5th Sunday Assignments ~ March 30

� Counting Team ~ Carolyn Dodgen, Beverly Nash,

Linda Rustin, Harry & Ruth Ward

� 9AM Ushers ~ Barry Harrell (C), Wayne Melton, Clint Purser,

Walt Kennerly, Stephen Hulsey, Brian Scarbrough,

Kevin Patterson, Jeff Dodgen

� 10:30AM Ushers ~ Larry & Sam Cash, Tony Ethridge,

Steve Hulsey, Ray Snow, George Steedley (C), Terry Stuart,

Chris Thomas

WORKERS IN WORSHIP

March 2 9:00 Worship

Ushers: Barry Harrell (C), Wayne Melton, Clint Purser,

Walt Kennerly, Stephen Hulsey, Brian Scarbrough, Kevin

Patterson, Jeff Dodgen

10:30 Worship

Deacon Membership Committee: Greg Wilkes Counting Committee: Jim & Tammy Page, Charles & Glenda

Jernigan, Elaine Alberson

Deacons: Joe Smith, Ray Snow, Dean Dodgen, Windy Manor

Ushers: Larry & Sam Cash, Tony Ethridge, Steve Hulsey,

Ray Snow, George Steedley (C), Terry Stuart, Chris Thomas

March 9 9:00 Worship

Ushers: Chris Crook (C), Alton Gregory, Clint Joiner,

John Rose, Brian Scarbrough

10:30 Worship

Deacon Membership Committee: Kevin Patterson Counting Committee: Ruby Brannen, Pauline Carson,

Darryl & Joyce Toler

Deacons: George Steedley, Ken Dowdy, Windell Branch

Ushers: Scott Coleman, Brooks Hulsey, Taylor Gordon (C),

Tony Martin, Wayne & Jody Neal, Barry Tuten, Mark Tilghman,

Kip Goodbread

March 16 9:00 Worship

Ushers: Tommy Beck, Nathan Brown, Chris Crook (C),

Stephen Hulsey, Earnie Jowers, Windy Manor, Jim Motos,

Kevin Patterson

10:30 Worship

Deacon Membership Committee: Jim Motos

Counting Committee: Windell & Carol Branch,

Mary Kay Easterling, Ellie Weeks

Deacons: Bob Manor, Brad Brown, Greg Yancey, Jeff Dodgen

Ushers: Emory Boyd, Lynda Ethridge, Galin Hall, Rob Hicks (C),

Charles Martin, Jim & Tammy Page, Karen Tostensen

March 23 9:00 Worship

Ushers: Chris Crook (C), Josh Minix, Jeff Rankin, John Rose,

Harrison Rankin, Mark Carson

10:30 Worship

Deacon Membership Committee: Barry Harrell Counting Committee: Carolyn Dodgen, Ken & Eileen Dowdy,

Derrick Hulsey, Ray Snow

Deacons: Geoff Cannon, Tony Martin, Elton Ricks

Ushers: Bruce Clements (C), Dean Dodgen, Kathy Gilmer,

K Hall, Johnny Hollington, Joe & Joan Smith, Mark Weeks,

Nancy Jobe

MINISTERIAL STAFF

Dr. Ronny Spillers ~ Senior Pastor rspillers@fbcbrunswick.com

Mr. Dean Dodgen ~ Church Administrator ddodgen@fbcbrunswick.com

Rev. Mark Clay ~ Minister Of Music & Worship mclay@fbcbrunswick.com

Rev. Dave Hall ~ Minister To Students dhall@fbcbrunswick.com

Mr. Chandis Buck ~ Minister To Single Adults & Worship Pastor cbuck@fbcbrunswick.com

Mrs. Heather Harrell ~ Preschool & Children’s Director hharrell@fbcbrunswick.com

Rev. Jim Crandall ~ Pastor, Jekyll Island Baptist Chapel j_cran@bellsouth.net

Minister on Call Pager ~ 912-208-0575

Purpose Statement We humbly desire to follow God’s Will with integrity and

trustworthiness while striving for excellence to carry out the

great commission (Matthew 28:18-20) and God’s greatest

commandment (Matthew 22:37-38).

Vision Statement To be a body of believers united in faith and worship of God,

encouraging one another and discipling believers to impact our

community and world by sharing the gospel of our Lord Jesus

Christ.

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Be Wise Proverbs 18:15 ~ An intelligent heart acquires knowledge,

and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Did you hear about the man who is 100 plus running for office in

his state? When asked why, he replied, “I don’t like the way things

are going.” If we don’t keep an open mind and willing heart, we can

become stagnate and unresponsive to needed change.

Change has its genesis with an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. Have you ever read the

scriptures and discovered something entirely new even though you have read it many times? When

you really desire to know and do the will of God, He guides you into new opportunities. Oops!

There is an antithesis to this truth. If you are unwilling to change, you will build walls around you

and change is not an option.

Look carefully then how you walk not as unwise but as wise. Ephesians 5:15

After 24 years, here are some

thoughts about Student Ministry:

It’s unpredictable. The Sadducees

and Pharisees were not chosen, but

the fishermen and tax collector

were. While trying to have a retreat

with His disciples, Jesus ends up feeding 5,000.

While trying to walk through a crowd, He ends up

stopping to heal a woman. While walking to a city, He

meets a demon possessed naked guy, casts out demons,

and gets asked to leave the area! When Jesus and the

disciples plan to go places and do things, sometimes

those plans change on the fly. Stephen leaves a thriving

ministry to do God’s bidding with a foreign official.

With youth, you never know what is going to happen

next. You think you have ministry figured out, and it

changes minute to minute!

It’s expensive. Some things don’t make any sense. In

Matthew, a lady pours out a very expensive jar of

perfume on Jesus. The question arose: “why the waste”.

In the parable of the prodigal son, when the son returned,

he was given a ring, fine clothes, and a big pizza party.

His brother wanted to know why he wasn’t allotted such

treatment and expense. Some things just don’t make

sense outside a spiritual goal.

It’s about each person.

Jesus told parables about a

lost coin, a lost son, a lost

sheep, and the resounding

joy when those subjects

are found. He talks about

seeing a crowd as sheep in

need of a shepherd. He

viewed a thief on a cross

and said “this day you will be with me in paradise”.

Jesus loved unconditionally, deeply, and with His entire

physical life, up to the point of His sacrificial death.

Youth of all walks, all types of family, and all types of

financial background come to us weekly. Red and

yellow black and white, they are precious in His sight.

Each is viewed as a divine appointment. Our adults love

them all and the love they give is simply incredible.

Peace. Dave

Student Ministry

Save the Date!

� Vacation Bible School

June 16 - 20, 2014. Contact

Heather Harrell @ 265-4150

to let her know how you can

help.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!! The Preschool

Department is in need of 2 teachers on Sunday

Mornings at the 10:30 hour and 2 teachers on

Wednesday Nights for our Mission Friends

Class. Please help support our children by giving of

your time. Make Heather Harrell's day by being

a teacher!

Preschool & Children’s Ministry

Senior Adult Ministry

Fellowship Club

Tuesday, March 11

11:00 Program - Twitty

Chapel ~ Ricky Stewart

11:45 Lunch - Beach Hall

Homemade Vegetable

Soup, everyone is encouraged to bring side dishes or

desserts that will feed eight or more.

Invite your friends to come & fellowship with us!

1:00 ~ Senior Adult Fellowship Choir rehearsals are

in Twitty Chapel. Rehearsals are the second & fourth

Tuesday of every month.

STREETREACH MEMPHIS, TN

June 14-21 Brochures are on

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Disclaimer: This is based on something God has convicted me with and is not directed at any other

person or event. IT IS my intention to cause you to think and evaluate your life as it has caused me to evaluate mine.

Question- What is so important about the people in authority in the church? As a pastor I would say, “Everything!” However, that is a little biased, arrogant, and not a

strong argument. James 3 warns those who are teaching to “let not many of you become

teachers, knowing that you shall receive a stricter judgment.”

**By the way, we are looking for some BSF teachers…any volunteers?**

Hebrews 13:7-9 says,

“7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome

of their way of life, and imitate their faith.” Verse 17 finishes up the thought saying,

“17

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an

account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.”

Verse 7 tells us to imitate the faith of those who spoke the word of God.

Leaders have a lot of wonderful things to say however their life is not to be imitated because they are in the position, but

because verse 7 assumes they are living a life in agreement with and pointing people toward the word of God.

Verse 17 finishes this thought telling us to submit to these leaders, this is of course leaders who are submitting to God.

As a leader, the privilege and responsibility is not in “knowing everything” or that the leader is just all around better, but that

he is submitted to God. (Submission does not just pertain to leaders!)

We all have opinions (I think mine are pretty good) and ultimately we will come to find out those opinions are worth as much

as a wooden nickel, because it is the word of God that is to be the truth and measurement for our life.

Do we pass on the word of God or our opinion to those under us? Do we live our life constantly looking through the lens of

Scripture or simply by what we think is best?

Can our lives be imitated?

Love, The Chandis

Singles’ Ministry

ANNIE ARMSTRONG EASTER OFFERING

FBC Goal:

March 2-8 Week of Prayer

for North American Missions

Mission Ministry

Haiti 2:

March 29-April 5 in

Cite-Soleil (new ground)

& Jubilee Blanc

Evangelism & Medical

�Sondra & Apps McNorton �Greg & Kathleen Jarvis �Katherine Calovis �Merry Geer �Lonnie Hall

Please be in prayer

over our Haiti Mission

Teams. The tools and

service given are the

gate to the gospel.

Haiti 1:

March 21-29

in Jubilee Blanc

Marriage seminar (for Haitian

couples) and a Spiritual retreat

(for on-field missionaries).

�Kevin & Kim Patterson �Jennifer & Nathaniel Kirkland �Kelly & Thomas Davis �Katelyn Patterson �Boyce Young

INTERCESSION: It’s for everyoneINTERCESSION: It’s for everyoneINTERCESSION: It’s for everyoneINTERCESSION: It’s for everyone Wednesday Nights, 6:00Wednesday Nights, 6:00Wednesday Nights, 6:00Wednesday Nights, 6:00----7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm7:00pm

Student Center NoshStudent Center NoshStudent Center NoshStudent Center Nosh There is something especially encouraging about

corporate prayer. Please join us in intercession for our city, our church,

our children… and ourselves.

Get Connected…With MOPS!

MOPS is designed to nurture mothers

with children from infancy through

kindergarten (6 yrs) to the glory of

God. Members come from all walks of

life, but share one desire ~ to be great

moms! We meet the first & third Thursday of every month here at FBC

in Beach Hall at 9:00AM.