Church Leadership Larry Harrison, Pastor Gib Rogers, Interim Worship Leader Deacon Ministry - Church Council Administrative Business Council All Committee Leaders & Team Members All Sunday School Teachers & Leaders Outreach Ministry - Music Ministry RAs - GAs - Mission Friends - WMU Brotherhood - Discipleship Classes Special Prayer Needs Around the World Kidnapped Girls in Africa The nation of Israel Disaster Relief Workers The purging of Christianity in the Middle East Children in Immigration Crisis Ebola breakout in West Africa (& world) worsens (Pray for doctors/nurses working among those infected.) Home and Foreign Missionaries Christians in Iraq President Obama’s decision making Coming Events October 28 Senior Adult Apple Picking Trip October 31 Harvest Festival *Join missionaries serving in Zimbabwe in giving thanks to God for those who gave to Baptist Global Response during the annual World Hunger Sunday emphasis so that refugees and orphans in that country could be provided for! *A fear of Ebola is currently keeping many people away from West Africa, so pray for volunteers from North Carolina who will be in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on October 10-18, saying by their actions that they consider sharing the Gospel to be more important than their personal safety. First Baptist Church of Gaston 121 Oakey Springs Drive P.O. Box 309, Gaston, SC 29053 803 794.0377 ~ [email protected] Dr. Larry Harrison, Pastor 803 422.3080 [email protected] October 8, 2014 *Praise God with a believer in Japan whose 99year-old father, who heard the song “Jesus Loves Me” as a young boy and it stayed with him, has accepted Jesus as his Savior and desires to be baptized! * Pray that other believers in Taiwan will be like the woman attending a prayerwalk training session who, touched that foreigners cared about her people, went home and wept and asked God to give her a passion for her lost neighbors. http://www.imb.org/main/pray/prayerrequests/ todaysprayer.asp Military Members, Family and Friends Other Prayer Needs/Notes: *Matt Barker *Ethan Gates *Stephen Willetts *Michael Dawkins *Andrew Randall *Jacob Hull *Winston Miles, Jr. *Trey Skinner *Duane Johnson *Jim St.Clair *Stafford Johnson *Christopher Hatfield Brantley Harvey Nathan Allen Shane Friedman Tony Willetts Ryan LaChance Patrick LaChance James Thornton Justin Jones John Double Sean Hartley Matt Barker Joe Fernette Joshua Meetze *Denotes church member WELCOME to Wednesday Prayer Service! May we come together to Praise and Celebrate our Living Lord and Savior in all our activities!! Church Members with Prayer Needs Carolyn Mann (recovering at home from surgery last week) Pat Rowe Collette Knight Erika Browning Ali Peake Karen Pound Gene & Clara Thomas Janice Willetts Beth Wilson Spires Billy Callahan Judy Lowrey Donald McBride Earnest & Virginia Gantt Doris Alverson Sandra Watts Cleta Chasteen . Friends & Family with Prayer Needs Donna Keffer (works for District 4—serious problems after open heart surgery) Marie Davis Mattie Wise(Sandra Pound’s sister) Kevin Simpson (friend of Donna Fogle) Robert Jumper Deloris Tanner Benjie Tanner Sarah Mochel Scott Williams Terri Barton Bob Spires Marie Taylor-Jeffcoat Joyce Vidrine Thomas McKinney (friend of Pat Rowe) Thomas Eddie Dial, son of Mrs. Virginia Gantt. Special Prayer for Those With Cancer Church Members Marilyn Watts Jeffcoat/Stan Jeffcoat Janet Daniels/Lynda Guy/Bobby Moore Family & Friends Winifred Poole (Randy Poole’s mother) Billy Hudson (friend of Pastor Larry) Leroy Kelly (Heyward Kelly’s brother) Tony Pound (cousin of Patsy Dowd) Barbara Stalvey/Mike Martin Athena Boulware /Donald Mochel Daithy Collins/Herman Roberts Sara Duncan Homebound Members Hospitals Betty Barwick 130 Aiken Street, Gaston. SC 29053 Clara Mack 121 Frank Moorer Drive, Gaston SC 29053 Claudette Smith 146 Aiken Street, Gaston, SC 29053 Earlie Mae Davis 2322 Sharpes Hill Road, Gaston SC 29053 Guyeula Bryant 559 Southbound Road, Gaston, SC 29053 Harold Lucas 234 Old Swamp Road, Swansea, SC 29160 Janet Daniels 426 Wayne Street, Gaston, SC 29053 Lula Rutland 1215 Busbee Road, Gaston, SC Mary Jane Spires 106 Ben Spires Rd, Gaston SC Marvin & Mary Pound, Sr. 1220 Mack Street, Gaston, SC Pearl Dowd P. O. Box 25, 247 Sonny Drive, Gaston, SC 29053 Ruth Sightler 373 Sprahler Street, Gaston, SC 29053 Stanley Jeffcoat 1371 Mack Street, Gaston, SC 29053 T. W. Reynolds 220 Fiddlers Lane, P. O. Box 175, Gaston, SC 29053 *Lynda Guy Room 462 Nursing Homes /Assisted Care Hospital Assisted Care John Locklair *Lillie Pound - LEC Palmetto Court Room 122B, Warriors Walk—Dorn VA Ctr. 6439 Garners Ferry Road 815 Old Cherokee Road, Columbia, SC 29209 Lexington, SC 29072 *Dot Williamson Room 327 NHC 2993 Sunset Blvd. West Columbia, SC 29169 *Hubert Rufus Williams Community Living Center Dorn VA Med. Ctr 6439 Garners Ferry Road Columbia, SC 29209 Esther Rollison - LEC Crews Point 216 815 Old Cherokee Road, Lexington, SC 29072 *Denotes church member URGENT PRAYER NEEDS Unspoken Prayer Needs/Strained Family Relationships Lost Family Members/Inactive Church Members Teachers and Children back in school/ Those seeking employment Palmetto Health Baptist Taylor at Marion Columbia, SC 29220 *Mary Starnes Piedmont Medical Center Hospital 222 S Herlong Ave, Rock Hill, SC 29732 *denotes church member North American Missionaries