CALENDAR October 19-25, 2014 Church-Wide Fall Festival Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 5:00 - 7:15pm - Gym FBC Ladies’ Ministry Quilt Raffle For all our children from PreSchool to 5th grades The children are welcome to wear their costumes. Fundraiser The Ladies Ministry will be selling chancesto win a beautiful hand quilted red and black quilt at the Welcome Center each Sunday morning. You may purchase a ticket for $1 or 6 tickets for $5. All proceeds go towards the FBC Ladies’ Quilting Minstry! Please help support them by purchasing a raffle ticket! The raffle will be held on Sunday, December 14th! We will have games, food (hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy), and lots of fun for the entire family!! Bring your friends!!! SUNDAY: 8:30 9:45 11:00 5:00 Early Worship Bible Study Morning Worship Children’s Bible Drill (4th - 6th grades) 6:00 Children’s Bible Drill (3rd grade) 6:00 Evening Worship MONDAY: 9:00 Sr. Adults’ Tone & Stretch 6:30 Ladies’ Book Club - Joy Evans’ Cost: Adults - $6 Children 10 & under - $4 Please R.S.V.P. to the church office by Monday, November 10th. Family Maximum Cost: $20 7:00 Men of Honor 9:00 “Son Light” School 5:30 “The Daniel Plan” - 6-week study - Will Meet in Room E104 WEDNESDAY: 5:45 8:00 10:15 4:00 4:45 5:00 5:00 5:45 5:45 6:30 7:00 7:00 Gideon’s Prayer Time CBS Leadership Meets Community Bible Study Children’s Choirs (1st-5th grades) Youth Registration TEAM KIDS - over @ 7:15pm Wednesday Supper Adult Wednesday Evening Worship & Bible Study Sanctuary Middle School Worship All Youth “Chow Down” Gym High School Worship Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal Phone: (254) 629-3355 Fax: (254) 629-3475 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 405 South Seaman Eastland, TX 76448 October 15, 2014 Schedule Change For Adult Wednesday Night Worship And Bible Study Beginning This Wednesday, Oct. 15th, our Adult Wednesday Night Schedule will change: Supper: 5-5:45pm 5:45pm: Worship Time With Our TeamKids 6:15pm: Adult Bible Study & Prayer Time We will meet in the Sanctuary. 9:00 “Son Light” School FRIDAY: 9:00 Sr. Adults Tone & Stretch 7:30 Mavs vs. Henrietta - Here Closet Angels We Need Children’s Hangers! How to Contact First Baptist Church: E-Mail: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.fbceastland.org EVANGEL VOLUME 29, NUMBER 23 THURSDAY: CLOTHING * MINISTRY * COMMUNITY Our New Sunday School and Church Members Will Be Our Guests. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH TUESDAY: WE NEED DONATIONS OF LARGE BAGS OF WRAPPED BITE-SIZED CANDY! Church-Wide Thanksgiving Dinner Sunday, November 16th, at 6:00pm EVANGEL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE PAID EASTLAND, TX PERMIT NO. 39 “Camo” Sunday Is COMING! Sunday, November 2nd - One Service - 11AM HIGH ATTENDANCE IN BIBLE STUDY 425!!!!! We are asking our FBC Family to wear their “Camo” to church that day!! We will have a “free” Wild Game Luncheon after church! CAMO Sunday raffle tickets are available for $10 each in the office. Purchase a ticket for an unchurched friend and invite them to come with you! They may win a hunting trip, a bow, a gift card, or one of our other great prizes. RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Dr. Shawn Brewer, Pastor Larry Wesson, Minister of Music Matt Weaver, Minister of High School Youth Josh Liles, Minister of Middle School Youth Alice Perry, Children’s Ministry Director A Real Place for Real People with Real Needs PASTOR’S PEN STUDENT MINISTRY Dr. T Shawn Brewer, Pastor What a great Sunday! God blessed us with several guests and we had Kilye Winge come forward making public her decision, having asked Jesus Christ to be Lord of her life and desiring to follow the Lord in believers baptism. God blessed us with His presence and it was exciting to see God move in our hearts as He leads us to be more like His One and Only Son, Jesus Christ. Sunday we concluded our six week look at where we are headed in our ministry and the biblical perspectives that should govern everything that we do. Sunday we looked at the last part of community as we looked at Acts 2:41-47 and the early New Testament Church. Jesus Christ has just ascended and has given the Church the command to go and make disciples and do that in His power, the power of the Holy Spirit. For us to undertake that ministry of coming alongside those in our community, both believers and non-believers who are being hard-pressed on every side, we have to get a clear definition of what it means to be a part of the community of the body of Christ. Luke outlines what that is in verses 41-42. To be a member of the community of faith, someone had to hear the Word of God as the Word of God and respond to it. The individual response to the Word of God was that they became devoted, committed to what God said, and the response was immediate. Are you responding to God’s word in your life? Join us as we hear God’s word applied to our daily lives. Secondly, that response connected them to one another. They were towards one another the same, literally of the same mind and they were unified. The Gospel message changed the agenda of those who heard it. Allow the Word of God, the Good News of Jesus Christ, to change your agenda this week. Put what He wants ahead of what you want and see how your life changes for the better in all that you do and undertake. That commitment to what God is doing and saying and teaching us through His word, the Bible, leads us in the area of worship and of telling our story of what God is doing in our lives. Worship God this week, not just on Sunday, not just on Wednesday, worship God this week as His word becomes the basis of all that you are doing and living out before those who need to see Jesus. If you get a chance, read Acts 2:46-47 and see how when the church is together, that those looking at the church from the outside in are attracted to what God is doing and they join in and are saved and God gets the credit. May it all fall at the feet of Jesus this week. Take up the challenge of Engage 24 and allow God to use you as you share your story. I am glad I am your pastor. November 17 - 24 (EducationalBuilding) Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday Noon - 4:00pm Wednesday - Noon - 5:00pm Saturday - 10am - Noon Sunday - 2:00 - 4:00pm If you would like to help in the drop-off center, please contact the church office. Our Sunday School Leadership (teachers and directors) are invited to a Breakfast Meeting on Saturday, Oct. 25th, from 8:30-9:30 in the Gym. This includes workers in the PreSchool, Children’s, Youth & Adult Departments. PLEASE RSVP TO THE CHURCH OFFICE BY MONDAY, OCT. 20TH! EXTENDED CHILDCARE Bobby & Sandy Cagle Jr. High Worship - 5:45pm All Youth “Chow Down” @ 6:30pm High School Worship -7pm -Josh Liles MUSIC MINISTRY Clint Ferguson sang a powerful song this last Sunday morning in both services and did a great job as he led us in worship. The text of the chorus is a strong challenge to each of us if we consider what Larry Wesson, Minister of Music God truly desires of our lives for Him. Here’s the text of the 1st verse and chorus: “We have prayed and prayed concerning Your will, asking for guidance to see. Larry Musichow, we want to be all we can be. And here andWesson, now , notMinister knowingof exactly We will be Your Church, Your light and Your beacon, making Your vision our own. We will be Your church, to do what You’ve asked, committed to all You’ve begun. We will be Your church to the lost and the needy, reaching our arms out in love. We will be Your church, the best we can be, completing the task, not looking back, committed to all You’ve begun.” I hope and pray that the words of this song reflect how each of us want to live our lives for the Lord. We each can pray and ask the Lord to show us how we can truly be the witness and beacon for our Lord in our family, the workplace, and out in our community. Singing as I go, Larry My child has been saved and baptized; is that it? DEACONS ON CALL Terry Trout (631-8911) Phil Webb (647-3507) Tim Dame (629-8522) SUNDAY REPORTS October 12, 2014 Sunday School Attendance Sunday Worship Attendance Vacation is always a good thing, but this one was great! We were blessed enough to spend the last week or so in Destin, FL, and it was amazing Matt Weaver & Josh Liles, Minister of Students for a couple of reasons. I’m not much of a beach October 15th person. I’d rather go hiking, to a sporting event, or drive down the highway, so I was just a little 4:45pm - Registration indifferent when I heard that our family vacation was going to be in Florida on the beach. I Jr. High Worship - 5:45pm didn’t really know what I would do. The beach would be boring. I couldn’t have been more All Youth “Chow Down” @ 6:30pm wrong. It was AMAZING. One of the best things about it was that it was just so stinkin’ relaxHigh School Worship -7pm ing! Being refreshed and rejuvenated is just what I needed. It was nice to get away and spend time with my family and be out of the routine for a little bit. The other thing that made it so October 19th The Real Talk - 9:45am awesome was that it just screamed of creation and the power of God. To see God’s beauty Morning Worship - 11:00am displayed in the sunrises and sunsets and to see his creativity in the ocean creatures was nothing Evening Worship - 6pm short of amazing. We serve the God who made every beautiful, white grain of sand on that October 22nd beach in Destin. How awesome is it that He chooses you and I to do His will? If you’ve never 4:45pm - Registration been to the beach, I suggest you go. I’m a beach person now! 311 325 GENERAL BUDGET $ DESIGNATED $ Due to the bank holiday, total money receipts were not available at print time. This information is available in the church office. Thank you! No, that’s not it. Now your child needs to grow in his/her new relationship with Christ. There are many adult Christians walking around with their “ticket to Heaven,” who have never grown past infancy in their faith. You don’t want that to happen to your child. The first thing a parent needs to consider when helping a child to grow spiritually is his or her own relationship with Christ. Have you, as an adult, grown in the past year? Are you actively engaged in Bible Study? Do you spend time each day in prayer? Do you gather with other believers regularly to worship God and exalt the Lord Jesus Christ? It’s very important for our children and grandchildren to see spiritual growth in us. A very helpful tool for your child after he has accepted Christ is I’m a Christian Now. This little book is an excellent and comprehensive four week study for helping children understand the decision they have made and what it means to live a Christian life. Each week focuses on a new topic that includes daily study and application activities. Topics covered include: o Baptism o The Lord’s Supper o Being a church member o Following God through one’s actions o Developing a quiet time This book can be purchased at any LifeWay store or online at www.lifeway.com. “Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) Alice Perry, Children’s Ministry Coordinator
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