FirstBaptistChurch 6th & Ave. M ● P.O. Box 408 Olton, TX 79064 Phone: 806-285-2565 Email: [email protected] Return Address Service Requested FBC Ministry Team Every Church Member David Azam: Pastor Cell phone # - (806) 292-3201 Craig Woody: Youth Minister Cell phone # - (806) 292-6116 Travis McCullough: Music Minister Tonya Morris: Secretary Evelyn Hudgens: Custodi an Non-Profit U.S. Postage PAID Olton, TX 79064 Permit No. 9 *Please help us keep our prayer list up to date! If there is someone who needs to be added or deleted from the list, please call Tonya in the office and let her know. Sunday School—9:45 a.m. Morning Worship—10:55 a.m. Celebration Choir—5:00 p.m. Evening Worship—6:00 p.m. New Members: Derek and Cenee Faught, Ruby Jimenez, Luis and Virginia Jimenez, Kenneth Campbell, Bill Thompson, Laverne Balko Children Ministries Sunday School-Backyard Missions-Prison Ministry Youth Ministry ~ Craig and Katie Woody Our nation and elected officials Our troops overseas and in training David and Meghan Azam family Those affected by the weather. Don and Teri Caswell David and Kathy Britton Godwin and Christy Ismael and Terry Gomez Unspoken requests Colby and Elizabeth McGrew Travis and Kat McCullough-Foster parents Those who have or have had cancer: Jim Holland, Betty McCurry, Sue Barnes’ Sister, Diana Graham Jones, Jean Scott, Mary Lou Almanza, Kevin Couch, Malory Johnson, Carla Lloyd Willis, Bob Hall, Lennon Young, Leon Follis (Sandy Kersh’s brother), Kimberly Rogers, Lou Almanza, Bill Griffith, Soyla Garza Sandoval, Nati Sandoval, Tammy Bennett, Patricia Barnett, Mike Joiner, Nita Criswell Health and other concerns: Luis Jimenez, Pat Elkins, Valerie Salas, Mary Myers, Billie Mitchell (Kayla Parkey’s mom), Lupe Pedroza, Gary Cross, Paula Jiménez, Tamara Elam, Harold Smith, Zander Wade, Ron Cotton, JoAnn Stamps, Betty King (Becky’s mother), Darla Ballard, Ted Giles, Virginia Daugherty, Roger Russell, Carol Davis (Tonya McClenney’s mom), Bill Morris, Zane Gunter, Ninfa Hernandez (Emma Fuentes’ sister), Doris Witten, Jose Cuevas family, Mary Roper Byrd, Sharon Key, Liam Groomer (Friend of Azam’s), Tonya Ratliff, Alice Carter, Kody Wilson, Jennifer Garcia (Liz and Angie’s sister), Joann Stamps, Norma Lively, Alicia Paz, Harley Cantu, Keith Workman, W.L. Carthel (Sue Barne’s dad), Marcelle Loveless, Dorothy Holt,Raymond Powers, Sharon Key, Thadra Vrubel, Hudson Holland (Brent and April Burns nephew), George Churchill (Shelli Rose’s uncle), Linda Young, Bobby Turner, Gene and Ruby Reynolds, Joe Hall, John Rodgers (Sharon Key’s brother), Emily Fiene, Lucy Potter (daughter of Byron and Moriah diagnosed with SMA), Amelia Samaniego (Flor Cano’s mother in law), Dale McLaughlin (Gayle Clegg’s cousin) RDCC: Evelyn Mason, Hazel Lacewell, Joe Turner, Kay Anderson, Marcelle Loveless , Kay Anderson, L.T. Davis, Rosalyn Sorley Sandhills Village: Ellen Mills, Paula Nixon RDCC & Sandhills Village residents & staff Norma Lively 6202 4th St. Apt. 103 Lubbock, 79416 Expectant mothers: Heather Jimenez, Hailey Hurst, JoMarie Pinkerton Soliz, Kimberly Lorenz May 12, 2015 Volume 28 No. 19 www.fbcolton.org because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe. C O N N E C T ● G R O W ● S E R V E ● G O **WE STILL NEED LOTS OF EXTRA HELP! PLEASE CONTACT ME AND WE WILL FIND YOU A SPOT!** (806)790-1015!!!** We still need teachers for (2) 5 Yr Old Classes, 3rd Grade, and 1st-5th Music. If you are interested, please contact me! We will have Chocolate Chip Cookies on Monday, Rice Krispie Treats on Tuesday, Brownies on Wednesday, and Chocolate Chip Cookies on Thursday. If you would like to donate any of these snacks, please contact me or the sign up sheets will be in the office. If you could donate 2 dozen for each day, that would be perfect. They do not need to be individually wrapped. The only thing we need to remember is absolutely no peanut butter or nuts of any kind in any of the snack please! Meals will be served each night for the kids attending VBS and the volunteers and their families. Please make plans to join us each night at 5 for food and fellowship before VBS begins at 5:55. Friday night will be our Family Night and we would like to invite our entire church family to come celebrate with us. We will have a Worship Rally at 6 and eat immediately after. The last thing I want to let you in on is that we are going to try something different this year the Sunday before VBS starts. Instead on Sunday School on June 21, we are going to have a Prayer Breakfast. Please join us for breakfast and a time of prayer over the classrooms and volunteers involved as well as the kids and families we plan on having with us that week. That about sums it up! Thank you all for EVERYTHING you do to make VBS a success!!! If I have forgotten anything or need to do anything or change anything, please do not hesitate to let me know! I would rather know that not know!! Love you guys and gals!!! JJ Join us Sunday mornings as Brother David leads us through the books of 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Church Website: fbcolton.org Find us on Facebook!!! We will not have evening services in Olton this Sunday, May 17. Please join us at First Baptist Church in Dimmitt at 6 p.m. Godwin Simpson will be sharing about “The Cost of the Gospel”. The following book was donated to the church library by Bill Thompson, in memory of his wife; Jo Thompson: Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul A baby shower for Heather Jimenez and her soon to be born baby boy will be held this Saturday, May 16 at the Wild Plum. If you would be interested in being a hostess for this shower, please contact Amber DeBerry @ (806) 685-0915. We’re getting closer! Please continue to pray about giving toward the projectors in the sanctuary! Needed: $16,000 Given: $7,485 Remember our missionaries in prayer daily!! David and Kathy Britton, Godwin and Christy, Mike and Arlene Armstrong, Brandon and April Chandler, and David and Heather Petro, Ismael and Terry Gomez. It’s not too late to give to the new playground equipment in memory of Audrey McGrew. You can mail a check to the Methodist Church at: FUMC PO Box 1081 Olton, TX 79064 VBS June 22-26 Mark your calendars! If you would like to help with VBS, contact JJ Graham @ 790-1015. Craig Woody, Larry Elam, Skylar Carter, and Stephanie Ramirez are planning to go to India this summer, June 29– July 14, 2015! If you would like to help financially with this trip, please bring it by the church office or mark your check “India Mission Trip” and drop it in the offering! The People Gave Ushers for Sunday Wes Jones Preston Huguley Michael McFadden Tracy DeBerry Deacons on Call May 10-16 Dewey Hukill Steve Graham May 17-23 Uil Gunter Rickey Parkey Required each week Offerings YTD Given YTD Required Sunday School Sunday AM Worship $9,145.54 $3,961.51 $133,258.17 $173,765.26 The People Come 127 223