The Focus - First Baptist Church

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
GriefShare begins new sessions on September 13!
800 Thompson Street, Ashland, VA 23005
(804) 798-9014
Fax: 804-798-9043
GriefShare is a special weekly seminar and support group.
We want to help you rebuild your life after losing a loved
one. We know it hurts and want to help you through the
difficult days ahead. We meet weekly on Sundays from
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM in Room # 216.
Please call Joyce Parsley at 798-4118 if you are interested
or just want additional information.
Email: info@firstbaptistashland.org
Website: firstbaptistashland.org
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH STAFF
Josh Hayden, Senior Pastor
The
Focus
“Transforming people for Christ in Ashland, in the world, one person at a time”
August 23, 2015
josh@firstbaptistashland.org
Bill Ellis, Interim Associate Pastor
bellis0929@hotmail.com
Steve Law, Church Administrator
steve@firstbaptistashland.org
Betty Stadnick, Parish Nurse
captgws@hotmail.com
Crystal Hopper, CCDC Director
ashlandccdc@yahoo.com
Joanie Tompkins, Ministry Assistant
joanie@firstbaptistashland.org
Lisa Reckley, Ministry Assistant
lisa@firstbaptistashland.org
Ken LeFevre, FOCUS Editor
ken@firstbaptistashland.org
Greg Dean, Interim Organist
gdean@farmersagent.com
Gabe Fowler, Part-time Youth Council Asst.
fowlergabell@gmail.com
Calling all Kids! The Train is Coming!
Noteworthy News of the Week
FBC Ashland, under the direction of our new Senior Pastor Josh
Hayden, is excited to announce our new children’s experience
KidExpress. We’ll bring together Kindergarten through 5th
grade students to sing, dance, perform and worship with a goal
of enriching the Ashland community and lives of our children in
a fun, supportive and engaging environment. We hope you will
see the value in this program and bring your children on
Wednesday nights beginning in September!
FBC Ashland Children’s Drama/Music Team
"Christmas In September"
Fall Session - Wednesday, Sept. 9 thru Wednesday, Dec. 16
Spring Session - Wednesday, Jan. 6 thru Wednesday, May 18
Times: 5:45 PM to 6:15 PM - Missions and Snack Supper
6:15 PM to 6:45 PM - Drama/Music 1st Half
6:45 pm to 7:30 PM - Drama/Music 2nd Half
Children’s Drama/Music Team contact Information:
Lydia Collins - 804-363-8085 or Lcollins504@gmail.com
Laura Ross - 804-363-2268 or shine22ross@aol.com
Tim Robertson - 804-363-5114 or ttimrobertson@gmail.com
Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 3 for our annual
Christmas Auction to benefit our great shoebox ministry. Dinner will
cost $5 per person and tickets will be sold during the weeks before the
event. The dinner will start at 5:30 PM and the auction will start at 6:30
PM. As always Santa will join us. Please think about what you or your
group would like to donate to the auction. Make a tree, a wreath, or some
type of table top holiday decoration. We will auction off homemade cakes
again this year. All decorations for the auction are due on Tuesday,
September 1 and the cakes are due the morning of the Auction on
Welcome to our church
September 3rd. Contact Anne Leigh Klinger or Debbie Powell if you
family, Aryanna Robinson. have questions.
Tickets are now on sale for the dinner! You can buy your tickets TODAY
at the church’s Shoebox Display table or during the week from the
church office. Cost is $5.00 a person. We will be serving a delicious Pasta
dinner. Get your tickets before September 3rd! Call Debbie Powell with
questions at 798-7961.
Prayer Concerns
Our Members: Chris Christiansen - Memorial Reg.; Bill Ager (Please call before Visiting), Marilyn Ellis, Claire
Durham, Linda Bateman, Frank Cassell, Greg Buckley, Phyllis Booth, Jim & Eleanor Smith, Durwood Stone,
Travis Edwards, Rob Wait, Clay Sylvia, Opal Dyke, Theresa Gardner, Carol Moyer, James Holmes, Mary
Williams, Tom Herbert, Evelyn Castle, Cody Roane, Fran Slater, Sally Stone, Melissa Wickham, Catherine
Painter, Mary McLean, Buddy & Pat Gilbert, Forrest & Frances Stairs, Gwen Bennett.
For Our Relatives and Friends: Julie Kent and Wess Gray (Gay Blankenship); Lillie Griffith (Bill W ard); Fred
Hodnett (Brenda & L arry Gilm an); Frank Hague and Margaret Oberholtzer (Gail Hague); Christian Cozens (Barbara
Robertson); Johnny and Cindy Axselle (Jessie Axselle); Frances, Steve and Scott Hazelwood (Glenn Davis); Shelby Carter
(Cecil Clemons); Libby Gregg, Christian Cozens and Hailey Lane (John Irby); Arnold Layne and Ronnie Dougan (Lenny
Dean); Peggy LaFoon (Marie Cassell); Jimmy Poates (Jackie Lee); Julie Tremblay; Betty Jane Elliott (Wendy Farmer); Joe
and Pat DeLuke, Richard Beverly, Dennis and Shane Polasky & Carlos Hileman (Charolette DeL uke); Martie Chidsey
(Sharon Chidsey); Elizabeth & Alex Bolin (Faye Page); Betsy Heiskill (Donna Flournoy), Katrina Viruses (Jennie Pegram);
Jacquelyn Booth Bowles (Booth Fam ily); Hubert Jewel (A nne Bales); Conde Palmore Hopkins (Linda Bateman); Judy
Viernes (Judy & A shley Pierce); Norman Gotthardt (Nancy Barnett); Donald Petri (Deborah Mason); Jim Martin
(Sarah Gardner); Dana Rucker (Joe Monroe); Chuck Cannon (Mary Stone), Laura Bowman (Kay Boggs); Kenneth Johnson
and Richard Bagby (Betty Ellis); Bill Glave (Marti Glave); Andy and Estee Summers & family and Dorothy Ferguson
(Mick Outten); Anna Guthrie & Billy Fox (Eleanor Jones); Nola DeStephen (Mary Dale Barry); Robert Hart, Nancy Scileppi
(Joe Scileppi); Anne & Mike Saettel (Roy Saettel); Lacey Parga (Marlene Ward); Comer family (Chancellors); Alan DeBoer
(Sarah DeBoer); Lauren Truchsess (Lydia Collins); Anna Harmon (Dorothy Busic); Harland Stairs (Frances & Forrest
Stairs); Don McLean (Mary McLean); Don Fritsch & Shirley Harrell (Susan Glisson); Bill Medlin, Dylan Dillard and
Dick McGrew (Peggy & Bob Dillard); Harriet Bledsoe (Jennifer Thompson); Larry Horner (Mark Horner); Steve Doane,
& Arlene Hayes (Pat Ross); Chanel Hobbs (Tricia Duvall); Scotty and Dottie Scott (Ginger Collison); Karen Snyder
(Beth Mallory); Tommy Clemons (Alison Clemons); Our military personnel, church and country.
"GREAT NEWS"
Welcome to our church
family, Joyce Farmer.
Wednesday Night Fellowship Dinners are coming back! Star ting
Wednesday, September 16th, we will be serving dinner from 5:00 to 6:30. We
need your help. We have a lot of great cooks, both men and women, and we are
asking for volunteers to assist a team in preparing the meals. We want to
form teams of four people to commit to one Wednesday per quarter. All
expenses will be reimbursed the day you prepare the meal. PLEASE call Kathy
Powell (314-3577) or Lydia Collins (363-8085) to volunteer or get more info.
August 23 - 29, 2015
Sunday - 23 CARITAS Week
8:30 a.m. Worship
9:45 a.m. Sunday School
“I heard the voice of the
Lord, saying, whom shall I 10:45 a.m. Deacon-Led Prayer Time
11:00 a.m. Worship
send, and who will go for
us? Then I said, Here am I: 6:00 p.m. Youth
send me.”
Monday - 24
- Isaiah 6:8
7:15 p.m. Deacon Meeting
Nothing is impossible to the Tuesday - 25
willing heart.
6:00 a.m. Men’s Prayer Group
- Thomas Heywood
7:00 a.m. Men’s Early Bible Study
6:30 p.m. Men’s Horseshoes
Wednesday - 26
5:00 p.m. Supper at Cracker Barrel
6:00 p.m. Praise Choir Rehearsal
6:15 p.m. Youth Bible Study
6:15 p.m. “OK Chorale” Choir
7:30 p.m. Sanctuary Choir
7:30 p.m. Personnel Committee Mtg.
Thursday - 27
6:30 p.m. Co-ed Bible Study at
Lynch’s house
T HE FO C U S
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T HE FO C U S
A Word From The Pastor
“Now you’ve got my feet on the
life path, all radiant from the
shining of your face. Ever since
you took my hand, I’m on the
right way.” Psalm 16:11 MSG
Each year, since I was seven
years old I've tried to read
through the entirety of the
scriptures. I've had some off
years here and there, but I
simply love the narratives. I love
the poetry, the songs, the
fantastical stories of God's
activity, the room for woe and
lamentation, the deep questions
from the heroes of the faith.
Along with trying to read the
scriptures in their entirety, I also
try to read a Psalm and Proverb
each day, too.
I'd love to hear from you the
ways you practice your faith day
to day, week to week, season to
season that help you to grow
closer to God and to one another.
For it is these daily practices,
that help us to see the radiance
of God's face. It is the daily and
weekly and seasonal rhythms
that help us to hold the right
hand of Christ and set off down
the right paths.
Labor Day is almost here, a new
season is almost upon us and I'm
wondering if you would join me
in praying that God would
continue to show us his radiant
face. That the Holy Spirit would
continue to hold our hands, as
new staff, new families, and new
members join our family and we
make room at the family table
for them. Let us live and love
generously so that we see God's
face shining so brightly upon us
that it lights up the halls of our
building and the streets of our
neighborhood.
Baptist Church, Ashland as a taxdeductible donation, it would be
greatly appreciated. Please contact
the church office if you would like to
donate a used car. Please contact the
office at:
info@firstbaptistashland.org or
804.798.9014
Your help is needed!
The music committee is looking for
someone to assist Ashley Boyles
with Preschool Choir this coming
fall. Practice starts Wednesday
night September 9 at 6:30 PM in the
4yr old Sunday school classroom.
Preschool choir covers ages 2 - 4. If
you are interested in being a helper
please call Kim Hutcheson at 804525-0105. Thanks for your
prayerful consideration and your
willingness to help us further the
work of the music ministry of
FBCA!
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Beth Moore is coming to Norfolk next April. Tickets
are on sale now and we would like to purchase the
tickets so we can all sit together as a church body of
believers. We haven't done a ladies trip in a long time
and would love to have a great turn out. The event is
Friday, April 29 in the evening and then the morning of
the 30. We will be staying overnight and will be
blocking a group of rooms. If you are interested in
going, please sign up at the church office or call or email
Lydia Collins. Lcollins504@gmail.com or 3638085. We would like to have a count by September
1. The cost of the tickets are $59 and money will be due
by September 15th.
The Co-ed
A New Bible Study by
Bible Study
Rick Warren “Son of
will be held on God” will be lead by
August 27! We Joyce Parsley at 6:30
will share a pot PM in Room # 208 on
luck dinner.
Tuesday, September
The dinner will
15th! Cost of
start at 6:30
workbook is $10.
PM at Dan &
June Lynch’s Call Elaine Mallory
house.
at 804-938-1930 to
purchase workbook
by September 1st!
Grace Sightings . . .
“Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.”
Shining with you, Pastor Josh
CCDC News
MOSAIC News
Benevolence Need
The children had so much fun
making spaghetti for their families
on Thursday night! They gave
praise to God through songs, and
talked about their favorite summer
activities at CCDC.
This week they will learn about
CARITAS, and are excited about
making muffins to help the
homeless. Our CCDC children are
the best!
Crystal Hopper, Director
Thursday, September 10
Quarterly Luncheon
with renown Storyteller - Betsy
Mountcastle. Don’t miss it!
Sunday, October 18
Senior Adult Sunday
Thursday, November 12
Michie Tavern
Lunch and Apple picking
Thursday, December 10
Quarterly Luncheon
“4 The Lord Quartet”
There is a family in town in need of a
car donation through a benevolence
request. If you or someone you know
would like to donate a car to First
OPERATION CHRISTMAS
CHILD SHOEBOXES
Sunday, August 23: Sunday School, 9:45 AM
Sunday, August 23: Devotions and activities with Gabe 6:00-7:30
Sunday, August 23: Youth serve dinner and fellowship at CARITAS!
6:00 - 8:00 PM (Get 2 Community Ser vice hour s)
Sunday, August 30: Youth Pool Party at Kings Charter. After Pool
Party Youth girls Lock-in!
Welcome upcoming 6th graders to our Sunday and Wednesday night
activities! We look forward to you joining our Youth Sunday School
department in September!
Bible Study with Gabe on Wednesday nights, 6:15-7:15 PM in Red
Room Downstairs! (Call us if you need a ride!)
Summer Mission Opportunities: Paint a local house in August;
Volunteer at Church Food Pantry (Tuesday & Thur sday mor nings);
Fill Blessing Buckets (Supplies are needed)!
A HUGE Thank You to Larry Hickman for sending off our seniors with a
great cook-out and water games! We are going to miss them!
Call Susan Robertson (310-0012), Susan Gerhart (837-1730) Jackie Gray (7989753 / 874-8460) or Gabe Fowler (607-316-3040) with any questions!
Items needed for the month of
August are: School Supplies
There are great buys at Walmart!
Thanks, Debbie Haley
Dear Friends,
Thanks to those who have
volunteered to staff the Food Pantry.
However, we still have slots that
need to be covered. The 3rd
Thursday and the 5th Tuesday of
September are still open. Two
volunteers are needed for each date.
So grab a friend, spend some quality
time together and help a good cause!
Please either call, text or email if you
can help: (H) 550-3836 or (Cell) 4325271 or chb81046@comcast.net.
- St. Augustine
Sunday School Classroom Refresh
The Sunday School Department
is in the process of freshening up
several of our classrooms! We
have new furniture and rugs for
many of the rooms and are
requesting assistance with
painting of 4 children’s
classrooms on the second floor,
assembling chairs, removal of old
furnishings (tables, chairs, etc.),
and placement of new
furnishings. Please contact
Elaine Mallory at 804-938-1930,
if you are interested in helping.
STATISTICS: Financial Information - Attendance
As of Sunday, August 16, 2015: Other Gifts This Week:
Weekly Budget Gift
$ 9,290.46
Weekly Budget Goal $ 13,051.20
YTD Budget Gifts
$ 541,020.56
YTD Budget Goal
$ 503,661.60
Food Pantry
$ 235.00
Shoebox Ministry
$ 160.00
WEEKLY ATTENDANCE
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Worship:
8:30 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
Total
102
229
331
Sunday School:
Members
Visitors
Total
249
21
270