{"id":44045,"date":"2022-10-27T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/?p=44045"},"modified":"2022-10-27T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:51:11","slug":"raytowns-spring-valley-baptist-church-writes-new-chapter-for-church-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2022\/10\/27\/raytowns-spring-valley-baptist-church-writes-new-chapter-for-church-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytown\u2019s Spring Valley Baptist Church writes new chapter for church library"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAYTOWN \u2013 <\/b>Spring Valley Baptist Church in Raytown is writing a new chapter for their church library.\u00a0<\/span>Debbie Atwood, media director, brought her church library into the 21st-century by putting the catalog online.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur church has always been an equipping church,\u201d Atwood said.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cSo, it was important for our library to become an asset and a resource.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Atwood is working on a new project to make the library even more accessible.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cRecently, our pastor, Larry Heenan, retired from thirty-five years of preaching, with twenty-eight of those years pastoring our church,\u201d Atwood said.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cLarry told me that he was cleaning out his personal library, and he wanted to know if I wanted them for our church library.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI walked into our media center a few days later,\u201d she continued, \u201cand I was amazed.\u00a0 <\/span>Books were stacked everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Atwood started sorting and found a couple shelves that were almost empty.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI started organizing the material, and then I realized this was a gold mine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Atwood explained the reason Spring Valley was an equipping church was that they had an equipping pastor.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that this would become a legacy collection,\u201d she said.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWhenever someone brought up an issue or a problem, our pastor had, or obtained, the resource to fix it.\u00a0 <\/span>He has a collection of resources that he used to prepare for Wednesday night Bible Study, Sunday morning services, as well as items for counseling and pastor self-care.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I saw this collection,\u201d she explained, \u201cI knew that God had a bigger purpose. We decided to make them available to other churches across the state.\u00a0 <\/span>It includes a 23-volume set of The Pulpit Commentary<\/i> which Pastor Heenan calls the \u2018Holy Grail for pastors.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Atwood is passionate about sharing this wealth of knowledge. \u201cWe want these materials to be used,\u201d she said, \u201cIt is God\u2019s will for us not to just warehouse it.\u00a0 <\/span>If it blesses someone financially as well as spiritually, it is a win\/win.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Realizing other churches might need the materials but not be able to purchase them, Atwood has a plan.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI\u2019ve already started my church on a \u2018give your change\u2019 plan, and I\u2019ve asked for budget money for shipping,\u201d she said.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cIt breaks my heart to see other churches in need and this information might prop them up.\u00a0 <\/span>We want to be a church that comes alongside, like the churches of Acts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Atwood also outlined another difference in her library and other public libraries that might have the same material.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cThere are no due dates or fines,\u201d she said. \u201cI want this material to be used without the pressure of a due date.\u00a0 <\/span>If it is gone a year, I might touch base but I\u2019m not going to track people down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all Team Jesus,\u201d she concluded. \u201cWe want to share instead of storing up grain in our own barns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Atwood can be reached at riul09@gmail.com. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Spring Valley library catalog can be accessed via the link: https:\/\/www.librarycat.org\/lib\/SVBC.<\/span><\/p>\n

To apply for a library card, visit https:\/\/www.springvalleybaptist.org\/library-card-application.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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