- Billy Bowie - PRAISE RINGERS Change Date (4-6 Handbell Choir) Will ring in the evening service on November 16. They need to be in the Sanctuary at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Night Supper November 19th 5:00 p.m. Taco Salad (with multiple toppings) Assorted Frozen Pies Thanksgiving Luncheon November 27, 2014 This Past Week First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 547, 205 South Church Avenue, Louisville, Mississippi 39339 Music Notes Sunday School – November 9, 2014 Adult . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Preschool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Financial Record Weekly Budget Goal . . . . Tithes & Offerings . . . Designated Budget . . . . . . Designated Restricted . . . . Total Receipts . . . . . . . . . . $18,983.52 $33,272.00 $690.00 $5,277.00 $39,239.00 ~~~~~ CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT First Baptist Church Jackson, MS Friday, December 12 7:00 p.m. FREE-FREE-FREE-FREE Call in, early, and get your free tickets! We will leave our church parking lot at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, December 12 and eat an early dinner in Pearl at Moss Creek Fish House. This year not only do they plan to serve those less fortunate and the senior adults of Winston County, they would like to invite all of the April 28th tornado victims to join in this Thanksgiving luncheon. It’s not too late to sign up to receive a delicious meal. You can eat in or have it delivered to your home. Call the church office to have your name put on the list. To sign up to work the day of the luncheon at South Louisville Baptist Church, contact Aline Haynes at 773-6965 Opportunities ETC Ministry Sunday, November 17, 2014 Mallory S. Eaves and Edna Overstreet Pray for our Committee as they seek God’s will for our next Minister of Music. Committee Members Are: Mike Ard, Chairman Mark Donald Kyle Fulton David Humphries Johnny Johnson Sylvia Wright Gwen Clark Rhonda Shotts Winston Baptist Christian Ministry Center Needs: Spaghetti Sauce & Noodles Peanut Butter Canned Meat Macaroni & Cheese Rice Dried Beans Grits or Oatmeal Canned Fruit Crackers Media Crew for November Radio broadcast on WLSM at 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. are now tape delayed of both previous Sunday services. Tape delayed TV broadcast of the previous Sunday morning and evening worship is broadcast at 9:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on cable channel 18. Director: Re-C Carter Broadcast Sound: Terry Carter House Sound: Matt Hillyer Media: Robert McCool Cameras: Johnny Johnson & Greg Holdiness Offering Committee for November Paul Killen, Chairman John Garner Danny Jewell Dan Curran Kenneth Hooks Kenny Fulton Deacon on Call November 14 - 16 Denny Bucklew 773-7658 Transportation for November The WITNESS Making Jesus known from the red hills of Mississippi to the ends of the Earth. Vol. 46 November 13, 2014 No. 41 HARVEST LUNCH Sunday, November 23 Immediately following Morning Worship The church will furnish smoked turkey and ham, coffee and tea. Come and bring your favorite dishes to compliment the meat! This will be a time of thanksgiving, good food and great fellowship with our church family. Danny Jewell 773-2024 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Published weekly (except Christmas week) by First Baptist Church, 205 South Church Avenue, Louisville, MS 39339. Periodical postage paid at Louisville, MS 39339. Publication No. 195320 CHURCH STAFF Rob Paul, Pastor 803-4589 Billy Bowie, Min of Music 803-4043 Terry Carter, Bldg. Supt. 803-3508 Newlie Long, Min of Ed 803-9421 Scott Lowrey, Min of Youth 601-416-5041 Church Office 773-6246 Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Collection Week: November 17 - 23 Volunteers are needed. Contact Mary Ann Yates if you are available any time during that week. Pastor’s Perspective Minister of Education, Youth & Children’s Ministry - Rob Paul - - Newlie Long – In February of 2013 I was sitting in the choir loft at Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham on the last night of GIC. It had been a fantastic week of worship, meeting and encouraging missionaries, and being challenged to give and to go. That morning I had made a significant financial commitment to give even though I did not have any regular income at the time. As we finished singing the words, “You are faithful, God, you are faithful,” I had an overwhelming sense of God’s presence. With tears streaming down my face, I committed to the Lord that If he ever gave me another opportunity to pastor a church that I would be faithful to lead that church to be totally engaged in missions - to support missionaries and to send members out on mission. Our Acts 1:8 Strategy and having just-completed Global Impact Celebration are the result of the commitment I made during that GIC. Sunday night as I watched our folks bringing their commitment cards to the altar, I had the sense that life at First Baptist Church will never be the same. God has given us a vision for making Jesus known from Louisville to New York City, from the Mississippi Delta to Haiti, from Birmingham, Alabama to Battambang, Cambodia, and from Statesboro, Georgia to Debrecen, Hungary and beyond. As we take this incredible journey together, we are going to experience God’s presence and power in ways we never imagined because we will have to walk by faith. Rather than asking, “What can I afford to do?” or “What do I have time to do?” we will ask, “What is God calling me to do?” realizing that if God calls me to do it, he will provide the resources, the ability, and the opportunity to make it happen. But we will have to be willing to take the next step of faith, whatever it is. We have to be willing to leave the shore and step into the boat with Jesus. You can’t take a journey by standing still. Rejoice! Youth Christmas Party Transform Conference December 5 - 7 The youth Christmas party w i l l b e We d n e s d a y, December 10th, at Legion State Park’s lodge. Join us for a great night of eating, celebrating, and worshipping. We will have a guest band in for that night. We will provide the meat but everyone needs to bring a side or dessert. Instead of presents to be exchanged, we ask you to bring an item to be donated for our Backpacks of Hope that are blessing several families in our community! It is right around the corner! We will be leaving at 8:00 a.m. on Friday morning, December 5th. We do have spots for two guys and two girls if you know of anyone interested! Call us immediately so we can add them! DiscipleNow Weekend January 16 - 17 DiscipleNow is also right around the corner. We will start registration next week for this awesome weekend. Unleashed will be the guest band. If you are not familiar with them, youtube them…..you will be excited. The cost for the weekend will be $20 and as always we want EVERYONE to come! Missions Spotlight You had such an amazing opportunity to meet many of our partners. Some, like Saul Paul from Cambodia and Andrew Ward were people we have been partnering with. Others, like Cary Christian Center and Stephen Stallard from New York were new partners that we were just beginning to get to know. The best part was to watch as you interacted with them and relationships were being formed. Out of the GIC grew some specific opportunities for us to serve: Missions Spotlight continued... help Mosaic and Stephen Stallard prepare for a large worship service the next weekend. March 6 - 14 there is a request for us to lead another t each er ’s conference at Debrecen University in Hungary. March 12 - 22 we hope to send a team to Cambodia to help connect with University and high school students as well as disciple village leaders. July 11 - 18 Haiti is calling and we are responding with a medical team and a construction team partnering with Hispaniola Mountain Ministries. January 9 - 12 we want to take a team to New York to These are on top of the partnerships to Birmingham, Statesboro, and Cary that we are partnering with. Pray and ask where God moves your heart, whether to serve in a local school or neighborhood, somewhere in our state or country, or maybe you are being moved Continued in next column….. Continued in next column... FBC Calendar of Activities November 13 - 20 Thursday, November 13 5:00 p.m. Packing Backpacks of Hope Sunday, November 16 9:00 a.m. Prayer Ministry 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship 6:00 p.m. Evening Worship Tuesday, November 18 10:00 a.m. Precept Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Precept Bible Study at Naomi Fryery’s Teaching Children Class in the Crossing Wednesday, November 19 3:30 p.m. Praise Ringers 5:00 p.m. Wednesday Night Supper 5:15 p.m. Preschool & Children’s Choirs 5:30 p.m. Ladies Bible Study 6:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting & Bible Study Youth Worship Gas, RAs & Mission Friends 6:45 p.m. Adult Choir 7:00 p.m. Prayer Ministry Thursday, November 20 5:00 p.m. Packing Backpacks of Hope Missions Spotlight cont’d... to one of our International Partners. As God uses us to further His kingdom from the red hills of Mississippi to the ends of the earth, one thing is certain, Our church will never be the same!