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Senior Adult
Ministry
Ernest Hill, Minister
of Senior Adults
Rays of Sunshine - September 2008
Even though Mount Zion
Baptist Church is primarily a young to middle adult congregation, we
have a vital, active senior adult ministry that is growing along
with the rest of the congregation. Our senior adults have been very
active in the ministry of our Lord and Mount Zion Baptist Church and
will continue to serve vital functions of ministry in the future. As
you look at the elected leadership it becomes very apparent that the
senior adults are active in all areas of our church life and we are
very thankful for their ministry. We believe that growing older does
not mean that we should become less active in our Lord’s ministry,
but rather we should find the place of service that God has for us
where we can use our knowledge and experience for His glory.
Our senior adult ministry consists of several areas.
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SonShine Club
activities
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Monthly meetings
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Trips and activities
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Ministries
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SonShine Singers
(senior adult choir)
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Involvement in other
programs of the church: Sunday School, Discipleship Training,
Woman’s Missionary Union, Brotherhood and Music.
This program is planned
and administered under the direction of a Senior Adult Planning
Council and the Minister to Senior Adults. This group plans a yearly
calendar of activities and ministries.
This specific ministry was begun in the early 1970s and continued
primarily as a senior adult club ministry into the late 1980s. The
ministry was revitalized in 1990 when the church asked Bro. Ernest
Hill to take on the responsibility of Minister to Senior Adults. The
SonShine Club was formed in 1990 and in 1993 the SonShine Singers
were formed. The SonShine Club and SonShine Singers have steadily
grown. On Easter Sunday night, April 7, 1996, the SonShine Singers
presented their first ever Easter musical, “The Footsteps of Jesus.”
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