Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Coming in October

1 Kevin Fleegle’s

Ministry Anniversary

13 years

2 3

LABOR DAY

CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED

4

5

10:00 am-12:00 pm Library Open

6:00 pm Fellowship Meal

6:45 pm Mission Night

6

7 7:00 am—8:00 am

Men of Prayer

8 9:00 am-12:00 pm Classes 101 & 301

4:30 pm

Duke Dinner

9

Sunday Evening Programs Resume

for children & youth

10 8:00 am

Senior Adult Breakfast

(Hardee’s @ Westover)

11

12 10:00 am-12:00 pm

Library Open 10:00 am

Martha Franks WMU Meeting

(Truth Seekers Room)

13

14 7:00 am—8:00 am

Men of Prayer

15 Lisa Cook’s B-Day

16 Budget Requests

Due

6:00 p.m. Travis Ross

17 10:00 am

Happy Wanders (Truth Seeker)

18 Fall Senior Adult

Rally Central Baptist,

Wendell

19 10:00 am-12:00 pm

Library Open

20

21 7:00 am—8:00 am

Men of Prayer

22

23 10:30 am Sunday School 30 Teacher Blessing Doug Meeker’s B-day

24 8:00 am

Senior Adult Breakfast

(Hardee’s @ Westover)

25 6:00 pm

Deacon Meeting 7:00 pm

WINGS WMU Meeting

(Fellowship Hall)

26 10:00 am-12:00 pm

Library Open 7:00 am SYATP

27 28 7:00 am—8:00 am

Men of Prayer

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Deacon Training

9/01 Sandra Dyson, Bill Gupton

9/02 Barney Rogers

9/03 Joanne Giles

9/04 Reid Rogers

9/05 Tammy Tate

9/06 Roberta Campbell

9/08 Debbie Matthews

9/11 Myrtas Baker, Betty Gupton,

Karen Shults

9/14 Selma McEntire

9/15 Barbara Dillard, Lance Wheeler,

Lisa Cook

9/17 Ethan DiPresso, Daniel Dyson III,

Norma Massey, Joyce Proctor,

9/18 Suzi Bowles, Jerry Gregory,

Lewis Holland

9/19 Bonnie Batson, Mike Davis,

Mary Elliott, Michael Sugg

9/20 John Hightower

9/22 Sammy Sanchez, Terry Shaw

9/23 Clayton Parks, Doug Meeker

9/25 Denise Bowles, Sage Burgess,

Dan Fulcher, Pepe Rencurrell

9/27 James Tudor

9/28 Don Bernard, Frieda Stamper,

9/29 Brad Bowles

9/30 Joyce King

Ephesus Baptist Church 6767 Hillsborough Street

Raleigh, NC 27606 Phone: 919-851-1928

www.ephesusbaptistchurch.com www.facebook.com/ephesusraleighnc

Sunday Schedule:

9:15 am Sunday School 10:30 am Worship Service

6:00 pm Bible Study/A.G.E. (Youth)

2018

MARTHA FRANKS WMU

We are sponsoring a canned food collection for the NC State Fair Ministry. Items needed are: chicken & dumplings (Sweet Sue Brand Only), canned potatoes, cream of potato soup, cream of celery soup, canned mixed vegetables, chile & beans, canned chicken, lima beans, corn, black

beans, southwestern chicken, tortilla soup, smooth peanut but-ter, and grape jam. There will be a collection box underneath stairwell near kitchen until October 7, 2018 should you wish to participate.

SEE YOU AT THE POLE is on Wednesday, September 26, at

7:00 a.m. local time. All around the globe, in every time zone, students will be gathering at their flagpoles,

praying for their school, friends, families, churches, and

communities. SEE YOU AT THE POLE is a day

committed to global unity in Christ and prayer for your generation.

“I fall on my knees before the

Father.” Ephesians 3:14.

Love Fleegle

You are invited on Wednesday, September 5, to attend our first Fellowship Meal of the new church year. It will be a potluck dinner at 6:00 p.m. in the Fellow-ship Hall followed by Mission Night at 6:45 p.m. Our commit-tees will be meeting to discuss their responsibilities for the church year. We look forward to seeing you.

From Pastor Greg: Drew Harrod will be remembered at Ephesus for as long as the church exists. His vibrant relationship with Jesus was conta-gious, especially as he surrendered his life to the Lord to use the terrible suffering he endured to reach thou-sands for Christ! We named our evangelism training class after him: Class 401: The Drew Harrod Class for Sharing My Faith. Now, Drew’s wife Jennifer and daughter Sadie carry the torch, not only of his memory, but of his legacy of passion for sharing Jesus every-where he went, with everyone he met. So, too, does Drew’s cousin Travis Ross. Travis and his wife are natives of South Carolina, but now live in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. They’re working in partnership with one of the few Southern Baptist churches in the entire state, and with the North Amer-ican Mission Board, to plant churches in the Lehigh Valley region. You may have heard of the famous Bethlehem Star which lights up on a nearby mountain throughout the Christmas season. Yet, the Bethlehem area could be described as post-Christian, or even pre-Christian. Most residents make no connection between the name of their city or the meaning of the Star and the Christ of Christmas, or at least not beyond a cultural level. Travis is going to be with us Sunday evening September 16 to share about his work as well as point to opportunities we might have to part-ner with him and his team. Plan to be here that night at 6:00 in the sanctu-ary to hear and meet Travis, and to honor the legacy of Drew Harrod!

Fall Senior Adult Rally Tuesday, September 18

Hosted by: Central Baptist Church

11109 Poole Rd, Wendell, NC

Registration Begins at 9:00 am

Program Begins at 9:30 am and ends with lunch

Ephesus Women's Retreat 2018 We have a few more slots available, so there's still time to join us! Leader: Amy Boone Theme: Joy in the Journey Location: Ft. Caswell Dates: Friday, Sept. 28 – Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018 For more information, contact Leslie Jordan

Contact Margaret Holland at

919-467-7593 if interested in going.

DEFENDING OUR FAITH

We live in a post-Christian America. Only nine per-cent of American adults and only 19 percent of Christians hold a Biblical world view, so it is vital that Christians be prepared to confront heresy, apostasy, and skepticism of fundamental Christian beliefs. Christians today must, in the words of the Apostle Peter, “always be prepared to give an an-swer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (I Peter 3:15, NIV). It is not enough for Christians to know what they be-lieve; they must know why they believe what they believe. This is particularly true for young people going off to college where professors are five times more likely to be professing atheists than the gen-eral population. If you are a young person of high school/college age or the parent or grandparent of a young person preparing to go out into the world, we invite you to participate in an eight-week training program de-signed to prepare you to defend your faith in a skeptical world. For one hour on eight Wednesday evenings beginning on September 12

th, Paul Wilms

will lead participants to examine why we are Chris-tians, why we believe God exists, why we can trust the reliability of the Gospels, and learn how to an-swer common societal criticisms of Christ and Christians. Sessions begin on Wednesday, September 12

th,

and end on November 14th, (no sessions on Octo-

ber 31st and November 7

th). Sessions will begin

promptly at 6:30 and end at 7:30 p.m. Space is limited to 10 people and priority will be given to high school and college age students and to adults prepared to equip young people to defend their faith. If demand warrants, a second session will be offered in the Spring. Sign-up in the church foyer.