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This document provides an overview of Dr. David Fleming's journey serving Christ through various church ministries. It discusses his pathways leading to roles in hospitals, hospice care, and church planting in Hong Kong. Due to health issues, he returned to Montgomery in 2015 unsure of his purpose. In May 2017, he began a new role as Director of Leadership Development for the Montgomery Baptist Association, feeling as though he had finally returned home through this opportunity to give back to the community that supported him.
This document provides an overview of Dr. David Fleming's journey serving Christ through various church ministries. It discusses his pathways leading to roles in hospitals, hospice care, and church planting in Hong Kong. Due to health issues, he returned to Montgomery in 2015 unsure of his purpose. In May 2017, he began a new role as Director of Leadership Development for the Montgomery Baptist Association, feeling as though he had finally returned home through this opportunity to give back to the community that supported him.
This document provides an overview of Dr. David Fleming's journey serving Christ through various church ministries. It discusses his pathways leading to roles in hospitals, hospice care, and church planting in Hong Kong. Due to health issues, he returned to Montgomery in 2015 unsure of his purpose. In May 2017, he began a new role as Director of Leadership Development for the Montgomery Baptist Association, feeling as though he had finally returned home through this opportunity to give back to the community that supported him.
The Road Goes Ever On is the refrain from several walking songs written by My pathways after Hong Kong led me to Tennessee J. R. R. Tolkien and found in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. and short times in Boston and Houston. During these The Christ-followers ever-unfolding roadmap calls for great faith and Gods years, I was a chaplain in hospitals and with hospice strength. Hebrews 12:1-2 (ESV) encourages us to lay aside every weight patients. I love walking with folks through health and run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus crises and their end-of-life journeys. Gods purpose As we travel our ever-unfolding roads, there are joys with new discoveries, for us is found when two things intersect: 1) what is with new peoples that need the gospel shared with them, with moments, that the greatest need and 2) things that bring great joy. I while they are dark valleys, there is a way forward with the ever-present Good love helping Gods children find peace with God while Shepherd, and with the assurance that God has laid out our path to our heavenly in crisis. These places are good, the ministries were home. fruitful and God taught me much, but again it was not About seventeen years ago, God set me on a journey that became a marathon. home. In the latter part of 1999, the MBA helped me leave my Montgomery home for In July of 2015, it looked like I was facing the end of the journey of a lifetime. Leaving left a hole, but the journey has been worth it. my journey. There were diagnoses for which I wasnt While in Mexico, peoples lives were touched by the gospel, pastors in Puebla ready. They were bigger than me, but they werent were encouraged and I was changed. I saw great needs and God at work in our Dr. David Fleming bigger than God. I held closely to three truths: Jesus Leadership Development teams and those we touched. I learned something about living life on the edge loves me, God is Faithful, and the Spirit of God places Director and being utterly dependent on God. But it wasnt home. his people as grace notes in our lives when grace is The next road led to Hong Kong and ministering in the Chaplains Office at needed. God has carried me on a road I did not expect. But I see it now as the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). While there, lives of students from road home. In December, I returned to Montgomery to be with friends and the US studying at HKBU were touched during 9/11. Like me, they couldnt family. I also found something new. It is a new purpose here. I hoped for it, go home even if they wanted while those September days played out. They but I couldnt see it. Isnt that what faith and hope are all about? needed a strong Christ-like presence to help in a dark time. Also, Mainland At the beginning of May, I took on the Director of the Leadership Development Chinese students pursuing their degrees at HKBU were challenged and role in the MBA. I did not anticipate this turn in the road, but God did. The changed by Jesus. One waystation for me became the church God led me to expectation of giving back to you means so much to me. You believed in me plant in the universitys dormitory. It is a strategic congregation reaching 17 years ago and helped to set me on this ever-unfolding road. With students and a home away from home for them. I learned recently that many anticipation, I look forward to seeing what God does. We have a big task in have become Christ-followers there and have been called to ministry. They Montgomery, but as our DOM Neal Hughes says, Together We Can! have pursued training and seminary degrees, then returning to take their faith back home all over the China! Thank God and the MBA who helped to place It just feels like home. His, David me there! It was homelike, but I could not rest there.
VBS Learning Lab Revival Services
Tuesday, June 13 Letohatchee New to VBS? Join us at Heritage Jul 30 - 11:00 am Baptist Church on June 13 to Jul 31 - Aug 2 - 7:00 pm observe VBS in action. Reservations All are invited are required. Arrive at 7:45 am for coffee, donuts and registration. Speaker: Luke Finkelstein Follow the signs to the Oasis. We Music: David Willis cant wait to see you! Sunday morning service will Reserve your place before June 9 by be followed by dinner on the contacting Robin at 271-6227 or grounds. Contact church for more office@mgmbaptists.org. information 334-277-1268.
River Region Vision Tour - Lunch will be at Dreamland
Barbeque. After lunch, we will prayer walk to the Chamber of Commerce (COC) at 41 Commerce Street for a 1:30 pm gathering with Montgomery COCs executive director, Randy George. He will unpack all that is going on in our city and the area, and tell Literacy Missions ministries involve churches and associations in meeting you what is coming to the River Region. Come learn how better to pray for the needs of adults who are nonreaders, low-level readers or non-English the prosperity of the city (montgomerychamber.com). speakers, as well as children and youth who are at risk of failing in school. Come discover opportunities for intentional evangelism through literacy Monday, June 5 | 12:00 to 2:30 pm missions ministries. Dreamland BBQ - 12 West Jefferson Street (new location) To register, contact Kristy Kennedy at 334-288-2460 RSVP to the MBA office at 271-6227 or by email at office@mgmbaptists.org. or by email at kkennedy@alsbom.org The Montgomery Baptist Association 20 Interstate Park Dr. Montgomery, Alabama 36109 334-271-6227 www.mgmbaptists.org This publication is made possible by your churches contributions to Associational Missions.