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Sunday, March 8
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Sunday, March 29 at 6 pm
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH MORRISTOWN — 504 WEST MAIN STREET, 37814 — PHONE: (423) 586-0522 — www.fbcmTN.com
Dean Haun, Senior Pastor
On Sunday, March 1
we hope to open
our first prayer
station inside our
building.
It will
begin in the Prayer
Room. A prayer partner will be
available to personally pray with you
between our second and third
services.
I hope you will take
advantage of this new part of our
effort to be a powerful praying
church.
On Sunday, March 22, we will
“Focus on Four at First Baptist”
as our Missions Committee
endorses four key ministries that will
become the primary focus of our
church international outreach efforts.
What this means is that we will be
taking a very strategic approach in
our efforts to prioritize where we go
on international mission trips, where
our mission resources will be
expended, and where our primary
prayer efforts will be targeted. In
order to learn about those four
ministries we will have a "MiniMissions Fair" in Missions Hallway.
At 6:00 pm that evening, we will
have each of these groups share, so
that you can become more familiar
with them. It is our desire to have a
ministry presence throughout our
world. It is also our heart to adopt
what our International Mission Board
calls an Unreached Unengaged
People Group (UUPG). This plan
will do just that. I am grateful for our
Missions Committee. They are
passionate about reaching our
community and our world for Christ.
Also, Sunday, March 29, is Palm
Sunday. We will be sharing together
in the Lord’s Supper that evening.
May the Lord continue to lead us
and use us for His glory! Your
Shepherd loves you.
mezzo soprano
Sunday, March 8
6:00 PM
First Baptist Morristown is delighted to have mezzo
soprano, Shelley Waite with us in concert on Sunday,
March 8. She will share in our 10:45 AM service and
then present a full concert in the 6:00 PM evening
service. She will sing selections of hymns, Sacred classics
and also premiere an original Christmas Triology that
features songs of Joseph, the Inn Keeper and Simeon.
Ms. Waite’s career spans the United States and abroad
showcasing her talents in all musical genres from opera to
jazz. Don’t miss out on this joyful night of worship!
Accompanying Shelley Waite will be
composer and conductor, Amy Mills.
Ms. Mills has distinguished herself as
one of the few female conductor/
composers active in American classical
music today. She has conducted the
La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, the
Dubna Symphony Orchestra,
Szczeczin Philharmonic, the Israel
Kibbutz Orchestra, and the U.S. Air
Composer & Conductor Force Band, Orchestra, and Chorus.
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Sunday, March 29
with Lord’s Supper that evening
Family Focus Week
March 29—April 4
Please note that there will be NO student or
children’s choirs on Sundays, March 29 & April 5
or evening meal/activities on Wednesday, April 1
Wednesday, March 4
11:30 am
Fellowship Hall
Join together to learn about and
pray for our North American
Mission Board missionaries.
Bring a sandwich, WMU will
furnish desserts and drinks.
All are invited!
Our church is so
blessed to have
incredible musicians
festival
who lead out each
week to help bring us to the throne of God in
worship! What a blessing it is to have Jean
Huntsman direct our Praise Ringers and Lynn
Brewer work with our children’s Joy Ringers!
Come join our Praise Ringers and a host of Handbell
Choirs from area Baptist Churches for a MASS
CHOIR Concert conducted by Tim Waugh!
Friday & Saturday, March 6 & 7 at 11:15 am
Carson-Newman University’s
Maddox Student Activities Center
Irene Bales, WMU Director
"Praise God from Whom all
blessings flow." Thank you and
praises to our Lord and King that we
gave to the Lottie Moon Christmas
Offering for International
Missions. Praises that we reached
our goal to support our missionaries
as they go and share the wonderful
love of Jesus "to the ends of the
earth."
Does that mean our task is
finished? NO! Pastor Dean is
preaching and focusing on "The
Power of a Praying Church" this
year. Are we only to pray for things
locally? NO! Do we pray for our
great land of North America every
day? Only YOU can answer that.
Do you know that we are the third
largest mission field in the world,
only preceded by China and
India? That is scary! The need is
quite great and the task is very
urgent. "Evangelicals are losing
ground in the church-to-population
ratio. During World I, there was one
Southern Baptist Church for every
430 people. Now there is ONE for
every 6,194 people in the United
States. In Canada the statistics are
even more staggering - ONE
Canadian Baptist Church for every
115,040 people."
(MISSIONS
MOSAIC Magazine, March 2015,
p.15)
So what can we do? We must
PRAY, PRAY, PRAY! Our Annie
Armstrong Offering Week of
Prayer is March 1 - 8, 2015. This
year’s emphasis and theme is
SEND >>NORTH AMERICA. Our
church goal is $40,000. The Prayer
Lunch, with special emphasis on
North American Missionaries, will
be
W ednesday,
March 4 at 11:30 am
in the Fellowship
Hall. All men and
women are welcome
and invited. Bring a sandwich and
WMU will furnish desserts and
drinks. God is at work, but the need
is BIG. Come and see what God is
doing in some of our larger cities in
North America.
There is a comment in one of the
Prayer focuses for the Week of
Prayer. "Are we a mature Christian
striving to live a missional life or a
'sleepy Christian' that needs to wake
up and begin to understand our call
as a believer in Jesus Christ?" What
a question for each of us to ponder
and answer!
WILL YOU PRAY, GIVE, & GO?
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Danny Georges,
Pastor of Care/Senior Adults
Spring is just around the corner. Doesn’t that have a great
ring to it? At last warm weather has arrived! As you look
ahead toward March, let me share with you what has been
planned for the month.
Monday, March 2
Tuesday, March 31
NEW Bible Study
First Monday Organ Concert at the
Tennessee Theater in Knoxville
Attend the Country Tonite show
in Pigeon Forge
Leave from church at 10:15 am
Leave church at 4:00 pm
Cost—$20 plus money for dinner
Reservations only!
begins February 24 at
9:30 AM in the Parlor
Studying: HEAVEN
Cost—$3 plus money for lunch
Brunch
Luncheon
March 10
at 10:00 am
March 24
at Noon
Homebound Visitation
March 16 at 10:00 am
Nursing Home Schedule
March 4 1:30 Heritage
March 26 2:30 Life Care
by Randy Alcorn
NEW LDI Class
begins April 8 at
6:00 PM in the Parlor
led by Bonnie Peyton
Studying: Always True
by James MacDonald
Thursday, March 5
6:30 PM ~ 8:30 PM in Fellowship Hall
Purchase ticket for $3.00
Come learn all you ever needed to know about
flowers and making your yard beautiful.
Purchase a ticket today! Light snacks provided.
Guest Speakers:
Master Gardener, Michelle Morgan
Plant Whisperer, Diane Temple
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John Griggs,
Pastor of Prayer
Thursday, March 26, 6:00 PM
Fellowship Hall ~ Cost is $15.00
(plus the cost of your freezer bags
and the meats you add to your meals)
Pre-registration required!
Deadline is Monday, March 23
To register, call Michelle in the church office
(423) 586-0522 or Sherry Pewitt (865) 621-0812
Crockpot Chicken Noodle Soup
Tomato Parmesan Chicken
Crockpot Pizza Casserole
(Kid Pleaser)
Skillet Beef Stroganoff
Slow Cooker Pineapple Glazed Ham
MARCH 14
π
9:26 AM
Children’s Building
5th & 6th Grades
“Be there or be squared!”
Free Event! Breakfast & Lunch Provided!
February 27—March 1
Dates To Be Announced
Please be in prayer for this
event as students from around
the Lakeway area will be
presented with the Gospel
Abide—Girls Retreat
Battle of Fire Island—Guys Retreat
See upcoming publications
for more information!
What is the key to revival?
2 Chronicles 7:14 gives
the answer: “If my people,
called by my name, will
humble themselves and pray, and seek
my face, and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven; forgive their
sins; and heal their land!”
Pastor Dean has been calling us to do
this in his messages on prayer! We must
not overlook, however, the deceitfulness
of sin! It is so easy to rationalize and
overlook the very things that block God’s
power from moving in our lives...the “little
sins” in the “hall closets” that need to be
confessed and forsaken...“turning from
our wicked ways!” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
Miss Bertha Smith, an International
Mission Board missionary to China, used
to say “Get off by yourself. Ask God to
show you your sins. Write them down.
Confess them. Repent. Receive God’s
forgiveness of 1 John 1:9. Make right with
others anything God has shown you!
Destroy the paper of your sins! Revival
has come!!”
You say, “How do I maintain revival?”
I have found the following five simple
steps, practiced daily upon rising in the
morning, the secret of victorious, joyful,
Christian living! It was the way Jesus
lived His life!
5 STEPS FOR DAILY “VICTORY”
IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE:
1. DIE TO “SELF”!
(Luke 9:23) (Galatians 2:20)
2. ENTHRONE JESUS AS LORD!
(Romans 10:9) (Luke 18:18-30)
3. PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND OF
YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER AS A
LITTLE CHILD!
(Proverbs 3:5-6) (John 4:34)
(Matthew 18:3)
4. READ YOUR BIBLE!
(Psalm 119:9-11) (Jeremiah 15:16)
(2 Timothy 2:15) (John 5:39)
5. LISTEN TO HIM AND OBEY!
(John 14:21) (1 Kings 19:13,19)
(1 Samuel 15:22)
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Marrow Donor Registry Drive for
Jamie Godfrey
daughter of
Mark & Laura McInturf
diagnosed with
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, March 8 •10:30 am—2:00 pm
FBC Fellowship Hall
VBS Teacher Training: April 19
Testing men & women ages 18—44
Following the 10:45 AM service in the
Fellowship Hall. Sign up in the foyer!
Sign up at Information desk if interested!
Vacation Bible School: June 1-5
**No Needles! Testing involves a swab in mouth.**
Donations also needed to sign up with testing!
9:00 AM—12:15 PM
Ages 4 years old to 6th grade
Preacher Ray, Biker Church
A wise person knows
when to speak and
when to keep silent.
I have wished many
times that someone
would whisper into my ear to be
silent. There have also been many
times when I have wished someone
would have said, “Okay Preacher
Ray, this is your time. Speak up!”
I was reading an article the other
day about the 1994 National Prayer
Breakfast which was held in
conjunction with the National
Religious Broadcasters Convention.
Those in attendance witnessed a
time for speaking, when a woman by
the name of Mother Teresa, took the
podium and pleaded for the lives of
unborn children.
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The article showed a picture of her,
barely tall enough to be seen over
the lectern. This tiny nun began her
address by reading a portion of
Scripture. She then stunned the
assembled dignitaries, including the
President and Vice President of the
United States by saying, “The
greatest destroyer of peace today is
abortion. If we accept that a mother
can kill even her own child, how can
we tell people not to kill each other?”
Following the event, the author of
the article wrote, “Mother Teresa
was invariably polite and respectful.
She did not flinch in speaking the
truth.
She demonstrated civility
wedded to bold conviction,
confronting world leaders with a
message of biblical righteousness.”
Clearly she saw the breakfast as a
time to speak.
The United States of America is
supposedly the greatest nation on
earth and will send its young men
and women to any place in the world.
It seems, however, that an injustice
against human beings is taking
place. It seems that the murder of
human beings is an atrocity
anywhere else. But here in the
United States of America—
supposedly the greatest nation on
earth, one nation under God,
founded by our forefathers on the
principles of God’s holy Word—we
allow a woman to murder her unborn
child. “Like apples of gold in settings
of silver is a word spoken in right
circumstances.” (Proverbs 25:11).
Hayes
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IN MEMORY
Building Fund
George Bradfute
Fred & Joan Lehrer
Bernadeane Finney
Fred & Joan Lehrer
General Budget Fund
Bernadeane Finney
Nelson & Rosemary Collins
Schneitman SS Class
Charlie Georges
Richard & Ruth Ann Ford
Ella Hostetter
Nelson & Rosemary Collins
Schneitman SS Class
Harrison & Mary Lee
Kevin Lee
Sherman Turner
Richard & Ruth Ann Ford
Lottie Moon Offering
Virginia Amos
Terry & Tinker Amos
George Bradfute
Paula Wallace
Charlie Georges
Janet Rhodes
Glenn Sams
Anna Lou Sams
Philip West
Janet Rhodes
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March 1
Autumn Barnard
Alex Hartsell
William Richardson
Bobby Sams
Megan Strader
Daniel Thompson
Forrest Trent
General Budget Fund
Lois Hickman
Kevin Lee
March 2
Dale Schneitman
Lottie Moon Offering
Mildred Miller
Amos/Griel SS Class
Other Offering
Dean Haun
David & Joyce Goff
Ken Lingerfelt
Ken Naysmith
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& Marissa Breeden
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Crites
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Sr. Adults to
First Monday
Organ Concert
6:00 PM
Community
Prayer Mtg.
(City Center)
Normal Sunday Schedule
+
12:15 Lost Episodes Tour
Informational Meeting
4:30 Stewardship Promotion
Team Meeting
4:45 Baptist Woman Aware
WMU Group
23
22
Normal Sunday Schedule
+
4:00 FBC Church Bible Drill
Family Focus Week begins!
NO Student or Children’s
Choirs
29
Normal Sunday Schedule
Palm Sunday
+
6:00 Lord’s Supper
16
15
Normal Sunday Schedule
+
4:00 Missions Committee Mtg.
30
3
17
24
12:00 JOY Group Luncheon
10:00 Caregiver Support
Group
10
10:00 JOY Group Brunch
1:30 Griggs-Naude-Haun
WMU Group
2:00 Barbara Brown WMU
Group
Tue
31
4:00 Sr. Adults to
Country Tonite Show
in Pigeon Forge
Celebration Choir CD Recording
6:00 pm—10:00 pm
9
8
Normal Sunday Schedule
Daylight Savings Day
+
10:30 “Be the Match” Testing
6:00 Evening Worship w/
Shelley Waite
No EXALT Student Choir
2
Mon
1
Sun
4
Wednesday Night
Schedule
Wednesday Night
Schedule
+
5:30 Stewardship
Committee Mtg.
Wednesday Night
Schedule
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11
Wednesday Night
Schedule
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11:30 Week of Prayer
Lunch for Annie
Armstrong Offering
7:15 Personnel
Committee Mtg.
Wed
Normal Sunday Schedule
8:00 Traditional Service
9:00 FBC Library Opens
9:15 Contemporary Service
Sunday School
10:45 Celebration Service
Sunday School
12:00 Pastor's Reception
4:45 EXALT Student Choir
5:00 Children’s Choirs
FBC Library Opens
6:00 Evening Worship
Children’s Bible Drill
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6:00 AM Men’s Bible Study at
West End Fire Dept.
6:00 PM Freezer Meal Friends
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6:00 AM Men’s Bible Study at
West End Fire Dept.
6:30 PM Deacon’s Meeting
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6:00 AM Men’s Bible Study at
West End Fire Dept.
12:00 PM Property Committee
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6:00 AM Men’s Bible Study at
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6:30 PM Bloom Where You
Are Planted Ladies
Event
Thu
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7
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8:00 AM
First Love on
Main Medical
Clinic
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9:26 AM
5th & 6th
Grade Pi Day
Event
Sat
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Wednesday Night Schedule
4:30 Fellowship Meal (FH)
5:00 FBC Library Opens
5:15 JOY Ringers
5:30 EQUIP Student Worship
6:00 LDI (Adults)
AWANA (Children)
Praise Ringers
Group Therapy
6:15 Orchestra Rehearsal
7:15 Choir Rehearsal
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WMU & Acteens to Gatlinburg
for Missions Get Together
20
13
Fri