-Area Executive Board's permission).

Click HERE to check out the Good Books section of our website. We also have a Spanish version called Buenos Libros which you can check out by clicking HERE.

The book of the week is the Becoming a Welcoming Church by Thom Rainer. This book is listed under Evangelism and Disciple-Making in the Good Books section of the Tri-Area website, which is found under the heading, "Encouraging God's Saints."

Most church members don't see their churches clearly.

In almost all of Thom S. Rainer's consultations, church members perceive their church to be friendly. But as he surveyed guests, he found that the guests typically saw church members as unfriendly. The perception chasm existed because the members were indeed friendly . . . to one another. 

The guests felt like they crashed a private party.

Bestselling author Thom Rainer (I Am a Church Member, Autopsy of a Deceased Church) has a game plan for churches to become more hospitable. In a format that is suitable for church members to read individually or study together, Rainer guides readers toward a practical framework for making a difference for those who visit their church. Churches may use Becoming a Welcoming Church to assess and audit where they are on a spectrum between welcoming and wanting. Additionally, churches can use the companion book We Want You Here to send guests home with a compelling vision for what pastors want every guest to know when they visit.

Click HERE if you want to purchase this book from Amazon.com. It may also be available through other booksellers as well.

Submit a résumé by sending it to the following mailing address:

Iglesia Bautista Belen
Senior Pastor Position
820 N. Reid
PO Box 2046
Clovis, New Mexico  88102

First Baptist Church
Senior Pastor Position
226 Avenue A
PO Box 275
Dora, New Mexico  88115

First Baptist Church
Senior Pastor Position
100 S Avenue C
Portales, NM  88130

JULY FINANCIAL REPORT

Click HERE to read or download the latest contribution report for Tri-Area

IMPORTANT DATES

Have an event coming up at your church? Email us at tri.area.baptist.association@gmail.com or
send us a text message at 575-714-7788.
 

September 2025 - 
11th - Portales Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
25th - Clovis Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
27th - ONE DAY - Tucumcari
29th - Tucumcari Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.

October 2025 -

6th - Ft. Sumner Area Ministers Fellowship at Noon Rodeo Grill
11th - Annual Meeting, Calvary Portales: 4-5 p.m.
16th - Portales Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
23rd - Clovis Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
21st-22nd - BCNM Annual Meeting, FBC Las Cruces
27th - Tucumcari Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.

November 2025 - 

3rd - Ft. Sumner Area Ministers Fellowship at Noon Rodeo Grill
6th - Portales Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
13th - Clovis Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
17th - Tucumcari Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.

December 2025 - 

1st - Ft. Sumner Area Ministers Fellowship at Noon Rodeo Grill
4th - Portales Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
11th - Clovis Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
15th - Tucumcari Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.

January 2026 - 

5th - Ft. Sumner Area Ministers Fellowship at Noon Rodeo Grill
15th - Portales Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
22nd - Clovis Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
26th - Tucumcari Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.

February 2026 - 

2nd - Ft. Sumner Area Ministers Fellowship at Noon Rodeo Grill
12th - Portales Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
19th - Clovis Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.
23rd - Tucumcari Pastors & Wives Fellowship - 6:30 p.m.

Got a question about any of the above events? Call Dave at 575-607-5495.

PRAY FOR NEEDS
IN OUR ASSOCIATION

New or updated requests appear below in bold yellow type.

Pray for Foundations of Faith Dairy Ministry.

Pray for our pastorless churches: Iglesia Bautista Belen in Clovis, First Baptist Dora and FBC Portales.

Pray for the Christian Challenge ministry at Eastern.

Pray for all our pastors and other ministerial staff and leaders.

Pray for Joel Castro and his wife, Sara, from Honduras, that they might be able to secure the necessary visas to come to the U.S.

Pray for Carlos Cervantes and his wife, Adrianna, from Mexico, that they might be able to secure the necessary visas to come to the U.S.

Pray for the plans for ONE DAY Tucumcari on September 27th.

Pray for the Tri-Area Annual Meeting on October 11th.

Pray for the DOM Search Committee as they seek God's guidance for finding the next Director of Missions.

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