Hawaii Pacific Baptist July 2015 Issue

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July 2015

Vol. 45, No. 4

in this issue Sue Nishikawa Offering Read more about Nishikawa and her love for missions. Page 5 Church recordkeeping Thom Rainer lays out the most important records for churches to keep. Page 4

Churches in the Pacific impacting the world

BAPTIST

HPBC Executive Board Meeting

Highlights from the SBC annual meeting See photos and stories from the June annual meeting. Page 6

President Alberto Camacho presided over the May Executive Board meeting held at the HPBC Chapel in Honolulu. Executive Board members approved recommendations from each of the committees of the Executive Board. Honolulu—The HPBC Executive Board met on May 22 and approved reports and recommendations from the committees. The Administrative Committee (made up of the chairs and vice chairs of each committee) recommended the following: 1) George Moyer serve on the Hawaii Baptist Academy Board of Directors; 2) The HPBC staff move to a four-day work week as long as two ministry assistants are present on all days, Monday through Friday. 3) The HPBC calendar be adjusted with the Creative Arts Camp to June 15-20 and Church Planting Church Training be held in one day. 4) Pearl Maeda (Eleele) and Andrew Tong (Hawaii Chinese) serve on the Executive Board. 5) The executive director will occupy the residence located at 1920 Keeaumoku St. in

Honolulu and paying all utilities beginning June 1, 2015. The Communications Committee recommended the following: 1) HPBC consolidate various publications (E-News, Awareness Bulletin and HPBC newspaper) into one electronic publication and building it from the ground up. 2) Change the purpose of existing “E-News” or “Awareness Bulletin” as main source to disseminate urgent prayer requests and events. 3) The offering goals for 2016 for the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention be – Annie Armstrong Easter Offering $150,000, Lottie Moon Christmas Offering - $260,000,Sue Nishikawa Hawaii Pacific Missions Offering - $115,000, Global Hunger Relief Offering - $40,000.  See HPBC..Page 12

Moving? See page 2 (0401)

FBC Pearl City held a RA/GA recognition service Sunday June 21. The Church recognized the kids, junior leaders and leaders under the leadership of Shirley Matsumura.

Annual Church Profile accurate, helps churches By David Roach

Nashville, Tenn.—With more than 80 percent of “National ACP statistics provide churches participating, the Southern Baptist Con- trends in how vention’s yearly statistical many people survey of cooperating congregations is seen by Southern Baptist congregations many as a model of denominational record are reaching and keeping that plays a vital impacting each role in formulating misyear” sions strategy. Known as the Annual Scott McConnell, Church profile, the surLifeway Research vey is a report churches vice president voluntarily submit to the Southern Baptist Convention, usually through their local association and/ or state convention. Associations that receive ACP reports pass them along to state conventions, which, in turn, report the data to LifeWay Research. LifeWay compiles ACP data for the entire SBC. Based on a survey of 10 Baptist state conventions with more than 20,000 cooperating churches, Baptist Press estimated that 82 percent of Southern Baptist churches report their ACP data each year. That percentage is better than the 66 percent threshold that some other denominations with autonomous churches aim for in their statistical surveys, and it is nearly as good as the reporting rate in some denominations with topdown authority structures, a representative of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) told BP. “Southern Baptists often serve as models for other groups, especially those primarily relying upon voluntary reporting systems,” ASARB secretary-treasurer Dale Jones told BP. “Even those of us in the more connectional groups learn from the Southern Baptists in the areas of technology and appropriate phrasing. Within the framework of their denominational practices, their annual report rates and data sets appear to be very good by ASARB standards.” Of the 10 state conventions surveyed, seven reported an ACP response rate between 70 and 90 percent for 2013. One convention reported that 95 percent of its churches submitted an ACP report, and another reported participation at just over 90 percent. The lowest response rate reported was 48 percent. “National ACP statistics provide trends in how many people Southern Baptist congregations are reaching and impacting each year,” Scott McConnell, vice president of LifeWay Research, told BP. “This includes important statistics such as the number of congregations that are related to the Southern Baptist Convention and the number of people related in membership and participation to those churches.” In 2013, the last year for which a report is available, Southern Baptists recorded a record number 46,125 churches, with an additional 4,789 church-type missions, for a total of nearly 51,000 congregations. Data for the 2014 ACP is being collected this fall by associations and state conventions.  See ACP...Page 3


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