Aurora Springs Baptist Church

This is a reminder/announcement for Aurora Springs Baptist Church services for October 11 thru 14th. We are participating in the On Mission Celebration with different guest speakers each meeting. Sunday morning and 7pm each evening. Tomorrow, October 11we will have regular morning times. Everyone is invited to a bring your own food picnic at the Air Park following the morning service . We look forward to hearing how God is working around the world. Because of the locati...on and nature of work of our guest speakers we will not be able to share these meetings on Facebook but will try to broadcast to the parking lot on FM 105.5. We hope to share a separate devotion that will be available on the church's Facebook page. Thanks and Got bless you all.

Here's the plan for Sunday, October 4: We will be gathering in person and inside our building for our normally scheduled Sunday morning services. This includes Sunday School at 9:30 and Worship Service at 10:30. If anyone is concerned and feels uncomfortable, we certainly understand that, and are seeking to do our best to provide other options to be as much a part of our service as possible. The Worship Service will be streamed over Facebook Live as usual, and, Lord willing, we will also be broadcasting into the parking lot with our radio transmitter on 105.5 FM. May God bless you all.

Looking forward to seeing as many as possible as we meet at 10:30 for our parking lot service tomorrow morning. Caleb and I are healthy and out of quarantine and are excited to get together.

Reminder and update; Tim, Lori, Caleb and Melissa want to thank everyone for their prayers and encouragement. We all seem to be over the rough part of Covid and seem to be getting stronger each day. Lori was able to go back to school the end of this week and made it OK. The official quarantine time for Tim and Melissa is now complete but Caleb and their children still have several days to quarantine. With all this, tomorrow's Sunday service will be held in the lower parkin...g lot of our building. The meeting will take place at 10:30 a.m. and Frank will again be bringing the message. We thank the Lord for how well you all have stepped up to help through these days. If you are able, please attend, and feel free to stay in your car and tune your radios to 105.5 to hear the service. Lord willing, Caleb will post a separate online service from his house. Thank you all for your prayers and support. We are praying for you all to have health and safety as you navigate these times. Keep trusting the Lord and let Him direct your steps. (Proverbs 3:5-6) May God bless you with His grace and peace. Please share as you wish and call any who may need to be contacted that way.

Oh how I love this man! Gave me the love of my life. Also pastor at the church pictured below (Blue Springs Baptist Church) where I came to know Jesus, and the ...little girl that I married. So many Great memories and stories. I know he is waiting for and watching over us. Think I’ll go cat fishing just for him!! Thanks Christina for posting the Miller County Museum story again!! What's the best day to be Docent at the Museum? The day a story walks in the door and sits down to visit. From boat builder on the Osage to meat cutter to Union Plumber and Pipefitter to turkey farmer to Baptist missionary in St. Elizabeth, Ed Teal's stories were wide-ranging and unique, told with a twinkle and a grin. Edward Teal is the son of Western Dee Teal and Mary Emeline Upton. His father was raised in Arkansas, one of 13 children. By the time he was 12, Western was "farmed out" as a farm laborer along the White River. Western was paid $9 a month. Western's father came by to pick up $6, and left Western $3. Western's older brother, age 16, was working on a dredge boat, and got Western hired on the boat. When construction began on Bagnell Dam, Western moved to Miller County. In 1930 Western married Emeline Upton, daughter of Solomon and Lucy Upton of Aurora Springs. After the Dam was completed, Western built boats and ran a boat rental business below the Dam. Ed helped his father build the boats. Besides fishing, Western also was an avid coon hunter and helped start the Coon Hunters Association. Asked how his father knew how to build a boat, Ed stated proudly, "My dad could do anything." Edward Teal grew up loving music, thanks to teacher Edwin Hancock. He taught Ed to play the violin and his sisters to play the piano. After Edward graduated from high school in Eldon, he worked for Catherine Dunstan for 20 cents an hour, and "glad to get it." When she sold her store, he went to work at the shoe factory for 65 cents an hour. After eight weeks, he found a job as a meat cutter at an Eldon grocery store. The flip of a coin changed Ed's future. He and his cousin were driving around looking for work when they stopped at a service station in Lake Ozark. Paul Graham told the boys he could use one of them, but not both. The cousins flipped a coin and Ed got the job. When the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union asked Paul to come to work for them, he agreed "only if you take this young guy as an apprentice." Ed has a 50 Years Service Pin from the Union. In 1960 Ed married Jeri Dane, the daughter of Reverend Everett Dane at the Aurora Springs Baptist Church. Ed was a Deacon at the First Baptist Church in Tuscumbia. Called to the ministry himself, Edward Teal served Baptist churches at Sandy Hook, Blue Springs, and Mt. Herman. He also started missions at North Shore and St. Elizabeth. Seeing my astonished reaction to a Baptist mission in St. Elizabeth, Ed grinned and said, "That's just how they looked when I told them that's what I wanted to do."