The Vision
Newsletter of
First Baptist Church
May 18, 2015
Summer is upon us and with summer comes vacations. We pray that all
of our church family will have a safe summer, enjoy your vacations and
will be in attendance as often as possible.
With summer also comes many opportunities for growth and service.
Here are just a few.
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Monday night outreach - G.R.O.W.
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Super Summer
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Cross Timbers
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ZIP
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One Verse Evangelism
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Falls Creek
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Community Block Parties
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God and Country Celebration
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Sports Camp

Vacation Bible School
You can learn more about these events inside this newsletter, on the
church website or by calling the church office. We are expecting great
things for our Lord this summer! Be sure and be a part of them!
We love you,
Your Ministerial Staff
One of the things I love about being around others believers and sharing common
experiences or insights into what God is teaching each of us is getting different
perspectives than your normal personal thoughts. Maybe we are talking about the
same thing, but we have completely different insights into the same topic. A group
of men in our church and I were talking recently about what faith is and how it
becomes something that is personal to us rather than just taught to us in church. It
was a reminder to me that in order for faith in God to be YOUR faith in God, you
cannot rely on someone else to give it to you. You must grow in your faith on your
own. How does this happen, you may ask? Look at this quote, which gives a good
sum up:
"What is faith? It is seeing the promises of God from afar and experiencing a
change of values so that you desire the promises above what the world has to offer.
Desire God over everything but God. This is what faith is on the inside. Faith
desires God and the city God makes for his people more than it desires what the
world can give. Faith in God means desiring God.
When you desire someone you call attention to their worth. Desiring is no great
achievement on our part. Nobody brags about getting hungry, especially for the
best food in the world. So nobody will brag about desiring God, who is more
desirable than anything in the universe. Desiring God doesn't call attention to our
value, it calls attention to God's."
-John Piper
When was that last time you desired God as much as you desired to eat food
when you were hungry? When did your soul long for God so much that you spent
hours and hours seeking Him? And if that hasn't happened to you - that you spent
time desiring God - what has caused you to stop (or maybe you've never truly
started) desiring Him?
In this season of renewal for our church, may I encourage you to take the time
today and every day, as a fellow believer in Christ, to look to and desire God above
all else? Take the time and effort to desire Him over everything else. It'll change
your faith and it will change you.
See you Sunday!
Bro. Lyndall
Women’s Ministry Book Club will
meet on Wednesday, June 17th at
4:30 PM. Their book for
discussion is Four Blood Moons by
John Hagee. Pick up a copy of this
New York Times and USA Today
bestseller and be prepared for some
great insight into prophecy and
current events. For more
information contact Mecca Lovick.
Saturday, September 12. Wichita, KS. Cost is $69.00 plus
tax Register on linehttp://www.lifeway.com/event/WomensEvent-Living-Proof-Live-Wichita-KS?
cid=ld_lpministries_lpl2015wichita or by phone. Sign up on
bulletin board. Contact Kari Jones for information. More
information coming soon.
Weekly Activities
Sunday
9:00 a.m. Sunday School
10:30 a.m. Worship Service
Children’s Church
6:30 p.m. Evening Worship
Wednesday
5:30 p.m. Fellowship Meal
6:15 p.m. Bible Study and Prayer
6:30 p.m. “Elevate” (youth service)
7:00 p.m. Mom’s In Touch
7:00 p.m. Worship Choir
THE RECORD
May 3, 2015
Offering:$26,734.08
SS Attendance: 290
May 10, 2015
Offering:$12,311.50
SS Attendance: 318
Welcome New Members:
Carolyn Pennington
JOY GROUP is collecting jeans for the
Grace Rescue Mission. Collecting
through May 27.
We are looking for ZIP Workers &
Volunteers! If you are interested in a
fun-filled day with kids of all ages, doing a
variety of fun activities, as we learn to
MOVE for God. ZIP is for you! Must have
completed the 7th grade to volunteer or
have a workers permit to work. Adult
workers are needed as well.
June
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
GROW1
2
THU
3
FRI
4
SAT
5
6
SUPER SUMMER-JUNE 1-5
JOY Group
Ice Cream
Social
CROSS TIMBERS-JUNE 1-4
7
5pm
O.V.E.
Training for
SS teachers
grades 2ndadult
8
ZIP
9
14
15
ZIP
Deacon’s
meeting
5pm
21
16
17
13
18
19
20
GROW
23
25
26
27
Ladies Ministry
Book Club
4:30pm
Scripture &
Splash
7-9pm
24
ZIP
Father’s
Day
JOY Lunch
Bunch
No Evening
Worship
Scripture &
Splash
7-9pm
GROW
28
12
ZIP
Falls Creek June 15-20
22
ZIP
11
Scripture &
Splash
7-9pm
GROW
O.V.E.
In the Sunday
School
10
ZIP
29
ZIP
NO GROW
30
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Party
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