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
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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
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been to the beach, I suggest you go. I’m a beach person now!
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GENERAL BUDGET
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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