6 THIS WEEK’S ALENDAR Sunday, January 18 Happy New Year...
Transcript of 6 THIS WEEK’S ALENDAR Sunday, January 18 Happy New Year...
Glorifying...Growing...Going...
Sunday, January 18
8:15a Contemporary Worship 9:15 Breakfast 9:45 Sunday School 11:00 Traditional Worship 4:30p Celebration Choir Rehearsal 4:30 Children’s Choirs Rehearsal 4:45 Youth Discipleship 6:00 Evening Worship
Monday, January 19
5:45p Handbell Rehearsal
Tuesday, January 20
Wednesday, January 21
7:10a Youth Devo/Breakfast-FBC 5:30p Bible Drill in Faith Factory Women of Grace Rehearsal 6:00 Deacon Prayer Time 6:15 Faith Factory 6:30 Adult Bible Study/Youth Worship/Celebration Choir Follow Me Bible Study-F217 7:45 Praise Team Rehearsal
Thursday, January 22
9:30a Happy Feet 10:00 By the Book Bible Study - F217 12:30p Low Vision Support Group
Friday, January 23
10:00a Song, Scripture & Sustenance 12:30p Noon Prayer Time
January 18, 2015 First Baptist Church, Douglas, GA
Worship - 8:15 a.m., 11 a.m., and 6 p.m. Sunday School - 9:45 a.m.
HAPPY FEET NEWS
Security Duty - January 18 8:15 a.m., S.S., 11 a.m., 6:00 p.m. & Wednesday Jerald Guthrie, Reggie Gilliard Brian Dubberly Extended Care 8:15: Clay & Leann Smith, Ron & Julee Brooke Lewis, Amanda Scholten, Anna Grace Scholten, Robert & Heather Preston 11:00: Stacy & Diane Roberson, Amanda Minix family, Lisa Williams 6:00: Paid Workers
SUNDAY SCHOOL
TOTAL IN SUNDAY SCHOOL 493
TOTAL S.S. ENROLLMENT 921
Contacts 53
OUR GIVING
Weekly Budget Needs $28,163.19
Given This Week $27,225.47
YTD Budget Needs $56,326.38
YTD Budget Given $42,928.47
Special Offerings:
Balance of Designations/Week $828.00
Storehouse Fund Given/Week $370.00
YTD $415.00
Missions $995.00
Missions YTD $1,160.00
Benevolence $250.00
LAST WEEK’S REPORT 1/11
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Diane Roberson, Preschool and Children’s Director [email protected]
Peggy Hurd, Family Ministry Center Director [email protected]
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Antoinette McKinnon, Pastor’s Assistant [email protected]
Trish Payton, Financial Secretary [email protected]
Arnie Bowers, Facilities Manager [email protected]
Aline Littleton, Custodian Bruce Bassett, Maintenance
Hunter Latham, Night Custodian Michael Ingram, School Custodian
THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR 6
1-21-15 Wednesday Night Supper Menu
Hamburgers French Fries
Corn & Salad Bar Cake
Children & Youth Ministry 2
Education 2
Missions 3-4
Music 5
Traditional Service Order of Worship 5
Weekly Calendar 6
Place of Service 6
Inside this issue:
The Grapevine is a weekly publication of First Baptist Church, Douglas, GA, located at 124 Gaskin Ave North. The church phone number is 912.384.5598.
From the Grapevine... Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina, was founded by Methodists and Quakers in 1838. Today it is regarded as a premier private research university with a worldwide reputation. Recently Duke was in the news because according to WRAL.com, “The university announced plans [last] Tuesday for members of the Duke Muslim Students Association to start the three-minute weekly call or chant, known as adhan or azan, on Friday afternoon.” The broadcast of that weekly call to prayer was to be made from the Duke Chapel tower. The Duke Chapel is, of course, an historic place of Christian worship. Can you imagine a mosque in Iran or Syria playing “Amazing Grace” from one of its minarets on Sunday mornings as a gesture of kindness towards the Christian community? Of course not. No one questions the right of anyone in this nation to worship as he or she chooses. The First Amendment guarantees us of that freedom. But for Duke University to broadcast a Muslim call to prayer from the Duke Chapel tower would be a great insult to that institution’s Christian heritage and its Christian students and faculty. Quoting further from the WRAL.com article:
“The [original] decision caused a national furor, with Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Rev. Billy Graham and the head of the international relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, posting on his Facebook page that followers of Islam are ‘butchering’ people who don’t share their beliefs and urging Duke alumni and supporters to withhold donations.” “In a Thursday interview with WRAL News, Graham refused to back down, even for those Muslims who have condemned radical Islamic actions.” “‘I don’t feel I owe an apology to anybody. I think Duke University, they owe an apology,’ he said. ‘They’re the ones who owe the apology to Christian students and the ones who donated money for the chapel.’” “Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president for public affairs and government relations, said Thursday that the call to prayer would take place in a quad outside the chapel.” “‘Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant, and welcoming campus for all of its students,’ Schoenfeld said in a statement. ‘However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.’”
Duke officials backed down. The Muslim group will still be able to exercise their religious freedom and issue their call to prayer, but not from the Duke Chapel Tower. There is a powerful message in all of this. Christians spoke up and prevailed. This was not a matter of religious freedom or intolerance. This was about an insult to the Christian faith made by a University originally established to advance the Christian faith. No thoughtful individual could come to a different conclusion. But the good news is that Christians stood up and spoke up and it made a difference. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 16:13 (NASB95), “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” Let us recommit ourselves to stand up and speak up for the sake of Jesus Christ who was lifted up on a cross that we might have eternal life.
Bro. Shep
Join us for a
Happy New Year Wishes Life is like this cider, it’s sweet, so warm and nice. But in its perfect mixture lies a bit of tart and spice. With warm wishes from First Baptist Church Happy Feet. Come and be a part of this ministry on Thursdays at 9:30 in the old social hall.
Flowers The flowers placed in the sanctuary today are to the glory of God and in memory of Gran Schofield, Merle Parker, Tom Parker, Paul Parker and Stuart Hutchinson by the Schofield and Parker families.
Friday, January 23 10AM—2PM
Tickets are $5 and are available before and after Sunday School at the FMC
Welcome Desk and Outside the Old Social Hall.
For more details see page 5
Christian Sympathy We extend Christian Sympathy
to Mr. Leland Mullis upon the passing of his wife, Betty Mullis. Please keep this family in your prayers.
We extend Christian Sympathy to Winnie Vaughn upon the death of her brother, Allen Buchan. Please keep her family in your prayers.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORKERS TRAINING
Saturday January 31, 2015,
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room F217
CHILDREN’S MINISTRY STUDENT MINISTRY
Wednesday Worship: Youth Wednesday night worship will be held in the warehouse this Wednesday at 6:30. Be sure to invite all to come! Wednesday Mornings: The Wednesday morning prayer and devotional time for middle and high school begins at 7:10 @ FBC with a good breakfast and ends in devotion and prayer. Rides to school can be arranged so come join us! ADULTS: If you would like to be put on a list to sponsor a youth during one or more of our yearly events, please see Mike. This will be for youth who cannot afford one of the conferences or camps that we attend. Thank you. www.crossroadssummercamp.com: Summer is coming! Be looking soon for information on Crossroads Summer Camp in Anderson, SC for Middle and High School Youth! Discipleship Training: We will begin again on Sunday February 8th @ 4:45! We will be studying Bible Study! We will look at resources we can use as well as practice finding life application principles in the passages.
Bro. Mike
The wifi FBC Guest
password is
FBCD5598.
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EDUCATION MINISTRY
Philippians 2:16a (NKJV)
Hold firmly to the message of
life.
Winter Discipleship Class
Follow Me, by David Platt
(Introduction)
When: Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
Where: F217
Who: (Both men’s and women’s classes)
Cost: Study books cost $15
Spring Discipleship Class
The Way of the Master, by Ray Comfort
When: Begins March 2015
Sunday School Worker Training
When: Saturday January 31, 2015, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Where: Room 217
Who: All Sunday School Teachers and Workers
Bro. John
ORDER OF WORSHIP FOR 11 AM
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6 p.m. Deacon Ordination Service
GET YOUR
CHURCH
COOKBOOK
TODAY!
$25 (Tax included)
If you are hearing a Call to help with Children’s Ministry during the new year, please see Diane.
We need:
Sunday School Workers (K and 3 YO)
Children’s Church (8:15 or 11:00)
Nursery Volunteers (All services)
And as we move into summer we are looking for VBS Workers
NEIGHBORHOOD VBS Teams WinShape Volunteers
Please pray about your place in Children’s Ministry! _____________________________________
Bible Drill Parents
We will resume Bible Drill on January 21st at 5:30pm On Wednesdays
Please remind your children to study this week.
We will also be working on our Spring STICK program that hopefully the kids will be able to
perform several times. ___________________________________
KIDS DNOW weekend TRIP
2nd –5th graders (K –1st if a parent attends)
Feb. 20-21 Cost: $20/child or adult
We have the opportunity to take a trip to FBC,
Douglasville for a DNow if we have enough interest. Please see Diane if you would like to go on this trip.
MUSIC MINISTRY
CELEBRATION ADULT CHOIR rehearsals have
resumed on Wednesdays at 6:30 PM and Sundays at 4:30 PM . Both rehearsals are held in the choir loft. Now would be a great time to join the choir.
Announcements John Butler
Welcome and Prayer Doug Wasden
Light the Candle
“O Worship the King” B/H #16 (VS 1,2,3,4)
“Behold Our God” Celebration Choir
“Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” B/H #15 (VS 1,2,3)
Offertory Prayer Mike Clements Children are dismissed for Children’s Church
Worship Through Giving
“This is the Day” B/H #359
Deacon Prayer
Message Shep Johnson “Excitement or Enthusiasm?”
Ephesians 5:1, 14-21 (NASB95)
Responding to God’s Call “Take My Life, and Let it Be Consecrated” B/H #283
Benediction
Gerrie Saxon Speaker & Musician
While teaching from God's Word is a passion which has no equal, Gerrie says her most important "job" was and is being the mother of three daughters, and now the grandmother of
eleven wonderful young people. Gerrie and her husband, Kenneth, were married for 55 years before Kenneth went home to his Lord in 2012.
Currently, Gerrie lives in Loganville, GA., is Music Director at Milstead Baptist Church in Conyers, GA., and is also a member of the Georgia Baptist Music ministry group, the Jubalheirs.
TOPIC: Heaven
Date & Time: Friday, January 23 10 AM—2 PM
Where: Old Social Hall
Who: Ladies 55 and older
Cost $5.00
(includes lunch: Chicken Salad, Croissant, Fruit,
Garden Salad, Tea or Water)
Join Us for a Time of
Singing, Bible Study, Fellowship, and Eating!
Tickets can be purchased at the
FMC Welcome Desk & Outside the Old Social Hall
before and after Sunday School.
This is one of the delicious recipes included in the cookbook.
Milky Way Ice Cream 8 Milky Way bars 2 cups milk 6 eggs, well beaten 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 tsps. Vanilla 2 large cans evaporated milk In a double boiler, melt Milky Way bars in 2 cups of milk. Cool. Mix sugar and eggs and beat well. Add vanilla and evaporated milk. Add Milky Way mixture and mix well. Pour into one-gallon freezer container and add enough milk to fill within two inches of top. Freeze and enjoy.