Montana Moments: The Hartley Chronicles

Montana Moments: The Hartley Chronicles October 2011-March 2012 “Looking Back in Celebration, Looking Up in Adoration, and Looking Forward in Anticipation” THE EXTENSION CCI is now The Extension. As I reported earlier, we are excited about working with Yellowstone Baptist College and offering classes through YBC. Since I last reported on the work we completed two 13 week classes and we are working on a third before summer. Last fall Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church hosted the Institute and we did Ecclesiastes (12 students). What a great class. After Christmas we met at Calvary Baptist Church and did the history of Christianity. Six students took this course. I want to thank Shelby Morgan and Elliott Baptist Church for the books they provided on Baptist history. I was able to give these books to the students and refer to them during the class. This was also a class that counted toward credit with YBC. When we completed the history of Christianity we moved immediately into another course called Introduction to Christian Doctrine. This class meets in our home on Tuesdays and has five students. In June we are planning the graduation celebration of Chuck and Opal Sanderson. Chuck is receiving an Associate Degree in Biblical Studies which took 2 ½ years to complete. His wife is receiving a Certificate in Biblical Studies for work she completed. Checkout our website and blogs: capitalbaptistfellowship.com jeanneannhartley.blogstop.com (new content) capitalbaptistfellowship.wordpress.com (new content) Thanks in advance for your partnership with us in proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ! BAPTISMS AND DISCIPLESHIP Since our last report the Lord gave us seven candidates for baptism. Of these presenting themselves for Scriptural baptism, one was saved during a home Bible study and another was saved during Sunday morning worship. Pray for these new converts during the ongoing work of discipling. “Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. . . . And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved” (Acts 2:41a, 47b). What's Happening? We continue to meet on Sunday mornings at the Jorgenson’s Inn and provide a fellowship meal afterwards. We average twelve on Sunday mornings. Chuck and Opal Sanderson, whom I mentioned above, help with the work in many ways. Opal is CBF’s treasurer and Chuck preaches on Sunday mornings. On Sunday nights we meet for Bible study. Last Sunday night the Lord sent 10 people for the study. We just finished a verse by verse study of Revelation and are presently working through the minor prophets. During the week classes of various kinds meet in homes, restaurants, and wherever the Lord opens up a spot for us. The work at the ski hill has come to a close. It was a productive season working with the ski patrol. The Lord gave us several opportunities to share God’s love with people in very practical ways! The 2012 summer is looking busy. Pray that the Lord gives us wisdom and direction as we work with the mission team coming in June and I finish the plans for a deputation visit later in the summer. THANK YOU ALL I want to thank all our partners for the cards, phone calls, letters, gift boxes, books, ministry supplies, monthly support and prayers with which you bless us. “I thank my upon every remembrance of you” (Philippians 1:3). Also, I want to thank those of you who responded so positively to Elizabeth’s support letter she sent. As she prepares to go to Peru for summer missions, it encourages her and us to know your prayers go with her. A special thank you goes out to Jill Oie who worked with us for 6 1/2 years. Her dedication and love for the Lord made each year a joy! She did so much for us and the work of the Lord! I’ll be writing to many of you individually, but for now, let me say again, thank you all. Prayer Requests 1. Our meeting place at the Jorgenson’s Inn is a blessing, but the people are wanting a more accessible and permanent meeting place -- a home if you please. Pray that the Lord opens up a place for worship and the Extension to meet. 2. Pray for the mission team as they prepare to work here in June. Many details need to be worked out and decisions need to be made. Ask our Father to give us all we need to fulfill His perfect will. 3. The Extension, formerly Capital Christian Institute, needs to grow and become more established here in the Helena area. During the summer I plan to meet with some of the key people who can help The Extension move to the next level. Pray that they will be open to the leadership of the Holy Spirit in this regard and that He will move in the hearts of those who need to study with us. 4. Pray for Capital Baptist Fellowship as new people continue to come in. We still desire direction from the Lord about constituting. We would love to be able to do this in the early fall of 2012, but this may not be the Lord’s will for us right now. Pray that He makes His will plain to us; if He opens a door may we be faithful to walk through them; if He closes a door may He close it tightly and bolt it shut. 5. We need teams to come for visioning tours and to work with us in 2013. Pray the Lord moves in the hearts of those who need to come and that they will be obedient. 6. Pray that through the preaching of the gospel the lost be found, the backslidder restored, and the faithful worker for Christ encouraged. May He be glorified and His name made famous here in Helena and wherever this correspondence finds you. “As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer” Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892). Parish Hartley 2100 Lockey Ave Helena, MT 59601 406-461-6817