Resurrection Baptist Church News

Pastor is Called

On July 19, the church voted to call Clifford Richard “Rick” Kesterson from Virginia as pastor. His first Sunday in the pulpit will be October 11. In September Rick and his wife Melissa completed a two-year project rebuilding houses along the Gulf Coast for the Virginia Baptist Convention, and they will move to Montpelier in early October.  Rick led a mission team to RBC in 2006 to replace the roof on our sanctuary.  He has an Associate Divinity Degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and pastored the Lower Northampton Baptist Church in Townsend, VA.  The congregation is excitedly awaiting the Kesterson’s arrival.

RBC (Rockin' Big Celebration) at RBC Report

During a very rainy summer, God blessed RBC’s outreach during the week of July 20 as rain held off on the nights of outdoor activities.  Outdoor activities on Monday included volleyball and basketball.  Tuesday evening, those present played various table games, concluding with everyone participating in a fun, fierce battle of Gestures.  The excellent movie Facing the Giants was shown to a large crowd on Wednesday.  The Celebration’s culmination Thursday was a block party which drew some new neighbors.  There were carnival-type games, like throwing darts at balloons, plenty of food and laughter.

Winter Party January 24

Over twenty hearty souls gathered at the Boyd home on January 24 to fellowship and witness the annual snow creation-building contest. After lunch, with temperatures in the teens, five or six teams ventured out to attempt creating the best sculpture. The snow was not good packing snow for such activity, but bottles of colored water helped the efforts and made for colorful creations, including a turtle, large snowman, dog, Christmas tree, meatball, and a snow bunny. Judges deemed the snow bunny to be the winner, and the Boyd family received the rotating snowman trophy to keep for the year. S'mores and hot chocolate were enjoyed afterwards.

Christmas Caroling Outreach

On Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, Resurrection Baptist Church participated in their annual visit at Heaton Woods, an assisted living facility in Montpelier.  Church members and a large number of residents sang Christmas carols and visited together. 

Debt Free Living at Resurrection Baptist Church

“What could the PEOPLE OF GOD do for the KINGDOM OF GOD if they were DEBT FREE?"

Financial Peace University (FPU) is a biblically based accountability class that teaches you how to manage your resources in a godly manner. The average family that takes this course reduces their debt by $5,300 and saves $2,700 in 91 days, resulting in an increased ability to give!”

Through FPU, Dave Ramsey teaches you about saving money, living on a budget, eliminating debt, retirement, investments, credit reports and even how to experience the JOY of giving!

Resurrection Baptist Church began the FPU course in February and will finish in May.  Five couples are going through the lessons each week (13 in all) and have all ready seen a dramatic change in the way they think about money.  They are learning how to “live like no one else so later they can live like no one else.”

posted on Green Mountain Baptist Association April 7, 2008

Montpelier Church Takes First Mission Trip

Eight people from Resurrection Baptist Church in Montpelier went on a mission trip to North Waterboro, Maine. They worked on the new church building of Lakeside Community Church.

While there they painted almost the entire downstairs floor of the church.

Though many individuals from Resurrection Baptist Church had been on various mission trips over the years with other groups or by themselves, this is the first mission trip for church as a whole to participate in.

posted on Green Mountain Baptist Association September 11, 2007