Cleary Baptist Church Presents "The Glory of Christmas"

Cleary Baptist Church Worship Choir presents "The Glory of Christmas" musical.

The free presentation will take place on Saturday, December 15 and Sunday, December 16, 2007 at 6:30 pm.

"We welcome everyone to come worship with us. Let us remember the real reason for the season." said Byron Green, Worship Leader.

For more information regarding the musical presentation, please call the church office at 601-845-2020.

Cleary Baptist Church, located at 1580 Florence Byram Road in Florence, has a congregation with an active attendance of 350. The church was established in 1963. Directions to the church may be found online.

Cleary Baptist Church Plans a "Trunk a Treat"

Cleary Baptist Church invites local families to have a fun night "Trunk a Treating" on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 from 6:00p.m. to 7:30p.m.

"Parents bring decorated cars or trucks to the church grounds and kids go from vehicle to vehicle getting treats", explained Kevin Wade, Associate Pastor for Students and Activities of Cleary Baptist Church. "Families don't have to go walking through neighborhoods going door to door. They can come to one place and have fun in a safe, wholesome atmosphere," said Wade.

Besides the treats, the church will have games and activity stations, hay rides, a Velcro wall, and space jumps for kids. Parents will have their own area where they can relax and enjoy a snack while the children are busy "Trunk a Treating". Parents will also be able to sign up to win door prizes.

Wade encourages families to bring a decorated pumpkin to enter a special pumpkin decorating contest. Wade also asks for attendees to bring at least one canned good as a donation to an upcoming mission project.

Cleary Baptist Church, located at 1580 Florence Byram Road in Florence, has a congregation with an active attendance of 350. The church was established in 1963. Directions to the church may be found online at http://clearybaptist.org.

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Prospective Pastor Meet, Greet, and Eat

This Saturday, September 22 at 4:00 p.m., the Pastor Search Team will present our prospective new pastor, Bro K. Bro K. and his family will be at the ARC to meet with and speak with the Cleary Family.

Afterward we will be eating in the dining hall. Bring a covered dish and have dinner with our prospective new pastor.

Finally, Sunday morning, Bro K. will preach in view of the call from Cleary Baptist Church. This will be Bro K.'s trial run. Immediately following the service Bro K. and his family will leave and Cleary will vote on calling him as the new pastor.

Please come by and welcome Bro K. and his family to Cleary.

Lunch in the ARC

This Sunday, August 26, after morning service, we will be adjourning to the gym. The tables will be set up and lunch will be served. The main entree, drinks, and bread will be provided. We will have beef brisket, pulled pork, and sausage. As usual, iced tea, sweet and unsweet, water, and coffee will be available. Some cola may also be availalble.

If you are a member of Cleary we request that you bring a side dish of potato salad, green salad, baked beans, or desserts.

Immediately following lunch, we will have an brief service while seated at our tables. Please come for service and stay for lunch.

Morning service begins at 10:00 a.m.

Grand Opened

The Grand Opening was great. We had so many children come. It was a real eye-opener. We saw many new faces. Sunday evening we had an activities night. I did see one of our local skate boarders playing ball. I know Bro Kev has been working on and with this young man. It was good to see him there.

We gave away many hotdogs and drinks. Bonnie B. was our grand prize winner. She received a couple of Ladies Ministries tee shirts as well as two passes to the upcoming Ladies Conference at Cleary.

The inflatable was a huge hit. There were kids who got in as soon as they arrived and stayed inside playing for hours!

I know the volleyball court and basketball net were certainly worked overtime. At one point I thought I saw Bro Chris hanging from the rim after an under both legs, twisting, behind the back, two-handed slam. Maybe I was just imagining that.

Many, many thanks to all who helped us put on the event. We wanted to glorify God in our endeavor. I pray He was blessed by the work of so many hands and that he will bless Cleary and His family here.

Face Lift For CBC Site

The Cleary Baptist Church site has received a face lift. In the past, if you were a visiting member of the CBC Site you were greeted with minimal information and a place to login. This new face will provide more information to the pedestrian visitor.

I sincerely hope this new face is pleasing, informative, and useful. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

Equipping the ARC

Last night Cleary approved monies for making several purchases to equip the ARC. The short list is a projector system for the Youth Area, with an upgrade to the projector system in the sanctuary, sports equipment, kitchen tools, and chairs, tables, and whiteboards. Now for the breakdown:

Projector system: Kevin Wade will get a dual-projector system installed for the Youth Room. This projector system will include the projector currently being used in the sanctuary, with a new bulb, as well as a new, comparable projector.

Sports equipment: All the gear to set up a basketball court and two volleyball courts. We are talking about nets, poles, backboards, balls, and a portable scoreboard! This will go a long way to Upwards sports!

Kitchen tools: Knives, ladels, serving utensils, sheet pans, cleaning gear. All the kitchen tools that would be used in order to serve about one hundred people. While this does not include silverware, plates, or glasses, it does allow us to get started.

Chairs, tables, and whiteboards: Some of the chairs, and tables would go into the classrooms along with all of the whiteboards. At this time we are expecting to put about twenty chairs per classroom. One line of thought regarding the chairs and tables in the classroom is to allow the classes to "buy" the chair or table as a gift for the ARC. The remainder of the chairs and tables would go into the dining hall. These tables are six feet in diameter and should seat eight. I believe we are looking at forty tables in the dining hall. Forty times eight... three hundred and twenty...

God is so good!

Welcome, Banner, and Clean up

Well, we have our banner up. As such I hope you're a new reader to this blog about the Cleary Activities and Recreation Center (ARC). We will be making updates regularly regarding the progress of construction as well as planned activities, events, goings on, and anything else we can think of here at the ARC. If you have any questions about it please feel free to contact me. I encourage you to visit Cleary's website and if you're Youth oriented, Kevin Wade, the Associate Pastor for Youth and Activities, has a website, S.O.S. and a blog.

Several folks showed up today for a general clean up day. There was a bunch of cleaning going on. I worked for a bit in the Upper Room Cafe. That is going to be a really hot spot for The Youth! The carpet is not yet installed in that room. I believe it will be done next week.

The A/V Team is putting forth a proposal tomorrow to purchase and install a dual projector system for the Upper Room Cafe. In that room there will be a dual projector system, several intelligent lights, a smoking sound system, a large equipment room, and "the cafe". I have not seen the plans for the layout of the cafe; however, it looks like there will be plenty of seating as you'd expect in a cafe as well as a bar, non-alcoholic, of course!

There are several things left to do in order to open the doors: carpet in The Youth room, finish a few doors, touch up painting, finish the restrooms, and a few electrical loose ends.

All in all, God is so good! It is amazing so much has been done by so few in such a short time! Once again, thanks to God for using Eckels Evans, Newt Roberts, Roscoe Singletary, the contractors, all the volunteers, and whomever else has had a hand in building this ARC!

6 Days, Carpet, Lights

I had lunch with Bro. Kevin today. Things are rapidly coming together. He had just come from meeting with the electrician to choose the track lighting for the Upper Room Cafe. That should be installed shortly.

Eck called Kevin today and asked if he could get some of the Youth to come and help prepare the floor for laying carpet tomorrow.

We are really getting down to the final parts of this building. God is so good! Thank you Eck and Kevin for letting God use you guys so much!

24 Days, Inspections, Power

In just over three weeks we will be opening the doors to the ARC. With that little bit of time left Eck and his crew are really working hard. The inspectors came and gave a thumbs up to the electrical inspection. The paperwork has been submitted and should be filed shortly. We are hoping to turn on power tomorrow.

God is so good to Cleary Baptist Church.

Linked In!

Great news! This site is now linked in to the Cleary Baptist Church website. Whenever a new post is made the CBC Site will be updated as well. Ain't technology great?

Donations

We are looking at getting a PayPal account set up so anyone who so desires can make an online donation to get this ARC floating! In the mean time, if you would like to make a tax-deductible donation toward the completion of the ARC please do so.

Make checks payable to:

Cleary Baptist Church
1580 Florence Byram Rd
Florence, MS 39073

Put a note on the check indicating it is for the Building Fund.

New pics!

Thanks to Kevin Wade for taking pics of the construction during its progress. I am working with Kevin and others to see if we can get updated pics every day. On the right you will find a Random Picture block. A new, random picture will be posted every 30 seconds. Click on the pic for a larger image. Look for more photos soon!

I am working on a press release for the local and state media. I would like to raise awareness of this project soon.

Tomorrow, I'll chat with Eckels to see if I can get some scoop on the progress!

Welcome to Cleary Countdown

Welcome to Cleary Countdown. Thank you for visiting. The purpose of this site is to raise awareness of and raise funds for the Cleary Baptist Church Family Life Center in Florence, Mississippi. The purpose of the project is to glorify God. We intend to do this by introducing a place unlike any in the community where people can gather and worship God.

If you have driven by Cleary for the past couple of years you have noticed a partially constructed building on an overgrown lot adjacent to the church. Many felt the languishing state of the project did more to harm the witness of the church than help it. At the end of February the body of Cleary Baptist Church voted to move forward with this project and complete the building. Early in March construction began in earnest under the guidance of Eckels Evans, Cleary's resident Fish Fry superchef and general contractor.

In the near future look for posts with pictures, videos, timelines, interviews, projections, intentions, and reports all about the progress of this project. For today, please accept our thanks for visiting.

Welcome to Countdown Cleary!