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ONE DAY SEMINAR • February 24, 2013

Youth SundayFebruary 17, 2013

9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.(you should plan to attend morning and afternoon sessions)

Everyone attending Oakmont 101 will attend the Emerge Worship Experience at 11 a.m.

Childcare provided prior to the Sunday School hour and during the afternoon session.

Participants should complete a Spiritual Gifts Survey before the morning session. Surveys available online or in Grand Central.

more details may be found in the What’s New section of our Web Site

• February 2013 • Connections • Oakmont Baptist Church

spirituality retreat

March 1-3, 2013 • Caraway Conference Center, Asheboro, NCThe retreat begins Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. and ends with lunch on Sunday

Cost Per Personincludes two night lodging, five meals, and retreat materials

Double Occupancy • $152.00 • Single Occupancy • 178.00

First Time Attender Discount • $25($128 - double; $153 - single)

$75 deposit due at sign up to hold room. Balance due by March 1st.

Sign up Grand Central, On-line, or call the Church Office

Has your spiritual life grown dull?

Do you desire more time to spend with God?

Do you need a few days of rest and quiet to recharge your spiritual, emotional, and physical self?

If so, join us for the Spirituality Retreat.The retreat will give you space for yourself and for God.

The weekend includes times of worship, sharing, fellowship, study, and quiet reflection.

Oakmont Baptist Church • Connections • February 2013 • page 3

Coffee TalkFebruary 5th • 9:00 a.m. • Fellowship Hall

Lunch BunchFebruary 12 • 11:30 a.m. • Red Lobster

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Saturday • February 16th

10:00 a.m. Youth Orchestra

10:45 a.m.All Participants

Sunday • February 17th

Breakfast at 8:30 a.m.


2013 Children’s Musical

WorshipTeam

Neededfor Greenfield Place

Nursing Home

Keyonna Jordan has asked if Oakmont has a team of volunteers who can lead worship (lots of singing and Bible devotion) at Greenfield Place one Sunday a month on the 1st or 3rd Sunday from 10:30-11:30 a.m. for 20-30 residents. If you are willing to serve on this team, please let Jimmie Hughes know.

Youth (Grades 6-12)

Disciple Now

March 22-24 • Cost $40

Sign Up in the Youth Room or On-Line

Details available on the youth web page.

Host Homes and Host Home Helpers

needed.Contact Amy Andrews

for details.

Pizza Lunch/RehearsalFebruary 10th

12 noon until 1:30 p.m.

Regular RehearsalsWednesdays

6:00 until 6:45 p.m.

Backpacking Information

Meetingfor all youth and adults interested in the trip

February 24th7:30 p.m.

Multi-Purpose Room

Trip dates April 2-6

March 15 & 16, 2013Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Of NC

General Assembly at Lumberton

June 9-12, 20136:00 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.

Vacation Bible School

Everywhere Fun Fair: Where God’s World Comes Together

NEWNEWPerformance Date

Sunday, April 21st

during bothworship services


Offering IngatheringFebruary 10, 2013

meets the third Saturday of January, April, July, & OctoberAll ladies are welcome to join us!

For more info contact Lauri Johnsonat 252.355.7294 or [email protected]

Round Table Book Club

February 10th • 12:00 noonFree for All Participants

Lunch Provided

Stewards of Children Presentation(child sexual abuse prevention training)

Promoting safety for our children through TEDI BEAR Children’s Advocacy

Center training for those working with minors

For all Sunday School workers, youth workers, mission and music workers!

Also open to teachers and others working with children in their job on a day to day basis

who would like to complete the program at no cost.

Register for the meal and/or childcare by February 7th.

for workers with Preschoolers, Children, and Youth

Training for Adult Sunday School Teachers

There will be separate training specific to your area

of ministry.


The 2012 financial giving numbers that you see on the adjoining page are cause for celebration and prayerful gratitude to God. We all know that the recovery now in place from our 2008 economic downturn remains on tenuous footing, showing signs of improvement one moment, but taking two steps backward the next moment. Your giving last year to God’s work at Oakmont, our community, and world, therefore, is a testimony to your faithfulness to be generous givers and God’s blessing in response to that generosity.

In a nutshell, our total receipts for the year were approximately $15,000 short of our $1,769,000 budget. In addition, you gave over $109,000 in special gifts to community, state, and world missions and ministries beyond Oakmont. We have seen lives changes—both ours and others—as we have lived out the truth of Jesus’ words, which the Apostle Paul quotes in Acts 20:35: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

Last year I shared our 2011 giving update and referenced Reggie McNeal’s book Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church. McNeal states that most churches look at financial giving, Sunday attendance, baptisms, and new members as the key metrics of health and vitality. He suggests we consider a new scorecard for measurement. I offer a brief list once again of his new scorecard suggestions:

• tracking the number of volunteer hours of people in community service and mission trips.

• counting the spiritual conversations and intentional acts of blessing to others.

• monitoring the amount of time spent in worship where the community is on the agenda.

• listing the number of people reporting they are praying faithfully, receiving answers to prayer, and the time spent in prayer in corporate church gatherings.

• recording the number of people who report improved marriages, family life, and friendships, and who engaged in financial planning or created a life development plan.

• reporting on the use of facilities for people’s personal and spiritual growth, and the use of the building by school and community groups.

• tracking how the church’s web site is providing training, sharing personal stories of spiritual transformation, or the number of computers church members or businesses have recycled to people who can’t afford them.

Our deacons are currently reading McNeal’s book and dialoging together on what a new scorecard might mean for Oakmont. Certainly we would die on the vine if financial giving, attendance, baptisms, and new members ceased to be. But what are the possibilities you see for creating new metrics and scorecards? How might those new measurements keep on us track in being God’s missional people? How would they re-frame our call to be the presence of Christ wherever we go and whatever we do?

I am glad that we go to church – and that we are the church, His people, wherever we go in His name!

Grateful to be your Pastor,

Greg Rogers


2012 Budget .....................................................................................................................................................$1,769,455.002012 Contribution Receipts ........................................................................................................................$1,754,400.782012 Total Receipts [interest/rent,etc.] ................................................................................................... $1,757,635.782012 Budget Expenses ..................................................................................................................................$1,678,572.58

NoLimits Campaign Receipts to Date ........................................................................................................$1,569,017.81NoLimits Campaign Receipts for 2012 ...........................................................................................................$45,372.90NoLimits Paid on Principle in 2012 ..................................................................................................................$45,372.9012-21-2012 Sanctuary Mortgage ...................................................................................................................$250,669.82

Communion ........................................................................................................................................................ $46,524.21 Greenville Community Shelters ...................................................................... $32,965.67 Pitt County Council on Aging ..............................................................................$5,645.43 Oakmont Benevolence .......................................................................................... $7,149.86

[the standard percentages for our Communion Offering are 75%/10%/15% but depending on the benevolent cap and the inclusion of designated gifts, these figures will not add up precisely to these percentages]

International Missions ........................................................................................................................................ $8,055.75World Vision .............................................................................................................................................................. $497.00North Carolina Baptist Men - Woman’s Missionary Union of NC .......................................................... $4,004.00NC Baptist Children’s Home .............................................................................................................................. $6,454.00NC Baptist Hospital ............................................................................................................................................ $4,809.00NC Baptist Retirement Homes .......................................................................................................................... $4,743.00

Christmas Eve [Adopt-a-Village Wells (NC Baptist Men) and Moldova Orphanage Windows] .... $4,295.80Oakmont Square Apartments Blitz .................................................................................................................. $2,209.00Oakmont Community Ministries [contributions only; no grant funds] ................................................ $25,748.88 Mission Trip Participants Contributions ...................................................................................................... $73,994.00Miscellaneous Ministries ................................................................................................................................... $2,014.00

2012Year End Report

(as of January 24, 2013)


Preparing Meals Cooking starts around 2 p.m.Setting Up the Fellowship Hall Set up begins around 4:30 p.m.Cleaning Up Usually through around 7 p.m.Provide Transportation to the ChurchPreparing/Providing Food BoxesBuild Relationships Volunteers are encouraged to eat with the guests and engage in conversation.Invite to Church ServicesProvide Haircuts

Provide ShowersGuidance to Subsistence ProgramsAssistance with Emergency ExpendituresProvide needed items:

• Toiletries• Clothes (men, women, and children)• Wash House Laundry Cards• Hand warmers• Batteries • Sleeping Bags, Tents, Blankets• Bus Passes• Gift cards to Fast Food Restaurants• Gift Cards to Grocery Stores

Every Tuesday in the Fellowship HallA Home-Cooked Meal, Short Devotional, and Time of Fellowship • Begins at 5:30 p.m.

Ways YOU can help...


Provide ShowersGuidance to Subsistence ProgramsAssistance with Emergency ExpendituresProvide needed items:

• Toiletries• Clothes (men, women, and children)• Wash House Laundry Cards• Hand warmers• Batteries • Sleeping Bags, Tents, Blankets• Bus Passes• Gift cards to Fast Food Restaurants• Gift Cards to Grocery Stores

Every Tuesday in the Fellowship HallA Home-Cooked Meal, Short Devotional, and Time of Fellowship • Begins at 5:30 p.m.

Other Donationsare welcome; however, contact Jimmie Hughes,

Layne Rogerson, or Wayne Taylor before bringing items to the church.

Ways YOU can help...

Special Thanksto the Fresh Market who provides FREE

food and other items each week.

Donations are also provided by Pepperridge Farms, the Food Bank of Central and Eastern

North Carolina, and Harris Teeter.


Church-SchoolPartnership

Medical Clinic &Food Distribution

February 24th • 1:00-3:30 p.m.Oakmonters are welcome to use this clinic, too.

Volunteers needed...Contact Sylvia Fuller to get involved with the Medical Clinic

Contact Roy Thagard to get involved with the Food Distribution

akmontRAMP BUILDERSIf you took a tag from the display in the

Narthex, please turn in your tag and money by February 8th.

Please do not purchase the item on your tag because we’ll purchase all the items at

once and receive a discount.

Most Thursdays a group builds a ramp somewhere in the Greenville area. If you would like to help build

ramps, please contact Tom Reese ([email protected])

This team helps individuals with transportation to health care facilities for appointments.

Volunteers are needed to serve as drivers. If you are interested in helping

please contact Butch Jones.

someone cares

Pray for Caroline Jones as she begins training for two months before leaving to serve for two years in East Asia as a Journeyman with the International Mission Board. She will be working with college stu-dents and women who are rescued from human trafficking in that area.

Valentine'sLunch

Tuesday • February 14th

11 a.m. until 1 p.m. • Eppes Middle SchoolVolunteers needed to cook or donate food, set up, greet teachers and staff,

serve, and clean up.

To volunteer, contact Ramona Meets ([email protected])


Bring your family and favorite foods to shareas we get to know our international neighbors.

Bring your family and favorite foods to share as we get to know our international neighbors.

Friday, February 8th

6:30-8:30 p.m. • Fellowship Hall

for more information contactSusan Reed (902-5798 or [email protected])

for more information contactSusan Reed (902-5798 or [email protected])

Thursday, February 21st • 7 p.m.Rock Springs Center

FREE tickets Available • Contact Jimmie Hughes for more information.

Featured SpeakerNeurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson

Carolina Pregnancy CenterChange For LifeBottles Available in the Narthex and Grand Central

Take a bottle home, fill it with change, checks payable to CPC, or dollar bills.

Return to the Church Office by February 24th.

This money provides ultrasounds, parenting classes, Bible studies, etc. for women and men in crisis pregnancy situations.

Food Distribution2nd & 4th Saturdays • 8:30 until 11:30 a.m.

Volunteers needed to pack and load food boxes.Contact James Pearsall for more information.

community development center

Remember inNicaragua Mission Trip

January 31 - February 7

TWIGTHE WOMEN’S IMPACT GROUP

Connecting Lives with CHRIST as the Center Through Reaching, Growing, and Going

BAPTIST CHURCH

Opportunities to Get Involved 2011 - 2012Use your gifts to build relationships with those in need by showing the hope, joy and love of Jesus.

Thursday, September 22 at 6:30 PM: Oakmont Square Apartments • Couponing

Friday, October 14 at 4:00 PM: Building Hope Community Life Center • Harvest/Halloween Theme

Thursday, November 17 at 6:30 PM: Oakmont Square Apartments • Preparing Mixes as Gifts

Monday, December 12 from 4:30 - 8:00 PM: Building Hope Community Life Center • Christmas Party & Dinner

Thursday, January at 6:30 PM: Oakmont Square Apartments • Fleece Craft

Friday, February 10 at 4:00 PM: Building Hope Community Life Center • Valentine’s Day Theme

Thursday, March 8 at 6:30 PM: Oakmont Square Apartments • Repurpose Craft

Friday, April 20 at 4:00 PM: Building Hope Community Life Center • Spring/New Life Theme

Thursday, May 10 at 6:30 PM: Oakmont Square Apartments • Meal or Movie

Contact Sharon Crisman for more [email protected]

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COLLEGE MINISTRY

New Sunday Morning Schedule

9:40 a.m. Sunday School10:35 a.m. Shuttle at Scott Residence Hall10:45 a.m. Shuttle at Fletcher Music Hall11:00 a.m. Emerge Worship Experience12 noon FREE College Indulge Lunch

Oakmont College Students at Passion Conference in Atlanta

Thank you for your support of our college ministries!

Oakmont College Students at Passion Conference in Atlanta

Thank you for your support of our college ministries!

find all the details about college ministry

on-line at oakmontcollege.com

http://www.oakmontcollege.com


Wednesday NightSuppers

Ongoing Prayer Concerns

June BakerJeanne Conklin

Kara GayRose Postel

Herbert Powell

MissionariesCaroline Jones

Eric, Julie, Ciera, and Josiah Maas

SympathyErin Davis’ Grandfather

December 19, 2012

Trevor Burnette’s Step-Father

December 21, 2012

Alma Mills December 25, 2012

Henry Cayton December 27, 2012

Ashley Gale’s Father January 17, 2013

Jim Van Liew January 13, 2013

remember inPRAYERNew Members

Shavon BrownProfession of Faith

Candidate for Baptism

Jeff BainesTransfer of Membership

Justin EastwoodProfession of Faith


complete Prayer List available on our web site

Hallie MillsProfession of Faith


Luke GodwinProfession of Faith


Cayla MorrisProfession of Faith


February 6Meat Loaf

Mashed PotatoesPeas & Carrots

Dessert

February 13Fried FishColeslaw

Corn on the CobDessert

February 20Bar-B-Q Chicken

Macaroni and CheeseCollardsDessert

February 27Pork Roast

CabbageRice

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March 6Spaghetti

Garlic BreadSalad

Desert

March 13Bar-B- Ribs

ColeslawBaked Potato

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please make or break your reservationsby Noon on Tuesdays

Serving Line Opens at 5:15 p.m.$4 adults • $3 children (12 and younger)


Regular ScheduleSundays 8:20 a.m. Sunday School 9:00 a.m. Orchestra Rehearsal 9:15 a.m. Chancel Choir Rehearsal 9:40 a.m. Sunday School

Worship Service 11:00 a.m. Sunday School

Emerge Worship Service 12 noon Indulge College Lunch 4:30 p.m. Youth Praise Team Rehearsal

Youth Skit Team Rehearsal 5:00 p.m. Highest Praise Rehearsal 5:30 p.m. Youth Room Opens

Joyful Sounds Rehearsal 6:00 p.m. Youth Dinner

College Fellowship 6:30 p.m. Youth Small Group Studies 7:00 p.m. College Small Groups

Mondays 9:30 a.m. Ministers’ Prayer Time 3:30 p.m. Book Buddies 7:00 p.m. Ladies Bible Study (2nd & 4th weeks) 7:30 p.m. Men’s & Women’s Prayer Time

Tuesdays 9:00 a.m. Senior Adult Coffee Talk (1st week) 10:00 a.m. Steadfast Mission Group (2nd week) 11:30 a.m. Senior Adult Lunch Bunch (2nd week) 3:45 p.m. Backyard Buddies-Middle School 3:45 p.m. Backyard Buddies Tutoring 5:00 p.m. Dinner for Unsheltered Homeless

Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. Mission Action Group (2nd week) 12:30 p.m. Baptist Men’s Lunch (uptown Chico’s) 4:00 p.m. JOY Singers’ Rehearsal (select weeks) 5:15 p.m. Fellowship Supper 5:45 p.m. Library Opens

Preschool Childcare begins 6:00 p.m. Preschool & Children’s Choirs

Youth Room Opens 6:15 p.m. Adult Small Group Studies

[some groups meet earlier or later] 6:30 p.m. Youth “Connect” Worship 6:45 p.m. Orchestra Rehearsal

Preschool & Children’s Mission Groups 7:00 p.m. Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Emerge Singers’ Rehearsal 7:30 p.m. Emerge Musicians Rehearsal 8:00 p.m. The Co-Op CBF-NC Campus Ministry

(at Immanuel Baptist Church)

Thursdays 3:30 p.m. Backyard Buddies After School Activities

Fridays 6:30 p.m. Japanese Table Talk (2nd week)

Saturdays 8:30 a.m. First Born Food Distribution (2nd & 4th weeks)

Our Record of Faithfulness

12-23-12 12-30-12 01-06-13AttendanceSunday School ............................................................................................... 315 ....................................................................................426Total Worship .................................................................................................519 .....................................422 .......................................661

BudgetWeekly Amount Needed ..........................................................$33,385.94 .........................$33,385.94 ........................ $35,035.02Receipts This Week ....................................................................$97,634.89 .......................$59,703.89 ........................ $35,825.28Amount Needed Year to Date ...........................................$1,736,068.88 .................. $1,769,455.00 ....................... $35,035.02Receipts Year to Date .......................................................... $1,686,506.89 .................$1,749,400.78 ......................... $35,825.28Amount Over (Under) Budget ...............................................($49,561.99) ................... ($20,054.22) .............................$790.26

Special Offeringsno limits Fund (to date) ........................................................ $1,567,452.81 .....................$1,569,017.81 ......................$1,569,617.81Communion (month to date) .................................................... $5,001.00 ..........................$5,061.00 ............................$3,123.00CBF Global Missions (to date) .............................................................$3,150.62 ..............................$3,290.87 .................................$3,315.50SBC Lottie Moon International Missions (to date) ....................$4,604.63...............................$4,764.88 ...............................$4,789.50Christmas Eve Offering (to date) ......................................................$3,890.80 ..............................$4,295.80 ..............................$4,365.80

01-13-13 01-20-13 01-27-13AttendanceTotal Sunday School ...................................................................................434 .....................................345 ....................................... 341Total Worship ................................................................................................694 ......................................614 ....................................... 651

BudgetWeekly Amount Needed ..........................................................$35,035.02 .......................$35,053.02 ........................ $35,035.02Receipts This Week ....................................................................$25,399.76 .........................$20,134.86 ..........................$24,513.25Amount Needed Year to Date ................................................$70,070.04 ......................$105,105.06 .......................$140,140.08Receipts Year to Date ..................................................................$61,225.04 ........................$81,359.72 ....................... $105,872.97Amount Over (Under) Budget ................................................($8,845.00) .................... ($23,745.34)...................... ($34,267.11)

Special Offeringsno limits Fund (to date) .........................................................$1,569,787.81 ......................$1,570,517.81 ..................... $1,571,582.81Communion (month to date) .....................................................$3,467.00 ..........................$3,607.00 ......................... $4,994.00CBF Global Missions (to date) ...........................................................................................................................................................................$50.00SBC Lottie Moon International Missions (to date) ....................................................................................................................................$50.00

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OakmontBaptistChurch

1100 Red Banks RoadGreenville, NC 27858

252-756-1245

www.oakmontchurch.com

Office Hours9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Monday-Friday

Minister on CallFebruary 2-3

Beth Thompson531-6894

February 9-10Joshua Breazeale

702-4301

February 16-17Amy Andrews

916-9937

February 23-24Michael McKnight

321-0285

March 2-3Steve Harding

353-5053

February 13, 2013Sanctuary • 6:15 p.m.

This service will feature music, a Children’s Worship Time, and periods of reflection and response.Childcare will be provided for preschoolers ages 3 and younger.

Worship Service

Preschool and Children’s Choirs and Mission Groups will not meet.There will not be adult small group studies on this night.

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. Lent is the period from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, and lasts six and a half weeks (40 days not counting Sundays). During Lent, Christians purify themselves by praying, fasting, repenting of their sins, and making changes and sacrifices in their lives. The final week of Lent is called Holy Week; during this period, Christians reflect specifically on the last days of Jesus Christ’s life.

On Ash Wednesday, worshipers attend services at which they receive on their foreheads ashes from burned palms. A minister marks the forehead of each worshiper, often saying, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” Ashes are viewed throughout Christian history as a symbol of humility and sacrifice for those who wear them.

Youth Connect WorshipMulti-Purpose Room • 6:15 p.m.

A special Ash Wednesday Emphasis for Youth Grades 7-12

more details may be found in the What’s New section of our Web...

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