First Baptist

Church

December 11 2013

www.fbcbainbridge.com

Pastor Rev. Paul Medley

Minister of Music Rev. Art Bruce

Director of Children Stacey Sweitzer

Sunday December 8, 2013

Budget Receipts$31,031.16

Budget Needs To Date$853,785.00

Budget Receipts YTD$7802,448.28

Receipts Under Budget By$51,336.72

Lottie Moon TD$9,531.60

Bible Study273

WEDNESDAY FAMILY

NIGHT

December 18

Grilled Chicken TendersButtered Rice

Roasted VegetablesRolls

Dessert

Sunday, December 15Early Worship 8:30 AMBible Study 9:45 AMMorning Worship 11:00 AMChancel Choir Musical 6:30 PM

Monday, December 16Saints Alive Rehearsal 10:00 AMFinance Committee 5:30 PMDeacons 6:30 PM

Tuesday, December 17 Youth Prayer Breakfast 6:45 AMMen’s Prayer Breakfast  7:00 AM

Wednesday, December 18 Youth Activities 6:00 PMFamily Supper 6:00 PMHandbells 7:00 PMChancel Choir 7:45 PM

EXTENDED SESSION

December 15

Bryan & Julie Cottles, Allison & Maci Barber, Erin Caplan,April & Haley Helms, Faye Young, Sawyer Hall, Tina Richard-son.

Congratulations to:

Glenn & Lee Ann Heard, Ralph & Sharon Jones, grandparents,Ray Harrell great grandparent of a baby girl, Addison Meredith,

 born on December 9th weighing 6 lbs 12.4 oz. Proud parents areRalph & Julie Heard Jones.

Our Children’s and Youth Choirs both did excellent

 jobs in celebrating the joy of the Christmas season throughmusic . Thank you to all the participants, leaders, instrumen-talist and volunteers for honoring God and blessing us withyour talents. This Sunday evening the Adult Choir will pre-sent their musical gift and you won’t want to miss it! 

Wednesday evening, December the 18th, is our quar-terly church conference. This is the time of the year that welook at the budget for the coming year and hear reports and

 proposals. It is an important meeting that often determinesthe direction of the church for the coming year. Your pres-ence is needed at this meeting. As a church, we are congrega-tionally led, which means that each member has a voice anda vote. Most decisions of the church are made on a simplemajority vote. Come and let you heart be known.

You may call the office to pick up or be emailed acopy of the completed Revised Constitution and By-Laws ofFirst Baptist Church. I want to sincerely thank all the mem-

 bers of this revision committee for their tireless efforts in ac-complishing this task,. Thank you Harold Lambert, ChrisHobby, Dr. Aric Aldridge, Beverly Pollock, Sonya William-son, Carolyn Thompson and Rufus Powell for your hardwork.

I look forward to seeing you this Sunday.

Paul

 

CHRISTMAS CHOIRS SHAREChristmas was proclaimed by the angels to announcethe birth of the Child Jesus. Our Chancel Choir willshare songs of Christ’s birth this Sunday evening.Thanks for filling the sanctuary to overflowing insupport of our Youth and children as they have sharedwith us. Our choir members are the best!  

 DEC 15: features CHANCEL CHOIR MUSICAL:

THE JESUS GIFT

 DEC 17: Community Band Concert/ Kirbo Center DEC 22: Carol Sing-featuring soloists & choirs DEC 24: Carols on Square; Candlelight Communion DEC 29: SNAC — Student Night at Christmas

SAINTS ALIVEOur Christmas Fellowship was a great success lastMonday. We all enjoyed the ‘super’ soups and theChristmas sandwiches and desserts. I wish I had got-ten the memory stimulator game, but I don’t remem-

 ber why! Our concert for the wonderful folks at Wil-low Ridge and Bainbridge Healthcare were verymoving. Our friends and other residents sang alongand responded to the love we showed them.Memorial Manor & Riverside Place concerts, Mon.,Dec. 16. 10:00 AM

FELLOWSHIP CLUBOur next meeting will be on Monday, January 6. Let’s

 bring our favorite 33 1/3 LP records to share for a timeof sing-along or entertainment. And bring a friend.

Art 

Please continue to pray for our Personnel

Committee as they search for our new Youth

Minister.

Glenn Heard, Dorislynn Padgett, Tommie Howell, Jim Beck,Jack Boyd, Gene Dunlap, Bobby Barber, Susan Johnson

Youth Advisory Committee

Darren Deal, Allison Barber, Gene Dunlap, Ginger Jones,Mandi O’Mara, David Helms (Chair), Randa Barr, Roger Ed-

munds

WHAT’S HAPPENING: 

December 17 –  Prayer Breakfast @ Betty’s 6:45 AM December 18 –  Youth Supper & Bible Study 6:00 PMDecember 18- Team 4 Host Wednesday Supper

Jennifer Hall, Kim Kirkus, Nan Jordan, Erin TimmonsDecember 19 –  Christmas at The Rivers

Christmas at The Rivers Thursday, December 19 4-6 pm

I'm in great need of some adult help! We need help loading andunloading tables and chairs. Will you serve in this way?

This event, although led by youth, is a great opportunity to serveothers and share Christ as a family. Please consider helpingserve the meal or playing with the kids as a way to be a familythat is sharing Jesus together. Children learn by example. Andtheir most important example, besides Jesus, is you, the parent.

If you would still like to be a part of this event, there are severalways you can help:

Hang out with some kiddos.   Play a game or help with acraft. Our youth will be there doing most of the work,

 but we do need some over 18 years of age supervision.Serve food.  Will you come and help serve the meal? This

includes setting up the line to feed everyone there, fillingand refilling tea glasses, and clean up.

Share God's love.  This is about building a relationship withthe community so that we have open doors to share Jesus.If you have the a talent for making new friends or thespiritual gift of hospitality or are just willing to love new

 people, we need you! The youth may be leading thiseffort, but there is a spot for you to serve!

Stacey

What's Happening:

December 18 Church Conference 

December 19 Christmas at The RiversJanuary 4  Fun Station Fun Day! in Tallahassee