Salem Baptist Church First Fruits Early Praise & Worship January 18, 2015 8:30 am Salem Baptist Church Morning Worship January 18, 2015 11 o’clock Prelude/Countdown Prelude Worship Medley Welcome and Announcements Welcome and Announcements Time of Prayer Prayer/Intercession Time of Singing “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” “Be Thou My Vision” “Still” Offering John Parker Aileen Pitts Children’s Message Song of Preparation Time of Giving “In The Hollow of His Hand” Message Doxology Our Response Special Music Closing Prayer Message Postlude Our Response “Grace Greater Than Our Sin” Aileen Pitts The Bells of Salem Closing Prayer Unified Budget and Budget Needs through –1/11/2014 Last Sunday’s offering Year-to-Date Budget Needs $8,113.28 $12,635.28 $8,475.65 Weekly Budget Needs: Lottie Moon: $2,714.70 $8,475.65 Find Us Faithful: $221.00 Benediction “With All My Heart” Postlude Aileen Pitts 804-633-5583 Salem Baptist Church 24032 Sparta Road Milford, VA 22514 email – [email protected] www.salembaptist.org Rev. Kevin C. James – Pastor Careen Stanley – Music Director In an effort to keep the weekly prayer list updated and current, the list will be blank on the first Sunday of every month except for military and nursing home residents. You may use the tear off portion of your bulletin to list the prayer concern, email [email protected] or call the office, 633-5583. Please include the name of the person making the request and you may put it in the offering plate or place it in the box outside of the church office. Urgent prayer needs will be updated daily via email. If you would like to be added to the prayer and praise email list please email Barbara Beale at [email protected] or contact the church office. Military Phil Richards – Fort Hood, Texas Ethan Peake Josh Burton Matt Wilcox Mark D’Antonio – Marine Corps Basic Training J.D. Tomlin Nursing Home Rachel Cecil Don Pitts – Poets Walk , 4621 Spotsylvania Pkwy, Fredericksburg, VA 22408 Phyllis Tate- Room 219, c/o Fountain Park Inn and Villas, 1391 N. Main Street, Bryan, OH 43506 Lucy Edwards – Lexington Court, 1776 Cambridge Drive, Richmond, VA 23233, Room 132 Special Requests Eleanor Cohenour Wayne Beazley Fannie Sprouse Dick Green James Heffler Lyne Barnard Dylan Burton Calendar for the Week Sunday January 18 -Prayer Time 9:15 am -GA’s 8:30 am Monday January 19 -Girl Scouts 6-8 pm Tuesday January 20 -WOM Night 7 pm Wednesday January 21 -Wednesday Night Activities -soup, sandwiches, and cobbler for dessert. Thursday January 22 -Morning Bible Study 10 am -Kid’s Choir 6-7 pm Sparta Volunteer Fire Department will have chili available for pick up ($8/qt.) at Salem NEXT Sunday, Jan 25. Reserve your quart by emailing Terry Southworth [email protected]. Women's Bible Study on Wednesday mornings at 9am, beginning 1/28 thru 3/25. We will be studying The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian classic. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor who challenged the church to stand in the face of growing Nazism. If you would like to participate, contact Merry Susan Schreck via the church office. M-Fuge – July 6-10. Your $50 deposit to hold your spot is due by Feb.1st. Spaces are limited! Sign Up Soon! You can email [email protected] to sign up. Hope Outreach Bahamian Missions is headed back to Eleuthera, Bahamas, June 25 through July 4, 2015. This trip is open to the entire church family. The cost is $1,350 per person. Contact Bernie Craft for more information – 804-445-5068. Next meeting is Feb 8th at 11 am. Winter Choir Practice each week in the choir room, 7:30-9 p.m. Lead worship in 2nd service every Sunday. Perform special music on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Prepare music for Holy Week 2015(Palm Sunday 3/29, Maundy Thursday 4/2, Easter Sunday 4/5) *Winter Choir is open to anyone age 14 and over* Missions Banquet, Saturday, Feb 21st, 6 pm. $10 adults, $5 children under 12. One Lane Bridge will be entertaining us. Please come and support Stop Hunger Now and More Than Nets. You can choose to donate more to these causes while there! Winter kids’ Choir Open to all kids, grades K-5 Thursday nights, 6-7 p.m., starting January 22nd Games! Singing! Music skills training! Perform during 1st service one Sunday in February. Prepare music for Palm Sunday Celebration Service (3/29) and Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015! It would really be helpful if after Sunday school and AWANA, classroom chairs are placed on tables. Thanks! Mary Washington Hospice Volunteer department currently has a need for administrative or office volunteers. Some of the needs include data entry into the computer systems, filing documents, calling families, calling potential and current volunteers for various reasons, assisting with mailing or other administrative projects. If you are interested or know someone interested please contact Kathy Wall at 540-741-3595 or Carolyn Farmer at 804-5144511. If you are a member of one (or more) of the below committees, your committee needs to meet by February 13th and choose a Committee Chairman for this year. Please report the name of the selected individual to the church office or Nominating Chairman, Anna Burke by February 13th. The committees needing to select a chairman are: AV, Buildings, Church Recreation, Grounds, Hermon Executive, Personnel or Van/Bus Transportation. Thank you! Lake Land'Or would like to extend our invitation to your congregations to set up tables at the Polar Bear Plunge. The Plunge will be held Saturday February, 7 at Lake Land'Or Beach, Pavilion and Clubhouse. If your congregation is interested in selling, baked goods or other items, please email me to reserve table(s). We have electric hook ups in the Pavilion that can be used if you need them. All sales, by your congregation, go back to your church so we wanted to provide you an opportunity to raise some extra funds. Rehoboth UMC will be selling Chili and did well with that last year. If you would kindly get back to me, I can have tables ready for your group. Please feel free to email me for any further information or to reserve space. Vicky Grier - Activity Coordinator, LLPOA [email protected] Coat Drive for Glory Outreach – Bring your nice, used coats to church any Sunday during January. The G.A.’s will be making cookies to deliver with the coats on the first Tuesday in February. Coats can be left in the Parlor (room off of the sanctuary nearest the front) for pickup. This will be part of the G.A.’s Children’s Ministry Project for February. God Bless You All, Girls in Action