THANK YOU for your giving spirit toward our Global Missions Offering of $10,481.15 Matthew 28:18-20 God bless you. Happy New Year! Room In The Inn Our next RITI date is January 23. If you can help, please contact Joanne Prather Family Night Meal Our Family Night Meal will be Wednesday, January 7 at 5:30 pm. The menu will be chili and grilled cheese sandwiches. Cost is $3.00 a person or no more than $10.00 for a family. Life Groups Rally Sunday, January 4 at 8:30 am Continental breakfast in the Fellowship Hall Homebound Ministry Homebound will not meet until Sunday, January 4, 2015. Black Forest Today is Black Forest Sunday. On the last Sunday of every month, each person is asked to give at least $1.00 for the Black Forest Church in Romania. January Bible Study “A Challenge for a New Generation” Begins Wednesday, January 14 Pick up your study guide in the office $7 donation, if you can Missions’ Corner "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer ; I have overcome the world." -- John 16:33 "Remember, your worth is founded in Jesus Christ." -- Warren Wiersbe No evening service tonight. New Year’s Eve service at 6:00 pm. Please remember those who are homebound: Lou Vester Babb Raymell Brasher John Buckley Doris Collins Joyce Collins Carolyn Crownover James Cupples Wilma Daniel Bobbie Estes Willie Mae Evans Margie Ferguson Arvin & Mary Frances Frye Maidell Green Pat Haggard Bill Haskins Robbie Hearn Annette Kennon Brenda Kiestler Jo McClure Robert Pyles Alice Rogers Ouida Scoggins Rachel Stowe Virgie Tillman Freddie Tosh Dorothy Warren Dear First Baptist Church Family, In January we will be sending teams to minister in India, Peru, Nepal and South Africa. We look forward to seeing all that God is going to do in and through these teams. Thanks for partnering with us in reaching the nations. You are a blessing to us and to our ministry. Andy, Carmelita, Ethan & Claire Thank you for the fruit basket, the stocking filled with goodies and for the carolers that came by to sing for us. James & Peggy Cupples Jim Horne Jim and his wife, Linnette, have joyfully served the Lord at FBC Bemis for 30 years. If they can assist you or your family, please call 423-0249 or email them at [email protected]. Sunday, December 28 9:00 am Life Groups 10:00 am Morning Worship No evening service Wednesday, December 31 6:00 pm Evening Service Thursday, January 1 Office Closed Prepare for The Lord’s Day TITHES AND OFFERINGS FOR December 21 General Fund Global Missions $ 17,523.40 95.00 Building Fund $ 100.00 This Week’s Scheduled Workers Security Roy Jones/Fred Jones Prayer Concerns WELCOME FBC Bemis Members-Winifred Matthews, Georgia Drumwright, Janetta Smith, Shaun Davis, Vicki Diggs, Ricky Dunavant, Faye Jackson, Rachel Stowe, Vicki Watson, Dennis Watson, Michael Housman, Jennifer Rowan, Judy Matlock, Patsy Massey, Linda Young, Arvin & Mary Frances Frye, Pat Warren, Joe Harris, John Buckley, Norma Dennison, Clarence Hermann, Virgie Tillman, Pete Peterson, Janet Watson, Raymond & Raymell Brasher, Barbara Finley, Jeri O’Steen, Families in Crisis, Shut-ins Sunday, December 28, 2014 Family & Friends-Janna Rickman, Jerry Jordan, Lucy Allison, Joe Ferguson, Lois Smith, Glenda Barber, Larry Benson, Mary Huff, Frank & Karen Burton, Dr. Elzie Danley, Leta Bailey, Tony & Martha Nell Arnold, Vickie Jones, Dr. John & Robbie Adams, Judy Whitt, Annette Kennon, Carolyn Rhodes, Elizabeth Hines, Loran Newton, Regina Spayde, Randy Smith, Odell & Cathy Frye, Ralph Fisher, Randie Snider, John Wayne & Jane Williams, Patty Antwine, Noel Blankenship, Carolyn Warren, Jennifer Cupples, Janice Morris, John Woodall, Jerry Taylor, Vince Yodushock, James Cupples, Bruce Bishop, Community Servants, Drug Users and Dealers, Military Personnel & Families, Community Servants, National, State, and Local Leaders Nursery Workers (Morning)-Vicki Diggs, Margaret Miller, Reba Roach, Caitlin Roach; (Evening)-No evening service Life Groups Attendance Worship Attendance December 21 139 219 Last Year 118 184 Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Instruments Morning Prayer & Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pastor Sims Call to Worship Singing Worship with Tithes & Offerings Choir Sings Singing (Children’s Church Dismissal) Message in Music Message from God’s Holy Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pastor Sims “HIS NAME IS JESUS” MATTHEW 1:18-25 Invitation Benediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Horne Postlude To read through the Bible in one year, read the four passages listed beside each date. Each week new passages will be listed. Dec 29 Dec 30 Dec 31 Jan 1 Jan 2 Jan 3 Jan 4 Nm 10 Nm 11 Nm 12 Nm 13 Nm 14 Nm 15 Nm 16 Is 30:1-17 Is 30:18-33 Is 31-32 Is 33 Is 34 Is 35 Is 36 Ps 71:17-24 Ps 72:1-11 Ps 72:12-20 Ps 73:1-12 Ps 73:13-20 Ps 73:21-28 Ps 74:1-11 Lk 15:11-31 Lk 16:1-18 Lk 16:19-17:19 Lk 17:20-37 Lk 18:1-14 Lk 18:15-34 Lk 18:35-43 “All scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness.” 2Tim. 3:16 “The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Luke 19:10; Acts 4:12