Sundays October 11th & 18th at 11am in the Great Room
Our next membership class at MBC will be taking place on Sunday October 11th & Sunday October 18th. This will be a 2-part membership class at the 11am hour in the Great Room at MBC. We hope you can join us and register through the button below.
Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief organization. Their mission is to provide local partners around the world with shoeboxes filled with small toys, hygiene items, and school supplies as a means of reaching out to children in their own communities with the Good News of Jesus Christ. They ship these simple gifts outside the United States to children affected by war, poverty, natural disaster, famine, and disease.
At MBC, we love to participate in OCC! Boxes and brochures are available in the foyer. Drop off boxes at MBC by November 15, and be sure to enclose a $10 donation for each box. You can write 1 check to cover all the boxes you submit, or donate online and check Follow Your Box to track it to its recipient(s). For more info or ideas on packing a shoe box, check out their website here
Collection date is Sunday, November 15.
Contact Lenore Tosi with any questions.
Disability Training Event
Saturday, October 17th 8:30am – 11:30am
Location: Fellowship Hall at MBC
This regional training event, hosted in partnership with Joni and Friends, is designed to help participants grow in confidence, awareness, and practical skill as they minister to individuals and families affected by disability.
The morning will be led by Sarah Bush, Regional Coordinator with Joni and Friends. Sarah will guide attendees through helpful training that strengthens both understanding and ministry practice, equipping people to interact with greater care, confidence, and gospel-centered compassion.
The gospel-centered truth behind including the disability community in church and why we need to be intentional about making disciples of all nations, including those affected by disabilities.
Time
8:30am – 11:30am
Cost
Free
Breakfast
Included
Leader
Sarah Bush, Regional Coordinator with Joni and Friends
Audience
MBC attendees and churches throughout the surrounding region
Purpose
The goal of this event is to equip participants to serve people with disabilities and their families with greater understanding, dignity, and confidence. The training will help attendees develop a more thoughtful awareness of disability ministry and offer practical ways to build welcoming, accessible, and meaningful ministry environments.
Schedule
8:30am Breakfast and welcome
9:00am Training session with Sarah Bush
10:30am Discussion, questions, and practical application
11:15am Closing encouragement and next steps
11:30am Event concludes
Invitation Scope
This event will be shared with MBC attendees as well as churches throughout the surrounding area. The intent is to make the training accessible not only to those already serving in disability ministry, but also to those who are exploring how they can better understand, welcome, and minister to people with disabilities.
Who Should Attend
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Join us for a family-friendly afternoon of activities!
Saturday, October 24, 3pm-5pm
VIP access for children with special needs, 2:30pm
Kids enjoy an afternoon full of “trunk”-or-treating, snacks, crafts, games, and, of course, lots of candy! Pull out your costumes, prepare your trunks and join in this fun event. Invite your neighbor, friends, and family to attend and register below. Hope to see you there!
Street Hope Alive Collection: We’ll be collecting gently used WINTER COATS (only winter), HOODIES, GLOVES and HATS for kids and teens for our local ministry partner, Street Hope Alive. Please consider donating these items at our Trunk or Treat event. There will be a donation area in the YFMB. Thank you!
We’ll be collecting candy to give away at this event. Please consider donating individually wrapped candy or fruit snacks. Donations can be dropped off in the sanctuary foyer or Education building check in area.
In a culture built on shifting sand, Contend ’27 calls believers back to the bedrock — laying foundations in our families, our children’s worldview, and the broader work of cultural renewal.
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”
The Contend Conference exists to equip believers to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3) — with biblical clarity, practical tools, and courageous conviction.
Conference Themes
Name where culture and compromise have crept into our assumptions.
Give families and churches biblical tools for the questions they’re actually facing.
Help kids and teens think biblically and engage culture with confidence.
Point every session back to the good news of Jesus Christ.
From Friday’s opening to Sunday’s services, each session builds on the last — why foundations matter, what the cultural context looks like, how to build at home, and where it all points.
8:30am: Pre-Conference: Foundations for Justice
(Optional module for parents, youth leaders & educators)
9:15am: “God’s Yardstick” ft. Krista Bontrager
10:30am: “Unmasking the Lies of Social Justice” ft. Monique Duson
7:00pm: Conference Opening & Worship (Childcare available)
7:35pm: “Raising a Generation to Discern and Follow Truth” ft. Elizabeth Urbanowicz
9:00pm: Dessert Social & Book Signing
9:00am: Day Two Opening & Worship
Kids Program (6–12) & nursery run simultaneously all morning “Walk Thru the Bible”
9:35am: “Like Me, Follow Me” ft. Brett Kunkle
11:15am: Parallel – Biblical Worldview (Parents) / “Truth Never Gets Old” (Teens) ft. Elizabeth Urbanowicz · Brett Kunkle
1:30pm: Breakouts – Sexuality & Gender · Social Justice & Family · Motherhood · Screens & Teens
3:00pm: Breakouts – Affinity Groups · Theology of Home · Teaching Kids the Bible · Justice Conversations
4:45pm: “How Should We Live in a World of Screens?” ft. Brett & Erin Kunkle (Dinner Session)
7:00pm: All-Speaker Q&A Panel ft. Pastor Bob with the full speaker team
8:00pm: Worship & Closing
9:00am: “How Your Worldview Matters for Every Single Area of Your Life”
ft. Brett Kunkle & Q&A with Erin
10:45am: “Why I Am a Christian”
Brett Kunkle & Interview with Monique & Krista
Who’s Teaching
Elizabeth Urbanowicz
(Founder, Foundation Worldview)
Former elementary teacher and founder of the Foundation Worldview curriculum series, equipping parents and educators to build genuine biblical foundations in children.
Weekend Talks
– Raising a Generation to Discern and Follow Truth
– Helping Our Children Discover the Truth of the Biblical Worldview
– Grounding Our Children in Sexuality & Gender
Brett Kunkle
(Founder & CEO, MAVEN)
Co-author of “A Practical Guide to Culture” with John Stonestreet. Trains parents and equips teens to navigate culture with confidence and biblical clarity.
Weekend Talks
– Like Me, Follow Me: Social Media & the Heart
– Truth Never Gets Old (Teens)
– Why I Am a Christian
Erin Kunkle
(Co-Founder, MAVEN · Host, Strong Woman Podcast)
Homeschooling mother of five and specialist in motherhood, family discipleship, and women’s identity — practical wisdom for building a home rooted in truth.
Weekend Talks
– God’s Truth About Motherhood
– Cultivating a Theology of Home
– A World of Screens (with Brett)
Monique Duson
(President & Co-Founder, Center for Biblical Unity)
A former social justice activist turned biblical unity advocate, exposing the lies of social justice ideology and equipping the next generation with biblical truth.
Weekend Talks
– Unmasking the Lies of Social Justice
– How Social Justice Deconstructs the Family
Krista Bontrager
(Theologian & Co-Founder, Center for Biblical Unity)
Adjunct professor at Birmingham Theological Seminary, equipping parents with biblical tools for justice and cultural discernment.
Weekend Talks
– God’s Yardstick: Measuring True Justice
– A Parent’s Plan for Discipleship
Pastor Bob Erbig
(Host & Moderator)
Opens the weekend, moderates the all-speaker Q&A panel, and interviews speakers throughout — keeping the conversation grounded and pastoral.
Weekend Talks
– Welcome Address: Building on the Rock
– All-Speaker Q&A Panel
Go Deeper: Breakout sessions & tracks
Saturday afternoon offers two breakout sections — choose the track that fits your season of life.
Parents: Sexuality & Gender
Grounding kids in the goodness of God’s design before culture’s messages reach them.
Speaker: Elizabeth Urbanowicz
Adults: Social Justice & the Family
How neo-Marxist and postmodern frameworks target marriage and parental authority.
Speaker: Monique Duson
Moms: Discipleship Amid Cultural Hostility
A practical plan for prioritizing your own growth first, then discipling your kids.
Speaker: Erin Kunkle
Parents: Theology of Home
What Scripture says a home is for, and how to build one that points others to God.
Speaker: Erin Kunkle
Teens: Mind Games: Screens & the Mind
An interactive look at how screens shape attention and identity, and how to take back control.
Speaker: Brett Kunkle
All Ages: Affinity Groups (Outdoors)
Homeschooling, public theology, parent education, and next-gen justice conversations in small groups.
Walk Thru the Bible – New Testament
On Saturday 4/24 from 9am – 12pm we have a special offering for all kids ages K-6th called “Walk Thru the Bible: New Testament”. This is a great opportunity for kids to learn about the entire New Testament in just one day. Check out the video below to learn more!
MBC Campus
We want to personally invite you to consider joining our LearnTheLand trip to Israel coming up on October 21st – 30th, 2027. It won’t be like a typical tour: it’s designed by Dr. Mark Schaaf (one of our missionaries with many years of experience living in and leading Biblical study groups in the Middle East). Mark will help us experience God’s Story in a fresh and powerful way, in its original setting.
If you’re interested, you can take a look at the itinerary and register HERE
We’re excited to welcome one of our own, Mark Schaaf, as the instructor for Walk Thru the Bible’s otLIVE experience. Many of you know Mark and his wife Kathy—we’ve been supporting the Schaafs since the mid-1990s, when they first headed overseas with WorldVenture.
Mark and Kathy spent 13 years in Jordan, where Mark helped introduce and lead Walk Thru the Bible’s Arabic-language ministry across the Middle East and North Africa. After handing that work off to national leaders, they moved to South Africa, where Mark served as Walk Thru the Bible’s Southern Africa Regional Trainer and also helped plant a church in an informal settlement outside Johannesburg.
Mark holds a PhD in Biblical Archaeology from the University of South Africa, but what really excites him is helping people step into God’s grand story—whether that means turning a church sanctuary into a walk-through map of the Holy Land or leading study tours in the Bible lands themselves. He continues to travel extensively in Israel and Jordan, and five of the Schaafs’ six grandchildren now live in Israel.
Currently based in Atlanta, Georgia, we’re grateful to continue partnering with the Schaafs in their global mission of equipping, training, and coaching national leaders. We’re thrilled to have Mark with us for this otLIVE event!
Lead Pastor: Preaching, Spiritual Formation, and Care
When: Saturday, November 7th 2026
Time: 8am – 10:30am (Doors Open at 7:30am)
Where: Fellowship Hall
What: The Men’s Ministry is excited to invite the men of MBC and their sons to join us for breakfast and a workshop “Stressing Less About Stress!” led by clinical psychologist Dr. Jim Owen. Dr. Owen is a Christian psychologist and consultant living in Basking Ridge NJ. Jim is a former youth and associate pastor before being called into the counseling ministry. Jim has a Masters in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling from Biola University and earned a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology. Jim has a passion for helping people grow towards wholeness of life in all areas: spiritually, emotionally, physically and relationally.
In this workshop we will learn together how to manage stress well, and how we can grow and strengthen-physically, emotionally and spiritually – through it. We will learn more about God’s design for stress in our lives and how to respond in ways that help us stress-less about stress!
Guest Speaker: Dr. Jim Owen
Dr Jim Owen is a Christian psychologist and consultant living in Basking Ridge NJ. He was a former youth and associate pastor before being called into the counseling ministry. He has a Masters in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling from Biola University and an earned doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Florida Institute of Technology. He has a passion for helping people grow toward wholeness of life in all areas: spiritually, emotionally, physically and relationally. Jim and his wife Debbie are in their fourth decade of marriage and have an adult daughter, Katie who lives in PA with her husband, Mark. Debbie and Jim enjoy kayaking, hiking, biking, and playing and singing worship music together.
The Men’s Ministry
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” Proverbs 27:17
Questions? Email
Men’s Breakfast Relaunch:
Saturday, June 3rd from 8:00 am – 9:30 am, Fellowship Hall
Fathers and sons!
We’re excited to be relaunching our Men’s Ministry Breakfast time on June 3rd. Come hear from our panel of Mentors from our Radical Mentoring Ministry.
Radical Mentoring is a special type of men’s small group made up of high-potential young men facilitated by more senior and mature men. The vision is to help younger men live God-centered lives and fulfill their God-given potential.
The mentors will endeavor to share what they have learned about success and failure. Most importantly, they will share what it means to have a vibrant, living relationship with Jesus along the way.
Join us for breakfast and a meaningful time of sharing. For more information contact Craig McLaughlin or Pete Lima or call the church office at 908-647-0594.
What is Christianity Explored?
A relaxed and informal way of sharing the best news you can ever hear, and gives people space and time to think about the big questions of life.
What’s each session about?
Over seven sessions, guests will read Mark’s Gospel to find out more about the life of the person at the heart of the Christian faith – Jesus Christ. The structure of each session is simple: a short Bible study, a talk (you can give your own using our talk outlines or use our films) and a discussion based on the talk.
Can we know God?
Seven sessions looking at Jesus’s life in Mark’s gospel, meeting the man who claimed to be God and discovering how he changed history.
Update 3/16/2023
The Annual Business Meeting was a great time for the church to recap the past fiscal year and to look forward to 2023-2024. Pastor Bob & Pastor Dave spoke about our plans to continue to be firmly planted, growing together, and investing in the lives of others. Larry Blakeman shared about the budget and new World Partners. We had a good time celebrating what God has done and expectant of the future of our church.
We did have quorum and voted unanimously to pass the proposed budget for 2023-2024.
Also, a motion carried unanimously for additional funding that was requested for 2022-2023.
Hock Ng presented from the Elder Nominating Committee five new candidates:
All gentlemen were approved.
Doug Hulin, Elder Vice-Chair, thanked our outgoing elders, Paul Achenbach and Hock Ng, for their investment, dedication, and leadership in so many areas.
Pray for your involvement in MBC’s Vision based on Psalm 1:1-3.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
We are offering childcare during the meeting as needed. Must register by March 12th please.
Wednesday, March 15, 7pm, In-Person Only
Our Annual Business Meeting is an important time for our church as we celebrate all that God is doing at MBC and plan for the exciting year ahead.
This year’s Annual Business Meeting will be conducted in-person in our Sanctuary on Wednesday, March 16, at 7pm.
Members will be emailed instructions on how to login to the ABM portal. This is the same web portal we used last year. You’ll need your username and password. There is a “forgot password” feature, in case you forgot.
We encourage all members to login prior to the meeting so that you can watch Pastor Bob’s pre-meeting instructions video as well as familiarize yourself with the Annual Business Meeting portal.
Most importantly, your participation is essential to this meeting’s success. According to our constitution, first we need 20% of active voting members to attend the meeting to constitute a quorum. Second, of those attending, we need a simple majority vote to both approve the annual operating budget and to elect members to the Board of Elders. Please make every effort to attend and vote.
Save the Date: Wednesday, March 17, 7pm
Our Annual Business Meeting is an important time for our church as we celebrate all that God is doing at MBC and plan for the exciting year ahead. Due to the pressing concerns with COVID-19 and congregating in large groups we are creating a virtual forum in lieu of a live presentation in our sanctuary.
We encourage you to watch the meeting presentation, download and review the Annual Report, and participate in the Online Voting that was emailed to every MBC Member. This email covers voting for the church budget for the upcoming fiscal year and leadership positions within our body. The Center will be compiling the votes in order to preserve anonymity.
Your participation is essential to this meeting’s success. According to our constitution, first we need 20% of active voting members to attend the meeting (watching/voting) to constitute a quorum. Second, of those attending, we need a simple majority vote to both approve the annual operating budget and to elect members to the Board of Elders. Please make every effort to attend and vote.
Step ONE: Download
Step Two: Download
Step Three: Watch
Step Four: Ask
Step Five: Vote
Annual Meeting Presentation
HAVE QUESTIONS?
Call the church office at 908-647-0594 or email MBC Office.
