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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
1650 Waddington Road, Nanaimo, BC V9S 4W3
Phone: 250.753.0241 | Fax: 250.753.0415
E-mail: [email protected]
We extend a warm welcome to
everyone worshipping with us today.
Our prayer is that you experience Christ’s
love in our worship and fellowship.
Join us for tea and coffee in the
Fellowship Café following both services.
February 15, 2015
YOUTH SUNDAY
PRAYER AND PRAISE CARDS
In the pews are Prayer and Praise cards
which we encourage you to use. Our
church family’s needs are vital to us and
our staff, Elders and Sunday Prayer
Teams would be honoured to pray with
you. Please place your completed cards
in the offering bags or drop it into the
Prayer Box on the Ushers’ table.
GREETERS
9 am & 11 am
Youth
Next Week
9 am
Derek & Kathleen Gaye
11 am
Rob & Sheryl Ellis
Nursery (Ages 0 to 2)
Preschool (Ages 2 to 5)
Worship Leader - Chris Gillespie
9 am Platform Leader - Meredith Reems
11 am Platform Leader - Youth
LETTING GO OF THE
NEED TO CONTROL
Pastor Randy Baker
Scripture: 2 Kings 5:1-19
(Pew Bible - Page 263)
PRAYER TEAMS
9 am
Patty Daley
Colleen Entner
Judy Anderson
Noreen Chase
Please sponsor us at
https://coldestnightoftheyear.org/home.
Proceeds go to Island Crisis Care Society
for their work helping people in crisis in
Nanaimo. Pledges of $20 or more will
be tax-receipted. Better still, join our
FBC YOUNG ADULTS AND YOUTH
Team (all ages welcome) and ask your
family and friends to sponsor YOU.
Pledge forms are available on the
bulletin board under the stairs. Many of
our younger team members will be in the
Fellowship Café hoping you’ll sponsor
them. Please help them to reach
their minimum pledge total.
FBC YOUNG ADULTS & YOUTH TEAM
Pastor Randy
Noreen Chase
Colleen Entner
Sharon Kelly
Benjamin Laktin
Carson Lemmon
Connor Lemmon
Lenore Lemmon
Ruth Lewis
Leslie Szeler
Carolyn Trepke
Evelyn Trepke
Jackson Trepke
Justin Trepke
Miranda Trepke
John Townesend
NURSERY TEAMS
9 am
Kimberly Jackson
Vicky MacPherson
11 am
Bill Cunningham
Harold Smoker
Ernie McClare
Mel Bellefontaine
COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
Saturday, Feb. 21
11 am
Brenda Krastel
Jennifer Bailey
Nursery (Ages 0 to 2)
Preschool (Ages 2 to 5)
Grades 1 to 6
URBAN OUTREACH
Be part of a team that
reaches out to needy people
in Nanaimo. Meet Saturday,
Feb. 21 at 3:30 pm at the
church to help prepare or hand out bag
lunches in the downtown area. For more
information please email Kara Daley at
[email protected].
PRIMETIMERS’ FELLOWSHIP
All those 55+ are invited to a time
of encouragement and fellowship
Wed, Feb. 18 @ 10 am
Special Speaker - Laurel Borisenko
Before the service begins, please switch your cell phone to SILENT. Thanks!
Coffee, tea
and light
refreshments
will be served.
BAKE SALE
TODAY JuBELLation Handbell Choir
will be selling delicious baking from
10:15-10:45 am & 12:15-12:45 pm
in the Fellowship Café. Proceeds will help
ringers attend the International Handbell
Symposium 2016 in Vancouver. Your support
is greatly appreciated.
DEEPEST SYMPATHY
We express our deepest sympathy to
the family of Pastor Fred Southwood whom
the Lord called home on Dec. 26, 2014
in Alberta. Pastor Southwood ministered
with Pastor Gord Patterson at FBC and was
loved by all. A Memorial Service will be held
at Gateway Baptist Church in Victoria on Sat.
Feb 21st at 1 pm. Reception to follow.
DEEPEST SYMPATHY
We express our deepest
sympathy to Miriam
Herman after the passing of her beloved
husband Blake Herman on February 8, 2015.
Please remember the family in prayer during
this time of sorrow and loss.
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
Psalm 34:18a
YOUTH SERVING NIGHT
On Thursday, Feb. 25 our Youth
Group will cook a spaghetti
dinner at the Wesley Street
Supportive Housing Complex.
If you would like to donate
spaghetti, sauce or other
ingredients, please place them
in the bin under the stairs.
For more information, contact
Pastor Randy ([email protected]).
YOUNG ADULT
WORSHIP NIGHT
Join us for a great time of worship this
Sat. Feb. 21 @ 7-9 pm
First Baptist Church
Speaker - Pastor Ryan Morgan
O magnify the Lord with me, and
let us exalt His name together.
FEBRUARY 15 - 21
PRAYER CONCERNS THIS WEEK
Pray without ceasing. 1 Thess. 5:17
CHURCH MINISTRIES
Youth Ministry
SPECIAL NEEDS
Unsaved Loved Ones
THOSE WHO ARE SHUT IN
Dennis Hart
GLOBAL MISSIONARIES
Sherri Harris (Philippines)
PRAISE
Youth Retreat
LOCAL OUTREACH
Urban Outreach
THOSE WHO ARE SICK & RECOVERING
Heather Schneidereit, Carl Bracken, Anna Mueller
"My storytelling career began
when I told my 5th grade friends
One day I got an idea for a story and
that my mother was born in a
talked about it for six months until
covered wagon on the Oregon
finally, I sat down and began to write.
Trail. It seemed plausible.
Nine months later, I had a book, and
My mother was, after all,
two years after that, it was published.
Author of
47 years old at the time!
The rest, as they say, is history.
the Month
In high school I was a compulsive
After nine years of writing in any and
Robin Lee Hatcher
writer, scribbling stories and
every spare moment, on the release of
poetry in notebooks and on
my 9th novel, I quit my day job to write
binders. This wasn’t work. This
full time, and have been ever since."
was fun! Writing could transport
Robin has authored over 70
me to any place, any time. How
novels and novellas. Our library’s
cool! I also love horses and bought
collection of her books includes:
my first horse when I was fifteen.
Whenever You Come Around
Marriage and family filled the
Love Without End
decade of my twenties. I read
The Heart's Pursuit
voraciously. I daydreamed. In my
Please visit us
A Promise Kept
mind, I reworked the endings of
through the month
Belonging
both movies and books any time of February and enjoy A Bride for all Seasons
these great stories!
they didn’t suit me.
SUNDAY
9 am & 11 am
9-10:15 am
9:15-10:15 am
10:15-10:45 a.m.
11:15 am-12:15 pm
12:15-12:45 pm
1-5 pm
Family Worship Service
Nursery (Ages 0 to 2)
Adult Sunday School
Little Kidz Time (Ages 2 to 5)
Fellowship Café
Little Kidz Time (Ages 2 to 5)
Fellowship Café
Deaconesses’ Prayer Retreat
MONDAY
6 pm
6:30 pm
Ladies’ Quilting Group
JuBELLation Handbell Practice
TUESDAY
1:30 pm
6:15-8 pm
Ladies’ Bible Study
Awana Kids’ Club
WEDNESDAY
10 am-12 pm
10 am
12:30-2:30 pm
7-8:15 pm
7:30-8:30 pm
Toddlers’ Playgroup
PRIMETIMERS FELLOWSHIP
Precepts Bible Study (Leslie Szeler)
Men’s Bible Study
Ladies’ Boot Camp
THURSDAY
3:45 pm
7 pm
7 pm
Kids’ Choir Practice
COUNCIL
Big Worship Youth Night
FRIDAY
3 pm
7 pm
7 pm
Children’s Chime Choir
Young Adult Band Practice
CLIPPERS’ FAITH AND FAMILY NIGHT
SATURDAY
7:30 am
3:30 pm
5 pm
7 pm
Men’s Prayer Fellowship
URBAN OUTREACH
COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
YOUNG ADULT WORSHIP NIGHT
9 am & 11 am  FAMILY WORSHIP
NURSERY (Ages 0 to 2)
Required for February
37,106.44
Required for February
Received on February 8
5,697.05
Received on February 8
Received this month
21,889.85
8,200.00
730.00
Received this month
Required by February 28
74,212.88
Required by February 28
Received YTD
51,213.93
Received YTD
3,985.00
16,400.00
PLEASE CLEARLY MARK BUILDING FUND CONTRIBUTIONS
RUN WELL/FINISH STRONG ENVELOPES AVAILABLE IN THE PEWS
9,533.50
9-10:15 am 
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL
9:15-10:15 am 
PRESCHOOL (Ages 2 to 5)
9:15-10:30 am 
W5 STUDY SERIES (Youth & Adults)
9:15-10:45 am  FELLOWSHIP CAFÉ
11:15 am - 12:15 pm 
PRESCHOOL (Ages 2 to 5)
KIDZ TIME (Grades 1-6)
12:15-12:45 pm 
FELLOWSHIP CAFÉ
Following Christ
What’s it all about?
Sundays from 3-5 pm
Begins March 1, 2015
This is an 8-week small
group study geared for
those who are new to
First Baptist Church
and would like to connect
with others in the church.
This study will help us deepen our
understanding of what it is to be a
follower of Christ. Anyone, no matter
where you are in your walk with
Christ, will benefit from this study.
For more information or questions please contact Gord Beirnes
(250-758-6977 or [email protected]).
Section 7 tickets available today following the service in the Foyer
Tuesday from Maureen Cunningham at Awana Kids Club.
On game night, from 6-7 pm, at the Faith and Family table outside the Arena.