Adult Ministries

Worship & Music Ministries
We are a church that values authentic, vibrant, celebratory worship, both on a personal and corporate level that brings great glory to God and connects people to God and to each other. There are a number of opportunities to serve in our worship and music ministries, including worship team, special music, Adult Choir (September to May), audio / video tech team, plus Christmas and Easter musical programs.
Adult Bible Fellowship Groups
Our Adult Bible Fellowship Groups currently meet during the Sunday school hour at 9:30 a.m. Excellent Bible teaching, combined with interactive discussion and fellowship connections with other people in your group make this time an enjoyable and meaningful experience. We have groups for all ages; most of our groups are inter-generational, involving people of various age groups. We also plan to soon begin Connection Groups during the week, and a sermon-based adult Bible fellowship for Sunday evenings. Currently, we offer the following ABF Groups on Sunday mornings: Fellowship Class; Cornerstone Class; Ladies Class; College & Career Class.
In addition, we offer a 4-week One Body: Let’s Get Acquainted Membership Class every Fall & Spring quarter for those who are interested in learning more about membership at MBC and believer’s baptism; plus an 8-week Christianity 101 class every Fall & Spring quarter for those who are seeking to learn about the basics of Christianity, faith, and how to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

Operation Christmas Child
This is an annual program sponsored by Samaritan Ministries that is geared to helping children at Christmas. This is the current monthly list of gifts we are collecting at MBC:
January |
Any after Christmas Sale Items (stuffed animals, Santa, Reindeer, Elf hats, Barbie dolls, toy trucks or cars, etc) |
February |
Stuffed animals and valentine items that are on sale. Hats, gloves, scarves, small work gloves |
March |
Items for 2-4 year olds. Sippy cups, small clothes, small stuffed animals or hand made stuffies, small cars, socks, underwear, PJs. Lacing cards. 4T is a good size for clothes because if the child is 2 they can always grow into it. |
April |
Girl Toys and accessories(e.g. small baby dolls, small Barbie dolls, plastic jewelry, small purses, hair bows, small games and puzzles, jump ropes, jacks, combs, hair accessories, . . .) After Easter sales!!! |
May |
Boy Toys (e.g. hot-wheel cars, balls, kazoos, harmonicas or other noise makers, plastic animal figures, action figures, slinky, small games and puzzles, yoyos.) |
June |
10-14 year old gifts (e.g. stationary sets, journals, small purses, flashlights (extra batteries), solar calculators, duct tape, small games and puzzles, balls, yoyo’s, garden gloves, garden tools, household tools, thin back-packs, sewing kits, fishing kits, first-aid items...) |
July |
Anything that catches your eye that a child would love, sunglasses, etc. |
August |
School Supplies (e.g. notebooks, coloring books, note pads, drawing paper, pencils and sharpeners, stencils, crayons, colored pencils, stickers, rulers, other items from back-to-school sales...) *Many children are not allowed to go to school unless they can bring their own school supplies.* |
September |
Clothes (e.g. t-shirts, shorts, skirts, hats, flip-flops, shoes, socks, scarves,). |
October |
Hard Plastic Cups, bowls and utensils. Zip-Lock Plastic Bags (Soap must be bagged separately!) |
November |
National Collection Week is the third week of the month. MBC will be a Relay Center/Drop Off for the third year. |
December |
Pray for safe travels for your boxes and blessings for the children who will receive them. Start looking for after-Christmas sale items for next year’s boxes! |
Men’s Prayer Breakfast
Meets every Thursday at Perkey’s Pink Apple Restaruant, Route 6, Tunkhannock at 6:30 a.m. for a brief devotional, prayer time, breakfast and fellowship. Open to men of all ages.

Missions
MBC is a church that values our partnership with Jesus Christ, the head of the church, to be a Great Commission local church, after the pattern of Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; and Acts 16:5; and that commits us to the goal of making more & better followers of Jesus Christ. All Great Commission ministry, whether it is done globally in many countries, or right here in our own backyard of MBC, is highly valued as a joyful responsibility of our church and each of us as individual believers; we believe in making disciples (authentic Christ followers) in our own Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the world. To emphasize the importance of global missions, we do an annual Month of Missions conference in March, plus encourage all of our people to be involved in Biblical stewardship by supporting our missions programs through our Faith Promise Giving program. Below is a list of current missionaries and ministries that we support; this list is also available weekly on our Wednesday prayer bulletin, and is posted in our church foyer.

Missionaries and Ministries We Support
Joseph Abraham (Mentor, OH) Gospel Fellowship Association
Honore & Kim Afolabi (Togo, Africa) ABWE
Dave Arnold (Sierra Leone) World Evangelistic Outreach Ministries
Bob & Dorinda Bennett (Northeastern PA, Central NY, NYC, Long Island) AWANA
Todd & Tammy Comstock (Maryland) Planting Spanish Churches
Rich & Alissa Hood (Schroon Lake, NY) Word of Life
Heather Hubbell (Wyoming & Sullivan County, PA) Child Evangelism Fellowship
Vitaly & Alexandra Keller (Russia) Baptist International Evangelistic Ministries
Thang Kim (Myanmar Yangon) ABWE
Allen & Bella Lund (Costa Rica) Gospel Fellowship Association
Josh & Becky Morgan (Thailand) Clearinghouse Missions
Bryan & Susan Nevin (Mexico) Fellowship International Mission
Ann Nunemaker (Hagerstown, MD) Retired
Dave & Debbie Nunemaker (SE Asia) Gospel Furthering Fellowship
Steve & Julie Nunemaker (Africa) Grace Global Ministries
Greg & Dawn Sanford (Jersey Shore, PA) Ethnos 360Training Center
Shibu & Julie Simon (India) Partners in Evangelism International
Shaju & Julie Simon (India) Partners in Evangelism International
Dave & Evelyn Stone (Peru) Association of Baptists for World Evangelization
Jon & Angela Stone (Peru) Association of Baptists for Word Evangelization
Jared & Rebekkah Stevenson (France) Calvary Baptist Missions
Paulo & Marilza Tavares (Brazil) Baptist International Outreach
Gary & Artis Zimmerman (Jewish Ministry) Baptist World Missionary Outreach