S G P I R I T

Gra c e Me m o ri a l Ba p t i s t Ch u rc h
SPIRIT
OF
G R AC E
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
May 11th is
Stewardship Report
2
Pastor’s Notes
2
Nursery Schedule
2
Youth Ministries
3
Children’s Ministry
3
Church Family News
3
(May
Events & Menus on the
MAY CALENDAR
DEACONS
OF THE WEEK
May 4-10
SCOTT PURVIS
DAVID KESSLER
ED DEMEYERE
May 11-17
RAY WILLIS
RICHARD THOMPSON
BRIAN COGGIN
May 18-24
CHAD PALAO
JOHN O’NEIL
WES RAWLS
May 25-31
ERNIE ANDERSON
PAUL PARKER
HAL JENKINS
June 1-7
DAVID PILCHER
FRED BURTON
ANDREW PITMAN
MAY
2014
18-Aug. 10) will be as follows:
Sunday School – 9:00am
Blended Worship Service – 10:15am
No Regular Evening Worship Service**
GROW Outreach - 6pm, 1st & 3rd Sundays
**Sunday Evening Events Scheduled
May 18, 6pm Mission Report & Concert
Travis & Aimee Crowe Smith
June 1, 6pm Dinner & A Movie (Youth Fundraiser)
Meal in Fellowship Hall followed by
“Grace Unplugged” in Worship Ctr.
June 8, 5pm &
We have a gift for all mothers in both
morning services
Sign Up by May 4th!
GMBC Golf Tournament
SATURDAY, MAY 10
8:00AM, ROYAL GOLF CLUB
$45 Fee includes:
Green Fees, Cart, Hot Dog & Soft Drink, Prizes.
Contact Terry or Nancy Youngs,
985-788-2061 or 985-788-0523
All proceeds go to Asian missionaries,
the Smith’s, who will be
here for services on May 18.
Grace Memorial Children’s Choir present
Sunday, May 18
10:15am Service
This is the kick-off of the Summer Worship Schedule
-- Sunday School at 9:00am; musical at 10:15am.
GMBC Theme for 2014
DINNER AND A MOVIE FUNDRAISER — Sunday night June 1st.
This is a fundraiser event to help defray the cost of summer mission camp.
The menu consists of one of the following meats: Sliced Brisket or Pork Loin.
Sides will include roasted corn grits, green beans, rolls and apple blossoms for
dessert. Child care is provided during dinner and the movie. Please feed your
children before they come or bring a sack meal for them. Dinner begins at
5:30pm in the fellowship hall. The movie will start at 6:30ish in the sanctuary.
Tickets are $15.00 and will be on sale May 7th thru the 28th. Check out the movie info online at
http://www.graceunplugged.com to learn more and determine if you would like for your kids to see
the film also.
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Stewardship—April
AVERAGE WEEKLY
Sunday School (9:40am)
Morning Worship Service (8:30am)
Morning Worship Service (10:50am)
Dialogical Worship (6:00pm)
Bus/Van Ministry
G.R.O.W. Outreach
Wednesday Family Night
314
218
324
48
24
6
105
Budget Needed Per Week
$ 17,308.00
Average Weekly Receipts (Budget)
18,608.03
Average Weekly Receipts (Budget & Designated) 21,109.86
YEAR-TO-DATE
Budget Needs
Budget Receipts
Budget Expenditures
World Missions
GVOM Balance
$ 294,236.00
280,111.56
264,630.96
6,949.54
614,947.00
New Church Members (Sept. 2013-Aug. 2014)
By Baptism (Sept. 2013-Aug. 2014)
41
19
Praise to our Heavenly Father for the increased attendance the past several weeks
as well as the additions to our fellowship.
God continues to pour out great blessings
upon His people, as we give ourselves to
worshiping and serving Him. What an awesome God!
Will you allow God to use you to bring the next person to
meet Jesus?
Our Financial Peace University group finished their last session this past week on a high note. I know those of you who
were a part of the group were blessed. We’ll plan to start another group this fall for those who missed the last seminar.
May promises to be a great month of opportunity at GMBC
with Mother’s Day, graduations, our Children’s Choir musical
presentation and a mission report/concert from Travis and
Aimee Crowe Smith. Don’t miss the blessings.
We will also begin a new Sunday morning worship schedule
for the summer, beginning May 18. Sunday School will begin
at 9:00am and worship at 10:15am. Be sure and make note of
this change and invite friends to join us.
See you Sunday.
Decisions for Christ
SMITH, Randy (by letter), 716 Ashland Dr., P.R.. 70452,
985-863-8555
LANDRY, Jonathan (profession of faith), 225 North Military Rd. 70461, 985-640-4552
WEIXEL, Savannah (for baptism), 56424 Almonaster
70458, 985-710-1983
HENDRIX, Alex and Kelsey Wilton (by letter), 103 Tiger
Drive #1 70458, 985-710-0881
Congratulations to Mallori Coggin and
Daniel Magee on their marriage, April 11.
Gift Bags for Slidell Pregnancy Crisis Center
GMBC Women on Mission will again assemble gift bags for
the Slidell Pregnancy Crisis Center. They will be collecting
the following items from May 1-May 25:
Travel size Kleenex
Lip balm/chapsticks
Travel size hand lotions
Nail files
Peppermints
Individually wrapped Dove Chocolates
Also monetary donations. All ladies are invited to a morning
fellowship to assemble the bags on May 31.
WORSHIP SERVICE CHILDCARE SCHEDULE
Everyone age 55 and older invited to...
Childcare provided during Worship Services in Children’s
B.A.S.I.C. Dinner Meeting
Building for birth thru age 3. Children age 4 thru 3rd grade are
dismissed to Children’s Church during services.
Code 100 on the Worship Center monitor indicates
more workers are needed in the Nursery
May 4
8:30am Molly Graham and Judy Jenkins
10:50am Kay DeLuca and Melisa Thompson
May 11
8:30am Jan Laletin, Royce Ballance,
10:50am Darla Mansfield, Brenda Hedrick
May 18
10:15am Mary Jane Smith, Kristina Romero
Daphne Stewart, Christy DaSilva
May 25
10:15am Esther Warnick, Pam Hogan,
Beth Rawls, Inga Pichon
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!
Contact Elaine Strahan, 290-9619, if you can help.
Tuesday, May 20, 6:30pm
Menu:
Bro. Jerry’s Brisket, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, Cobbler
Guest Speaker:
Jeff Ingram
Louisiana Baptist Adult Ministry
Sign up on the Sunday bulletin tear-off or call the church office by
noon on Monday, May 19, to make reservations.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS—
BASIC Night Out to Cuevas’ in Picayune!
Thursday, May 8, leave Slidell @ 6:00pm
Carpool or meet us there for good fellowship.
Let us know if you want to ride church van.
BASIC Dinner Meeting, June 10th, 6:30pm
Meeting earlier in month due to VBS, June 16-20.
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MISSIONFUGE SUMMER CAMP is June 23-28 at Mississippi College. There will be a lunch
fundraiser on May 18th following the children’s musical, and then on the evening of June 1 st we
will have the Dinner and a Movie fundraiser.
YOUTH FELLOWSHIP SUNDAY MAY 25th. Watch for details.
CONGRATULATIONS to our Bible Drillers for knocking State out of the park.
YOUTH HUDDLE meets Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the youth room.
Love Ya!
Bro. Jerry
YOUTH PARENTS: We need your email address so we can keep you up to date and a part of
our new online Parent Ministry. We would like
to have your cell information also so we can text
you with reminders and updates. Please send that
info to me at jerry@discovergrace.us or to Kim
Grubbs at kim@discovergrace.us .
...Darla Mansfield and Debbie
Thomas on death of their aunt.
...Greg Bazin on the death of his
father, Gus.
...Pam Edwards on the death of her mother.
...the family of Timothy Free upon his death.
Mark Your Calendars
Grace Memorial’s
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
June 16-20, 9am-12:30pm
Music & Education
Hey Church!
I just want to take a moment to thank the
Choir, Orchestra, Sound and Lighting, and
Media folks for their part in the Easter Musical. You all always do a great job. I know I
loved it.
Also, since we are going to one service for the
Summer, it would be a great time for former
choir and orchestra members to come back
(we miss you) and for anyone else that is interested to join as well. We are looking forward to seeing you soon.
And, thank you Sunday School Teachers for
laboring over lessons and being so faithful in
teaching the saints of GMBC the Word of
God. Keep up the great work!
Everyone have a great Summer.
In Christ,
Bro. Mike
Hello Church Family,
Vacation Bible School is coming soon! If you are reading this on the church website,
you are just one click away from registering your kids right here, right now! Go to
the home page and click on the giant VBS badge! It will take you step by step
through the process, piece of cake. (actually easier than a piece of cake, more like a
jar of jelly beans, and someone has already lifted the lid for you!) So sign up today!
Also, it has been laid on my heart how much of a blessing it is to be able to be a part of the children’s ministry here at Grace. Thank you for allowing your kids to participate in all the different
areas of this ministry. I wish you could see what I see, the volunteers we have in Sunday School,
Children’s Church, RA’s, GA’s, Pre-school Choir, Children’s Choir, Mission Friends, Bible Drill
and of course VBS, are such a blessing. The dedication and commitment to teaching your kids is
inspiring and shows a sacrificial love that is truly from the Lord. The people involved in these
ministries believe that your kids are worth it, and even though it might have been scary or daunting at first, they have persevered and, you see so much fruit coming from their labor. Let me encourage you, if you feel led, to join us in being a part of one of these ministries. Especially if you
have kids that are attending any of these different groups, we have positions that will fit your
schedule and abilities. So pray about it and contact me, we can figure out the hurdles together.
State Bible drill was incredible! It was truly blessed. It was full of
surprises, lessons, and blessings and that is just me speaking for myself! I am honored to be a part of such a God centered program.
With all my heart, Mitch
CHURCH STAFF
BOB HEUSTESS
Senior Pastor
bob@discovergrace.us
JERRY SMITH
Associate Pastor
Students/Facilities
jerry@discovergrace.us
MICHAEL MOHLER
Associate Pastor
Music/Adult Education
mike@discovergrace.us
MITCH PELTONEN
Children’s Ministry Assistant
mitch@discovergrace.us
RICK JOHNSON
Facilities Manager
rixstix@bellsouth.net
RHENA COGGIN
Office Manager
rhena@discovergrace.us
DEBBIE THOMAS
Secretary/Receptionist
debbie@discovergrace.us
KIM GRUBBS
Student Secretary
kim@discovergrace.us
CHRISTINE HOLTON
Music Secretary
christine@discovergrace.us
AMY LUTMAN
Financial Secretary &
Outreach Secretary
amy@discovergrace.us
DIANE LANE
Treasurer
diane@discovergrace.us
ELAINE STRAHAN
Nursery Coordinator
& Church Hostess
elainestrahan64@gmail.com
Early Learning Center
VENITA RICHARDS
Director
venita@discovergrace.us
Ministers
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