The Messenger - First Baptist Church Rockhill

The Messenger
March 2016
Rev. Steve Ho g g , Pastor
Volume 51 Issue 7
Special guest vocalist Moriah Peters
Moriah is an up-and-coming Contemporary Christian singer/songwriter who auditioned
for American Idol before recording her two studio albums, I Choose Jesus and Brave.
Visit Moriah’s site @ www.moriahpeters.com
We are collecting Easter eggs filled with individually wrapped candy (no chocolate or nuts).
Please bring your eggs to the Welcome Center, Dock, or Preschool hallway and place your candy-filled
eggs in the collection tubs. We also need MANY volunteers to make this event successful.
If you can help out during the egg hunt on March 26, please email hollym@fbcrockhill.org.
Welcome to the “Family of Faith”
Karah Railey
Statement
Maleah Railey
Letter
Lauren Willis
Baptism
Cathy Pitt
Baptism
Brita Mackin
Baptism
Jonathan Reed
Letter
Holli Reed
Letter
Wanda Bloomhuff Michael Bloomhuff
Letter
Baptism
Paula Reid
Statement
Jerry Craig
Baptism
Lisa Robbins
Letter
Troy Massey
Letter
Victoria Kirby
Baptism
Jill Horner
Letter
Chris Railey
Letter
Dawn Railey
Letter
Charlie Boswell Allison Boswell
Statement
Statement
Chloe McGuire Ryleigh Schronce
Baptism
Baptism
Sarah E. Davis
Baptism
Luke Snider
Baptism
Frances Cook Wendy Raszmann John Raszmann
Letter
Letter
Letter
Doug Hoff
Baptism
Ethan Bellamy
Baptism
Todd McGinnis Cathy McGinnis
Letter
Letter
By Baptism: 47
By Letter: 51 By Statement: 18 =
Total: 119
Nick Pratt
Letter
Jessica Pratt
Letter
Greig Allen
Letter
Wayne Fudge
Statement
Jordan Jones
Baptism
Jonathan Jones
Letter
Hannah Hill
Baptism
Matt Greer
Letter
David Howell
Statement
Kim Howell
Statement
Camy Howell
Baptism
Cabe Howell
Baptism
Chelsea Smith Grayson Crawford
Baptism
Baptism
Hayle Caraway
Statement
John Hauck
Letter
Patty Hauck
Letter
Cary Cooke
Baptism
Grant Willis
Baptism
Glen Willis
Baptism
Bianica Davis
Baptism
Prince Ekeh
Baptism
Joyce Ekeh
Statement
Finley Polk
Baptism
Wayne Orego
Baptism
Sarah Merck
Baptism
James Harmon
Baptism
Dana Harmon
Baptism
Marty Brown
Statement
Tonya Brown
Statement
Shane Abbott
Baptism
Shannon Abbott
Baptism
Ben Matthews Camden Eagloski Camden Towell
Baptism
Baptism
Baptism
For more info and to sign up visit
www.fbcrockhill.org/events/parent-child-dedication
Dominican Republic Mission Team
FBC members Tom and Laura Cook are joining a team from South Texas Children’s Home
Ministries for a medical/construction mission project to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Tom will be building bunk beds for a local orphanage, while Laura will be a part of
a medical team hosting clinics in local villages. They will leave from Charlotte on
March 12 and return on March 18. Please pray for Tom and Laura and the other
team members as they take the gospel to Santo Domingo.
Saturday, April 30
Servolution is our chance to gather as a church and serve our community over the course of
one
weekend. We will be painting houses, visiting nursing homes, working at local schools,
Friday, May 1 - Saturday, May 2
packing meals, and more. A lot of our focus during this year’s Servolution will be partnering
with Rock Hill Dream Center to reach out to the community. We will be hosting a block party
and delivering meals in partnership with RHDC. We will work at the Rock Hill Dream Store
as well. Also, during the month of April, we will collect clothes for the RHDC clothing ministry.
MAY 1
Put Saturday, April 30 on your calendar and be a part of a life-changing event.
On May 1-2, we are working with organizations and ministries across the city of Rock Hill to give
everyone a chance to participate in a local Servolution project. Painting. Cleaning. Planting.
Serving. Baking. Delivering. Schools. Park. Neighborhoods. Everyone gets a chance to serve in
some way. Sign up deadline is Sunday, April 26. Here are descriptions of the places we will be
serving on May 1 & 2.
STOP HUNGER NOW - We will be packing 10,000 meals that will be shipped throughout
the world to support school feeding programs, orphanages and crisis relief.
Celebrators’ Conference : October 17-20 (Pigeon Forge, TN)
MAY 2, 9:00 a.m. - NOON
LOCAL SCHOOLS - We will be working with a number of schools doing some cleaning,
painting, and/ or light yard work. If you are doing yard work, plan to bring work gloves.
At the Celebrators’ Conference for Senior Adults, we will spend four
days and three nights in the heart of the Smoky Mountains during the
PAINTING HOUSES - Working with the city of Rock Hill we will paint the exterior of
houses in the city. All of the supplies (paint, ladders, tape, etc) are provided by the city. peak of the fall season. There will be some great preaching by Dr. David
ROCK HILL DREAM CLOSET - Throughout the month of April, FBC has collected
Jeremiah and Rev. Max Lucado as well as awesome concerts by Steve
clothes to fill the Rock Hill Dream closet with new inventory. This team will be sorting
and stocking all of the clothes that we collected.
Green, The Gaither Vocal Band, and Michael W. Smith.
The cost is $435 and includes travel, lodging for three nights,
conference fee, and one meal. A $100 per person deposit is due by March 31.
Contact Jamie Burdette at jamieb@fbcrockhill.org to sign up.
MALL BASKETS OF LOVE - Rock Hill Galleria has 55 stores. We need people to prepare
baked goods beforehand and then prepare baskets to deliver to the stores.
Tear along the dotted line
SERVOLUTION REGISTRATION CARD
Name : _______________________________________________________
Email : _______________________________________________________
Phone # : _____________________________________________________
Select projects on back of this card.
Attention Soon-to-Be College Graduates and/or their Parents!
If you, or your child, are graduating from college this year, we would like to share your
joy with the church family. Please provide us with the graduate’s full name, the name
of their parents, the school they are graduating from, and the name of their degree.
You may call Tammy in the Church Office (327-7181) or email her at
tammyw@fbcrockhill.org. Deadline for submission is April 11.
Free childcare is available with online reservations for preschoolers (infants through 4K).
Sign up @ www.fbcrockhill.org/events/financial-workshop/
Pre-registration is required - class size
limited to 20 people.
Contact NAMI Piedmont Tri-County
(803) 610-8174 or namiptc@gmail.com
Do you have a parent, spouse, sibling or an
adult child with mental illness?
Have you been struggling to understand the diagnosis?
Course begins:
Monday, April 18, 2016
6:15 pm – 8:45 pm
This FREE series of 11 classes is for caregivers to provide basic ed- First Baptist Church
ucation about brain disorders as well as ways to improve the lives of 481 Hood Center Drive
Rock Hill, SC 29730
families with a loved one living with mental illness.
Safety & Security Task Force Update
Since September, we have pulled together a task force to review and improve Safety and
Security at FBC. Some of the actions the task force has already taken include:
• Added a security officer to our Sunday mornings who patrols the building and the
parking lots during both worship hours
• Added two more video cameras to the five already in place. Cameras are monitored and
video is archived for 60 days
• Cameras can be monitored from multiple places
• Had our insurance provider conduct a risk assessment review
• Had an independent security consultant to conduct a risk assessment review
The task force has divided into three groups and enlisted other members with security and medical
backgrounds to assist us as we review our plans and policies to make other improvements.
Those three groups will be working on Policies and Safety of Minors, Fire Evacuations and
Natural Disasters, and Emergency Responses involving EMS/Police.
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What is Unique about Attendance?
ictures are worth a thousand words and statistics
always tell a story but sometimes that story can
be misleading. In church life we count a lot:
the offering, attendance, acres and square feet,
baptisms…you get the point. Unfortunately,
tracking numbers only tells part of the story.
At First Baptist we count a lot of things, but
we also ask a lot of questions. If you spend a
minute looking at the chart below, you might be
concerned about the flat and declining trend in
our overall Sunday School attendance; we are too.
However, we asked some questions that led to us
counting something else: unique attenders.
A unique attender is a person who attended Sunday
School at least one time in a given month. Remember
that month when you had a business trip, a vacation,
and a family illness and only made it to Sunday
School one time? That month you counted as one
unique attender. Another month, with less life
distractions, you made Sunday School four weeks
in a row! Yep, you counted as one unique attender
that month too. For example, one class had 37
people attend their class in January of 2016,
but only averaged 23 per week. This is a pretty
common trend at FBC.
What this means for us is that we are growing
in the number of individuals who attend Sunday
School during any given month. You see, all of
the lines of culture norms have been blurred or
erased and Sunday is no longer a sacred day for
many people. Our younger families are pulled by
commitments every weekend. Whether it is
extracurricular activities, personal hobbies,
business travel, or visiting other family members,
there are a lot of commitments calling for the
attention of our younger families. On the other
end of the age spectrum, more and more people
are caring for their aging parents longer, and often
times, at a distance. Our families, who may be
enjoying the empty nest and the
freedoms it provides, are also investing in their
commitment to care for their aging family members
as well as connecting with their grandchildren.
Both are incredibly important commitments.
What we learn from these statistics is that the
people of First Baptist are absolutely a committed
people! Thank you for your commitment to this
church and the Lord! We know that there are a lot
of commitments calling for your attention all the
time. My encouragement is to keep your priorities
in line. Your top two priorities should always be
your personal relationship with God and then your family.
Everything else follows.
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Ministerial Staff
Pastoral Staff
Rev. Steve Hogg
Senior Pastor
Program Staff
Rev. Steve Polk
Assimilation & Spiritual Growth Holly Matthews
Director
Administrative Staff Preschool Ministries
Terri A. Hood
Rev. Steve White
Scott Blasingame
Worship & Music
Church Administrator
Rev. Jamie Burdette
Tom Rinehart
Sr. Adult & Missions
Pastoral Staff Administrator
Director
Preteen Ministries &
Elementary Ministries
Rev. Will Beaty
Tony Huffman
Orchestra Director
Communications &
Contemporary Worship
Facilities Manager
Rev. David Mitchell
Graphic Media &
Publications Director
Scot McGuire
Matt Greer
Youth Ministry
Contact Information
Office
803-327-7181
Website
www.fbcrockhill.org
Sunbeams
803-329-2892
Our church family
Sunday School
Sympathy
February 7 ................................................ 771
The Staff and Congregation of First Baptist Church extend deepest
February 21 .............................................. 772
Pete McNeely; to Marie Garner on the death of her grandson,
February 14 .............................................. 716
sympathy to the family of Jimmy Blackwell: to the family of
Charles Garner; to the family of Janice Skaggs; to the family of
Giving
BUDGET
Given Feb 7 - Feb 28 ................. $175,632.60
Given to Date .......................... $1,296,048.04
Lois Martin; to the family of Linda Feemster; to the family of
Deborah Shehan; to Connie Jo Andrews on the death of her
sister, Nita Coles; and to Judy Neely on the death of her uncle,
Jim Baker.
Budget Goal to Date ................ $1,261,845.00
Memorials
Honorarium
SIX IN 6 CAMPAIGN
Margaret Varnadore Pete McNeely (2)
Jeanette Richardson
Given Feb 7 - Feb 28 .................... $35,244.44
Margaret Burrell
Deborah Shehan
Women’s Ministry
Louise McCall
Jan Skaggs
Sr Adult/Music Ministry
Given to Date .............................. $657,153.77
Total Commitments ................. $1,771,667.84
Staff News
MARCH BIRTHDAYS:
David Powell (30th)
Colton Tucker (30th)
MARCH ANNIVERSARIES:
Will Beaty (2008)
James Blackwell (6)