The Clarion

November 29, 2015 “To Glorify God by Knowing Christ and Making Him Known.”

FBC Goal: $55,000 Dec. 6 - Offering Walk

Lottie Moon Offering Kick-Off Event Sunday, November 29, 2015

5:30 PM

"“A Night in Africa" Learning from Missionaries Tim and Charlotte

Cearley of Africa

Tasting of Sub-Saharan foods

Preparing for our International Missions Offering

Praying for the Clusters (regions) of Africa

Enjoy sampling International Finger Foods at 6:30 PM with your family and friends!

Up for the

Challenge!

I have great news, church family! Our International

Mission Board (IMB) informs us that our 2014 Lottie

Moon Christmas Offering amount met the fourth and

highest giving milestone recognized by the IMB! The

IMB’s Associate Vice President for Development,

David Clippard, writes, The Headland First Baptist

Church family gave at a level called the ‘Manchuria

Challenge,’ which recognizes churches that gave $100

and up per capita based on the average Sunday

morning attendance. The 943 churches that met the

‘Manchuria Challenge’ represent 2 percent of the

50,000 churches that comprise the Southern Baptist

Convention. This group of churches gave over $36

million, or 24 percent of the 2014 LMCO. To God be

the glory great things He has done through His people!

You may remember that Lottie Moon died on

Christmas Eve, 1914, on a ship named the Manchuria.

Weighing only 50 pounds, she was carried aboard to

return to America to be nursed back to health. She had

given everything, including her own food, to her

beloved Chinese people. Lottie Moon’s spirit lives in

our missionaries today who have given up much to be

our representatives to the unreached peoples of the

world! May her spirit and sacrifice inspire us to meet

the “Manchuria Challenge” again this year to support

these choice missionaries!

This Sunday, November 29th, begins our Week of

Prayer for International Missions. Praying prepares

our hearts to give sacrificially and generously to the

2015 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering the following

week. Missionaries Tim and Charlotte Cearley from

Sub-Saharan Africa will be our guests for this

Sunday’s morning service and for the special evening

service and fellowship time to follow. Don’t miss this

great Sunday! You will thoroughly enjoy the Cearleys

and the accounts they will share of God’s powerful

work on the mission field.

See you Sunday!

Cecil Sanders

5:30 PM—Chapel

Sundays

LEAD 360 is leadership development that begins with

Christ as He transforms the individual spiritually, emo-

tionally, and mentally. It is a way for students to receive

leadership training and development with biblical princi-

ples and a biblical worldview. It offers students opportu-

nities for hands on leadership through the planning and

executing of ministry events within the area of student

ministry.

February 12-13, 2016 Ridgecrest Baptist Church

Speakers: Ben Trueblood and Chad Poe

Worship Leader: The Museum

Illusionist: Drew Worsham

Cost: $50 per person

Christmas at Landmark

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Beginning at 5:30 pm

Stokes Barn at Landmark Park

Join us for:

Christmas Caroling,

Hayrides, Soups and

Chili, Bonfire and

S'mores!

Winter Retreat Meeting for Parents & Students

Sunday, Dec. 6 at 6:30 PM

Ministry Center

The 2015-2016 Participant Forms

are due no later than

Thursday, Dec. 10th.

Children Celebrating

Christ Sat., Dec. 5, 2015

11:00 AM—2:00 PM Ages 18 months—5th Grade

Ministry Center

Children come and enjoy

hands-on-experiences to celebrate Christ’s birth!

Deadline to sign-up is this Sunday, November 29.

Sign-up in the Church Bulletin, Sunday School Class or

call the Church Office at 693-3220.

November Calendar 25 No PM Activities

26 Happy Thanksgiving

27 CDC Closed

Upcoming Events

Becoming a Member of First Baptist Church The following are ways in which First Baptist Church re-

ceives members:

Publicly declaring that you have trusted Jesus Christ as

your personal Savior (Eph. 2:8, 9) and participating in

believer’s baptism by immersion.

Transferring your membership from another Southern

Baptist Church.

Making a Statement of your faith in Jesus Christ

(having already been baptized by immersion).

Watchcare – for those who desire fellowship, but not

membership.

If you believe God is leading you to become a member of

this church body, 1. Plan on attending the next *Discover

FBC Class. 2. Schedule a time to visit with one of our pas-

tors.

*The Discover FBC Class, offered two or three times a year, explains the

beliefs and practices of First Baptist Church.

Christmas Musical

“That’s Where the Story Began”

Sunday, December 13, 2015

5:30 PM

Our G.R.O.W. team will meet on Monday, December 7, at 6:30 PM

in the Church Office Conference Room.

J.O.Y Ministry

Luncheon

Tuesday, December 8!

11:00 AM

FBC Family,

Kim & I wish we could thank each of you personally for all

the calls, texts, cards, and most of all your prayers. We are

so blessed to have church family such as you.

As we are still on this journey, we covet each and every

prayer and thank you for them.

Kim & Barbara DeShazo

Church Family,

I want to thank you all for your prayers and concern during

my recent surgery. Your words of encouragement, cards

and visits meant so much to me.

I am humbled by your acts of kindness. Danny and I are

blessed to be a part of such a caring church family.

Lynne Parker and family

Newborn Announcement

Annie Ruth Arrington

Congratulations to Ben & Macy Arrington

on the birth of their daughter, Annie Ruth

Arrington. Annie Ruth was born on November 20, 2015.

She weighed 6 lbs. & 4 ozs. and was 19 and 1/2 inches

long. Proud grandparents are Greg & Kathy Arrington and

Mick & Terri Spitler (Dothan).

Called Business Meeting

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015

6:00 PM

Adult 1 Department

Item of Business: To consider a policy for establishing a

Prayer Garden Fund.

Church Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Email addresses are available on the website.

Worship Spotlight

9:30 AM Sunday, November 29, 2015

Message Tim & Charlotte Cearley

Guest Missionaries

Preschool 9:30 AM *Schedule Contact For The Week

Jana Yance

Infants Margaret McClenny

Tina Skipper Amber Harrison

Creepers Erin Stuckey Sara McKee

1 & 2 Year Olds Tina Raffler

Jennifer Teat

3 Year Olds Wesley & Robyn Rowell

4 & 5 Year Olds Brock & April Tyson

Abbie Phillips

FBC TV Program Schedule Comcast Cable Channel 4

Sundays: 9:00 AM & 7:00 PM Thursdays: 9:00 AM & 7:00 PM

This Week’s First Touch Team Benton & Jan Beasley

This Week November 29, 2015

Sunday, November 29:

8:15 AM Sunday School

9:30 AM Morning Worship

11:00 AM Sunday School

5:00 PM Student Choir

5:30 PM Intentional Discipleship Kidz Praise

Wednesday, December 2:

Prayer Meeting, Celebration Choir, Breaking Point, Kids on Mission, Mission Friends, First Steps

FBC Staff

Cecil Sanders, Senior Pastor

Mike Wehner, Associate Pastor

Joel Tucker Minister of Children & Students

Tim Gay Minister of Music &

Senior Adults

Brook Phillips Children’s Assistant

Kimberly Grandstaff CDC Director - 693-3599

Richard Kohl Licensed Professional Counselor For appointment (334) 722-9097

Heather Armstrong Church Secretary

Carlando Hope Media Secretary

Pam Ellison Financial Secretary Campus Patrol Team 5

Sun., Nov. 29, 8:00 AM -12:30 PM 5:30—7:30 PM

Campus Patrol Team 6 Wed., Dec. 2, 5:30—7:30 PM

Sun., Dec. 6, 8:00 AM -12:30 PM 5:30—7:30 PM

First Baptist Church

Headland, AL 36345

Tele: - (334) 693-3220

Fax - (334) 693-3641

www.fbcheadland.com

Clarion Non Profit Org. Permit No. 571740

Published weekly by the First Baptist Church,

301 East Church Street, Headland, Alabama 36345. Periodical

Postage paid at Dothan, Alabama.

Postmaster: Send Address Changes to: First Baptist Church

301 East Church Street

Headland, AL 36345

Our People Gave November 29, 2015

Weekly Need $19,979.65

Budget Received $19,551.51

Over (Under) Budget ($428.14)

Year-To-Date

Budget Required $939,043.55

Budget Received $930,115.05

Over (Under) ($8,928.50)

Bridge to Tomorrow Fund

Giving 11-22-2015 $1,832.00

Fund Total $117,757.08

Children’s Church Joey & Laura Deal

The Record Speaks Nov. 29, 2015

Our People Attended

8:15 Sunday School 236

11:00 Sunday School 135

Total Sunday School 371

Worship 513

Wednesday No Service– Weather

Intentional Discipleship 120