OPPORTUNITIES

FOR NEXT WEEK

this week's    Birthdays

January 26 - Misty Moore        

DEACON OF
THE WEEK

Terry Solesbee (847-7627)

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SUPPER

Wednesday Night Supper 1/16/19

Adults Children
Vegetable Soup Chicken Nuggets

Corn Bread Tater Tots

Chicken Salad Sandwich

Chips/Dessert

Wednesday Night Supper 1/23/19

Adults Children

Pork Tenderloin Spaghettios

Yellow Rice Garlic Bread

Vegetable

Roll/Dessert

Wednesday Night  Schedule

                                                    5:30pm         Supper

                                                    6:00pm         Awana Activities

                                                    6:30pm         Youth Meeting

                                                    6:30pm         Adult Prayer & Discipleship

                                                    7:15pm         Choir Rehearsal

HOMEBOUND                    Lydia Jackson

OF THE WEEK                     Call office for address                                                 

OUR STEWARDSHIP

FOR SUNDAY,

January 13, 2018

Sunday School 91

Budget $5,128.00

Building Fund - In Memory 20.00

Back Pack Ministry 10.00

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering 150.00

Total Offering $ 5,308.00

Budget Income to date: $11,512.12

Budget Disbursements to date: $ 25,461.58

Operating Budget: $ 47,702.46

Contributions given to Building Fund and Lottie Moon Offering

In Memory of Barbara Joy and In Honor Of Terry Solesbee,

Bill McClellan and Harold Bagwell.

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

Goal: $8,000.00

Given to date: $5,635.00

Friday Night Bible Study

Our next Friday Night Bible Study in the book of Revelation will be on Friday, January 18th, 2019, at 7pm in the old fellowship hall. We will not be having this meeting on Friday due to illness.

Breakfast for Dinner, Sunday PM Jan. 27th

The young women's WMU group with the help of C.I.A. and the Youth Group will be serving breakfast for dinner following the evening service on Jan. 27th. We will be accepting donations which will go to our Lottie Moon Offering.

Thank You

Thank You to the family of Charles Creamer who donated funds to replace the ceiling tiles in the CLC.

Flower Calendar

Please note that the sign-up sheet calendar for placing flowers in the sanctuary in memory or in honor of family members is now in the church vestibule.

Gym and/or CLC Usage

Please remember that if you'd like to use the CLC and/or gym for meetings or activities, there is a calendar in the church office that you must reserve your date and time.

 Email Changes

We are having trouble with being able to access the church's email at williamstonfbc@bellsouth.net. If you need to contact the church via email, for the time being, please send emails to williamstonsec@gmail.com. We're sorry for any inconvenience, especially if you have sent an email and we've not responded.

Words to Ponder

One afternoon while walking through the Norfolk General Hospital, Dr. Hugh Litchfield heard his name being called from across the lobby. As a man approached, he asked; “Hi, Dr. Litchfield, remember me?”

About 10 years earlier the young man had visited the church where Dr. Litchfield was serving. He was facing possible jail time over tax violations. This had led to alcohol dependency, which had in turn jeopardized his marriage and his relationship with is children. His life was in a desperate shape.

Dr. Litchfield explains the interaction in his book Visualizing the Sermon:

He then said to me in that lobby, "I want to thank you." "For what?" "One Sunday you preached a sermon about taking responsibility for our lives, not to blame what we become on somebody else. God used that sermon to speak to me. That afternoon I got down on my knees and prayed to God and promised to take responsibility for my life. With God's help, I did. Since that time, life has been great. I got out of trouble with the IRS, I became the master over the bottle, my marriage is better than ever. I want to thank you."

As he left me standing there, I was overwhelmed by what he had told me. . . When I went back to the office, I dug down into my sermon files to get out that sermon that had meant so much to him. Early in my ministry, on Monday morning I would jot down a phrase or two at the top of my sermon manuscript as to how I felt the sermon had gone on Sunday. For that sermon, I glanced at what I had written. "Dead in the water! No one listened! A waste of time!"

Dr. Litchfield concludes, “I have learned something along the way. If we offer faithfully to God what we have, somehow it will be used in magnificent ways. We must never underestimate what God will do with what we give.”

Hugh Litchfield, Visualizing the Sermon: Preaching Without Notes (CSS Publishing, 1996); submitted by Major Dalton, Winthrop Harbor, Illinois