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The Westfield Wire
October 2014
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Permit No. 29
October 2014
The Westfield Wire
Westfield Baptist Church
Volume 9 Number 10
Return Service Requested
Westfield Baptist Church
700 North Ashe Avenue
Dunn, North Carolina 28334
www.westfieldbaptist.org
Phone: 910-892-2216
Fax: 910-892-4399
E-Mail: [email protected]
Trunk-or-Treat is Wednesday, October 29 at 6:00 p.m., taking the place of our regular Wednesday night activities. This is a fun, safe way for us all to participate in the Halloween tradition while reaching out to neighbors. To do it, we need you! There is a sign-up
sheet on the bulletin board in the Education Wing - we need vehicles, we need candy, and
we need people at their vehicles to pass out candy! Add your name to the sign-up sheet
or call the church office to volunteer. Vehicles will be parked near the Fellowship Building
and should be in place by 5:45 p.m.!
FOR WORLD HUNGER
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Westfield
Staff
Pastor
Rev. Jeff Johnson
[email protected]
Phone: 910-620-9482
Associate Pastor
Rev. Chris Cottingham
[email protected]
home: 892-2214
cell: 864-420-6221
Secretary
Organist
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Marian Honeycutt
Joyce Ballard
October
6
Children’s Ministry Team
12
World Hunger Cookie Walk, Baptism
Deacons Meeting
19
Business Meeting
29
Trunk or Treat!!
November
1
Children’s Missions Day (CBFNC) at
Zebulon Baptist
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Homecoming (50th!)
9
Deacon’s Meeting,OCC Shoebox
Dedication
16
Business Meeting, Baptist Children’s
Home, covered dish
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Pig Picking
26
No Wednesday Activities
27
Thanksgiving Day
Vision Statement
To share Christ with all by leading and nurturing through a Ministry of love, fellowship,
Bible study, prayer, worship, praise and proclamation of the Gospel; to seek God’s guidance as we respond to needs and serve as missionaries to our community and beyond.
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October 2014
“Turning 50”
From the Pastor’s Pen
One of the things that connected me to
Westfield when I arrived was the realization
that we were both turning 50 this year. My
birthday was in August and yours is in
November, so I beat you to the mark by a
few months and a few weeks. Even though
I’m not a big celebrator of birthdays, I’m
glad that we are planning a weekend of
celebration for our 50th year of life as a
church. These “zero” birthdays should not come and go without some
personal reflection, so if you’ll indulge me to connect some of my birthday
experiences as our big day approaches next month.
Time for a check up – I did my annual physical and the doctor noticed my
birthday. He asked about some routine examinations that come at age 50.
I followed up on one, and the other one I’m getting my courage up for.
We took a congregational “physical” this summer as we examined the vital
signs of a healthy church. The next steps will involve some follow-up
“examinations” of our current vision, mission, and ministries.
The good old days – there are so many memorable milestones that are
50 years old this year. The debut of TV shows like “Gilligan’s Island”,
“The Munsters”, “Flipper” and “Bewitched.” Iconic products like Pop
Tarts, Lucky Charms, G.I. Joe, Diet Pepsi and the Ford Mustang were
introduced. Sports gave us a confident Cassius Clay claiming the heavyweight boxing title and the Yankees World series dynasty ended on the arm
of Bob Gibson and the St. Louis Cardinals. At the movies, we watched
Elvis Presley in “Viva Las Vegas” and Clint Eastwood in “A Fistful of
Dollars.” On the national stage, Martin Luther King, Jr. won the Nobel
Peace Prize and America entered the Vietnam War. For some of us, this all
seems like yesterday. As we move toward Homecoming and reflect as a
church on turning 50, I know Westfield Baptist had many good old days.
Days of meeting in the first building in 1964, which is now our fellowship
hall, and dedicating the new sanctuary three years later. Days of peak ministry in those golden years of Baptist life in the 1970’s and 80’s. Days of
mission projects around the community during Operation Inasmuch and
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Sunday, November 2—
WBC’s 50th Homecoming
WMU
OCC Shoeboxes are still
available for pickup.
The dedication for the
shoeboxes will be Sun-
Save the date! A covered dish meal will
follow worship. You are all invited!
Please help us spread the word to former members who’ve moved away, and
please call the church office if you are
coming so we can plan enough food!
day, November 9. We
encourage all Westfield
families to participate.
Children’s Missions Day
There will be a Children’s Missions Day
at Zebulon Baptist Church for 1st—6th
graders on Saturday, November 1 from
9:30 am—3:15 pm.
For more info, go to www.cbfnc.org.
Our Members at Home
Lynn Blackley
Apt.#248, Abbottswood at Stonehenge
7900 Creedmor Rd, Raleigh NC 27613
Evelene Gardner
Harnett Woods room 217
604 Lucas Road
through September 28, 2014
Budget Requirements
General Fund Offerings
Difference
$149,176
108,600
($40,575)
O.W. “Bill” Godwin, Jr.
1505 Lakeshore Drive, Dunn
892-7347
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October 2014
Deacon of the Week
*Joe Carr
Ronnie Autry
Sylvia Campbell
Angela Godwin
Steven Moore
Oct. 5
Oct. 12
Oct. 19
Oct. 26
Nov. 2
Nov. 9
Nov. 16
Nov. 23
Nov. 30
Children’s Church
Chris Cottingham
Children’s Church
Trent Carpenter
Children’s Church
Joe Carr
Children’s Church
Melissa Scott
Charlie Carpenter
Oct. 5
Edwin Bass
894-1899
Oct. 12
Steve Cooney
270-307-3451
Oct . 19
Lucy Simpson
892-3620
Oct. 26
Sylvia Campbell
894-8893
Nov. 2
Charlie Carpenter
892-7029
Nov. 9
Abe Elmore
892-6661
Nov. 16
Trent Carpenter
891-5670
Nov. 23
Brinson Hunter
892-0376
Nov. 30
Edwin Bass
894-1899
Oct. 5
The Lord’s Supper
Oct. 12
Jackie & Abe Elmore
Oct. 19
Lisa & Gary Holbert
Oct. 26
Elva Wilshire
Nov. 2
Charlie & Midge Carpenter
Nov. 9
Ronnie & Jeanne Autry
Nov. 16
Abe & Jackie Elmore
Nov. 23
Abe & Jackie Elmore
Nov. 30
Angela & Terry Godwin
Nursery Workers
Oct. 5 Lisa & Gary Holbert
Oct. 12 Paula Jones & Kim Carpen
ter
Oct. 19 Sander & Deanna Kedich
Oct. 26 Kristy & Adam Carter
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Nov. 2 Lisa & Gary Holbert
Nov. 9 Paula Jones & Kim Carpenter
Nov. 16 Sander & Deanna Kedich
Nov. 23 Kristy & Adam Carter
Nov. 30 Paula Jones & Kim Carpenter
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Christmas in August, and ministry efforts at Baptist Children’s Homes,
bingo at the Senior Village, food distribution at Grace Chapel. Days of fun
on youth retreats and senior adult trips, and days of learning in Sunday
School and Vacation Bible School. The challenge for our time will be
dreaming, planning and working to create good new days of life-changing
moments and memories at Westfield, finding the avenues of ministry and
missions that will reach the Millennial generation and those following
them through the 21st century.
How time flies – I have noticed a lot more lately how long ago things
happened and they seem far away in time. When I was a boy, I remember
wondering about the year 2000 because it was always associated with
science fiction and the distant future. At the time, I thought to myself:
“I’ll be 36 years old in the year 2000 and that’s so old!” I couldn’t
imagine ever being any older than that. Now 36 is fourteen years in my
rearview. This past Sunday at a restaurant in Dunn, the TV was showing
an episode of the Love Boat. I said to Jenni, “Do you realize that show
came on 30 years ago?” I’ll hear a favorite song from the 70’s and think
“That song is 40 years old.” Time certainly does fly. As I get older, I’m
trying to focus less on the past, more on the future, and the most in the present. We cannot change the past, but we can celebrate and learn from it.
We cannot control the future, but we can prepare and live into it. The present is a precious gift and what we do with it reflects what we consider
most important in our lives. I was talking to a woman in our church today
about great scripture texts and Hebrews 11 came up, that famous chapter
on the meaning of faith. She said, “Do you know what the most important
word in that whole chapter on faith is? It’s the first word – NOW.” We
must live faith now. Let’s live the present moment and every moment as if
we are in the presence of God, because we are. Then whether we’re turning 50 or 150, Westfield Baptist will have fulfilled God’s mission for us
here to love God and follow Jesus. Can’t wait for you to join me at the
half-century mark. We’ll make the turn together.
~Jeff
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Brinson Hunter
Evelene Gardner
Betty Riddle
Opal Kathryn Colville
David Rose
Anna Bass
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Sunday Schedule
9:15 a.m. Bible Study for all ages
10:30 a.m. Morning Worship
Wednesday Schedule
5:45 p.m. K.I.S.S.
6:30 p.m. Dicipleship for All Ages
7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Practice