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Overview of Projects 2026

Here are some of the projects we are planning at CPBA.  Your financial support helps us do these things.  The projects in dark red also need volunteers.  How can you or your church participate?

Use this button to let us know you are interested in a project or if you have a question.  You can also sign up for various email groups related to these projects.  On one form, check all projects that apply to you.

Use this button to go to our page of Sign-up Sheets.

For our churches...

  • TBD Minister’s Appreciation Dinner: This is an opportunity to say “Thank You” to our pastors and other ministers as well as their spouses.

  • Spring Worship Rally (April 26): One year we celebrate missions, and the next year we celebrate evangelism.  It’s also just a good time for all our churches to worship together.  This year the emphasis is evangelism, and it will be held at Central Baptist. Make plans now to encourage your congregation to come.

  • Support Staff Luncheon (July 16): We want to show appreciation to the support staff at our churches with lunch and a small gift.  We also use this time to kick off our Annual Reports (ACP) season by addressing any changes to the process and answering questions.

  • Annual Meeting and Worship (Oct 4): This is our one business meeting of the year.  Each church is encouraged to send Messengers to represent them.  The meeting is followed by a dinner for the Messengers.  Then anyone can join us for a time of collective worship.

  • Pastors’ Conferences: On the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month, we invite all pastors to meet together at our office for coffee, fellowship, and a guest speaker.

  • Support for your Annual Reports and more: We are here to help answer your questions about your Annual Reports, but we are also available year-round for any questions or needs your church has.  Sometimes it’s as simple as being the middleman when one church no longer needs something they have, and another church could use it.

  • Monthly Newsletter: We send out a monthly newsletter to each of our churches as well as hundreds of individuals.  We include announcements of various events, including upcoming training or informational opportunities, ministry opportunities, local church events and more.  We also try to include plenty of pictures from the previous month’s activities. We would be happy to include announcements from each church.

For our community...

The projects in dark red need volunteers.

  • Roane State Meals: Roane State Community College is based out of Harriman, TN. We have our own satellite campus located here in Crossville.  During the Fall and Spring Semesters, our churches volunteer to provide a free lunch once a week on campus.  The CPBA coordinates this ministry and even fills in if needed.  Through a simple free lunch, we have an opportunity to reach out to the students there.  It's a way to let them know our church names and share God's love with them.  We have been told that there are students who come for our lunches even though they don't have any classes scheduled for that day.  Let us know if your church would like to join our schedule.

    • January – May (Specific dates TBA.)

    • August – December  (Specific dates TBA.)

  • The Cumberland County Fair (August): Our associational WMU (Woman's Missionary Union) started the Baby Comfort Station.  They saw that parents of small children often needed a clean place to change diapers at the Cumberland County Fair.  Additionally, young mothers could use a comfortable, cool, private place to nurse their babies.  An enclosed trailer was fitted with air-conditioning and changing tables.  Then it was well-stocked with free water, popsicles, books, Bibles, and more.  They even added a cushioned rocking chair in the back near the coolest air.

    • We need 2 volunteers per shift, and we usually run a couple of shifts each night of the fair.

    • August (specific dates TBA)​

  • Lighthouse Christian Camp Work Week: We spend Monday through Thursday helping the camp with cleanup and repairs as needed.

    • May 4-7

  • Camp Ozone Work Week: We spend Monday through Thursday helping the camp with cleanup and repairs as needed.  We don’t always know the work dates very far in advance, but last year we went in April and October.

    • Possibly in April and/or October

Beyond our community...

The projects in dark red need volunteers.

  • Disaster Relief and Rebuild Ministries: 

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief has been helping people since 1968.  Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief began when Tennessee Baptists responded to an explosion of a train tanker car in Waverly, TN, in 1978. Our Disaster Relief team is part of the Tennessee Disaster Relief, which is part of the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. 

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Since then, the responses have been within Tennessee, throughout the United States, and even around the world.  Some have been small, with only one or two people going to provide leadership.  Others have required literally thousands of volunteers and continued for many years.  Most responses have extended far beyond the initial response, especially the "Rebuild" responses.  (Reprinted in part from www.tndisasterrelief.org. A more complete list of TBC Disaster Relief training is available through this website.)

 

Cumberland Plateau Baptist Association supports this mission by recruiting and training local volunteers for Certification in Disaster Relief including instruction in chainsaw safety.  Recertification classes are also available.  In 2024 remnants of Hurricane Helene hit parts of east Tennessee.  Visit our Helene Page to see how our association helped.

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  • Training classes are required for participation, and it is very helpful to have these classes completed BEFORE there is a disaster.

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  • Love Packages:  

Since 1994 the mission of Love Packages has been reclaiming God's resources for His purposes.  We have done this by asking people to share their bookshelves that are filled with Bibles and God's teaching tools.  Once we have received those materials, Love Packages sends them around the world, thereby sowing God's word into the lives of those who cannot afford it.  Love Packages is equipping orphans, evangelists, pastors, and missionaries for the works of service all the while setting up distribution centers, lending libraries, Bible college libraries, and holding crusades.  When you give financially or donate Bibles, commentaries, and Christian books, you are becoming a book missionary and aligning yourself with the mission to Share, Send, and Sow God's Word!  (Love Packages Mission Statement reprinted with permission from www.lovepackages.org.)

 

Cumberland Plateau Baptist Association supports Love Packages by serving as a depository for recycled printed Christian materials including Sunday School literature, Bibles, Christian books, and tracts donated from area churches.  (A more complete list of needed materials can be found on the above website in addition to specific materials that cannot be used.)    

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We have received donations for Love Packages from Crossville, Sparta, Knoxville, Georgia, Kentucky, and more. Four or five times per year, we make a two-day trip to deliver these materials to the Love Packages warehouse in Decatur, AL, and spend a couple of days helping them pack shipping containers.  This is a great mission trip for your church group.

  • February 9-10

  • April 20-21

  • July 13-14

  • September 21-22

  • December 7-8

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  • Two ways to participate: 

    • Collecting from your church and bringing materials here.

    • Joining one of the above trips to Decatur.

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NOVEMBER 2025 UPDATE

There is a new drop-off location in the northwest Knoxville area that might be closer for some of you who have been traveling to us.  It is located behind Harvest Point Church.

Contact:  Thomas McClane, 865-919-0087

Cross Ministries

7423 Ball Camp Pike

Knoxville, TN 37921

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  • MK Project:  

We are assigned an MK/TCK (Third Culture Kid) and minister to him or her through prayer, email, snail mail, and care packages during the school year.

  • Runs from about August or September through May

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  • Kirk Casey (our Director of Missions):  

Besides working on all the projects at the church and community levels, Kirk also represents our association at the following…

  • Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting (June)

  • The Summit (the Tennessee Baptist Convention’s annual meeting) (November)

  • Various partnerships with small churches like the remodeling project in Colorado in 2025.  Sometimes these mission trips need volunteers.

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