Ministry Team

Volume 16
A Publication of First Baptist Ruston, Ruston, LA
Sunday Morning:
“The Weird and Wonderful Ways Of
Jesus: Sticking It To Your Enemies”
Midweek:
“Gain From Pain?”
Memory Verse
“and whoever wants to be first among
you must be the slave
of everyone else.”
Mark 10:44 (NLT)
June 29, 2016
Last Sunday was a great day at FBC! We had two great services at the
church house, and then a wonderful picnic at the Lincoln Parish Park. The food
was great, the fellowship was fun, and we baptized ten people in the lake! God
gave us great weather to make it all possible. It was a wonderful, joy-filled day.
Special thanks to Brandon, Fred Baxter, Mic Baxter, Phil Soileau, Jeff
Perot, and David Williams for doing the cooking and set-up for the picnic.
Thanks also to the Rhodes family and Zach Yates for their help. Everything went
great at the park, and you guys were the ones who helped make this possible:
thank you!
I hope the rest of your week is wonderful, and I sure hope to see you
this Sunday.
Love, Chris
Church Purpose Statement
We exist to LOVE, WIN, and GROW
Ruston and the world for Christ.
Church Theme
In the Heart of Ruston with a
Heart for You!
Deacons of the Week
Casey Jackson
Ronnie Dowling
Mic Baxter
Ministry Team:
Dr. Chris Craig
Clayton Owen
Wayne Bridges
Merrick Nunn
Josh Sanderson
Ed Colvin
Pam Flowers
Senior Pastor
Brandon Ramsey
Counselor
Ed./Admin./Singles
Dr. Shueh-Ji Lee
Chinese Mission
Dr. Andy Johnson
Sr. Adult Emeritus
Brittany Jackson
Publications Assistant
Lance Wright
College Assistant
Bryan DeOliviera
Building/Media Assistant
Worship & Sr. Adults
College
Youth
Children
Preschool
Jeremy Magee
Zach Yates
Missions
Young Married Associate
Bernard Gemelli
Brenda Martin
Olivia Vincent
Sylvia Roseberry
Building Superintendent
Pastoral/Financial Assistant
Receptionist
Church Hostess
Church Event Schedule
Sunday, July 3
8:45 am
9:45 am
9:50 am
11:00 am
Traditional Service
Library opens
Connection Groups
Contemporary Service
Kids Worship
Monday, July 4
Church Office Closed
Tuesday, July 5
9:30 am
Mother’s Day Out
12:00 pm
Prayer in the Sanctuary
1:00 pm
Totally Tubular Tuesday
Wednesday, July 6
8:00 am
Prayer in the Sanctuary
9:30 am
Mother’s Day Out
3:00 pm
Library opens
5:00 pm
Childcare begins
First Family Meal
5:45 pm
PowerHouse/Refinery open
Stewardship Meeting
6:15 pm
Midweek Worship
7:00 pm
Celebration Choir Rehearsal
7:30 pm
College Worship
Thursday, July 7
9:30 am
Mother’s Day Out
Friday, July 8
7:00 pm
Chinese Church
NEW Church APP
Take a look at our NEW
church app. Go to your app/
play store and search for fbc
ruston. Download it, and, you can do the
following: give online, watch our service
live, watch past sermons, sign up for
events, and much more. If you have any
questions, feel free to email Brittany at brittany@fbcruston.org.
Simple Texting
To be good stewards of our money, we are trying to
save on postage in certain areas. If you would like to
join our simple texting for our different ministries,
choose what groups you would like to join and text
that word to 555-888.
Group
Text
Preschool
firstkidsprek
First Kids
firstkidsk5
C3 parents
c3parents
C3 students
c3students
First College firstcollege
Celebration Choir fbcchoir
All church
fbcruston
*this will also help us send out
texts in case of an emergency
Come join us on the 2nd and
4th Tuesday of every month
at 5:30 pm in the Hospitality room for GROW.
We will be sending out letters, calling prospects,
and visiting with people to encourage them to
find a church family. We could use your help.
Hope to see you there!
Decisions from Sunday, June 26
1 recommitted their life to Christ
1 prayed to receive Christ
Middle School Merge
Come and join us on July 6 for Middle
School Merge. We will be going to Shreveport to the trampoline park, going out to
eat, and then rolling right into our Wednesday night activities. You may pick up your
child at 7:30 pm at the RHS band field. We
will be meeting at the Bus barn to leave
that morning at 11:00 am . Sign up online
at fbcruston.org under Ministries/
Students/Events or check out our new fbc
ruston app.
Kids Sermon Series
June: Where In The World
Faith: Believing what Jesus is can change me
This Week: Gentiles on My Mind
(Jerusalem Council) • Acts 15:1-35
Next Week: Get Agrippa (King Agrippa)
• Acts 21:10-36; 23:11; 25:23–26:32
Totally Tubular Tuesday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Register online at fbcruston.org/ministries/kids.
Cost varies with event.
The staff is having a silent prayer time on Tuesdays from 12:00 pm–
1:00 pm and Wednesdays from 8:00 am—
9:00 am in the sanctuary. Come join us. We
will be focusing our prayer on our church
family and church family outreach. If you
can’t join us at the church, consider praying
at home during this time. Text 614-9142 if
you are praying at home or at lunch, so we
will know there are more as part of our “2 or
more.”
I would just like to take the time to thank
the people who truly made this weekend’s
picnic at the park possible. A lot of hard
work goes into making events like this possible.
First, I want to thank the grill team who are Fred,
Mic, Phil, Jeff Perot, and David Williams. These guys
really worked hard and braved the HOT grill on an
already HOT day! Second is my son, Braden Ramsey. I was in severe pain and under the weather all
day Saturday when all the prep work, loading, buying, and organizing happened. Braden gave up his
Saturday to help shop, load the trailer, ice down the
drinks, and organize the materials for me. So I am
very proud of him. Third are all the people at the
event that chipped in to help set-up, serve, and
clean up, especially the Rhodes family and Zach
Yates. I was proud to be a minister of FBC Ruston
Sunday!! Thank you.
For kids Kindergarten—completed 5th Grade
July 5 - How High?
July 19 - Who, Who?
SENIOR ADULTS
Senior Adults, be watching for a calendar that will list
all of the various activities that we will be doing this
summer.
Here is a list of some of those events.
August 11: trip to Quitman to eat catfish one night.
August 21: trip to the Bush Presidential Library.
Most of the trips will be one day events except the
Presidential Library trip. Be watching for details. It is
going to be a great summer. You can sign up online
and pay at fbcruston.org.
Van Ministry
If you know any elderly, blind, or families that
need to be picked up on Sundays for church,
please let us know. We are starting a van ministry this Sunday. We will pick-up within a 3-4
mile radius every Sunday. Our drivers will pick
up and bring them to the 8:45 am service and
then take them home after Connection Group.
We do need more volunteers to ride with our
drivers, so contact Clayton at
clayton@fbcruston.org to help or if you know of
anyone that would like a ride.
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Guojun Cheng
Member by Baptism
New Members
Candia Tims
Member by Baptism
Xiaofeng Wang
Member by Baptism
Carter Ehrhard
Member by Baptism
Casey Madden
Member by Baptism
Lovie & Raven Burks
Members by Baptism
John Goertz
Member by Baptism
Ronald, Leslie, Kara & Amber Saucier
Members by Statement Of Faith and Baptism
First Family Dinner 07/6/16
Regular Dinner
Pork loin
Mashed Potatoes
Turnip Greens
Soup/Salad
Cornbread
Kids Meal
Hot Dogs
Chips
Dessert
Banana
Pudding
First Baptist Ruston 200 South Trenton Ruston, Louisiana 71270 Phone: (318) 255-4628 www.fbcruston.org