The purpose of prayer is to connect churches and help disciples intimately know God and encounter Him in a more personal way, whether it is as an individual, family, or congregation. Prayer and worship help churches join together and earnestly seek the face of God.

Here are a few of our prayer and worship programs:

Music & Worship Leadership: Training in demeanor, skills, and practical methods of worship leadership.

Prayer Networks & Prayer Clusters: Communicating prayer needs between churches and uniting in multi-church intercessory prayer clusters.

Personal Spiritual Disciplines & Family Worship: Equipping in skills, methods, and strategies to help families pursue and practice their faith.

Our discipleship program helps churches grow their communities. This is done by providing church leaders with education and consultation services that will aid them in the disciple-making process.

Small Groups: Sunday Schools, Life Groups, etc. These groups are based on principles of intentional evangelism, assimilation, training, caregiving, and ministry.

Family Development: This program equips families and teachers with the spiritual tools they need to help their children, spouses, parents, and grandparents grow in their faith.

Spiritual Development Processes: Custom-designed lesson plans to bring your faith to maturity.

Membership Training & Development: This program provides training on covenant relationships and clarifying expectations from members and from their church.

Spiritual Disciplines: Custom-made lessons to instruct disciples in prayer, Bible study, confession, personal worship, meditation, fasting, simplicity, submission, sacrifice, etc.

Mentoring & Apprenticeship: This program focuses on personal investment in an individual’s spiritual growth and skill development through one-to-one relationships with a mentor.

The purpose of this program is to connect churches with the resources they need to fulfill the Great Commission. Through forums and conferences, we help foster relationships between our sister churches and their leadership.

Leadership Development & Skills Training:

• Affinity Clusters: Connecting and self-training through small groups of leaders serving in the same role, from several churches (ie: Deacons, SS leaders, Bi-vocational Pastors, etc.)
• Mentoring & Apprentices: Maturing disciples and developing ministry skills through one-to-one relationships.
• Leadership Institute: Conferences in which scholars teach on a specialized topic.
• Christian Growth Studies: Teaching seminary-level courses locally, (Seminary Extension). Click HERE to find out about HBBI!
• Minister & Spouse: Retreats, fellowship, health issues, counseling services.

Churches in Transition:

• Vision & Strategy Planning: Consultants helping churches set goals, make plans, and take action.
• Crisis Intervention & Mediation: Helping churches and people resolve conflicts in a biblical way.
• Transitional Interim: Time-limited pastoral leader trained to help churches without a pastor assess, heal, and prepare hearts and organization before the next pastor is called.
• Search Committee: Helps pair churches with a new pastor.

Media Networking:

• Website, Messenger, Facebook/social media.
• Archives of Sermon Topics.
• Needs & Opportunities Information Board.
• Demographics & Resource Links.

The purpose of our missions and ministry program is to unite all the churches under HBA in helping those who need it most.

Missions Education: Training men and women in prayer. evangelism, and missionary work.

Mission Strategy: Planning missions at home and abroad.

Church-Planting: Starting new churches in the USA and other countries with the intention of bringing them together under the overarching leadership of the HBA.

Partnership Missions: Joining churches in national and international partnerships (Cincinnati, Montana, New York, Romania & Burkina Faso).

Christian Life: Providing information and practical advice on how to be a light in our communities.

Disaster Relief & Baptist Builders: Providing training and sending teams to help stabilize and adjust during and after natural disasters.

Collaborative Hands-On Ministries: Connect with ministry opportunities.

Year-Round Programs: Appalachian Trail (seasonal), Hospital ICU, Widowed Persons, and Prison Outreach.

Event-Related Programs: Raceway, Appalachian Fair & Carnival Workers, block parties, Backyard Bible Club, VBS, etc.

Large Groups: College campus evangelism, ethnic ministries, and local evangelism.