OPPORTUNITIES

FOR NEXT WEEK

this week's    Birthdays

                                       April 29 - Mabree Lecroy

                                                        Max Lecroy

                                                        Eric Porter

                                         May 2 - Richard Meade

                                                  4 - Claire Moore

                                                  5 - Brooke Brenneman

                                                       Denise Lovinggood                                             

DEACON OF
THE WEEK

Steve Loftis  (847-9822)

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SUPPER

      Wednesday Night 4/25/18

Adults                                           Children

                                        BBQ on Bun                                   Cheeseburgers

                                        Baked Beans/Cole Slaw              Chips

                                        Whole Kernel Corn

                                         Dessert

Wednesday Night 5/2/18

Adults                                           Children

                                        Pork Tenderloin                             Corn Dogs

                                        Mashed Potatoes/Gravy             Chips

                                        Vegetable

                                        Roll/Dessert

   Regular Wednesday Night Schedule

                                           5:30pm                                     Supper

                                           6:00pm                                     Awana

                                           6:30pm                                     Youth Meeting

                                           6:30pm                                     Adult Prayer & Discipleship

                                           7:15pm                                     Adult Choir Rehearsal

HOMEBOUND                    Vance & Lib Cooley

OF THE WEEK                     Call office for address                                                 

OUR STEWARDSHIP FOR SUNDAY, April 22, 2018

Sunday School                                                                                                        92

Budget                                                                                                       $5,037.00

Building Fund - In Memory                                                                              30.00

Annie Armstrong Easter Offering                                                                  100.00

Awana Chair Project - In Memory                                                                  55.00

Back Pack Ministry                                                                                        100.00

Cross Vision Intl                                                                                                 60.00

Operation Care                                                                                              253.04

Turner Family - Fire Victims                                                                               95.00

Cole Young Mission Trip                                                                                240.00

Reimbursements                                                                                                 96.91

            Building Supply             $  96.91

Total Offering                                                                                          $ 6,066.95

Budget Income to date:                                                   $132,926.52

Budget Disbursements to date                                        $105,263.04

Operating Budget:                                                             $67,840.73

Contributions given to the Building Fund and

Awana Chair Project In Memory of Vicki Lewis.

Pastoral Search Committee Vote

This Sunday, April 29th, we will vote on a replacement for Vicki Lewis on the Pastoral Search Committee.  We will have four names listed and you can vote for only one (1) of them.  The nominated names are:

Mary Anne Bunton, Susan Callaham, Gail Crowe and Karolin Meade

Please be in prayer these next few days and to who the Lord would have you vote for to serve on this committee.

5th Sunday Night Singing

Sunday, April 29th at 6pm

Be sure to join us this Sunday evening as we enjoy a service filled with praise through song.  Invite your friends and neighbors to join us for this special service.

Welcome New Members

John & Patricia Lawrence and daughter, Natalie New, joined our fellowship last Sunday by profession of faith and promise of baptism.  Send them a card this week of welcome and encouragement.  Call the church office for address.

Thank You

We know you all will miss Vicki for days and weeks to come.  Let her example be a guide of how to serve and love others for Christ. She loved you all and would want your service to continue.    Thank you for all the calls, hugs, prayers, food, and love you have given us.  But mostly, thank you for loving and serving beside Vicki.  You brought her such joy!  Please continue to pray for us as we will for you.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Love, David, Tony and Brandee Lewis

 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering

                                                                                Goal:                  $5,500.00

                                                                                Given to date:  $4,866.00

Bible Study in the Book of Daniel

Our next on-going, bi-weekly Friday night Bible study with Jim Reeves will meet on Friday, April 27th.   We'll  continue our verse by verse study through the book of Daniel. The study begins at 7:00 pm and will meet in the old fellowship hall.  

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Save the Date!!

VBS

VBS Shipwrecked will be coming to First Baptist on June 25 - 29th. Please prayerfully consider where you feel lead to help this year.  We need YOU!!  Contact Beth Watkins at 704-4502 to sign up!!

Words to Ponder

David Fitch shares how the prayers of a church vanquished Satan's grip on a neighborhood:

In 2010 a group of eight people from two churches felt called to the Detroit Boulevard neighborhood of Sacramento. It was known as one of the most notorious crime-ridden neighborhoods in all of Sacramento. Each house in that neighborhood was a place of danger. Nonetheless this group of eight decided to walk through the neighborhood praying over each home and praying for the presence of Christ to reign over violence, addiction, and satanic oppression. They began walking through the neighborhood, praying over each home and rebuking the demonic strongholds of addiction and violence.

One of the eight, former Sacramento police officer and gang detective Michael Xiong, reported that "each time we prayed over the houses, we felt the weight of oppression becoming lighter." A woman from one of the houses confronted them. When she discovered they were praying for the community, she asked for healing, and God healed her.

The group soon physically moved into the neighborhood and started what they called Detroit Life Church. A couple years later a local newspaper, the Sacramento Bee, reported that there were no homicides, robberies, or sex crimes, and only one assault in Detroit Boulevard between 2013 and 2014. Detroit Boulevard had been transformed by a small group of people who began their ministry in the neighborhood by praying around houses, streets, and parks for the power of Satan to be vanquished. Kingdom prayer in body is what it means to be faithfully present to his presence in the world.

David E. Fitch, Seven Practices for the Church on Mission (IVP Press, 2018), pages 120-121