CHURCH LIBRARY MINISTRY REPORT
The Church Library Ministry carries out the mission of the local church by providing information
through media for worship, ministry, discipleship, evangelism, and fellowship that results in
church growth, spiritual transformation, ministries expansion, and Kingdom
advancement. Local meetings for the church library workers were held in 2016 including
meetings which were hosted by First Baptist Cleveland and an offsite meeting at Golden Corral.
During the February meeting, it was cold outside but our theme was “What’s Hot for 2016” as
we planned for 2016 TACMO meetings, reading clubs, VBS, upcoming library workshops and
then we through in a couple of book reviews.
During April we joined Hamilton County for book reviews at the Lifeway store at Hamilton
Place. In May, our Bradley Baptist Church Library workers meet at FBC Cleveland with an
informational program on First Baptist’s “Legacy of Faith project for senior adults” which was a
new ministry for the FBC Library.
Once again, several of our churches in the Bradley Baptist Association Library Ministry
participated in an Association-wide winter adult reading club during the first quarter of
2016. Various children’s summer reading programs were coordinated across the county. We
were blessed with many readers during the summer which kept our librarians really busy as
well as very happy serving their readers.
Several churches attended the Tennessee Baptist Southeast Tennessee Library Team Training in
September. The event included library experts from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and
Tennessee which provided a great day of information and training.
We continue to be blessed with some of the most beautiful and well organized libraries in the
southeast ministering right here in Cleveland and Bradley County. Your local church library can
provide ministry opportunities to the unsaved; discipleship for the believers; provide services
to toddlers & preschoolers, homeschoolers, latchkey kids, shut-ins, homebound, and
caregivers; and provide resources for AWANA, missions groups, Sunday School, children’s
church, VBS, music ministry, visitation, expectant and new parents, grandparents, ministers,
deacons and their wives, teachers, divorce recovery, grief recovery and much more. For
information on how to begin or renew a library ministry in your church, please contact Janice
Baker at 479-2612. We look forward to working with the area church library workers in the
coming year for His glory.
Janice Baker, Director
CrossNet Baptist Network Church Library Ministry
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