Document 6597648

- Billy Bowie -
PRAISE RINGERS
Change Date
(4-6 Handbell Choir)
Will ring in the evening
service on November 16.
They need to be in the
Sanctuary at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday Night Supper
November 19th
5:00 p.m.
Taco Salad
(with multiple toppings)
Assorted Frozen Pies
Thanksgiving Luncheon
November 27, 2014
This Past Week
First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 547, 205 South Church Avenue, Louisville, Mississippi 39339
Music Notes
Sunday School – November 9, 2014
Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Financial Record
Weekly Budget Goal . . . .
Tithes & Offerings . . .
Designated Budget . . . . . .
Designated Restricted . . . .
Total Receipts . . . . . . . . . .
$18,983.52
$33,272.00
$690.00
$5,277.00
$39,239.00
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CAROLS BY
CANDLELIGHT
First Baptist Church
Jackson, MS
Friday, December 12
7:00 p.m.
FREE-FREE-FREE-FREE
Call in, early, and get your free
tickets!
We will leave our church parking
lot at 2:30 p.m. on Friday,
December 12 and eat an early
dinner in Pearl at
Moss Creek Fish House.
This year not only do they plan to
serve those less fortunate and the
senior adults of Winston County,
they would like to invite all of the
April 28th tornado victims to join
in this Thanksgiving luncheon.
It’s not too late to sign up to
receive a delicious meal. You can
eat in or have it delivered to your
home. Call the church office to
have your name put on the list.
To sign up to work the day of the
luncheon at South Louisville
Baptist Church, contact Aline
Haynes at 773-6965
Opportunities
ETC Ministry
Sunday, November 17, 2014
Mallory S. Eaves and Edna Overstreet
Pray for our Committee as
they seek God’s will for our
next Minister of Music.
Committee Members Are:
Mike Ard, Chairman
Mark Donald
Kyle Fulton
David Humphries
Johnny Johnson
Sylvia Wright
Gwen Clark
Rhonda Shotts
Winston Baptist
Christian Ministry
Center Needs:
Spaghetti Sauce &
Noodles
Peanut Butter
Canned Meat
Macaroni & Cheese
Rice
Dried Beans
Grits or Oatmeal
Canned Fruit
Crackers
Media Crew for November
Radio broadcast on WLSM at 11:00
a.m. and 6:00 p.m. are now tape delayed
of both previous Sunday services. Tape
delayed TV broadcast of the previous
Sunday morning and evening worship is
broadcast at 9:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on
cable channel 18.
Director: Re-C Carter
Broadcast Sound: Terry Carter
House Sound: Matt Hillyer
Media: Robert McCool
Cameras: Johnny Johnson &
Greg Holdiness
Offering Committee for November
Paul Killen, Chairman
John Garner
Danny Jewell
Dan Curran
Kenneth Hooks
Kenny Fulton
Deacon on Call
November 14 - 16
Denny Bucklew
773-7658
Transportation for November
The WITNESS
Making Jesus known from the red hills of
Mississippi to the ends of the Earth.
Vol. 46
November 13, 2014
No. 41
HARVEST LUNCH
Sunday, November 23
Immediately following
Morning Worship
The church will furnish smoked turkey
and ham, coffee and tea.
Come and bring your favorite dishes to
compliment the meat! This will be a
time of thanksgiving, good food and
great fellowship with our church family.
Danny Jewell
773-2024
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Published weekly (except Christmas
week) by First Baptist Church, 205 South
Church Avenue, Louisville, MS 39339.
Periodical postage paid at Louisville, MS
39339. Publication No. 195320
CHURCH STAFF
Rob Paul, Pastor
803-4589
Billy Bowie, Min of Music
803-4043
Terry Carter, Bldg. Supt.
803-3508
Newlie Long, Min of Ed
803-9421
Scott Lowrey, Min of Youth
601-416-5041
Church Office
773-6246
Samaritan’s Purse Operation
Christmas Child Shoebox
Collection Week:
November 17 - 23
Volunteers are needed.
Contact Mary Ann Yates if you are
available any time during that week.
Pastor’s Perspective
Minister of Education, Youth & Children’s Ministry
- Rob Paul -
- Newlie Long –
In February of 2013 I was sitting in the choir loft at Shades
Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham on the last night
of GIC. It had been a fantastic week of worship, meeting
and encouraging missionaries, and being challenged to give
and to go. That morning I had made a significant financial
commitment to give even though I did not have any regular
income at the time. As we finished singing the words, “You
are faithful, God, you are faithful,” I had an overwhelming
sense of God’s presence. With tears streaming down my
face, I committed to the Lord that If he ever gave me
another opportunity to pastor a church that I would be
faithful to lead that church to be totally engaged in missions
- to support missionaries and to send members out on
mission.
Our Acts 1:8 Strategy and having just-completed Global
Impact Celebration are the result of the commitment I made
during that GIC. Sunday night as I watched our folks
bringing their commitment cards to the altar, I had the sense
that life at First Baptist Church will never be the same. God
has given us a vision for making Jesus known from
Louisville to New York City, from the Mississippi Delta to
Haiti, from Birmingham, Alabama to Battambang,
Cambodia, and from Statesboro, Georgia to Debrecen,
Hungary and beyond.
As we take this incredible journey together, we are going to
experience God’s presence and power in ways we never
imagined because we will have to walk by faith. Rather
than asking, “What can I afford to do?” or “What do I have
time to do?” we will ask, “What is God calling me to do?”
realizing that if God calls me to do it, he will provide the
resources, the ability, and the opportunity to make it
happen. But we will have to be willing to take the next step
of faith, whatever it is. We have to be willing to leave the
shore and step into the boat with Jesus. You can’t take a
journey by standing still.
Rejoice!
Youth Christmas
Party
Transform Conference
December 5 - 7
The youth Christmas party
w i l l b e We d n e s d a y,
December 10th, at Legion
State Park’s lodge. Join us
for a great night of eating,
celebrating,
and
worshipping. We will have
a guest band in for that
night. We will provide the
meat but everyone needs to
bring a side or dessert.
Instead of presents to be
exchanged, we ask you to
bring an item to be donated
for our Backpacks of Hope
that are blessing several
families in our community!
It is right around the corner!
We will be leaving at 8:00
a.m. on Friday morning,
December 5th. We do have
spots for two guys and two
girls if you know of anyone
interested!
Call us
immediately so we can add
them!
DiscipleNow Weekend
January 16 - 17
DiscipleNow is also right
around the corner. We will
start registration next week
for this awesome weekend.
Unleashed will be the guest
band. If you are not familiar
with them, youtube
them…..you will be excited.
The cost for the weekend
will be $20 and as always
we want EVERYONE to
come!
Missions Spotlight
You had such an amazing
opportunity to meet many of
our partners. Some, like
Saul Paul from Cambodia
and Andrew Ward were
people we have been
partnering with. Others, like
Cary Christian Center and
Stephen Stallard from New
York were new partners that
we were just beginning to
get to know. The best part
was to watch as you
interacted with them and
relationships were being
formed. Out of the GIC
grew some specific
opportunities for us to serve:
Missions Spotlight continued...
help Mosaic and Stephen
Stallard prepare for a large
worship service the next
weekend.
March 6 - 14 there is a
request for us to lead
another
t each er ’s
conference at Debrecen
University in Hungary.
March 12 - 22 we hope to
send a team to Cambodia to
help connect with
University and high school
students as well as disciple
village leaders.
July 11 - 18 Haiti is calling
and we are responding with
a medical team and a
construction
team
partnering with Hispaniola
Mountain Ministries.
January 9 - 12 we want to
take a team to New York to
These are on top of the
partnerships
to
Birmingham, Statesboro,
and Cary that we are
partnering with. Pray and
ask where God moves your
heart, whether to serve in a
local
school
or
neighborhood, somewhere
in our state or country, or
maybe you are being moved
Continued in next column…..
Continued in next column...
FBC Calendar of Activities
November 13 - 20
Thursday, November 13
5:00 p.m. Packing Backpacks
of Hope
Sunday, November 16
9:00 a.m. Prayer Ministry
9:45 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Morning Worship
6:00 p.m. Evening Worship
Tuesday, November 18
10:00 a.m. Precept Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Precept Bible Study
at Naomi Fryery’s
Teaching Children
Class in the Crossing
Wednesday, November 19
3:30 p.m. Praise Ringers
5:00 p.m. Wednesday Night
Supper
5:15 p.m. Preschool & Children’s
Choirs
5:30 p.m. Ladies Bible Study
6:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting &
Bible Study
Youth Worship
Gas, RAs &
Mission Friends
6:45 p.m. Adult Choir
7:00 p.m. Prayer Ministry
Thursday, November 20
5:00 p.m. Packing Backpacks
of Hope
Missions Spotlight cont’d...
to one of our International
Partners. As God uses us
to further His kingdom
from the red hills of
Mississippi to the ends of
the earth, one thing is
certain, Our church will
never be the same!